EXCL: Rishi Sunak to allow oil & gas exploration at offshore wind sites, prompting criticism that ministers are further abandoning climate agenda Helena Horton Kiran Stacey & me.
theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Photo ID is the most blatant attempt at disenfranchising the working classes EVER

News dominated by the extraordinary hailstorms in France.

Incredibly destructive. Chablis 2024 will be very rare this year

Lots of interviews with folks 'devastated'...(at least one death). Not much on why supercharged weather events are now, increasingly, the norm.

Climate

We are thrilled that the conservation plan led by Avangrid, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Oregon Zoo has helped to restore the California Condor population under Avangrid’s Endangered Species Act permit.

If you don't vote you have no right to complain about anything. Democracy depends on saying what you think.

A Peregrine was found mortally injured on Dove Stone nature reserve in the Peak District National Park on 4 April. Sadly, due to the severity of its injuries the bird had to be euthanised. (1/8)

Unelected, unaccountable Etonian arms dealer.
#bbcpm #r4today

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐲 🎨 🖌️ 💙👺🌻👽🌳🚲💿😜 Gareth Bacon MP Yep. Was just looking at his record. Usual Tory stuff.
Vote to make everything worse then leave most people without any chance of challenge in court due to legal aid restrictions. Utterly cruddy Tories.
In the bin!

Rebuilding Gaza will 'cost £32 billion pounds'.
Maybe have a word with this very wealthy lady?

#bbcpm

Glasgow music legend Christian AKA Chris McClure has died. Yer Granny's favourite along with Sydney Devine. In 1982 he was even on TOTP, part of the Scotland World Cup single 'I Have A Dream'. That's him in the kilt

Less than 5 more hours of this.
Is there no such thing as purdah?

#voteSusanBoyle

#bbcpm

Orang-utans sound brighter than most of the Cabinet.

#bbcpm

Japan's new whaling ship, the Kangei Maru, will begin an 8-month expedition off the northeast coast this month.

The vessel’s range (13,000km) suggests that Japan is preparing to slaughter whales in the Southern Ocean again.

theguardian.com/world/2024/may…

Yeah no thanks FaceBook and your dodgy illegal advertising. I'm not chipping my eBike and I don't approve of this.

I’m in shock. Duane Eddy was one of my most important influences. He was so important in so many ways. What did he die of? He wasn’t that old. Not Duane. I thought he’d live forever.

I’m not one for complaining but I am gutted! I spent 27 years in the Army and today I was going to vote in my local elections.

I was sadly turned away at the door as my Veteran ID was not allowed as formal ID.

I will be fighting for this “special ID” to be “more” formal🇬🇧

Conservative MP Tom Hunt fails to get valid ID for election day and is left unable to cast his own vote by the same voter ID laws he had voted for three years ago, then asks one of his local party members to vote for him (2024)

This is mad, shows the unbelievable scale of factory farming in the UK. 1 billion animals kept in huge sheds for their mercifully short lifetimes. They eat, crap and die & make 30k tonnes of shite daily. And that’s dumped/leaked into rivers. By Big Food. bit.ly/3JKqj9M

Susan Hall AM

Six days.
We really need to review the environmental costs associated with fires.