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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
When peaceful protest becomes a crime , who is really guilty ? And what can we do about it ? Music is protest and culture is collective . Make ‘The Prisoner’ heard , buy it , share it , send it to number one: chrispackh.am/ryader – thank you .
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Anglian Water pleads guilty, fined £1.42m for contaminating water supply. No exec fined. AW already has 128 criminal convictions. Allowed to operate, fleece customers, dump sewage, neglect investment, pay dividends and exec bonuses. End the farce. Must remove profit motive. Nationalise.
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Anglian Water fined record £1.42m for contaminating water supply
Firm prosecuted after unapproved material in tanks led to flakes and powder entering drinking water of 1.3m people
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Soil Association @thesoilassociation.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Sign our petition demanding the UK Government's Food Strategy put healthy diets at the heart of government policy soilassociation.co/TTHTB Full @theguardian.com exclusive here www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms
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Soil Association @thesoilassociation.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
BREAKING - Govt. plans to back healthy food were BLOCKED by ultra-processed food giants 🚨 Our FOIA requests reveal food manufacturing lobbyists demanded that reference to ‘minimally processed and nutritious foods’ was removed from Government guidance - and they succeeded ✍ soilassociation.co/TTHTB
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
With Labour in freefall, Greens are the main challenger to Reform and the Conservatives in this seat. Can you help us take the fight to Reform? Sign up to help or donate: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
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Help us elect our 5th MP in a Central Suffolk and North Ipswich by-election.
We are preparing for a by-election in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich. We are fighting to win our 5th MP in the country, and win our first-ever parliamentary by-election in Green Party history. ...
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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🚨BREAKING: The new Reform Mayor for Lincolnshire has said she will MEET with a fracking company to discuss extracting gas from the county - claiming it will 'save money for taxpayers.' 92% of Reform's donations come from oil/gas interests. Who else thinks Reform is just a mouthpiece for Big Oil?
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Amaryllis the Lovely🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @amaryllisthelovely.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
@moderation.bsky.app Why on earth have you marked this ‘intolerance’? Please remove the label or explain in terms why the clarification that despite recent press reports, men will not suddenly be doing mammograms - a job only open to women.
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Amaryllis the Lovely🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @amaryllisthelovely.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
At present we underpay staff in the ‘care’ sector and don’t fully reimburse their actual expenses eg petrol, insurance etc. The training ladder plateaus at a fairly low level as do the wages and we exploit women. Professional wages and advancement might eventually address the EXISTING shortage. 🙄
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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry. The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale. Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs. 1/2
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TinaLouiseUK @tinalouise.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
[How can we have democracy while we have political parties ready to take ‘donations’ from rich corps in return for favourable policies?; how can we have democracy when you & I, and anyone who’s no one, haven’t power to change any of that, not even in elections - (all party willingness to be bought)]
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 16/05/2025
US ambassador: I quit Ukraine because Trump is ‘complicit’ with Russia Bridget Brink, Washington’s representative to Ukraine since 2022, ended a three-decade career after the president ‘put pressure on the victim’ of aggression
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US ambassador: I quit Ukraine because Trump is ‘complicit’ with Russia
Bridget Brink, Washington’s representative to Ukraine since 2022, ended a three-decade career after the president ‘put pressure on the victim’ of aggression
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I’m backing Ellie & Adrian for @greenparty.org.uk led by MPs with a national platform, a track record of overturning electoral odds & the ability to speak to all - a team committed to bringing the party together, facing down the far right & championing urgent nature & climate action
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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We are outside Parliament, alongside DPAC, Not Dead Yet UK and other campaigners calling for MPs to vote against the Assisted Dying Bill. If they don't want to hear Disabled voices in the committee, we'll make sure they hear us from out here!
A photo of 7 Disabled campaigners outside Parliament, holding a 'not dead yet UK' banner and placards that say 'assisted suicide is not the solution', 'do no harm. vote no', ' choice in life before choice in death', 'don't prescribe suicide' and 'don't give doctors a license to kill'.
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It was wonderful to visit a rewilding project in Herefordshire with James and Oliver from Rewilding Britain. We heard about the landowner's thoughtful approach to creating space for nature, from bugs to birds, and the place was certainly teeming with wildlife (as well as being a working farm)!
Ellie smiling in a sunny field with James and Oliver from Rewilding Britain.
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The Telegraph @telegraph.co.uk · 16/05/2025
✍️Labour MPs should ask themselves if they want to be remembered for normalising suicide | Writes David Frost
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We're concerned about the impact on Women of the planned reforms to benefits, so we are hosting THREE Women-only ONLINE focus groups to support you to share your views. ➡️ Thurs 22nd May 7pm ➡️ Thurs 5th June 6.30pm ➡️ Sun 8th June 3pm 🎟️ bit.ly/FWAFocusGroups #DisabilityBenefits #FiLiAWomensAssembly
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 16/05/2025
Doctors Without Borders-supported Nasser hospital is now the only public hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. It was also hit on the same day a few hours before the Gaza European Hospital for the second time in less than two months.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 16/05/2025
#Gaza: The Gaza European Hospital, in Khan Younis, the last facility providing cancer-treatment across the Strip, is now out of service after Israeli forces struck it on May 13. This was one of the last remaining lifelines in Gaza's shattered healthcare system.
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Voters of all parties - including Reform - want higher taxes on the fossil fuel companies. Reform is letting its voters & the country down with climate denial. @greenparty.org.uk would increase taxes on oil and gas giants to help fund urgent climate action. globalwitness.org/en/press-rel...
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Reform voters among majority in UK that want higher taxes on fossil fuel polluters
Following Labour’s dramatic losses to Reform UK in last week’s local elections, and anti net-zero plans announced by the latter this week, new polling shows that the majority of Reform voters are worr...
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loppyoubridge.bsky.social @loppyoubridge.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Adrian and Ellie are fighting climate change & ecological destruction, they are fighting for peace and against genocide. These are the important issues of our time.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Government's immigration crackdown will fuel 'exodus' of nurses, union warns news.sky.com/story/govern...
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Government's immigration crackdown will fuel 'exodus' of nurses, union warns
This week, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer outlined several measures aimed at curbing the number of migrants coming into the country. This included a plan to end care worker visas for overseas recruit...
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Leadership.
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I know the Chancellor is desperate for some positive news but claiming credit for this recent growth is either ignorant or disingenuous There are all sorts of unpredictable exogenous factors influencing these numbers If growth continues into the second quarter I will happily eat my hat
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Very exciting! We should throw the kitchen sink at this! Only Greens can keep out Reform
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Today’s Children Face a Lifetime of Extreme Heat because of Climate Change
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Today’s Children Face a Lifetime of Extreme Heat because of Climate Change
Young people today will be exposed to a number of heat waves that no one would have experienced before the burning of fossil fuels started raising global temperatures
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Colorado Socialist ☭🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ♿ @leftwardswing.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is incredible! Quite the creative way to fight against climate change 🌏 #climate
Photographs of solar panels in India that cover canals that prevent water evaporation.
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Justine Calma @justcalma.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
USDA says it will return information about climate change to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down www.theverge.com/news/666150/...
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Farmers win legal fight to bring climate resources back to federal websites
“It feels good to win one, right?”
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Helen Bamber Foundation 🧡 @helenbamber.org · 15/05/2025
This latest report shows that men who have suffered persecution and abuse continue to be subjected to poor conditions and structural violence at RAF Wethersfield. Over 60% of men examined had severe mental distress and 30% reported suicidal ideation. 👇 #CommunitiesNotCamps
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Join Ellie Chowns and I on Tuesday 20 May at 8pm for our online launch event. Come and hear our thoughts and 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: mailchi.mp/ellie-adrian...
Promotional image for Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay’s Green Party Co-Leader campaign. They are standing outdoors in front of greenery, smiling. Ellie is wearing a teal blazer and white top, while Adrian wears a light pink shirt and blue blazer. The text reads: "Ellie & Adrian – Together We Win", "Support us – Together We Win", and includes the website "www.ellie-adrian-2025.org". A disclaimer at the bottom states the material is campaign-related and not an official communication from the Green Party of England and Wales.
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Veggies Catering Campaign 🌱 @veggiesnottm.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We are delighted to announce that Kate Wilson will be joining us at #Nottingham #SumacCentre on Sunday 1st June at 1pm, to introduce her new book, DISCLOSURE: Unravelling the #Spycops Files. We hope to be live streaming the event, with zoom access for Q&A's See sumac.org.uk/event/disclo...
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Events for May 2025 – Sumac Centre
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Police Spies Out Of Lives @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Outraged by the #spycops scandal? Care about protecting women & girls from male sexual violence? Believe police should behave ethically? If so, please sign our parliamentary petition to ban police officers from having sexual relationships while undercover. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Image of hand holding megaphone with speech bubble calling for a ban on undercover police having sexual relationships while on duty with members of the public. Also a link to sign parliamentary petition about this issue.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 15/05/2025
I mean a) this is not a surprise and b) can we stop framing opposition to this bill as largely a religious thing? It's not. There are plenty of people who have problems with this bill because it's a bad bill, not because of religion theconversation.com/assisted-dyi...
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Assisted dying bill: religious MPs were more likely to oppose law change in first round of voting
MPs will soon vote on Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill. Analysis of the second reading shows how religion, identity and party shaped support and opposition.
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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🚨NEWS🚨 The assisted dying lobby isn’t being honest with you – Disabled people are at risk from this bill www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The assisted dying lobby isn’t being honest with you – disabled people are at risk from this bill | Lucy Webster
Proponents say the measures being debated in parliament will apply only to people who are on their deathbeds. That isn’t true, says journalist and author Lucy Webster
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The govt cannot ignore this warning: we must act now to prevent genocide. We must not let the govt become desensitised to the horrors unfolding in Gaza; I will continue to fight for a ceasefire and the humanitarian action that is so desperately needed. news.sky.com/story/sixtee...
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Dozens killed in strikes on Gaza - as UN Security Council urged to 'prevent genocide'
Airstrikes hit two hospitals in the south of the Palestinian territory on Tuesday while on Wednesday Israel struck homes in the northern Jabalia area, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
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David Challen @davidchallen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Lucy was 13. Groomed, isolated, coercively controlled. But the law says it’s not domestic abuse, because she was under 16. While boys are radicalised by violent misogyny online, girls are left unprotected. This is state failure. ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“The strategy is clear: dissolve the category of woman to avoid naming male violence and confronting prostitution as a patriarchal system of exploitation. Political clarity is replaced with complexity—and feminism is expected to include everyone, or be called exclusionary and violent”
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What I want to say about ‘sex work is work’
I used to believe that sex work was work, and could be made safer through rights-based advocacy.
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loppyoubridge.bsky.social @loppyoubridge.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
This is an idiotic thing for Trump administration to do.
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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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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“[Chalk streams] are globally significant ecosystems and are largely restricted to our shores. So we have a huge responsibility to protect them.” Really disappointing for this amendment I moved in the Planning & Infrastructure Bill Committee to be vetoed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Attempt to protect rare chalk streams in planning bill rejected by Labour MPs
Government vetoes cross-party effort to protect threatened waterways from push to rip up environmental red tape
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Sam Joiner @samjoiner.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
In a groundbreaking investigation, we used facial recognition software to identify Ukrainian children given false Russian identities and listed for adoption. @alisonkilling.bsky.social @christopherjm.ft.com @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.ft.com @samlearner.bsky.social on.ft.com/433Mpgw
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FT investigation finds Ukrainian children on Russian adoption sites
[FREE TO READ] Four missing Ukrainian children identified and located in Russia, including one given false identity
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Sisters Salon Brighton #CreatingWomensSpaces @sisterssalon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
In response to the war, more than 49 women-led peace initiatives, humanitarian initiatives and civil society organizations have formed a network called the #PeaceforSudan Platform. #WagingPeace 👇👇👇 brightonsisters.wordpress.com/action-eleve...
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Sudan, the forgotten war
Feminism is not just a movement, but is a home for so many of us. This movement has created that opportunity to house and shelter some of us. Grace Dorong A national emergency & crisis for wome…
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Inspire LGB @inspirelgb.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Nailed it! 💯
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Did you know that, in orchards, "a thriving earwig population can dispose of as many aphids in a year as 3 rounds of insecticide"? Worth a read... #pesticides #gardening hartley-botanic.co.uk/magazine/ins...
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Insects down – bulbs up - by John Walker
Daily tidings of impending ecological catastrophe make it hard to stay positive – but gardeners have can-do ways to mitigate the crisis.  Down one day, up
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 15/05/2025
Quite possibly the biggest climate story of the year (especially when we look back on this in a few years' time) For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...
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Pint of Science UK @pintofscience.uk · 15/05/2025
We're coming to your local venue in 4 days (19-21 May) Did you check the programme and book your tickets? Don't miss your chance! 🎟➡️ pintofscience.co.uk
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Emma Wilkinson @emmajourno.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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GPs split over assisted dying plans, BBC research suggests
GPs are deeply divided over assisted dying with personal beliefs shaping their views, BBC research reveals.
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Green Party Women #ForWomenAndPlanet @greenpartywomen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
❓ Is surrogacy a benevolent act? 🌍 Stop Surrogacy Now UK had concerns about the 2023 draft Bill www.facebook.com/share/18tWYr... 🙋🏽‍♀️Bring your questions for founder Lexi Ellingsworth & join this GPW ideas exchange event 🗓️Save the date: Thurs 5 June 19.00-20.15 📲Registration link to follow next week
Stop Surrogacy Now UK logo - pink circle outlined with black line showing pregnant woman and her fetus with £ sign labelPublicity photo of founder of Stop Surrogacy Now UK, Lexi Ellingsworth
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Sometimes when everyone’s being hysterical over not a lot you need to look at the stories getting no visibility. The Covid Inquiry yesterday declared 180,000 Brits died because Johnson and Hancock ignored expert advice. 180,000 people.
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