Wassup Bluesky ✌🏻 I’m a dad of two boys, a writer, and the manager of an independent bookstore. I’ll mainly be reviewing books and sharing my writing. Cheers!

Tomorrow is Wednesday. Which means it's #buyastrangerabook day. #buyastrangerabook celebrates 8 years next week! Gonna try my best to make it a goodun. S www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

We have teamed up with boomsatsuma to support 29 filmmakers to create six films spotlighting organisations funded through the Bristol City Leap Community Energy Fund. 🩵 These films showcase community-led climate action and give emerging creatives real-world experience, skills and confidence. 🎬

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

Thanks so much for all the reposts. You're all ace. Here's a short version of the post. RAFFLE! £2 a ticket! WIN LOADS OF SIGNED BOOKS. Raise money for schools by entering. BUY TIX HERE www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...

The system is rigged. An illegal war hikes bills for stuggling families - meanwhile energy giants rake in profits. We don't have to live like this any more. Vote Green on May 7th.

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When we started 20 years ago. We didn't expect that one of our books would become A set text on the Junior Certificate in Ireland. An international bestseller. Adapted into a 6 part BBC & RTÉ TV series. Narrated by Hollywood royalty. Indy publishing! @thebookseller.com

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

We’ve done as much as we can at Warleigh Nature Reserve with almost zero budget, and charity coffers wiped perilously close to zero once the land purchase went through. Help me and the team at @protect.earth fight for nature in Bath by chucking in a few quid. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-n...

So many people are telling us they are ready for change in Bradford. They are fed up with Labour and the Tories but worried what a Reform-led council would do to our district. People are wanting hope - and they are ready to vote Green on 7th May.

Solar panels don’t damage the countryside you just don’t like the way they look. Skylarks. Linnets. Yellowhammers. www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan...

🌱 You know that @mothinali.bsky.social loves his gardening, right? ❓️ So we put some horticultural–political questions to him. Starting with: ➡️ If Reform was a weed, which would it be, and why?

Two big firsts this weekend. We're off to Oxford later for #phoenixfest and leaving our 16 yr old on his own overnight. Feels huge so naturally the kids and I are awake far too early.... Anyone else going? We've got tickets for events on Sunday.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

Ruth Kettle-Frisby, Greens Organise Steering Group member and local council candidate, talks about the Greens Organise pledge to oppose local council austerity. @greensorganise.bsky.social

Our planet is in crisis. We need to stop those who pollute and destroy our planet for profit. Honour to speak at #LettersLive - with MC Benedict Cumberbatch. 📸 Chris Floyd & Andy Paradise

The Green Party propose a 1% wealth tax on people with over £10m that would bring in £50-60bn a year for our Public Services. RT if you would like to see it.

Labour's dirty tactics in Gorton & Denton: omitting Greens from graphs & ballot papers (4 candidates when there are 9!). Khizer Qayyum is gaining momentum. Your postal ballots are here - fill & send directly. Vote Khizer Qayyum May 7th. The Future is Green! 🌱

Genotype does not simply produce phenotype: so much we need to #Unlearn in our understanding of the interactions of human animals with their environment www.earth.com/news/breastf...

"The public accounts committee described the children’s residential care market in England as “dysfunctional”. What's wrong with that sentence? The presence of the word "market". Care should NEVER be in for-profit hands www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I just made a surprise appearance at the Royal Albert Hall for Earth Day. The room felt so hopeful. People so sick and tired of climate injustice - but even more driven by wanting change. Tackling the climate crisis needs all of us - and an end to Rip Off Britain. #LettersLive

I am deeply honoured to have received the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize for Europe. This recognises my long fight as part of @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social over fossil fuel production – and our eventual landmark legal victory. www.theguardian.com/environment/... @goldmanprize.bsky.social

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

The govt's move to decouple the price of electricity from the price of gas needs to be done right. If it’s voluntary, people’s bills may not decrease by as much as hoped. Reeves didn’t take up my invitation to send her @cmmonwealth.bsky.social's report – I’m going to send it anyway

“Corridor care is bad for patient safety, dignity, and staff morale. We would make it a ‘never event’ so it is properly recorded and tackled.” Wales Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter on NHS standards on ITV Wales Leaders' Debate.

Looking forward to joining @BarnetGreens on the #GetGreensElected - #VoteGreen trail on Sunday. If this is your patch, hope to see you there! actionnetwork.org/events/april...

Tony Blair’s influence has been continuing to shape government thinking, from enthusiasm for so-called artificial intelligence to key appointments. The government must be transparent about who is shaping decisions and whose interests are being served. #Transparency #Politics

THE DEADLINE TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN MAY IS TONIGHT go get em folks www.gov.uk/register-to-...

Banning pavement parking is amongst the biggest things you could do to make my neighbourhood safer, more child-friendly and welcoming for people walking & wheeling. I signed this👇

THREAD. Today I'm giving away 3 signed hardbacks of my latest book, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo. Repost & reply to enter. You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated.

Looking forward to getting out the #GetGreensElected - #VoteGreen message tomorrow with @newhamgreens.bsky.social. If this is around your patch, hope to see you there! actionnetwork.org/events/doork...

We stand united with over 100 organisations: Instead of investigations that contribute to division, we call for responsible reporting that sheds a light on systemic injustices and highlights the voices of those most affected by them. Read our joint statement buff.ly/OBWMGpq

#KidsBooksFriday Kindness in The Visitor, a lovely intergenerational story of loneliness. Eric - acts of kindness shown when he leaves. Every Little Kindness is a visual treat - a wordless book that shows how acts of kindness can be passed. One House for All is a great lesson in compromise!

I’m hoping #Bluesky will be in more robust health for this today. 🤞 It’s been a bit of a week, made brighter with pockets of immense kindness. So for #KidsBooksFriday this week, I thought we could celebrate books that highlight the importance of kindness. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit #Kindness

This week I’ve been challenging the Govt’s sinister attempts to abolish the right to choose a jury trial. Here is the Minister confirming that the right to elect a jury trial IS being completely abolished with this Bill! A fundamental cornerstone of our justice system established in 1670: gone.

💚 Come and meet your Green candidates for Wakefield North 💚 Join us at the Art House for tea, coffee, and cake - and a chance to chat about all things Green! 📍The Art House, Drury Ln, Wakefield, WF1 2TE 🕐 13:30 - Saturday 18th April

What if we go bankrupt before we do the work. What if you can stop that with £20. I cannot accept failure on this after fighting for TWO YEARS to get this land bought. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-n...

"I am not one of those who are obsessed with their roots, and I'm certainly not suffering from a crisis of identity; my obsession is about the future and the political rights of all people" Benjamin Zephaniah www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-are-the... @globalgreens.bsky.social

I am so pissed off that the press have completely ignored this crowdfunder. When we were trying to buy the land they were slathering all over posting about it, but when the government fucked us over and pulled their ~£0.5mn contribution, we’re just blanked now. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-n...

Extraordinary that nowhere in an article on resilience did PM find space to include the growing threat posed to UK security by the dramatic decline in the health of nature around the world - especially since his own intelligence chiefs have recently spelt it out for him in no uncertain terms 👇

My new phone was posted to my old address where I haven't lived for sixteen years. This isn't a mistake that's happened before so my only hope is my childhood home's new inhabitants are big Sooz Kempner heads and get in touch. ORRRRRR they know someone who is. Please repost for me to receive phone.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No AI No music No messing Just… Nature at its finest. Please share it if you like it? 🙌

We were at Downing Street yesterday to call on the government to scrap the anti-protest laws that put our freedoms at risk. Together with Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK over 40,000 of you signed the petition, so we sent them your message. @pscupdates.bsky.social #righttoprotest

Together with @friends-earth.bsky.social and @pscupdates.bsky.social, I have handed in petitions signed by over 40,000 people against the Government's sinister proposals that would give police new powers to restrict repeat protest. Greens will always defend the democratic right to protest.

Resident of Lawrence Hill? Our next councillor surgery is TOMORROW (Tuesday), 12 noon til 1pm at Junction 3 Library! (We had to reschedule last week's due to illness, so this is us instead.) No need to book! Just drop in with any issues we might be able to help with. #Bristol

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed