Butterflies are nature’s canary in the coalmine, and the release of this year’s biodiversity indicators in England signals a crisis in the wider environment. 🧵

We cannot continue to just monitor our indicator species until they disappear altogether. Butterfly declines are our warning sign. We need governments to listen to them and respond like the emergency it is.

They’re happy to throw people of colour, immigrants and trans people under the bus for the Win. Power in order to what? Pretend they don’t have any?

There are a lot of Labour partisans on here who I really wonder why they bother voting given they don't seem to think that governments have any actual power at all in the 21st century.

No, the PM cannot respond to every batshit racist comment going. Yes, the PM can, should and must, respond to batshit racist comments made mainstream, reinforced by national media, and from, in these terms, fairly high profile individuals.

Unfortunately we’ve had at least 20+ years of politicians and media outlets telling the public that actually racism is good and that it’s insulting and elitist to say it isn’t

Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!

My heart breaks for the Jewish community. If you think anti-Semitism is something that happens somewhere else, there is a group I know in Belfast who have to organise their meetings in secret due to security fears and I'm sure they're not the only one.

the attack against jews in australia celebrating chanukah on the beach is fucking terrible and scary

This is absolutely abhorrent. Too many people this year (and in other years) have lost their lives to antisemitic terror attacks. Thinking of the victims' loved ones and everyone around the world celebrating Hannukah. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Asylum seekers should be allowed to work… this honestly should be a mainstream left of centre view imo, crazy that it’s presented in any way as “radical”’

I’d like to think it’s pretty obvious what’s been going on when the likes of this guy and Lineker are getting hounded out, and absolutely roaring spite-crazed headbangers like Sharon Davies are not only welcome but are being given non-jobs for life in the legislature

This is literally "Dude, your grandpa was a famous fascist? I fucking love that guy! You're hired!"

Wondering how long Labour will hail the one in one out deal as "historic" rather than the absolute cluster forcing people into a cycle of relying on gangs, and increasing risks to trafficking survivors, it has already been demonstrated to be. www.bbc.com/news/article...

On behalf of the trans community, I’d like to apologise for our having an issue with one of the most rabidly transphobic governments in Europe. After all, they’ve made some extremely small improvements to the lives of cis people, and unlike us trannies their lives have value, eh Robin.

Syrphus vitripennis in Calverley Grounds today, feeding at Fatsia. This, and its sibling S ribesii, are not traditional winter-active species but are moving in that direction.

In case you were confused. 16 Spot Ladybird, Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata 14 Spot Ladybird, Propylea quattuordecimpunctata #beetles #Coccinellidae #Coleoptera #VC55 #UKWildlife

Something about 16 spots and their huge aggregations is just so adorable, defo my favourite ladybird

Something about 16 spots and their huge aggregations is just so adorable, defo my favourite ladybird

"Whether he's the UKs answer to nick Fuentes"... Nick Fuentes is a nazi if you're trying to be the Fuentes of the UK you're trying to be a Nazi

Been a banger week for British institutions assuring us things definitely aren’t exactly how they look despite the mountains of evidence confirming them as such. Perhaps this is instructive about how power functions in this country and for whom. Probably not. Who cares.

The absolute most controversial thing you can be in that last decade is kind.

"A political party can't discriminate on the basis of political belief" is a new one.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

You can have absolutely zero sympathy for Bojack Divorceman and the takeaway would still be "Jesus fucking Christ, why would you publish that?!" The British press are rotten to the core, but aren't so inept to not know this comes across as him sounding psychotic rather than sympathetic. It's cruel.

This is why 'no war but the class war' is such reductive bollocks. She absolutely deserved to be fired for being racist to a customer.

i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.

seriously, foh with this nonsense

what about the somali customers? good chance they were working class too. do they not deserve to live in a world where they can buy a snack without an assault on their dignity?

there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”

i also believe in building a better world for workers. i also believe that all people are entitled to respect and dignity and that there ought to be social sanction for those who openly degrade others. you call me a “n*gger” to my face and i am not going to smile and shake your hand.

All I had to do was look up what Scruton said about a topic and I recognised my enemy staring back at me, a boor that would see me, everyone I love, and every idea worth holding suffocated and strangled, all for a fabricated pastoralism, a fictional countryside from a children's book illustration

This is from the Irish Labour Party, the SDLP and Irish Labour Women. A full-throated condemnation of UK Labour’s ban on trans women at its women’s conference. “In the current climate, the trans community is the canary in the mine for the growing wave of anti-LGBTQIAP+ rhetoric.”

I think people haven’t even wrapped their heads around how much damage this sort of stuff will do to fighting antisemitism and racism in a time of accelerated fascisisation.

Brits are dying in a hunger strike for Palestine

Some of todays finds #ladybird

Some of todays finds #ladybird

Recruiters take note of the faces in this picture. It's just not worth the hassle and expense of allowing any of these HR and PR nightmares into your organisation where they'll try to bully you into discriminating against their colleagues and if they fail dragging you through the courts for years

Fash-adjacent yanks who've never heard the word "Balkans" (beyond maybe Serb nationalist propaganda) stop telling Europeans what Europe is challenge

If only governments could make changes to the law

Starmer has aligned himself, again & again, with Trump, not Mamdani. Even as Trump’s regime works actively to promote Farage & nationalist politics across Europe. But then again, from Starmer’s behaviour you’d think he’s promoting Farage, too🤷‍♀️

The Board of Deputies could destroy Farage, a politician that has credibly said some of the most atrocious antisemitic comments uttered in recent British history by an elected MP, by releasing a statement condemning him, but they don’t. They did previously, in 2019, over far less. Why is that?

"The Greens are middle class" with some subsequent waffle about lattes or whatever doesn't work in a society that no longer actually knows for a fact what class is.

"The ECHR was created in the wake of World War 2. Those creating it knew the dangers of extreme ideology better than anyone...To claim it is “outdated” is to ignore the reasons why it was created in the first place, the protections it provides." Starmer is ignoring why the ECHR was created.

Anyone who’s ever actually spoken to a single asylum seeker about their experiences in any country in Europe simply could not honestly conclude that what would improve things would be to further reduce their human rights protections. It’s vile scapegoating unworthy of us & it needs to end #r4today

i've had months of labour supporters, whenever i criticise starmer, ranting at me that nigel farage wants to leave the echr i keep telling them labour want to 'reform' it to the point where it's meaningless as a way of getting around saying they want to actually leave it they roll their eyes at me

feel like it should be a bigger story that the global war on terrorism is being replaced with a domestic war on terrorism

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.