As more Government ministers are agreeing that alignment with the EU is in the country's national interest, and public support is increasing, it's clear that we must make repairing our relationship with Europe a priority. However, we must not stop at alignment, and instead rejoin key initiatives.
Former political prisoner Nasrin Parvaz reads a letter to Keir Starmer signed by more than 100 pro-democracy, pro-justice and anti-war British-Iranians, including other former Evin detainees Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Aras Amiri. Full list of signatories is at togetherforiran.org
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UK and Ireland at 1810 UTC. EUMETSAT.
North Atlantic Conveyor: GeoColour - True Colour daytime, multispectral IR at night - 12 Mar 2026 - to 1810 UTC.
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🚨ON 16 MARCH PARLIAMENT WILL DEBATE A PETITION FOR BY-ELECTIONS TO BE TRIGGERED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT
Contact your MP NOW and ask them to attend and support the petition
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Trip down to Sussex today to collect chestnut poles and douglas fir boards, all harvested to order from local coppice and woodland.
We’ll be using this over the coming months for fencing, structures, furniture and work surfaces.
Lots to be getting on with!
FACTS:
Net Zero barely nudges your bill.
Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof.
So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.
PAWS for thought...
Ancient woodland should not be treated as timber factories. We can produce timber on other land that isn't one of our most biodiverse and irreplaceable native habitats. Nobody demands saltmarshes, heathland or sand dunes 'pay their way', and native woodland should be the same.
"Businesses across the UK are speaking more loudly than ever and, hand-in-hand with them, our message to the UK Government is clear: it’s time for the UK to join the EU’s single market." Read more at the link below.
European Movement UK. Farmers welcome progress on food deal. The UK government has today announced that, to cut red tape and costs for importing and exporting with the EU, the UK will align with EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) legislation. Link below.
Today, the UK Government has announced that the UK will align with EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) legislation, including on food hygiene, additives, welfare, and plant health.
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How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
On a trip to Lithuania last year their environment minister was saying the same. Makes complete sense.
'Rewilding' borders to deter invasion isn't such a new concept - Britain did the same in 1940s by flooding much of the east coast to deter Nazi invasion, which famously created the Minsmere reserve and the recolonisation of Avocets etc.
So predictable. While Trump and Hegseth posture, millions around world have their lives turned upside down by their cavalier, ill-thought-through attack on Iran, whose regime clings on, and people suffer. Everyone suffers from the devastating consequences, except the immoral morons who launched it.
I’m livid with the mainstream press and their support of the US-Israel war -
It’s unrepresentative of UK citizens. It only represents the rich gung-ho Epstein class.
I’m more determined than ever to build the citizen journalism alternative.
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“We never thought that in 20 years we could have gone from being this depleted, polluted, dysfunctional post-industrial farmland, to being one of the most significant biodiversity hotspots in Britain”
Read CNN's story: edition.cnn.com/world/rewild...
Europe at 1400 UTC. EUMETSAT.
As the US/Israel attack on Iran is likely to tip the UK into recession, let's not forget that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are trashing our rivers, ecosystems, communities, health and resilience for the sake of economic growth. But, as they are now discovering, it's not something they can control.
Excellent. Thanks for sharing Mike.
Peter Oborne's account of biased, corrupted and utterly inadequate media coverage of the Iran war. Please watch and scruinise your own media with renewed energy.
(And I'm buying his new book 'Complicit' now)
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Call off King's US visit over Iran, urge Lib Dems
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is really excellent - the creation of a register of 'options over land' will help show if developers are land banking, and allow communities and councils to better understand who controls land in their area.
Good work @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social & MHCLG Land team!
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US and Israeli air strikes on oil production facilities now causing health and environmental risks.
This shows how much Trump and Netanyahu really care about Irainian civilians.
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