Husband, daddy & teacher of the odd teenager. Wildlife, running, hillwalking, mtbing & golf. C permit ringer & supporter of our nature. T&FRSG member. #outside
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Doug Robertson retweeted
Post mortems suggest five Hen Harrier chicks found dead in nest on grouse moor in northern England had injuries consistent with being stabbed.
New blog (warning - contains distressing info) ⬇️
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026…
Doug Robertson retweeted
New date for Raeshaw Estate's judicial review of 3-yr General Licence restriction, imposed by NatureScot after the disappearance & suspected 'shooting & killing' of Golden Eagle Merrick.
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026…
Doug Robertson retweeted
“We’re just blocking these ambulances”
We are now at the point where radicalised locals in Gosport are assigning ambulances according to race and abusing emergency workers.
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust finds its voice & calls for Government action on raptor persecution.
Bravo!
New blog ⬇️
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026…
Doug Robertson retweeted
Sir Jim Ratcliffe:
- taxpayer funded council house
- taxpayer funded state school
- taxpayer funded uni fees and maintenance grant
Pays that back as a tax exile in Monaco
He’s part of the economic migrant problem
Doug Robertson retweeted
Marsh Harrier found shot in North York Moors National Park.
Police appeal for information & some commentary by me ⬇️
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026…
Doug Robertson retweeted
Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK.
Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands subsidies for Man U stadium.
Why do billionaires resent people getting decent public services?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm04…
Doug Robertson retweeted
‼️ Jim Ratcliffe:
🔹 Backed Brexit
🔹 Moved his tax residence to Monaco
🔹 Abandoned plans to build the British 🇬🇧 Grenadier in Wales and moved production to France
🔹 Now lectures Britain from Denmark about why the country is on the slide
And who does he blame? Immigrants and people on benefits.
The billionaires who helped hollow Britain out always point down, never at Brexit, tax flight, chronic underinvestment or their own decisions.
*Toughness* seems to mean somebody poorer paying the price.
Doug Robertson retweeted
Malta should be subject to sanctions until it stops allowing the massacre of migrating birds.
These birds don’t belong to Malta, or to anyone. They move back and forth between Africa and Europe; Malta is just a staging post.
It’s an outrage.
Hundreds of Turtle-doves. Protected birds shot. Just two police units.
Today’s bird-fall brought thousands of migratory birds to Malta and into the sights of hunters.
Despite the Turtle-dove quota being reached and the season closed, shooting continued.
birdlifemalta.org/2026/09/me…
Doug Robertson retweeted
Reminder covering 0.4% of UK farmland in Solar Panels would provide 100% renewable energy.
20% is currently unused and 2% is golf courses.
The being outraged at solar panels on farmland is a Right Wing trope to keep you outraged at Renewable energy.
Doug Robertson retweeted
Sepa sent Mowi eight letters outlining 15 alleged environmental breaches at its Ardgour salmon farm between 2023 and 2025, records obtained under freedom of information law reveal
theferret.scot/p/45345e93-2a…
Doug Robertson retweeted
Meet Martha. Except, well... you can't. She died in 1914, alone in a cage, the last passenger pigeon on Earth.
She was about 29 when she passed, which is old for a pigeon. Her two male companions died in 1909 and 1910 and after that, she was it.
The zoo offered $1,000, roughly $30,000 in today's money, to anyone who could bring her a mate. But nobody ever collected.
Her species had been the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world. Flocks passed overhead for hours and blocked the sun. Audubon watched one migration in 1813 and put it at over a billion birds.
Then the telegraph arrived, and the railroads. That's what did them in.
Commercial hunters could wire ahead about a flock's location and ship barrels of birds to city markets overnight. Pigeon became the cheapest meat in America. They netted them, shot them, and burned sulfur under roost trees to drop them by the thousand.
It only took about fifty years to go from billions to none.
Martha was found on the floor of her cage on a September afternoon. They froze her in a 300-pound block of ice and put her on an express train to the Smithsonian. She arrived three days later, and she's still there today.
Doug Robertson retweeted
No, this is not a joke.
UK Lawyers for Israel are trying to proscribe *Médecins Sans Frontières*.
That’d mean they’d be treated as terrorists.
On the same legal footing as ISIS.
Membership would mean 14 years in prison.
This is what we’re dealing with
Shabana Mahmood is being urged by UK Lawyers for Israel to proscribe Doctors Without Borders (MSF) over staff’s alleged links to terrorist groups.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…
Doug Robertson retweeted
I love the fact that people are now referring to balaclavas as nonce bonnets😂
Merciless pisstaking is how you get them.
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Well after today’s announcement from the Bank of England, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system... 😡
So … let me get this straight:
* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June
* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone
* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year
The MEN at the top:
* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary
* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m
* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.
* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m
* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m
* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m
* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package
* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000
* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m
* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary
Meanwhile there are...
* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.
* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.
* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.
* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.
* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.
* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.
* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.
* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!
* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.
* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!
All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...
THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.
Something needs to change.
Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?
I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....
COPIED AND PASTED FROM OTHERS :
PLEASE KEEP IT GOING SO MORE AND MORE GET TO SEE IT .
People will read that and then with a straight face still try tell you that illegal immigrants and ethnic minorities and Muslims are the problem. Mental.
Doug Robertson retweeted
Dandelions are one of the last flowers standing in the fall. Spray one with roundup and you're spraying every bumblebee queen that visits, just as she's preparing to hibernate.
The flower doesn't die on contact. It takes days, and it keeps getting visited the entire time. Bumblebee queens are feeding hard right now, building the fat reserves that have to carry them through months underground with no colony and no food. Every queen that doesn't fatten up is a colony that doesn't start next spring.
Research from Finland found glyphosate-exposed bumblebees lost the ability to tell flowers apart by color, and lost their sensitivity to the ultraviolet patterns bees use to find nectar.
Late solitary bees, hoverflies, and butterflies are working the same flowers too.
If the dandelions genuinely bother you, dig them out. A weeding fork gets the taproot.
Or leave them. The first hard frost takes care of it.
Doug Robertson retweeted
Time to say goodbye:
This is a Cerulean paradise flycatcher, one of the rarest birds in the world.
For more than a century it was believed to be extinct—known only from a single specimen collected in 1873—until one was found in the last fragments of its ruined forest in the 1990s.
The few found since live only on the island of Sangihe, Indonesia, where the Baru Gold Corp has finally obtained permission to mine the island.
On September 8, 2026, the CEO, Terry Filbert, issued this statement: "Baru’s team of mining and finance professionals boasts extensive experience in starting and operating gold and coal assets. Baru is positioned to become Indonesia’s next gold producer."
The locals have fought this for years, fearing for their settlements and water supplies, but they and this beautiful and unique little bird don't matter to the Indonesian government as it continues its large-scale environmental destruction.
Doug Robertson retweeted
Ugly stuff.
Bloke clamps his hand around the woman's mouth whilst her hair is pulled. Christopher Hope of GB News nearly pushed to the floor for trying to speak to her.
Loads of journalists have also been banned from this conference. All from the party of free speech.
Count the number of assaults going on here, NOT carried out by the security staff..
They think it’s a fucking free for all to grab people’s hair and get digs in!
#Reform
Doug Robertson retweeted
Lee Anderson interviewed on British TV today:
Lee Anderson “I can't answer questions on the allegations because Reform has started a full internal investigation.”
Interviewer “Who is leading the investigation?”
Lee Anderson - “I don't know because it hasn't started yet.”
Doug Robertson retweeted
🔴NEW: Toxic chemicals used to kill fleas on hundreds of thousands of pets have contaminated more than 50 rivers across Scotland at levels that could harm wildlife, according to Scotland's environment watchdog.
Read the full story👉 bit.ly/4iKUuQM
