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Please also see Land Healer by Jake Fiennes #landhealer

Harold Wilson was onto something important when he said the Labour Party was a “moral crusade or it is nothing”. Well, guess he's being proved sadly right.

Garage is being parked as I write ✍️

Labelling dissent as “terrorism” is how authoritarian regimes start. Where will it end if 38% of Trump voters support a president “willing to break some rules and laws to set things right.”? Guy Antony Ayres sends his latest missive from the USA

Truth to Power. Free Speech. Banning of journalists. Why does it take a US Congressman @raskin.house.gov to be the politician to call out Farage? Do listen.

Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary

"Instead of having a grown-up conversation about the situation, we have a subtle message that helps us to keep pretending that this country could somehow manage without migration at all..... Britain as a country has almost never been self-sufficient."

Will America's First Amendment rise like the Phoenix, or fall under tyranny's weight? Free speech is the Achilles heel of every despot andvits under attack. Guy Anthony Ayres sends his letter from the USA

Poetry is in the news... Enjoy a delightful recording of Aidan Baker, an EAB citizen journalist, reading his five colour poems...

A new report out today outlines the impact climate change is having on nature. "Climate change is one of the biggest challenges we now face managing wildlife sites," explains Matt Jackson, our conservation director. Read more at www.wildlifebcn.org/news/new-rep...

A 9-year-old girl has been left "frightened to leave the house" after she was shot with an airgun in a racially aggravated assault, police say. Avon & Somerset Police said the girl was hit three times by an air gun pellet in an incident in Bristol on 2 Sept, during which a racial comment was used.

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

The Big River Watch starts tomorrow - Friday 19 Sept until 25 Sept It's your chance to help record the life and quality of streams and rivers near you.... Here's what you need to know... 👇

Oh look – it is the beginning of what @georgemonbiot.bsky.social calls an onanocracy – including one guy suing another for $15bn for pointing out he’s a pervert, but all friends in power really.

Local media report that a group of 20 to 30 individuals put up dozens of flags across Norwich, including outside the Islamic community centre on Dereham Road, in what many residents described as an act of intimidation. www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2545503...

From Suffolk:

I completely agree with Charlie Kirk that it was totally worth Charlie Kirk dying to protect the Second Amendment. I also agree with Charlie Kirk that we should have no empathy for him or his family. I never thought agreeing with Charlie Kirk would be this easy.

If you value the NHS, care about social care, need medicines or worry about the safe staffing levells in A&E... The problems are "not because of poor management, despite what the Daily Mail might want you to believe – but the workforce we once relied on has… left." Do read...

Fascinating article 👇 do read this insight into Trump appeal & Truthiness. Truthiness is often on social media. Its what you think should be true!!

Fascinating article of past fights for power.... and of important but forgotten heroes such as Hereward the Wake Somethings never change, do they?

Stop pretending migrants broke Britain. Politicians did, by failing to invest in housing, health, care and productivity. The Bear explains...

From Great Yarmouth to the world: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty broke new ground in 1877 and inspired change in animal welfare. 150 years on, the fight against cruelty continues, with rescue centres still needed across the region | Kate Moore @eastangliabylines.co.uk @oscarwoofs.bsky.social

Today is International Day of Charity. And our local charities, which provide so much welfare and support to man and beast, need your help through donations and volunteering.

One of the most remarkable charities is East Anglia Air Ambulance. On International Day of Charity we thank them and other charities for their life saving work.

"Of course Britain’s broken – Farage has done everything he can to break it. Now he's off abroad to tell everyone how broken we are!" Clacton's MP is across the pond slagging the state of the country – but didn’t he help break it? @maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social

"Farage was wearing a GB News pin. He was there to launch and promote a show in a company he has shares in." Is Farage in the US to represent Britain, as he claims, or to represent a right-wing news channel launching in America that very day? 🤔

Age UK Norwich are celebrating 80 years of service to our community. 8 decades on they are still desperately needed by the over 50s in our region. AgeUK are aiming to raise £80,000. Please support them on International Charity Day. This 👇 from 2022 explains what society needs.

A must read 👇.... we need more politicians like Clive Lewis. Starmer and his senior team of advisers & ministers need to seriously wake up & start being bold & radical in their approach to address growing poverty, inequality & our country's ills.

Jamin Raskin is an USA attorney, law professor, and politician serving as a congressman for 8th District of Maryland. His words should be heard....

Excellent article... In making unitary councils we get... "The Labour government’s plan for yet more merges, to make even bigger mega-local authorities, is most certainly a backwood step as it makes council services ever more remote." & the alleged cost savings have been debunked ... oh dear.

Back in 1908, when Kenneth Grahame published 'Wind in the Willows', water voles were a common sight along the banks of Britain’s rivers. Today, after much predation by American mink introduced in the 1950s, water voles are one of the UK’s most endangered species... - but are now making a comeback!

BREAKING: Our hearts Our new front page #ProtectJournalistsInGaza #LetReportersIntogaza Www.bylinetimes.com

The legacy of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty reminds us: cruelty to any creature is everyone’s concern | Kate Moore

Norway selects British-made frigates to beef up maritime defence in $13.5 bln deal reut.rs/47nT7C8

YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.

Our North American correspondent has set out quite plainly what is occurring in the USA... .... and what happens when the foundation stones that protect you from your own government fail..

Earlier this month was the anniversary of the infamous UFO sightings across East Anglia... Here's a bit of a history 🧵 from @mrjeffknox.bsky.social ...

Museums... my they have changed. Knobs to twiddle, fighter jets to explore... was really impressed when visited.

Celebrating their beaver reintroduction programme to the Nene Wetlands, @wildlifebcn.org are holding a beaver week... about all things beaver. Did you know that the action of these ecological engineers cleanses waterways?

Insects are the foundation stone of our ecosystem. They need all the help and understanding we can give them...

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Bots, burnout, broken systems: how vaccine distrust crept in. Read why it’s now putting children at risk ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @lizcrosbie.bsky.social

Tariffs cause the economy to falter, inequality rises, billionaires flex their influence and the public hopes someone will save them. Sound familiar? Martin Waller's article may surprise you.. ⤵️

We’ve been here before: plutocrats, tariffs, economic turmoil and promises to struggling Americans that soon sour. By Martin Waller.

America - Land of the Free... Unless maybe you are a foreign student studying there and a writer for a campus magazine...

Something is happening in the 'Land of the Free'. ICE abductions. Military-police fusion. Books removed. A capitol seized, and history rewritten. This isn’t a warning — this is a chronicle. Guy Anthony Ayes reports from across the pond

The deadly “rule of 30” – temperatures above 30 degrees, relative humidity below 30, and winds of over 30km an hour .... Beyond tragic...

"The UK has a very long history of using immigration to compensate for internal economic weaknesses... There too few workers, many of the people available are poorly qualified, with 13% lacking ‘essential employment skills’. 44% young people said anxiety prevented them from looking for work

Farmers across the UK are being pushed to destroy habitats they’ve nurtured for decades—because Defra won’t act. Steve Reed MP , this is your responsibility. Fix it. Graham Denny's open letter to a secretary of state