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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you to everyone who came out to campaign in Holborn & St Pancras today! The election is feeling incredibly close from the thousands of conversations today. We need to keep it up for just a few more days. Every conversation matters. Join us: linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP

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Elaine Hills @elainehills.bsky.social · 20h

What an amazing campaign to be part of! 🙌 Great to work with Greens from afar to get @zackpolanski.bsky.social elected to parliament. 💚 We need change and a victory for Zack in Keir Starmer’s old seat would be a wake up call the govt to actually respond to the crises we're living through. #votezack

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 8h

Rousing tea towels to brighten your day: * Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down * Unity is Strength * No-one is Free until Everyone is Equal * Many Hands Make Light Work you can get them from RickardSisters.com, with discounts for getting two or more

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Holborn and St Pancras is looking incredibly close. Thank you to everyone joining us today on the doorsteps - we know it's only by having conversations with voters that we can win this. With just five days to go - we need you!

Action day photo with Zack and Ross and a big crowd

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This Thursday is the first step on this journey. Every Green vote moves Labour.

John Curtice suggests greens could be pivotal to next UK government

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 04/10/2026

How long does it take to make a graphic novel? That depends…

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 03/10/2026

Morris was about as successful and famous it was possible to be, yet there is still an air of tragedy about him. Here’s our homage to WmMo, a bed-time story for a peculiar child (from This Slavery graphic novel). It’s wide, so tap to see the whole feverdream 🦉 🎻 🏺 🌺

An intense double page spread from This Slavery graphic novel, depicting Hester reading William Morris’ News from Nowhere to her eldest child. Around them, images from the story are intertwined with a WmMo style ‘wallpaper’

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 03/10/2026

Morris felt strongly about beauty, design, labour, economics and communalism. You can see it all in practice at the National Trust Red House in Bexleyheath www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london...

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Red House │ London

Discover Red House, the iconic Arts and Crafts home of William and Jane Morris, cared for by the National Trust

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 03/10/2026

Morris was an idealist, a romantic, a socialist, an anti-imperialist and you could even say an early eco-socialist. More famous now for his influence on Victorian interiors, he was known as a writer and activist. He founded the Socialist League and a society for the protection of ancient buildings

A photo portrait of an older, more serious Morris

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 03/10/2026

Morris married the most famously beautiful woman of her generation, Jane Burden. They had two daughters, but the thing about Jane was that she was passionately in love with Morris’ best mate Rossetti, who painted her over and over and over again. Everyone knew about their love affair.

Proserpine, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (one of many modelled on Jane Burden)

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 03/10/2026

Morris was odd. He was bullied at school, they called him “Crab”. He really committed to special interests. At uni it was medieval art, and he called his close mates the ‘Brotherhood’. They were artists and poets who teased him for being bourgeois and erratic. He picked up a lot of their expenses.

A young William Morris, looking like he’s a New Yorker in the early 1970s

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 03/10/2026

On this day 130 years ago, died the poet, artist, publisher and activist William Morris. You likely have something in your home with a Morris & Co design on it. I bet your bedroom looks like this.

A panel from This Slavery graphic novel, depicting a lovely four-poster bed with Morris & Co curtains. There is also a woman passed out face down on the floor, but you’ll have to read the book if you want to know why

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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We've won big this year - and our wins have forced the Labour government to change course. But we need far more and urgently. From climate action to an emergency brake on rents - we'll keep the pressure on to bring about the change this country needs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Greens can move Labour in the right direction, says Zack Polanski

The Green leader tells his autumn conference that a vote for his party can force changes from Andy Burnham.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Leaders speech in Brighton for our biggest conference in history. Media interviews including Camden New Journal. And then just finished for the evening on the doorsteps in Holborn & St Pancras. FINAL weekend. Join us: linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP

Zack being interviewed by the Camden New journal

Zack with final group of volunteers on the street

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@greenparty.org.uk "Environmental campaigners and Zack Polanski have both separately written to Andy Burnham and the foreign secretary to raise concerns about Rosebank's links to an Israeli company, Delek Group." Vote Green on October 8th and help Stop Rosebank. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Burnham warned Rosebank oil field could breach West Bank sanctions

Campaigners and Green Party leader Zack Polanski raise concerns about Rosebank's ties to an Israeli firm.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Time and time again when I'm knocking on doors people tell me they've still got their kids living at home with them. The extreme cost of housing is putting lives on hold across this country. We need an emergency brake on rents. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Zack Polanski to call for three-year cap on private rent rises

In his speech to his party's conference, the Green leader will frame housing as a key issue of generational fairness.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 02/10/2026

The site foreman hard at work, in our graphic novel of Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

A panel from a graphic novel, showing a man reading a comic with his feet up on the table. You can see tools paint cans and brushes and clamps on the scullery shelves

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 01/10/2026

About 3,500 women are imprisoned in England and Wales right now, and another 21,000 are under probation supervision. WomenInPrison.org.uk tell us that 7/10 of them have experienced domestic abuse and 8/10 experience mental health challenges. If anything is ‘invariably bad’ here, it’s this system

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Home - Women In Prison

Women in Prison supports women affected by the criminal justice system and campaign to end the harm it causes.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 01/10/2026

This image from No Surrender graphic novel expresses a view from 1910 that is still widely held today. It ignores the structural inequalities that steer women and girls into the jaws of the criminal justice system: poverty, abuse, homelessness and mental ill-health

A panel from the graphic novel of Constance Maud’s No Surrender, a story of women’s suffrage. In it, a prison chaplain smugly pontificates, “Experience has taught me that women who are sent to prison are invariably bad.”

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 29/09/2026

More than a million families are being squeezed by rising private rents and frozen housing support levels, according to @resolutionfoundation.org Rent controls, and better quality standards, would change lives instantly.

A panel from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel, showing a young woman and her baby in her rented home. She’s saying “The wind used to come up between the floorboards.” The baby is saying “Waaah!”

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is so much at stake at this election. Real hope looks like action. Rent controls, nationalising Thames Water and no to fossil fuels. Here's an update on how it's going! youtu.be/hPmtOL6obLw

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Campaigning With Zack Polanski In Holborn & St Pancras - Episode 2

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 30/09/2026

Here’s No Surrender graphic novel, with the rosettes & glass fly leaves printed on the insides of the cover

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 30/09/2026

The fly leaves are the pages on the inside of the cover. They are traditionally blank or patterned. We like to make them themed to the story

An illustration: Votes for Women rosettes, scattered on a cream patterned cloth, with sharp shards of broken glass

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 30/09/2026

“What happens when you fall out?” people ask us. Here’s how we make decisions- almost always by consensus! We haven’t yet met any ‘artistic differences’ to fall out about. See the thread for how the fly leaves turned out 🪰

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In terms of messaging, this is very positive, and a big shift from the nature-hatefest of the Starmer administration. Mind you, most tree-planting is unnecessary: I'd like to see much more emphasis on natural regeneration. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government

Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 28/09/2026

And it turns out that this Thing they have brought forth - because it has no creators, but has been stitched together from the flesh of stolen creative corpses - can never be copyrighted! So again, what’s the point?

Frankenstein’s unnamed and motherless monster, reading a graphic novel by the fire.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 28/09/2026

If we found a way to make a generic, soulless version of what we do for half the cost in half the time, we just … wouldn’t? It’s like a hungry diner choosing a plate of cardboard for £5 over a nutritious meal for £10. Why would you?

A book cover: on a bottle green background, a sign writer is putting finishing touches to a square panel which reads Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, a graphic novel by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard. A young boy hands the man a tin mug of tea. Another worker sits reading a newspaper.

A book cover. The text reads ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTH’S THIS SLAVERY, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. The full page illustration shows two women standing back to back in a steep terraced street at sunset. The blonde woman holds a violin, the dark haired woman wears a man’s coat. A young man looks at them from an upstairs window on the left, and on the right there is a perky white and brown dog. In the distance the factory chimneys smoke. It’s all very ‘mills & doom’

A book cover: on a dark inky blue background a five women stand together holding up an ornate protest banner which reads Constance Maud’s No Surrender, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. They are dressed in Edwardian clothing and VOTES FOR WOMEN sashes. The girl in the centre, who wears the shawl of a working woman, holds a loud-hailer

A book cover, with the title MANN’S BEST FRIEND and the names Scarlett and Sophie Rickard. The picture is a drawing of a man walking a big dog up an urban street in the evening. The man has his hood up and holds the dog on a red lead. He’s walking towards us along the pavement past shops with lights on.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 28/09/2026

If you can’t be bothered to make it, why would anyone want to read it? For me, the initials AI will always represent Amnesty International. Their slogan through the nineties and noughties? “PROTECT THE HUMAN”

Amnesty International protest banner in black with yellow text PROTECT THE HUMAN

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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 27/09/2026

So gross that @labouruk.bsky.social are planning to authorise drilling after the election. They know the electorate don't want it. They know it's wrong. They know it won't lower our bills. But they'll to do it anyway. Because we don't matter to them. Profits do. Vote Green 💚

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#GetGreensElected - a crucial 10 days to get out the message: #VoteGreen for Zack Polanski

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.

Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe this will change. We should hope for it and press for it. But at least, or so I believe, we now have a Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary who don't seem to want the world to become an even crueller, harsher, more dangerous place than it is already. And that's a welcome shift.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They treat those who seek peace as a threat to the public realm, while throwing a defensive cordon around those engaged in genocide. They treat environmental protesters as if they were antisocial thugs, while the antisocial thugs of the fossil fuel industry get a free pass to trash our lives.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm not holding my breath, not least because the author of the worst of these polices, Yvette Cooper, is still in government, and her successor in the Home Office, Shabana Mahmood, has defended and extended her draconian anti-protest measures. And yes, these measures really are mad and bad.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe we'll now discover that it is not mad and bad to want to stop weapons being shipped to Israel, which will be used to assist mass murder. Maybe we'll now hear that it's not mad and bad to hold a placard saying "I support Palestine Action". Maybe we'll discover we are not terrorists after all.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not as if Burnham and Miliband are radicals. It's not as if the UK has stopped providing weapons, surveillance and logistical support to a government pursuing genocide. But at least we begin to see some acknowledgement that it's not mad and bad to care about the lives of Palestinians.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

End the genocide in Palestine. Divest from Palantir. Welcome refugees. Stand up against far right racism. Vote Zack Polanski for Holborn and St Pancras MP.

Green Party leader Zack Polanski with Muslim women in Camden.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 27/09/2026

From 1935 Sylvia campaigned relentlessly for Ethiopia against the Italian invasion. She was around for the beginnings of Rastafarianism and moved to Addis Ababa at the invitation of Haile Selassie. She died there aged 78, and was given a full state funeral.

An early studio portrait of Sylvia, before she got famous for causing bother

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 27/09/2026

She campaigned in London’s East End for workers rights, equality and anti-colonialism. She was too socialist and too pacifist for her sisters. When WWI came along she campaigned for conscientious objectors. Sylvia campaigned for Irish home rule, Indian independence, and against fascism of every type

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 27/09/2026

She designed the WSPU logo, leaflets and many banners and posters. She painted portraits of working women, and wrote for the suffragette press. She was arrested for protests loads of times, and went on repeated hunger strike.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 27/09/2026

Today we remember Sylvia Pankhurst, who died on this day in 1960. Pankhurst women were each a strong flavour, and Sylvia is our favourite. Brought up by suffragist socialist activist parents, Sylvia trained as an artist (Manchester, then Royal College of Art), noting every exclusion along the way

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