It's not just ambition on climate action that's being run down, but nature. Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing. It's our duty to work out why, and act on it. share.google/N0QU31GX4Znw...

GP practice here for 100yrs Area Health Authorities, Govts, NHS 5y, 10y plans, PCTs, CCGs, ICBs all have come & gone or are going GPs have always been there despite expensive reorganisations, Govt plans Time to recognise the value of GPs Wes Streeting before it’s too late

Bonjour les bleus

Guten Morgen Bluesky 🕊 Ich wünsche euch einen möglichst angenehmen Start in die neue Woche 🫶🏻

#BBCNews - How #Tanzania police crushed election protests with lethal force www.bbc.com/news/article...

Good morning everyone, have a wonderful Monday and a great week ahead. #BlueSkyMonday #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

Sorry folks. I’m going to lie down in a darkened room. Yesterday’s shenanigans have caught up with me. Hope you all enjoyed #BirdOfTheDay today. I know I did. Lots of fantastic captures from around the world. Took this in my garden early morning today. Night night 😴 #birds #EastCoastKin

@paulbrand.bsky.social which part of getting here by boat to claim asylum is illegal? You were silent on that point, and the fact there is no safe and legal routes, especially for those who we have bombed

Gorgeous evening today in Anchorage, Alaska.

Guten Morgen #Ulm!

Cheval blanc dans (riquatre ?) le frima.

Yulia Navalnaya: “the values enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights served as a guiding light for movements fighting dictatorships around the world — including in Russia, inspiring Soviet dissidents”👇 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/russ... via @politico.eu #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

Good morning ☕😊. Wishing everyone a marvellous Monday and a wonderful week ahead. Be kind be caring and be the reason someone smiles. 😊 The photo is taken here in Almeria at the back of the #sierragador dry arid land but yet beautiful. #MountainMonday #nature #photography #landscape

An amoral person doesn't care about morality at all, whereas an immoral person knows what is right but chooses to do wrong anyway...

Abundance. You only need to look at the number of seeds produced by living beings to know we live in an abundant world #photography #nature

Guten Morgen Bluesky

My sister-in-law's sister (also a retired paralegal like me) took this at George L. Smith State Park near Twin City, GA. It was beautiful, but the water was very low due to a drought.

Good morning and Happy Sunday, #Stunday #Swanday #SkySunday … ‘Look out, Man with a Camera!!’ As they turn away or dip their heads!! 😉 Have a lovely day… Pin Mill, Suffolk, U.K. 📷 Oct ‘25 💚🦢🤍🪶🍂🌳☀️ #Photography #Nature #Birds #Swans #EastCoastKin #Breathe #MentalHealthAwareness #MHA

Happy Monday, Dear Friends ! Make It Fantastic ! #HappyMonday #GoodMorning #GoedeMorgen #Moggûh #Photography #Fotografie

Good morning everyone ☕️☕️☕️, have a wonderful Monday and a magnificent new week 💜🤗

Happy #Stunday! Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Canada #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #ArtYear #MobilePhotography

Good morning dear Bs friends. Have a very good start of the week #SonyAlpha #photography #fotografie #landscape #scapes #fotografía #blueskyphotographers #photographersunited #Natuurfotografie #Naturephotography #photographersofbluesky #nature #naturaleza #autumn #fall

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I mean, it’s quite clever politics for someone from the Greens to pretend to be Shabana Mahmood’s special adviser and brief this sort of stuff to the Times, but I’m not sure it’s especially ethical.

Not only can low-income folk barely afford their burgers, but let's not forget that many of us don't want our fries soaked in Palestinian babies blood either. Get some morals McDonald's. McDonald's core customer base drops by double digits in Trump economy www.alternet.org/trump-s-econ...

"Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed." -Confucius

#BirdofTheDay has #shadesofgrey! 🤘😶‍🌫️ And I forgot to do a #SnowbirdSaturday, so we'll just call this a #BlueSkyMonday Bluebirb of Happiness! 🌿🐦❄️ 💙 Adjust your schedule accordingly... #StunDay 📸 Sialia mexicana 🪶 #Bluebirds #LookingAtYou #BirdLovers #Photography #EastCoastKin

Could I but ride indefinite, As doth the meadow-bee, And visit only where I liked, And no man visit me, And flirt all day with buttercups, And marry whom I may, And dwell a little everywhere, Or better, run away -- Emily Dickinson #Photography #ImageAndVerse #ClassicMono #BNWmacro #EastCoastKin

There's a far more important number. It's missing because the Government refuses to record it. How many people have died in the Channel trying to reach safety since this failed policy was launched. 1-in-1-out will never stop dangerous journeys, because it doesn't create a real, safe alternative.

Even if, big if, people did know the asylum laws of the UK, none of these policies make a difference. They don't stop people needing asylum, they don't change why the, proportionally actually relatively small number, people who do seek it in the UK do so. So it won't change a thing on that score.

When, inevitably, Labour's latest round of dog whistle anti-asylum measures don't appease the far right enough, exactly how far will those defending them today stomach it before they twig that the only way to beat the likes of Reform is to counter their messaging, not reinforce it?

As winter sets in, having a warm home during these months is something many of us take for granted. By donating to our winter appeal, you can help keep someone safe this winter and make a very real, immediate difference to those seeking safety. Donate at: www.refugeesathome.org/winterappeal

One thing missing from this dismal list is Cooper’s plan from, er, 3 months ago to sack immigration judges & replace them with “independent adjudicators“. Has that been dropped? Will any of these new plans last to the end of the year? How is trumpeting things then pretending you didn’t going so far?

Tent Peace

Getting crammed into a room with multiple other people and surviving off inedible food is not a "pull factor". People seek asylum with the hope of gaining refugee status, of course the conditions they are forced into while waiting for their claims to be processed aren't "pull factors". 8/

I mean, this is not disingenuous so much as a flat out lie. Either the Home Secretary does not understand the asylum system and restrictions placed upon asylum seekers who can support themselves, keeping in mind most asylum seekers are not in hotels anyway, or she is outright lying to the public. 7/

So, again, setting aside for the moment that it is hard to claim you aren't copying far right talking points when far right figures such as Tommy Robinson are celebrating your language and policies, it's absolutely impossible when you then specifically use a far right talking point. 6/

Inhumanity of this policy aside for the moment, it is also weapons grade levels of idiotic. Not only will it have pretty much zero impact on number of people seeking asylum, it also increases costs and bureaucracy of the Home Office, so the opposite of what this government claims it will achieve. 5/

This is particularly disingenuous of the Home Secretary, as people seeking asylum who have the means to support themselves are already in many cases excluded from majority of support. Not to mention most asylum seekers are prohibited from working by the Home Office. 4/

Tell you what, it'd be a lot easier for people to use "safe and legal routes" if this government hadn't closed some of the last available ones. Now, there's a rumour that they may announce new ones, however based on Labour's current anti-asylum policies I would lay money they are exclusionary. 3/

It is also completely false to say that people seeking asylum are given "better provisions than UK citizens", you note that this government isn't actually addressing increasing provisions for UK citizens by the way. 2/

At this point you kind of have to "accept", for want of a better word, that the Home Secretary is being disingenuous and lying, but that doesn't mean the BBC has to repeat the phrasing uncritically. There is nothing illegal about seeking asylum. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bold move to start with three countries which have massive human rights issues. When you claim to be a "progressive government" and then directly copy Trump I am definitely going to call bullshit on your "progressive" claims.

Today is my #BlueSky 1 year anniversary! I really appreciate this supportive & welcoming space for sharing my photos. Thanks to all the friends I’ve made and those that take time to like/comment/share my posts 🥰 This pic is from my very first post! #Scape #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin