Merry Christmas or whatever you are celebrating this winter!

You're invited to play a puzzle created by SallyL. The clue is: "What Nottingham people do around Christmas" www.nytimes.com/games/create...

The #Halle Christmas Concert never disappoints at #Nottingham Royal Concert Hall, halfway through and we’ve had some great tunes already!

Nowhere near Christmas and a set of lights are busy ffs!

I love bats 🦇 , they are wonderful creatures who seem to have become a symbol of so called blockers. Please give!

Trump ended USAID and the result is a rise in child morality for the first time this century. Pro life 🙄

Great Mini Climate Assembly with #Nottingham People, Planet, Pint yesterday. Some strong ideas for the way forward, engaging SMEs in the CN28 project to make us the 1st Carbon Neutral city in the country

The BBC beaming Putin into my living room. It’s disgraceful!

The Hillsborough families have been treated so badly. It’s absolutely shocking to hear that the latest report contains nothing significant except an admission that several Police Officers should have faced charges but they never will and enjoy their retirement.

Spent 3 hours this afternoon learning about the new #OFSTED framework. At a Nottingham Schools Training event. Very good but as always daunting

A new campaign against the far right - to bring us TOGETHER against division and racism. Could not be more urgently needed 🙏❤️

Paying tax is a good thing. I only sneaked into the higher rate tax band for a brief period in my working life and it seemed like something to celebrate! If we all paid our fair share everyone would benefit from better public services, cleaner environment and better life chances, what’s not to like?

Amazing contrast between News Headlines on BBC & ITV tonight - The BBC going on about loads of people paying more taxes, versus ITV thousands of children lifted out of poverty

10 people have made allegations about Farage’s racism at school, exposing themselves to more potential abuse - admirable

Anyone interested in trying rail travel instead of filthy, fossil fuelled flights in Europe, there’s 25% off Interrail passes now till 17th December www.interrail.eu/en/interrail...

What should disturb many UKIP/Brexit/REF supporters is that Gill’s (public) pro-Russia speeches & acting were seen by them as *entirely consistent with UKIP/Brexit/REF anti-EU policies & so unremarkable. It should make them think again about Farage - & Brexit. Cui bono? Not them.

I’m very glad that this report seems to have exposed the awful Government response to the pandemic. Being in local government at the time, the central chaos was clear and very damaging

Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests

Help us get this to 20,000 and beyond! #Dieselgate car manufacturers have never properly been held to account in the UK. Let's change that. Sign and share! #AirPollution

Thanks to everyone who came along to our Nottingham Climate Assembly Volunteering Event last night. Together we are going to make it happen!

Not a good start to the flipping day! Wordle 1,615 X/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩

“Spreading these kinds of lies stigmatises autistic people and makes life harder for them and their families.” National Autistic Society They’ve had enough of Richard Tice’s constant attempts to sound tough schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-start...

Nottingham Climate Assembly Volunteer event this evening. Please register on Eventbrite to join us www.eventbrite.com/e/nottingham...

At the beginning of the war in Ukraine, at the first rally at the Brian Clough statue, I tried to reassure the community “this Government doesn’t welcome refugees but we do in Nottingham”. I hoped things would change for the better nationally with a Labour Government, how wrong could I be?

It’d be funny if it wasn’t so bloody sad #Mahmood #Labour www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Very disappointed in this ex-colleague

This member is also despairing. I’m hoping those backbenchers have a strong backbone - I’m sure none of them went to Parliament expecting this!

I’m with Stella Creasy (and I suspect most Labour members) on this, these measures are unnecessary, won’t work & are cruel (and they won’t make Reform voters decide to vote Labour!)

The idea that the installation of “so called rain gardens” is damaging people’s daily lives in Mansfield is bonkers, but the local Labour MP seems to agree!

If the Media and its owners don't pay tax in the UK they shouldn't be able to print anything in the UK. "And yeah we don't want the Americans owning our Media, get them out."

Important to be part of Nottingham Remembrance Day on the Council House steps this morning as an Alderwoman. A good turnout of local people

Spot on! metro.co.uk/2025/11/10/t...

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Government wd hv to come out and say that the whole board has failed, get them all to resign and then push their own people onto a new board, who would then appoint a new DG. You would have to have balls of steel to put up with the attacks from RW media but I think it would be worth it long term.

Meanwhile, in Reform's Lancashire CC, the councillor in charge of care homes, owns a private care home, and is closing council care homes. 👀 A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA #NeverThoughtTheLeopards www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

India has now electrified almost 100% of their tracks, a poorer country with vastly more track. Over half of that has happened in just the last decade. The UK's poverty of ambition by comparison is truly staggering (and sad...) earthbound.report/2025/02/03/i...

Deeply depressing. Short-termism rules again. Feels like a different age when we intended to decarbonise the economy. Not going to happen. Also rail will be in a bad place in (say) 25 years time, still heavily dependent on diesel - and many of those diesels will be very old.

Makes me so angry 😡 The East Midlands is the poor relation yet again!

Hampers for Nottingham Children in Care please give a little bit to make a child’s Christmas a little bit brighter www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Nine councillors have left the party in just six months.

Showing their true colours now. Let’s hope the public wakes up before its too late Plans to save £4m a year by closing five council-run care homes and five day centres and moving residents into the private sector. Reform’s cabinet member for social care in Lancashire, owns a private care company

Survival found there are at least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups worldwide. Half of them could be wiped out in 10 years if nothing is done. Take action, it’s easy! svlint.org/ActB

"We're the workers' party" but don't want you to have any sick pay, annual leave, maternity pay, paternity pay, etc, etc, etc, etc.....

They've already voted against strengthening of workers rights, for things like fire and rehire. They'll slash necessary jobs just as Mu$k did. This is just another fucking lie. They are not the party of workers.

It's no wonder that Nigel Farage tried to pretend he didn't know Nathan Gill well, though obviously he did. The bribes Gill took are just the tip of an iceberg of Russian influence, and Brexit fitted the Kremlin agenda of dividing Europe all too well. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Dominic Grieve’s response to Nigel Farage’s ‘let’s leave the ECHR’ stunt in parliament is spot on.

"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence." Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana. open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...

Please join us at Nottingham Climate Assembly’s volunteer event on 19th November, we have lots of of work to do before our Assembly in Spring next year. Sign up on Eventbrite see below

@zackpolanski.bsky.social Stasi territory under the Labour Government. Palantir US Tech Spy company who have supported the Israeli regime with war on Gaza. Palantir have been handed NHS contracts and Police contracts and now this👇. Noone voted for it.

Environmental Audit Committee report on airport expansion - stops short of really putting the boot in but pretty critical of the gaps in Government policy to manage its impact on climate change committees.parliament.uk/committee/62...