Liam Stokes
@LNJStokes
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Land, animals & countryside | Former Defra G6 and rural NGO CEO | Writing on politics, environment, faith & imagination
Chippenham, England
Joined August 2011
As the world descends into madness I decided to write a Nature Faith & Fantasy garden diary. I enjoyed writing it so much I'm going to make it a monthly feature.
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This, on the British preparation for the Iran war, is just jaw dropping.
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Humans and their livestock now account for more than 96 percent of all mammal biomass on the planet. Actual wild animals are only a tiny, tiny sliver by comparison.
If there were one thing that I could get people to fully grasp, it would be this. No one wants to hear it.
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A quick Google suggests slabs containing quartz are liable to explode if you burn things on top of them.
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Feel like it should be well known that patio slabs can explode under intense heat. This happened in our town and I feel obligated to share my new knowledge.
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Takes a very special level of comms genius to soundtrack this bizarre clip to “Money for Nothing”
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Extraordinary graph, Labour as the party of the well off (while Tories aren't the party of anyone)
Reform UK and the Greens are hoovering up financially insecure voters. My piece this week looks at the return of Britain's class politics (with a twist) https://t.co/rjLMD96uYf
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It was easy to check because I wrote about it here, whilst waiting to have my lip stitched back together last Christmas.
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Goodness me. I checked, in 2025 I read 14 novels, plus some short stories and a gajillion children’s story books. I do think a small number of decent books, well read and appreciated, beats a monstrous devouring of pap. But maybe that’s me being a massive snob.
As schools across the country celebrate World Book Day, our study last year found that 40% of Britons hadn't read a single book in the past 12 months - the median Briton had read 3 books in the preceding year
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Oh no. I'm starting to believe
Arsenal have just beaten Spurs Chelsea and Brighton and gone 7 points clear in the Premier League. Massive response from this group. 9 out of 9. Rotate vs Mansfield and we go again with some returning players next week. Class away fans. Lock in Arsenal Football Club.
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Read it here, let's enjoy thinking about the little patches of earth where we can actually make a difference:
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I have a lot of time for this take. I'm instinctively Atlanticist, but the @AaronBastani line about restrictionists now lobbying for the creation of unlimited refugees is solid, and @FeserEdward has done an excellent job of laying out the ethical objections.
I wrote about why Reform is wrong to uncritically back the US https://t.co/peyAaKvKKQ
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First edition very hungry caterpillars rarer as fewer moby-dick readers chew their books
In the wild world of rare books, a certain first edition of The Very Hungry Caterpillar will cost you more than a first edition of Moby-Dick
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I think this is smart. No Westminster baggage, not so high profile as to excite the passions, but allows Reform to claim 'the longest serving Labour mayor'.
'Labour has lost its moral compass...' Nigel Farage introduces Sir Robin Wales, former Labour Mayor of Newham, as Reform UK's London Director of Local Government.
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Marco after they tell him he’s in charge of the London ship insurance market now
This is potentially the biggest Iran story nobody is talking about: the global insurance market may be heading toward a systemic crisis. Here’s why… Most people don’t realize London isn’t just a financial center it’s THE center of global insurance. Lloyd’s underwrites ~40% of
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This is a new account and a great follow. Really solid statistical insights for all you proper political nerds.
Interesting week for By-elections, on the back of Gorton and Denton. The Lib Dems were cast aside last week, so they will need to get a strong showing in Sevenoaks. No Labour but the Greens are standing. Lib Dems usually win these seats when Tory dissatisfaction sets in.
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I was in Gorton and Denton in the day and my experience with Muslim voters was not this. Out of the 33 Muslim voters I spoke to, all of them cited Gaza as their number 1 voting reason. When asked about other Green Party issues, such as drugs and trans rights, only a couple were
According to Reform we are meant to believe that socially conservative Muslim men were forcing their wives in Gorton & Denton to vote for a party led by a…gay Jewish guy? To legalise heroin? Doesn’t seem quite right to me.
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Has anyone checked if we Brits have enough functional military hardware to populate a 20 second video?
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What the f** are we doing? Why don’t policymakers care? What could possibly matter more than the liveability of our planet? We are killing off the living world because varied rural and industrial special interests have got politicians in some kind of an armlock.
Many of North America’s birds are in a state of accelerating decline, with over half of 122 species dying out faster, according to a new study. Their vanishing songs are a bellwether of a far deeper biodiversity crisis, researchers say.
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