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@childofnovelty.bsky.social
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Wales Green Party councillor for Mayals in Swansea. Have a teenage daughter, cats, a busy partner and also work in a library.

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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Relaxing Chinese poetry as I continue to distract from the post election malaise.
A green book with an aged Chinese painting of some woodland.
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
200 pages in on the next book and absolutely loving it. Mother Mary Comes to me by Arundhati Roy. Part autobiographical, part therapy for the author I feel, it's a run through her life and the non standard relationships with family and friends. Would absolutely recommend 100%
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Been decent weather for the peonies this year.
A large bright red peony flower with a green leafy background 
A large bright red peony flower with a leafy green background
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Wes Streeting is the new Chuka Umunna.
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Now the Senedd elections are over, it's back to normality and books. Would definitely recommend. I'm 3 chapters in on the first of 8 short stories.
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I'm hearing Tony Blair's son has a financial interest in the digital ID card company they have lined up. Can anyone confirm?
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
They can't force digital ID if we all refuse. It will lead to a catastrophic data breach with all our most personal data in the hands of far right oligarchs at Oracle or Palantir.
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
From Russia with love. Gill took Russian bribes.
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Absolutely honoured to be top list candidate for the Senedd elections. In these dangerous times, I hope Greens can be a light in the darkness. It's time to Bring Back Hope.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/09/2025
Politics doesn’t have to stay broken. Inequality doesn’t have to win. We’ve got something better to offer — but we need you with us. Join the Green Party today at join.greenparty.org.uk
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Cllr Benali Hamdache @greenbenali.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Keir Starmer has just announced a £1.5bn deal with Palantir. The immoral defense company linked to Peter Thiel Palantir is linked to mass deportations, surveillance and the genocide in Gaza There's always money for bombs and billionaires, but not for children and public services
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Yet more compelling evidence to support @greenparty.org.uk policy that public services should be in public hands 👇
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I welcome the UN report today which has confirmed what we all know, that Israel is committing genocide. This Labour government is complicit and should have arrested Herzog this week. Instead we run spy flights helping war criminals target children. Labour, Reform and the Tories all support murder.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Europe’s summer of extreme weather caused €43bn loss. Damage from heat, drought, flooding, crop failures will accelerate. Climate change is global. No country can escape. Trump/Farage deny the obvious and dance to the tunes of fossil fuel companies.
theguardian.com
Europe’s summer of extreme weather caused €43bn of short-term losses, analysis finds
Greatest damage from heat, drought and flooding done in Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Bulgaria
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Convicted foreign rapists should not be allowed into this country. It's not controversial. So why are Farage, Starmer and Badenoch sucking up to this convicted foreign rapist this week? Reform is the establishment, and the establishment is crooked
Donald Trump looking sinister and more than a little rapey
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Keir Starmer called me and the Green Party "Plastic Progressives." My response:
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Absolutely. As someone who works in a university I can confirm that petty xenophobia is killing the sector and the local economies of university towns
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Anthony Slaughter @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Welsh Government falling woefully behind on vital nature protection targets. Another addition to the litany of Labour failures and a betrayal of future generations. Wales deserves better.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/09/2025
"The Government has repeatedly said 'if nothing changes, we will take further action'. But they haven't." @elliechowns.bsky.social on the Green Party's call to arrest the Israeli president and the urgent action the Labour Government must take to stop the genocide in Gaza
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Mandleson and Trump linked to Epstein. And their mates in London - Starmer and Farage hardly distancing themselves... youtu.be/lsEHJTsjMtc?...
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Mandelson’s Epstein link could end Starmer (with Zack Polanski)
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Mr Polanski, who is Jewish, said: "Welcoming a potential war criminal to the UK is another demonstration of how this Labour government is implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza." news.sky.com/story/israel...
news.sky.com
Green Party leader Polanski calls for Israeli president's arrest during UK visit over 'ongoing genocide'
Israel has strongly denied that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide, but is being challenged on the issue in a case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/07/2025
Here's what we think the Prime Minister should be discussing with Donald Trump this afternoon. How many will he manage?
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

STARMER, WE NEED ACTION
NOT MORE WORDS
Starmer's Checklist
- Halt the supply of weapons to Israel
- Declare Israel's actions as genocide
- Denounce US plans to take control of the Gaza Strip and back an independent Palestinian state.
- Agree all those guilty of war crimes must face prosecution
- Push for a proper ceasefire
- Secure unrestricted access to aid to bring the famine to an end

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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.
theguardian.com
Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers
Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
It was never political correctness, it was rapist police officers
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Awdah Hathleen, a Palestinian who was part of the crew on the Oscar winning film No Other Land was murdered in the occupied West Bank yesterday by an Israeli settler Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed across the occupied West Bank since Oct2023 by Israeli forces & settlers
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
How come I have to age verify for Bluesky but I'm ok to carry on with Facebook which has racist and violent content that I can't block because it keeps coming back.
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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Apparently the UK adult verification thing has basically banned blind people from half of the internet because they can't use the verification system 🫣
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Starmer lacks any form of humanity. He has the same feelings for the disabled and pensioners. All collateral damage.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 29/07/2025
A “worst-case scenario” famine is unfolding in Gaza according to experts. The World Food Programme says Gaza needs to be flooded with 'large-scale food aid' to “prevent mass starvation”. Now is the time for the UK government, and others, to ACT. There is no more time to waste.
LET THEM EAT
With photo of Palestinian people holding empty bowls
Image credit: Hosny Salan
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 29/07/2025
A group of leading economists is urging Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves to introduce a wealth tax to tackle extreme inequality. The Green Party has consistently called for a fairer tax system. Time for Labour to make some different political choices and tax the super-rich fairly.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
There are no words left for what the Israeli government and IDF are doing to Gazans. And yet we must still keep finding the words to say it loudly: they are actively committing genocide and the our governments are letting them. @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Eek. No thank you.
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Can someone tell Rachel Reeves?
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 06/05/2025
Israel are planning to 'move' the population of Gaza as part of a new plan to "capture" the territory. It's clear for everyone to see. This is ethnic cleansing.
CALL IT WHAT IT IS: ETHNIC CLEANSING
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Berin @greenpartyberin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I looked into the bag and the abyss stared back.
Black cat hiding in a paper bag 
Black cat hiding in a paper bag Black cat hiding in a paper bag
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Hmm. Now might be a good time for the UK to strengthen relationships with our European neighbours 👀 By rejoining the Customs Union, the government could begin to overcome the obstacles that small businesses have faced in trading with our closest neighbours since Brexit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK expects to be affected by Trump tariffs, No 10 says
Downing Street does not rule out retaliating if new tariffs are imposed on Wednesday.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A 17-yr-old hostage dies in an Israeli prison. Time for all hostages to be released: Palestinian and Israeli. Time to end the Occupation. Time for Peace with Justice for All www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
theguardian.com
Palestinian teenager dies in Israeli detention in West Bank
Walid Ahmad’s family says his health had deteriorated and officials say he collapsed in unclear circumstances
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
1. I've come to detest the defeatist claim, attributed to various authors, that “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. Of course you can't imagine the end of capitalism if you don’t know what it is! But as soon as you clearly define it, you can see how it ends. 🧵
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
URGENT - there are growing concerns that the NHS will be included in trade talks with Trump 🚨 EveryDoctor has set up a way to tell Keir Starmer within seconds that you do not want this. Please click here, and then share! bit.ly/TellKeir
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Urgent Action Needed: Tell Keir Starmer to Keep the NHS Out of US Trade Deals
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Green Party Migration Policy Group @gpmigration.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
At no point should a government be reviewing your right to a family life. We believe families have a right to be together. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Yvette Cooper reviews right to family life for people who enter UK irregularly
Government reviews use of human rights law to argue for people being allowed to stay, which PM called a ‘loophole’
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childofnovelty.bsky.social @childofnovelty.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Great day yesterday with @yes.cymru Abertawe on the panel discussing all things indy, as well as how to re-engage people with politics. Great panel, great chair, excellent organisation of the event and a tremendous crowd with really incisive questions, feedback and ideas.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 26/03/2025
Cutting social security is unjust, short-sighted and harmful, it deepens inequality, harms the most vulnerable in society, and stores up challenges and problems for future generations ✍️Sarah Rees, Oxfam Cymru buff.ly/C5icoZR
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Fifteen years of austerity have devastated this country - but now Rachel Reeves is planning more cuts, plunging 50,000 children into poverty in the process. An indefensible choice. My piece for @metro.co.uk on the #SpringStatement. Link below!
Screenshot of article headline and photo, available at link in next post.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Labour feel like there's no real threat to them on the left so they're pushing 50,000 children into poverty. They are threatened by Reform & things are going to get much worse. None of this is inevitable though. We can stop it. We need to grow. Quickly. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Let this sink in - Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer are choosing to push 50,000 children into poverty - but won't ask multi-millionaires and billionaires to pay a little bit more tax. Absolutely sickening.
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Wealth tax on multi-millionaires & billionaires? Or drive hundreds of thousands more people into poverty? This, for Rachel Reeves & Labour, is a "hard choice". Not for @TheGreenParty. Join us here: join.greenparty.org.uk
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This government says they're cutting benefits to encourage people to work. But the DWP & OBR between them haven't yet been able to forecast any impact on employment outcomes. They're causing huge hardship without any analysis of whether it will even help meet their goals.
Text: [Redacted] number of people who will move into work as a result of benefits cuts. Accompanied by bar graph showing no data , only questions.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A national economy does not work like a household credit card. In fact: the more the government is in "debt", that's the more money we have potentially flowing around our economy & improving our living standards. A self imposed rule to "balance the books" is dangerous nonsense.
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