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Helen Geake

@helengeake.bsky.social
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Archaeology (Time Team, Portable Antiquities Scheme). Politics (Green Party). Always have too much going on to do anything properly.

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Andy Burnham has failed to make a compelling case for Greens to vote for him, let alone for the party to stand aside. But we do need to start thinking about how a *genuinely* progressive alliance could work. Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hang-toget...
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Hang Together or Hang Separately?
Green wins and the Makerfield by-election have reignited debate on the potential for a “progressive alliance” to stop a future far-right government. Now is the time to make it happen argues Tom Scott
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The first duty of any Govt is to keep the public safe. @thecccuk.bsky.social could not be clearer. On our current path, by 2050 nine in ten homes could be at risk of overheating and 40°C heatwaves may become common across the UK. That is why we need a dedicated Climate Protection Unit in No. 10.
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Here's a characteristically insightful article from the excellent Rupert Read: Is There a 'Green Ceiling'? open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
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Is There a 'Green Ceiling'?
Great results, but has the Green Party run into a maximum level of support, under its current strategy? Rupert Read identifies the tricky lessons the Green Party can learn from this election campaign
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B&W Thornton of Stratford-upon-Avon @bwthornton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
#Archaeology #TimeTeam #Podcasts Excavating the Roman fort of Branodunum | Time Team podcast Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social and Martyn Williams @martynmnw.bsky.social are on site with Time Team in Brancaster, Norfolk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMDz...
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Excavating the Roman fort of Branodunum | Time Team podcast
YouTube video by Time Team Official
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Land Use Policy Working Group Green Party of England & Wales @landusegpew.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The crisis re Straights of Hormuz is making us realise we rely on oil too much. The crisis is causing massive fertiliser shortage too. Fertilisers cause tremendous environmental damage. Farming systems/land use must change to use much less. This crisis should make us think about fertiliser use. 🧵
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Time Team is in the Guardian! Thanks @estheraddley.bsky.social for a great article. From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance
Three decades after its modest beginnings on Channel 4, the TV juggernaut now has its own channel and global subscribers
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
As John Gater said, the man who spent his life making us laugh is now making us cry. I can't imagine a Time Team without Kerry; he was our foundations and our roof, as well as our joker. 💔
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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Am enjoying ‘The House of Wolf’ by Sir Tony Robinson. Saxon spear for effect! A Viking appears called Martin Hennig. The only Martin Henig I know is Oxford Rev Prof Martin Henig. A lovely gentle soul who’d be the worst raider: I saw him fall off a punt! REALLY hope he was Sir Tony’s inspiration
The cover of a book with the words ‘the house of wolf’ in gold. Overlain by a real Saxon iron spear Photo of a man in glasses with white hair, a Christian priest’s dog collar, and purple jumper holding a white document. This is reverend Professor Martin Henig from Oxford
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article... A thousand suggestions have been sent in already!
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Sutton Hoo ship name contest urges no 'Boaty McBoatface' suggestions
Sutton Hoo Ship's Company wants help naming their replica, but urges people not to make joke suggestions.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 07/09/2025
Britain’s pensions & care crisis isn’t caused by migrants. It’s caused by ageing – and all the politicians who ignored it. The Bear explains.
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Nan’s not bankrupting Britain (but politicians might be)
Pensions, productivity and the myth of the migrant “drain” – why Britain’s real crisis is ageing, not immigration
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Couldn't agree more, Rupert.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 02/09/2025
Congratulations to the newly elected Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @rachelmillward.bsky.social
Leadership elections results 
New Deputy leader 
Rachel Millward
Photo of Rachel Millward
 
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. 
Green Party 
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 02/09/2025
Congratulations to the newly elected Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @mothinali.bsky.social
Leadership elections results 
New Deputy leader 
Mothin Ali
Photo of Mothin Ali
 
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. 
Green Party 
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Congratulations to my colleague @zackpolanski.bsky.social on being elected as @greenparty.org.uk's next Leader! Well done on a brilliant race. I look forward to continuing to work together on the future of the Green Party and to the many achievements to come!
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Grateful to everyone who gave time, energy + heart to our campaign. 💚 Hugely proud of the record-breaking successes of our party in recent years. Let's keep growing our movement. 🌱 join.greenparty.org.uk
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
A fascinating Newsnight interview. Both the political journalists on the panel said that it's a competition between: broad church & appealing to voters of every party on the one hand, versus fishing in the same waters as Jeremy Corbyn on the other. A very clear choice, I'd say.
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Flag Fen felt positively tropical!
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
This is about leadership that can unite and grow the Green movement. If you haven’t yet, please cast your vote today. 🗳 www.ellie-adrian-2025.org
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Excellent sum up of current Green strength and achievement, from a local councillor who knows what he's talking about.
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Our policies have always been more radical than Corbyn's We should not retreat into a Left ideological ghetto but should invite everybody to vote for a sustainable and peaceful future with the Green Party bylinetimes.com/2025/07/25/h...
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'How the Green Party Should Respond to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's New Left Party'
The creation of a new explicitly left party means that any attempt by the Greens to compete on the same ground is now a dead end, argues Rupert Read
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Green Elects @greenelects.world · 25/07/2025
@carladenyer.bsky.social, @adrianramsay.bsky.social, @elliechowns.bsky.social & @sianberry.bsky.social sign cross party letter calling for Keir Starmer and UK Government to recognise Palestine as a state.
Greens sign cross party letter
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Interesting take on the Green Party leadership election, from the entertaining and always well-informed Mr Pecksniff: eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
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Pecksniff: Exclusive! We reveal far right plot behind Epping riots
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A very clear analysis of why the Green Party is different to all others. It has broadly left-wing policies because these are essential for the planet, but it is first and foremost a Green party and not a leftist party. bylinetimes.com/2025/07/25/h...
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'How the Green Party Should Respond to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's New Left Party'
The creation of a new explicitly left party means that any attempt by the Greens to compete on the same ground is now a dead end, argues Rupert Read
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“If a new political party is setting up, now, without having climate- and ecological- breakdown front and centre, then it’s hopelessly out of date”: Adrian Ramsay brilliant, on LBC #GreenLeadership debate, on why the Green Party is deeply different in fundamental starting-point from Corbyn-Sultana.
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Thank you Mags - you're a tireless champion for disabled people's rights, and I’m proud to have your backing! #TogetherWeWin
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Huge congrats to Diane @ddpearly & well done to the Wealden Green Party for holding Horam and Punnetts Town. The Greens are keeping seats like this because constituents see us delivering, not just shouting from the sidelines & delivering nothing like some parties seem to do.
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Alan Renwick @alanrenwick.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Great to see that the English Devolution Bill, published today, restores the Supplementary Vote system for electing mayors and PCCs. In a blogpost last year, I set out why the switch to FPTP in 2022 was bad for democracy, and why reversing that move is good. constitution-unit.com/2024/05/24/t...
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The new voting system for mayors and PCCs: how it affects democracy
This month’s elections for mayors and police and crime commissioners were contested under a revised voting system. In a post published yesterday, Alan Renwick found that this change had a substanti…
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I’ve put together this listing of top endorsements for Adrian & Ellie for the Green Party Leadership race. They really are quite something. Check out this thread 🧵. Let’s start with the mother of all endorsements: Caroline Lucas’s: x.com/carolineluca...
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
This is indeed the best analysis of Green electoral success I've read. Under Carla & Adrian, the party has gained power and influence on a whole new scale. Let's keep going upwards with Adrian & Ellie.
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Reform UK is rising fast - but we’ve shown they can be beaten. On 8 July, join us and Greens who’ve done just that. Let’s share tactics, build confidence, and win together. 📅 Sign up here: www.ellie-adrian-2025.org/events #TogetherWeWin
Graphic promoting an online event hosted by Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay on Tuesday 8 July at 8PM.
Headline reads: "How Greens Can Beat Reform UK."
Subheading: "Real stories. Smart tactics. A plan for hope."
Image features portraits of Ellie and Adrian with the Green Party logo and the hashtag #TogetherWeWin.
Call to action: “Sign up now at www.ellie-adrian-2025.org/events”.
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Great news!
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Thanks to Jonathon Porritt for backing us as the leadership team this moment demands. Climate. Justice. Fair taxation. Peace. We’ll lead with purpose — and never back down. #TogetherWeWin
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Suffolk Broad (aka Anna) 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇪🇺 @annadamski.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Bear in mind (did you see what I did there @bearlypolitics.co.uk 😉) this was the Chair of the party. If he’s this clueless, imagine what all those rookie councillors are going to be like. 😳 Excellent article, worth a read.
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
We’re not here to stay small. We’re here to win. Mark Redding’s right — it’s time for leadership that speaks to real people, not just the Green bubble. Let’s take this to the next level #TogetherWeWin
"It’s not enough for our leaders to appeal to the Green bubble. If we are going to win elections, they have to appeal to teachers, plasterers, drivers and nurses: the voting public. That’s why I’m backing Ellie and Adrian. They are proven to be electable, and can lead the Green Party to the next level.” Endorsement from Mark Redding - Chair of West Midlands Green Party
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Tim Osmond @chiena.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Great book-in-progress shouting at stately homes here from @susannahwalker.bsky.social. I live with this very happily. open.substack.com/pub/susannah...
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Follow the money
Most of it is ours
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Nigel Farage wants attention for *saying* he’d scrap the 2-child benefit cap. But in the vote against it, did he show up? No. Zero Reform MPs voted against the cap in July. Green MPs put it in our costed manifesto, signed the motion, and voted to scrap it. Actions not words.
Screenshot of an amendment to the King's Speech, voted on 23 July 2024. The Amendment is to abolish the two-child benefit cap and is signed by all four Green MPs.
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Cllr Johnny Denis 💚 @cllrjohnnydenis.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
#TogetherWeWin @elliechowns.bsky.social @adrianramsay.bsky.social
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Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
This is the first really good assessment of @greenparty.org.uk leadership race. Those of us who are worried 😟 about our planet 🌍 know we have to gain the voters attention. 🤔We can easily put voters off by the terms 🤔shorthand?... we use to describe what we are about.
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Some of my favourite people at the Sutton Hoo Ship Company's Saxon Festival yesterday. We had a cinema showing of the #RebuildingTheLegend film, then Q&A with Time Team director Karen Kirk and archaeologist Martin Carver (the two in the centre of the pic). The film's on YouTube - it's a triumph!
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The Green Party is the political wing of the environmental movement. The climate emergency means we must attract voters from across the political spectrum. Ellie and Adrian have shown they can do this - that's why I'm backing them. #TogetherWeWin @elliechowns.bsky.social @adrianramsay.bsky.social
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APPG for Fair Elections @appgfairelections.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
💰 “Donations in British politics have become more concentrated, particularly from super donors - people giving more than £100,000 per year... that is real cause for concern” 💬 Parth Patel @ippr.bsky.social
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
We’re calling on everyone who cares about nature: write to your MP now. Show them we won’t stand by while vital protections are ripped up: action.rspb.org.uk/page/159517/...
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Help stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill tearing up nature protections
I've written to my MP to demand that the UK Government adopts a nature-friendly approach to planning and development. Will you take action too?
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Wise, considered article by Rupert Read here: bylinetimes.com/2025/05/23/c...
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'The Case for Climate Popularism in the Green Party'
The future of UK politics is a fight between the Greens and Reform and its clear which Green candidates are the best placed to lead that battle, argues Rupert Read
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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
'It epitomises the strangeness of Sutton Hoo - it has ship burials, horse burials, mound burials and now bath-bucket burials.' Nice to be ushering children out of the house while listening to the marvellous @helengeake.bsky.social from @timeteam.bsky.social on Today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sutton Hoo Byzantine bucket believed to be cremation vessel
Archaeologists find human and animal remains in the base of the bucket, confirming their beliefs.
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I will be there!
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Join Ellie Chowns and me on Tuesday 20 May at 8pm for our online launch event. Come and hear our ideas about how we can make transformational change in our party, in our communities and in the halls of power at every level of government. Sign up: www.ellie-adrian-2025.org/launch-event
Campaign graphic for Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay's Green Party Co-Leader bid. They are smiling in front of a green background, with Ellie wearing a teal jacket and Adrian in a blue suit and pink shirt. The top text reads "Ellie & Adrian – Together We Win" and a bright pink banner announces: "Online Launch Event – Tue 20 May, 8pm". A vertical disclaimer on the right side notes the image is part of their campaign and not an official communication from the Green Party of England and Wales.
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A crisp analysis of how Labour and the Tories have identical approaches to the planning process. The broader lesson - that for some reason they are now listening to the same sorts of people as the Tories wanted to please - is quite worrying. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour has denounced me as ‘deeply misleading’ on its planning reform. I wish that were true | George Monbiot
Even it now admits that brick by brick, these proposals will wreck habitats. This could be Starmer’s most damaging mistake yet, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Overnight, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator warned that genocide is possible in Gaza. I asked an urgent question Does this Govt stand by its duty to prevent under the Genocide Convention, and will it act to uphold humanitarian law? Or just say “we did all we could.” youtube.com/shorts/ClNmA...
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Overnight, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator warned that genocide is possible in Gaza.
YouTube video by Adrian Ramsay MP
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Find out more about Ellie & Adrian here: www.ellie-adrian-2025.org/support-us
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Support Us — Ellie & Adrian 2025
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Helen Geake @helengeake.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I'm supporting Ellie & Adrian to lead the Green Party, because they have the experience, integrity and judgement we need. Their common-sense approach is attractive to voters, and their energy and expertise can gather wide support from across the party. #TogetherWeWin
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