Alister is a pracademic, chartered planner and interdisciplinary bastard working on better mainstreaming of nature in policy and decisions. Views are personal.
Joined December 2010
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Apr 10
#trump the Iranians have no cards
World economy the straits of Hormuz are not open and price of oil
We are being driven towards World War 3 by idiots and one wonders when the republicans are going to wake up and smell the bullshit
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Mar 31
#r4today I think govt need to have contingency for those who rely on heating oil for heat and water as prices have more than doubled and there are no viable alternatives. Mainly rural areas and major issues for those on low incomes
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Mar 24
#skynews actually nothing about support to those rural communities who have to buy heating oil. That has more than doubled in price. Equivalent to £3.00 per litre for petrol
Had to have a fill of 500 litres today at £1.30 per litre . In November was 52p
Total rip off
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Mar 23
#r4today Martin Lewis forgets about many of us in rural areas dependent on heating oil just paid 130 p per litre as opposed to 52p in November
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Mar 22
At what stage do republicans accept not only that #trump is an election liability but a person who should never be near any power as he single handedly threatens worlds economy
This is way beyond idiocracy
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Man, what a no brainer.
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Feb 12
Truly #trump is the real life starring actor of #idiocracy
Yet republicans seemingly are impotent or unwilling to rock the boat.
Who is actually scamming who ………
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Nature crisis in construction highlighted by wildlife organisations: pbctoday.co.uk/news/building…
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18 Dec 2025
My 6 year old has a nice decoration scheme for our Xmas tree
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9 Dec 2025
"Surveys of bullying in universities show that it is rife, but universities are chronically unable to identify any bullying behaviour"
From "Exited: Terminated from Higher Education", edited by Howson, Hughes & Tight, published Emerald Press
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5 Dec 2025
Turns out those complaining about "the vegetable lobby" are just angry with...the public.
Developers have failed to build affordable homes.
Scapegoating nature for their failure is wrong.
It's also a vote loser.
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28 Nov 2025
Fascinating no responses no doubt Elon musk algorithm for non subscribers?
27 Nov 2025
#r4today packham is right. Those who speak for nature have not done enough and need to up their game. As an academic I collectively feel my own failure in such respects. However using a fear factor narrative is not likely to work as crisis is overused .
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27 Nov 2025
#r4today packham is right. Those who speak for nature have not done enough and need to up their game. As an academic I collectively feel my own failure in such respects. However using a fear factor narrative is not likely to work as crisis is overused .
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27 Nov 2025
#r4today Need to engage with publics and others on their priorities and connect our nature narrative within those rather than operate in our own silo and echo chamber. That requires working outside our jargon and usual suspects .
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16 Nov 2025
Nature is not the blocker to 1.5 million homes, instead it’s a necessity for building resilient towns and neighbourhoods.
Read our new report on environmental sustainability and housing growth ⬇️
publications.parliament.uk/p…
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13 Nov 2025
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #Planning bill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
13 Nov 2025
⚠️Planning bill update ⚠️
as expected Labour was whipped into voting down every amendment that would protect nature from this bill. They rejected the most basic fluffing protections for endangered species. They even rejected saving chalk streams!
Now it goes back to the Lords
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7 Nov 2025
First major grant success in three years
Ironically too tired to celebrate
More details to follow
Also had an interview for an exciting cHir role
My move to a new department might be paying off
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5 Nov 2025
This is deeply disappointing from Starmer.
The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯
How embarrassing for the UK.
theguardian.com/environment/…
ALT Screenshot of Guardian headline available at link
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28 Oct 2025
The climate emergency and nature loss is a growing threat to our national security, including the risk of spiralling food prices.
We are running out of time to secure global action that protects a liveable planet for the future.
Important discussions at @CommonsEAC last week.
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