Tag: Starmer
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Sewage protest, Thomas Hardy’s sundial
A little bit of admin. I have been becoming increasingly frustrated with WordPress hanging and being unable to save my posts which have invoved a lot of rewriting. The online AI help remains worse than useless and itself simply crashes but it did recommend switching to Chrome, which I have now done, since MS Edge…
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Oilseed Rape, RPSB, Golden Eagles, Sam West birdwatching, Pied Wagtails, Protect the Wild Swifts, Trail Hunting and Glue Traps, Madagascar – Chameleons and Lemurs, Star Trek, Dad’s Army, The Assembly and Starmer
Oilseed Rape I wondeređ what this plant was when it appeared growing from the foot of a nearby wall. I have noticed it growing on local road verges too. It is Oilseed Rape and is rather pretty. I assume these appearances derive from an arable farm not far away. It may be pretty but it…
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Raising Hare; Starmer etc. Crufts; Protists; Asimov; Rewilding; EIA – whaling and porpoises
I was recommended Raising Hare, the heart warming true story of an unlikely friendship, by Chloe Dalton, Canongate, 2025, by a friend’s mother. I was worried that it would be a story of a well-meaning amateur doing more harm than good but that was entirely a false assumption. Dalton is always respectful, mindful, thoughtful and…
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The suppression of protest and a political confession
What has brought all of this to mind is watching Netflix’s excellent and deeply moving Strike: An Uncivil War, a documentary about the miners’ strikes under Thatcher and in particular the police brutality meted out at Orgreave. There have been calls for an inquiry ever since, refused by Tory governments over and over again. There…