Helen Walters
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Slowly transitioning from public health professional to retired knitter, urban cyclist and Quaker.
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Cian McCarthy
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Poems for Lent (Day 32) 'Poem of the One World' ⢠Mary Oliver ā¢
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Robert Reich
8 days ago
"Universal health coverage is not merely a technical goal to be achieved; it is primarily a moral imperative for societies that wish to call themselves just." āPope Leo XIV
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Urban Truth Collective
9 days ago
ā1 mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, 1 mile driving is a $.20 loss.ā āWhich means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.ā The
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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
https://grist.org/biking/one-mile-on-a-bike-is-a-42-economic-gain-to-society-one-mile-driving-is-a-20-loss/
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Best for Britain
9 days ago
šØBREAKING PMQsšØ Starmer: "When I see religious events in Trafalgar Square, when I see Hindus celebrating Diwali, when I see Jews celebrating Hanukkah live, when I see Christians performing the Passion of Christ or Muslims praying, that shows the great strength of our diverse city and country."
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Ann Pettifor
18 days ago
The US taxpayer will pay thrice over for this war. First for Israel's warfare. Second for US military. They'll pay again as the economic consequences hit home.
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Philip Oldfield
20 days ago
In Japan there are 36 words for walking! Like Japanese cities, the language is highly pedestrian friendly
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Tom Flood
22 days ago
this was one of the first things I made in this space. and I still feel the same music Ben E. King
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Louise, Prof/Dr
23 days ago
If you're appalled by the blatant racism of this lot, you have a chance to get out on the streets in London on 28th March and stand up against the far right. Better than sitting at home feeling helpless.
www.togetheralliance.org.uk
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Robert Reich
26 days ago
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Mythic š¦
27 days ago
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
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A useful summary of the reasoning behind
@greenparty.org.uk
policy on legalising drugs
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Vote to Stop Reform
about 1 month ago
Our latest tactical voting advice to stop Reform:
stopreformuk.vote/parl/gorton-...
Parliamentary by-election 26th Feb 2026 š¢ Gorton & Denton = GREEN
#Manchester
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Rich
about 1 month ago
The annual social cost of urban road noise in England is £7-£10 billion & the WHO identified environmental noise as the second largest environmental health risk in Western Europe. LTNs & 20mph speed limits can massively improve this.
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Terrence Higgins Trust
about 1 month ago
On this day in 1989, Princess Diana visited the Mildmay Hospital. It was a key moment in changing public attitudes to HIV. Together, we must continue our work to end HIV stigma forever. You can donate now to support our work.
https://tht.org.uk/donate
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Richard Rohr Fan Club
about 1 month ago
Is it possible to live on this planet with a generosity, abundance, fearlessness, and beauty that mirror Divine Being itself? These are the wisdom questions, and they are the entire field of Jesusā concern.
cac.org/daily-medita...
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Jesus as Wisdom Teacher
The Wisdom Jesus Jesus as Wisdom Teacher Sunday, April 9, 2017 Iāve invited Cynthia Bourgeault, one of CACās core faculty members, to explore Jesusā
https://cac.org/daily-meditations/jesus-wisdom-teacher-2017-04-09/
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Dale Vince
about 1 month ago
Hard not to think that allegations of sharing government secrets is dealt with rather differently to allegations of crimes against girls.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
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"smoking costs the Hampshire and Isle of Wight region £1.2bn a year"
@hampshirechronicle.bsky.social
@hantsconnect.bsky.social
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Defend Our Juries
about 1 month ago
Unanimous not guilty: All Extinction Rebellion āJP Morgan medicsā cleared A jury has delivered a unanimous not-guilty verdict to the six healthcare professionals from who cracked windows at JP Morgan Chaseās European HQ during the July 2022 heatwave.
extinctionrebellion.uk/2026/02/19/i...
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IN CASE OF MEDICAL EMERGENCY BREAK GLASS - Extinction Rebellion UK
Unanimous not guilty: All Extinction Rebellion āJP Morgan medicsā cleared A jury has delivered a unanimous not-guilty verdict to the six healthcare professionals from Health for Extinction Rebellion w...
https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2026/02/19/in-case-of-medical-emergency-break-glass/
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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH)
about 1 month ago
Less than a week until our annual
#PublicHealth
conference held with the
@local.gov.uk
. Join leaders, practitioners & partners to hear the latest thinking on themes inc prevention & early intervention, tackling the wider determinants of health & neighbourhoods. SIGN UP NOW ā”ļø
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Dr Jo Kershaw
about 1 month ago
Reform are definitely going down the Christian Nationalist route, I fear.
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The Assisi Project
about 1 month ago
"We are not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission: to feed the hungry; to clothe the naked; to house the homeless; to teach the illiterate; to provide jobs for the jobless; and to choose the human race over the nuclear race (1984)."
#JesseJackson
#PrayForAmerica
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Ben Wood /|\āļøš¶ļøšā®ļø
about 1 month ago
Jesse Jackson on the relationship between political action & religious commitment (on the BBC's "Out On A Limb" in October 1882). For Jackson (& for a while generation of African American civil rights activists) there could be no God-shaped world without practicing radical compassion & solidarity.
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Stuart Masters
about 1 month ago
Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer if it were offered to God. St. Martin de Porres
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Robert Reich
about 1 month ago
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
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UK Health Security Agency
about 1 month ago
š Weāre excited to announce the launch of a new government campaign urging parents and guardians to get their little ones vaccinated to protect against serious illnesses such as measles. š nhs.uk/childhoodvaccinations
#StayStrongGetVaccinated
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Brent Toderian
about 1 month ago
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the StrĆøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued āno cars means no business,ā but the street has been a massive retail success, the cityās busiest shopping street.
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Low Traffic Hackney
about 1 month ago
We donāt just want more and better LTNs, we want Hackney main roads to change. 10% of Hackney residents live on main roads, and we want those people to feel the benefit too. Hereās how main roads should be changed in Hackney:
www.lowtraffichackney.org/hackneys-mai...
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Hackney's Main Roads
Hackney's Main Roads (and how we can make them better for everyone)
https://www.lowtraffichackney.org/hackneys-main-roads.html
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Tim Bale
about 1 month ago
I never really sign stuff. But this was different. It's not about trying to facilitate or block a particular party's route to power. It's about an electoral system that's unsuited to the political realities we face today and risks giving us government after government with no convincing mandate.
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Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics
Dozens of academics haveĀ written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/academics-warn-voting-system-not-fit-multi-party-politics
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Independent Age
about 1 month ago
Love shouldnāt come at a cost š For thousands of mixed-age couples, this Valentineās Day may not be so happy as they miss out on vital support. Join us in our call for change: https://www.independentage.org/about-us/campaigning/mixed-age-couples
#UnhappyValentinesDay
#FixMixedAgeRule
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World Bollard Associationā¢ļø
about 2 months ago
Bollards save lives. End of story.
#WorldBollardAssociation
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Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens
about 1 month ago
Jim Ratcliffe abandoned workers in Grangemouth and fled to Monaco to avoid paying taxes in the UK. His hypocrisy knows no bounds. Another super-rich man blaming immigrants for the problems caused by billionaires.
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Brent Toderian
about 2 months ago
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business ā closing Central
#Madrid
to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via
@carltonreid.com
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#citymakingmath
#citiesforpeople
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Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/03/08/closing-central-madrid-to-cars-resulted-in-9-5-boost-to-retail-spending-finds-bank-analysis/
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"silence is not empty ā itās full of answers"
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Hackney Cyclist
about 2 months ago
Tweede Weteringdwarsstraat, Amsterdam in 1969 and today. Urban space is finite. When cities prioritize people over car storage, streets can support local businesses, active transport, and community life.
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Dr Paul Dorfman
about 2 months ago
TikTok is censoring the words āEpsteinā and āICEā ā and that alone should tell you how fast political censorship just arrived in America.
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The Assisi Project
about 2 months ago
"If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started. They get started by suppressing free press.ā
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The Green Party of England & Wales
about 2 months ago
Say hello to Hannah Spencerācouncillor, plumber, greyhound lover and your Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton š
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Liberal Democrats
about 2 months ago
šØNEWSšØ Jackie Pearcey is our candidate in the Gorton & Denton by-election. Voters in Gorton and Denton deserve so much more than a failing Labour government or the divisive politics of Reform UK. Good luck Jackie!
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This wisdom is so timely
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Best for Britain
2 months ago
Lies, lies, and damn lies.
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Aaron Rupar
2 months ago
Walz: "I call on all Americans to see the decency this state is exhibiting, and the horrific cruelty, unprofessional, absolute abomination that is passing for what these f--- ICE agents are doing on our streets."
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Robert Reich
2 months ago
MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Remember this.
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Marina Purkiss
2 months ago
This makes no sense⦠An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto⦠No thanks If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote Sign the petition & help make that law.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/737660
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George Monbiot
2 months ago
The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Imprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: āIām dyingā
Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says āher body is shutting downā
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/hunger-striker-heba-muraisi-linked-palestine-action
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Robert Reich
3 months ago
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Mark Pack
3 months ago
On this day in 1909 the first state pensions came into force - thanks to a Liberal government.
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On this day in 1909, the first state pensions came in - thanks to a Liberal government
January 1, 1909 saw the first state pensions come into force in the UK, thanks to David Lloyd George and the Liberal government.
https://www.markpack.org.uk/157184/first-state-pension-uk-david-lloyd-george/
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Tim Ford
3 months ago
This year: - Bolsonaro went to prison - Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested and is being tried - Brazil and Belgium joined S. Africa's ICJ case on Israel's genocide - Global green energy surpassed coal power - Denmark passed a law against deepfakes There are people still fighting to make the world better.
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Nick Hopkinson
3 months ago
Genocide
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Israel to ban dozens of aid agencies from Gaza as 10 nations warn about suffering
Failure of groups including MSF and ActionAid to hand over staff details means they will not be able to operate in Gaza, say Israeli officials
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/israel-to-ban-dozens-of-aid-agencies-from-gaza-as-10-nations-warn-about-suffering?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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