My message today: We must keep the local in local government! So much concern today at the @LGA_Independent conference amongst Green and and Indie cllrs over the government's rushed and undemocratic power grab. This is not devolution it's regionalisation. 👇

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

'There is no political power without power over the archive' (Derrida) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/u...

Green councillors across Sussex unite to oppose a Tory/Labour stitch up to cancel this year's county elections. This is no more than a power grab by failed Tory councillors enabled by an unpopular Labour government BBC News - Plans to postpone elections face objections www.bbc.com/news/article...

Don't let West Sussex County Council cancel our May 2025 elections. If you live in West Sussex please join me and ask the government to refuse their outrageous request. You can write here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dont...

Berlin 💚

Really well done @iandaveysussex.bsky.social and @clairehunt.bsky.social and @worthinggreens.bsky.social Thank goodness someone on the council is pushing this!!! 💚

Delighted that last night #Worthing BC agreed to endorse the @worthinggreens.bsky.social call for a #FossilFuelTreaty. Thanks to all those who came in support. @worthingcan.bsky.social @globaljusticenow.bsky.social @extinctionrebellion.uk

Amazing achievement #worthinggreens 🍃🍃💚

Will Worthing's Goring Gap survive Labour's attack on nature? Green spaces are vital for food, nature, health & well being and preventing flooding. @worthinggreens.bsky.social will fight to save our last green space. Seafront villas and executive homes will not solve the housing crisis. #NPPF

Fossil fuels are fuelling chaos, threatening our communities, nature, health, and peace. We need a bold global response to end the madness. The time for empty promises is over. @worthinggreens.bsky.social & @worthingcan.bsky.social call on Worthing BC to join the movement. youtu.be/YslRf_jNAvQ?...

“I want the separation between the expression of politics in the gallery & the practice of politics in life to disappear. I want the institution to understand: if you want us inside you need to listen to us outside. Ceasefire now, arms embargo now free Palestine.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Officially decided that I like winter, actually 🌲 🔥 🎄 ⛄️

Hopefully other councillors will support the @worthinggreens.bsky.social motion and agree to add the Worthing Borough Council name to the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. www.globaljustice.org.uk/uk-endorseme...

With all the coverage of last week’s COP29 in Azerbaijan, it might feel like there’s nothing new to be said. But Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party, thinks it’s time for the cultural community to get their voices heard. https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/feature/culture-and-t…

Interview with the iconic Suzi Feay is now up : m.youtube.com/watch?v=0XAO...

This delish coffee is steering me through teaching, writing chapters, examining PhD vivas, enormously long Uni meetings, domestic life and exploratory writing of new stuff ☕️ #castironcoffeeroasters

Chuffed WBC joined @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social https:// as a result of our motion. And that Soraya became EDI lead for @worthinggreens.bsky.social! 💚🖤❤️🤍🩷 worthing.greenparty.org.uk/2024/10/16/two-joint-motions-from-worthing-greens-and-worthing-independents-passed-at-worthing-borough-council/

Science is clear: extracting fossil fuels threatens everything we love. We’ve joined governments, scientists, organisations & individuals seeking a global plan to manage a fast and fair transition away from fossil fuels. Add your name here fossilfueltreaty.org/cop29-open-l... #FossilFuelTreaty

As a parent of an autistic child I find the news today showing practices at Whitefield school horrendous. I’m ashamed at the way this country treats neurodiverse children. 💔

Please spare a thought for James Dyson, the Brexit-voting billionaire who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax then moved his business to Singapore. He's the real victim here.

Sharing on here a magical event I did with Cara Dillon at the Uni of Chichester last week … talking about Cara’s beautiful album/book Coming Home as part of a series of ‘Writing in Real Life’ events … I could listen to Cara all day … 💚

No words for how deranged this is 💔

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Best cafe #worthing 🖤☕️

As it happens, my students and I are reading MINOR FEELINGS: An Asian-American reckoning right now. I knew it would be relevant; I had hoped it would be relevant in this way.

Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark." That's how horrifying Twitter is right now. There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.

Barbican dwelling 🖤

Leg warmer appreciation post

One of my favourite things from this year … @rummage.bsky.social ‘s embroidered version of my book cover 💚🍃💚

The amazing Strawberry Hill farm has been saved after BCN Wildlife Trust raised £1.5 million. Thanks so much to everyone who read my story, spread the word and donated. Please visit this beautiful place and take heart: together we can do great things. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Grateful to be in the New Statesman Books of the Year 2024 list 🙏

Stepping forth into yet another platform. Nervous that some billionaire bloke might come and buy up the whole lot and dump a pile of sewage on it though … 🥶

#englishcreates #englishdegree #artsandhumanities #university #student