Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles. Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.

If you pick up the Guardian Weekend Magazine today, please read about my daughter Milly’s battle with Lyme disease. And if you’re feeling bold, drop your copy into your local GP. There are thousands of Millys out there. Most are currently not helped at all by the NHS or, worse, not believed.

"Anybody who has seen what is going on round here will have a reaction to that sentence... because there has been no minimising of vegetation clearance [by Sizewell C] & the suggestion that they are trying to minimise vegetation clearance is laughable" #SayNo2SizewellC www.eadt.co.uk/news/2549272...

Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades. New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period

The PFI disaster Wes Streeting readies more of the NHS for privatisation. Hands £6m to advisers. NHS will be a shell doling out contracts to private equity and corporations. Profits guaranteed. Money will buy less. Higher taxes, lower value. Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.

Almost 1.5m homes could be built on brownfield sites in England, report finds

NEW The government is considering plans to weaken a law protecting England’s national parks, in a move criticised as “outrageous” and “devastating”. Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

2/ Farmland bird populations declined by 62% since 1970 & by 11% in just the last five years. Specialists like Turtle Dove, Tree Sparrow, Grey Partridge, Corn Bunting & Starling are down by more than 80% since 1970. Generalist species such as Woodpigeon, Jackdaw & Goldfinch have more than doubled.

British wildlife is in desperate straits We have a government elected to champion nature, but which is now championing its destruction It is vital that every one of us works at the local level to do everything we can to prioritise nature www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At what point will they have to spend £billions on sea defences for Sizewell A B & C (A & B will still be radioactive) while a whole village is washed into the sea because they will not spend a few £million on defences.

Madness that this head-in-the-sand #Labour govt risk £bns of public funds on Sizewell C when, just a short distance south at Thorpeness- "it's not going to just be the cliff that goes- it will be the whole village, which lies between Aldeburgh & Sizewell" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I need to read the paper. But from the general article it says they look at occupancy. Whereas much of the decline we are witnessing and recording is in abundance (for now).

✊ 🚨 Protest alert! Labour promised a publicly owned NHS, but now talk of private finance (PFI) is back on the table. 📍 Join @weownit.org.uk outside Labour’s Conference 🗓️ Monday 29 Sept | 8am–12pm 📌 Wheel of Liverpool Say it loud: NO NEW PFI in our NHS: forms.gle/oEM6AYsAEzC2...

No 'change' here- #Labour's 'golden age of nuclear' at Hartlepool is likely to rip off UK consumers & taxpayers, as is happening with Sizewell C. "UK consumers will have provided assistance to develop a US reactor design that it can sell elsewhere" Do read👇 observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Well said @StopSizewellC "You [SZC Ltd] really need to stop saying the trees you’ve taken down are low value, because it just annoys people. “The reality is that really, really valued mature oak trees have been lost all over the place, & that’s what people notice." www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2110...

One of the ‘suggestions’ to reduce red tape, by the UK Labour govt, is to abolish a range of Quangos [semi-state bodies] including English Nature - which declares, monitors & conserves nature reserves & SSSI. They are the most important surviving habitats. Any abolition ideas should be fought.

The point of going to university is to explore research and knowledge, not to start an effing business. The skills and experiences gained might help you start a business, as might the interactions with the people you meet, but it is not the purpose of a degree. Fed up of this manure.

Something unusual in the Swaffham area. In rows behind deer fences, at first glance they look like giant non-flowering sunflowers auditioning for 'The Day of the Triffids'. They're actually very fast growing hybrid Paulownia (Foxglove Trees). eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

Ministers tell Environment Agency to wave planning applications through

🚨 Last year 8,600+ of you wrote to Starmer demanding the NHS be kept out of trade deals with the US. The DHSC confirmed: protecting the NHS is a “non-negotiable priority”. 💙 With big talks today btw Starmer + Trump, let’s remember — public pressure works.#NHSNotForSale

"Nick is also widely reported to be a Billionaire. A real working class hero eh? Wake up people. Reform is a con to keep us in our place at the bottom of the food chain." via @dailypolitik.bsky.social

It also has a nationally important invertebrate assemblage, the primary reason for its designation a an SSSI...

"Each year, from Dec through Apr, strong trade winds trigger an upwelling in the Gulf of Panama. Cold, nutrient-rich water rises from deep ocean to surface – fuelling fisheries, cooling coastal waters, shielding coral reefs from heat stress. But in 2025, it didn’t happen" via From Quarks to Quasars

This graph from @metoffice.gov.uk says it all about this summer's weather. Every month was at least a degree warmer than the average 20 years ago. Butterflies mostly did well but how will the drought have affected them? @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Good news in from National Trust Dunwich Heath 🥳 Three years after extreme heat and prolonged drought devasted the heathland, thanks to careful management, the heather is continuing to bounce back, as well as the wildlife that depend on it. 👇

The summer just gone was the warmest on record ☀️ Scotland’s harvest started earlier than ever before this year 🚜 Farmers are reacting to these challenges in real time, but government support to help implement nature-based solutions is sadly lagging behind. Read more: buff.ly/jPwMKGj

💙 Huge thanks to everyone who backed our #ShowUsTheMoneyKeir campaign! We asked how Labour’s 10-Year Health Plan would be funded. It’s still unclear — but PPPs (the new PFIs) look firmly on the table. 💬 Next step: we’re gearing up to hold politicians accountable on PPPs. Watch this space.

When will they learn that nuclear has humungous setup costs, and ongoing issues with waste disposal for ever and a day? I certainly wouldn't want a deal with the US, as Trump has removed pretty much all safety requirements for US companies. What's wrong with wind and solar? They're free once set up

It's official, the greediest MP is still .... Nigel Farage!!!

Southern Water will have 'robust conversations' with billionaire Stephen Schwarzman about transporting water across county lines. The BBC reports that tankers are filling a lake on his estate in Wiltshire in spite of a hosepipe ban. Oxford University's Schwarzman Centre opens on 29 September.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

In June 2024, 80,000 of us marched peacefully to #RestoreNatureNow with hardly a mention in the media. Were we supposed to have thrown stones and fought the police to be noticed? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Whatever one's views on nuclear energy in general and Sizewell C in particular, wanton destruction of such wonderful and hugely important trees is indefensible.

This is very depressing 😞

“Reform want to close their eyes to this disaster”: how the party are ‘rescinding the climate emergency’ at Kent County Council This is a foretaste of how Farage would rip up climate legislation if handed power at Westminster: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Liquid oozing from landfill + industrial waste + sewage - treated for pathogens then split, the solid part spread on farmland, the liquid part released into rivers - what could go wrong? Our latest article out now: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Don't let anyone in this #Labour government tell you that environmental concerns stop infrastructure projects. This is the Suffolk Heritage Coast & National Landscape being ripped apart for Sizewell C With noise & disturbance impacting RSPB Minsmere & other designated wildlife sites #SayNo2SizewellC

The UK has a target to protect 30% of land & sea for nature by 2030🏞️ But progress isn’t adding up - just 6% of land across the UK is protected, with 5 years to go🥀 New findings are launched as we prepare for #WildSummitUK tomorrow, where nature voices from across the country will push for action 🌱

It's good to see Suffolk locals determined to save these 100+ year old oaks, along the B1125 Westleton Rd. All earmarked for the chop as part of Sizewell C's wanton destruction of vast swathes of the East Suffolk countryside. Enough is enough! #SayNo2SizewellC

This is good news! 🌊 BUT (you knew there'd be a but) bottom trawling, an awful destructive fishing practice that scours every crumb of life from the seabed, will continue in English marine protected areas ☠️ 🪸 So the UK still lags behind other countries like Greece and Sweden...

🚨 @thetimes.com reports a 50% rise in Britons who think climate risks are exaggerated. Climate change is the greatest threat to our countryside, & rooftop solar is part of the solution - with the ability to generate 60% of our solar energy needs, without using any extra land. https://bit.ly/46jIdLz

"They [Sizewell C] say it will be done on an ad hoc basis when they have got the saws out...We just want them to stop & think before they go ahead & do, because these oaks would still be here long after Sizewell C is decommissioned" #SayNo2SizewellC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“we’ve taken action to deliver a golden age of nuclear for UK with record funding for Sizewell C" #Labour boast about spaffing £bns on risky Sizewell C- reality is it's EDF's flawed EPR at double the cost- who else would be so reckless, certainly not the French www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Environment Agency has granted a license to allow the nuclear waste site at Sellafield to dump 40 cubic metres of polluted water an HOUR ! in the rivers Calder and Ehen, that’s 40 tonnes of toxic water every hour of the day. buff.ly/piwSDPP

So corporations take the profit, and the public pay the bills. 'Sizewell C #nuclear power plant allows investors to receive revenue during construction... the allowed revenue is ultimately recovered from customers via their utility bills' ... www.slaughterandmay.com/insights/new...

Good morning with good news: "IRENA found that in 2024, the global average cost of electricity generated by solar PV was, on average, 41% lower than the least-cost new fossil fuel-fired power plant, as shown in the figure below." Solar booms! #energysky interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...

Revealed: Reform MPs rake in over £1m from second jobs and gifts in first year www.independent.co.uk/politics/far...

It's being called Farage's 'Talk Britain Down' tour. Comparing the UK to North Korea. Describing Great Britain as 'awful'. Calling the UK an 'authoritarian' regime. Instead he got called a 'Putin-loving free-speech imposter.' 😆