Come the 7th of May, the world will see that the British people hate racism and war crimes, and love our neighbours. #Greenwave

British people who want to know what UK government is doing in their name must get info from the IRANIAN GOVERNMENT, who correctly identify Starmer’s claim that the UK has only a defensive role as “nonsense.” US bombers fly from UK bases & murder Iranian civilians. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Readers added context: Zack Polanski advocates an economic philosophy called Keynesianism. It is not radical. It was the dominant economic theory of the 20th century, until it was replaced by a neo-liberalism that enriches billionaires & makes everyone else poorer. www.ft.com/content/cf1f...

Dear Prime Minister: saying that the UK is "staying out of the conflict” doesn’t change the fact that US warplanes take off from UK bases on their way to bomb Iran, and taking your glasses off for the photo on your editorial does not turn Clark Kent into Superman. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Zack Polanski’s urgent call for the UK to sanction the genocidal Israeli state was at the top of The Guardian for 10 minutes this morning. It has been replaced by an article about how Starmer wishes Israel would stop bombing Lebanon but won’t do anything about it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When slavery ended, UK taxpayers compensated former slaveowners, while France forced the Haitian people to take on a huge public debt to compensate THEIR FORMER SLAVEOWNERS. No formerly enslaved people were compensated. Reparations = justice. UK & EU = hypocrites. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

“Net zero” minister Ed Miliband will not bother to attend global conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels. Instead, Miliband will greenlight new North Sea oil and gas fields that will not lower fuel prices, but will worsen the climate crisis. #Greenwave www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Also, discussing how much the very working class Hannah Spencer loves greyhounds and hates animal cruelty would have been a good way to counter the utter bollocks in this article about how banning greyhound racing would supposedly drive working class voters to Reform.

Guardian article on greyhound racing quotes several Labour MPs who want to ban it & right-wing “Labour” ministers & Reform MPs who oppose the ban, AND DOESN’T MENTION HANNAH SPENCER MP, who famously campaigns on this issue and brought her greyhounds to Parliament! www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

History of Skipton Castle. Lady Anne Clifford, a powerful and prudent woman, preserved what violent men sought to destroy. Cromwell wrecked her castle. She rebuilt it. When Cromwell died, she planted the great yew tree which flourishes there 3.5 centuries later. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

@rochdalegreenparty.bsky.social Hiya Rochdale Greens, I live at the corner of Halifax Road and Smithy Bridge Road in Littleborough. It’s a high visibility site; everyone in town walks or drives past. I’d love to put some Vote Green signs up in front of my house! Where can I get some signs? Cheers!

Good article in The Guardian on Greens campaigning for local elections in Newcastle. Former Labour mayor Jamie Driscoll, now a Green, says “It’s Green v Reform in Newcastle now.” The same is true throughout the North. #VoteGreen - www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Pro tip, Angela Rayner: if you want to emulate the Jewish party leader who bravely opposes the Zionist genocide, the first guest on your new podcast should NOT be a repulsive Islamophobic Tory peer who nominated Israel’s genocidal army for the Nobel Peace Prize. www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

"The UK, meanwhile, has allowed the US to use its bases for a war its government says is illegal, but has nonetheless received public admonishment from Trump.” The Special Relationship: bend over, UK. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"When they come for our Muslim neighbours, when they attack our trans siblings, when they use women like me to further their scapegoating, when they try to make us feel small or tell us that we’re thick, we will not let them pull us apart.” —Hannah Spencer MP, Together Against the Far Right Rally

Wonderful to see “The big interview” with Hannah Spencer at the top of The Guardian’s front page this morning! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I attended my first football match since moving to England: the Manchester women’s derby! Congratulations Man City, who beat United 3-0 and made a big leap towards the WSL title! City’s Netherlands players Miedema and Caspaij were on fire!

At first I thought this was a joke but now I think maybe it’s real, and I am here for it! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Democrats win seat in Florida state legislature in district that includes Mar-a-Lago! Trump votes by mail, says no one else should be allowed to vote by mail, endorses Republican candidate AND LOSES, BECAUSE ALL HE EVER DOES IS LOSE! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A Leeds man disarmed a suicide bomber in a hospital maternity ward by using two of the most important phrases in the Northern language: “y’alright?” and, when the bomber asked if he could have a cuddle, “‘course ya can!” THIS IS WHY I LIVE IN THE NORTH! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

My home state of New Mexico continues to lead America’s ongoing campaign against the gang of fascist pedophiles who run the country!

"There are millions of Green Curious people who see the benefits of compassion and long-term investment.” Polanski is appealing to these folks, and it’s working. I went from Green Curious to Green poll greeter in Denton in a week! www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026... -- open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

The US fascist regime is now murdering 1 prisoner every 4 days. The photo in this story shows the ICE concentration camp at Ft. Bliss, TX, near where I used to live. Protester’s sign says “This isn’t 1933.” Correct: it’s 1943. Last chance to stop the holocaust. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

And congratulations to Bunny Shaw for her record-breaking hat-trick against the Spurs! Man City women footballers are on fire!! www.mancity.com/news/womens/...

Congratulations to Manchester City’s Ayaka Yamashita, who won Best Goalkeeper for helping Japan triumph in the 2026 Asian Cup! www.mancity.com/news/womens/...

NATO leaders are not “cowards” for refusing to allow their PURELY DEFENSIVE military alliance to be used in service of an illegal war of imperial aggression. What’s cowardly is bombing schools in a pathetic attempt to make everyone forget that in addition to murdering kids, you also rape them.

It is easy for Trump to claim that he has met his war objectives in Iran, since no one knows what those objectives are (including him). The purported objectives change several times daily, and sometimes change between consecutive sentences at a press conference. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

How sad that the Iranian foreign minister must say this, since the British Government won’t: “Vast majority of the British People do not want any part in the Israel-US war of choice on Iran. Ignoring his own People, Mr Starmer is putting British lives in danger.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice is guilty of exactly the same tax avoidance for which Angela Rayner was defenestrated. Tice should resign, and/or Rayner should be PM. Also, on a personal note, Tice is the reason I couldn’t get lunch in Denton on polling day. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

"Rayner said it was 'un-British' to move the goalposts on indefinite leave to remain.” She’s right and she should say it. Rayner for PM! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I am shocked, shocked! that Farage spends more time on his side hustle selling Nazi videos than he does on his day job as MP for Clacton. A party leader currently earning £ making sexist comments re. AOC’s breasts may be bigger news than boob hypnosis 13 yrs. ago? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

Happy to see The Guardian treating the Green Party of England and Wales as the major political party that it very clearly has become, with a summary of a major policy speech from Zack Polanski on the front page where it belongs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Fixed it for you, Guardian. “Labour Government Risks Lives of British Sailors to Defend Fossil Fuel Industry After Trump Starts Illegal War, Insults Britain, Then Demands British Help." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Me too. "Spencer is plugged into the tastes of both the high street and younger voters.” —The Guardian, 28.02.26

Actual Labour Leader Keir (1906): "A working man in Parliament should go to the House of Commons in his workaday clothes.” Fake Labour Leader Keir (2026): The election of a woman plumber who wears brightly coloured clothing is an existential threat to the Labour Party www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTcS...

Update: style re. professions. "Professions are permanent. Hannah Spencer MP is still a plumber and a plasterer. Now she is also Minister of Plumbing & Plastering, a title given her by the lads on her plastering course. Do not refer to her as a ‘former' plumber.” open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

Dear George: There is a party that fights against this: the Green Party of England & Wales! "What the owners of newspapers & politicians want is what their entire class demands: a world in which resources are controlled & prices harvested by those who own them.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@rochdalegreenparty.bsky.social Hiya, I’d like to attend the welcome meeting for new members in Rochdale tomorrow. Can you tell me where we will be meeting please?

I am OUTRAGED that the Bank of England would remove the great hero who beat the Nazis and won World War Two from our banknotes! Alan Turing must remain on the £50 note! See "Wren Bombes Win War! Nazis crushed by division of women codebreakers led by queer man.” open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

Readers added context: Hannah Spencer MP, Minister of Plumbing and Plastering, is not a “former” plumber! She is a plumber, plasterer, and Member of Parliament who is meeting with maintenance staff re. the dreadful state of the pipes in the Palace of Westminster! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hannah Spencer MP makes her Parliamentary debut! Hannah represents all of us! Little girls in overalls, with spanners and Hannah hair! The lads on her plastering course! Her trans siblings! “Our struggles may be different, but our humanity is the same.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“To the girls...dressed as 'Hannah the plumber' in their overalls, spanners, & trademark hair...To my Trans siblings who get blamed for everything...To the Muslims everywhere who are constantly & often violently scapegoated....our struggles may be different, but our humanity is the same.” Beautiful!

Why is no one angry that the war hero Alan Turing is being removed from the £ 50 note? The gay mathematician Turing won the war by cracking Nazi Germany’s Enigma code. In 1952, the homophobic Churchill Government drove Turing to suicide. Maybe complain about that. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

Would replacing the famous woman novelist Jane Austen or the legendary gay computer scientist Alan Turing with pictures of wildlife also meet “the definition of woke”? Does Nigel even know who is on any banknote other than a fiver?

When textile baron Humphrey Chetham died in 1653, he left money for a parish library in Gorton, filled with “godly Englishe Bookes. . .for the edification of the common people.” Today, the godly people of Gorton are Muslims, and they vote Green. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

The Green leader did a stupid thing in 2013, & apologised. The Labour leader does 12 stupid things before breakfast every day, & won’t apologise for any of them. The Reform leader ONLY does stupid things, & views the concept of an apology as an affront to his manhood. Who does the Beeb target?

Us: We’re the Green Party of England and Wales! We’re the fastest growing party in the country! We’re the only party that’s against genocide and Trump's illegal war in Iran! We just won a Parliamentary seat that Labour has held since before Clement Atlee created the NHS! BBC: Yeah but boob hypnosis.

Sir Winston Churchill is Rochdale’s implementation of a pub chain called Harvester, and while my good lady wife does enjoy eating half a fookin chicken from Sir Winston and I am fond of his sweet potato fritter rice bowl, I am not bothered about whether or not he’s on a five pound note.

Wonderful to see this from Greens and Lib Dems: "While we may disagree on many political questions, we are united in the belief that the harassment of a Member of Parliament is an affront to our democracy.” Would anyone from the party of Mandelson care to comment?

Humphrey Chetham funded this library for Gorton. Engels researched Condition of the Working Class in England at Chetham’s Library. Engels wrote of the “deep wrath” of workers vs. the rich. In Gorton today, & throughout Britain tomorrow, wrathful workers vote Green. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...