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Musician, Festival organiser and Green Party Councillor
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Adam Bienkov
6 days ago
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
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Josiah Mortimer
8 days ago
Good time to re-up this 🎉
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New reading material I’ve acquired direct from the authors… nice and varied!
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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
12 days ago
Climate + nature need joined-up solutions 🌿 Our Oxfordshire strategy with the Oxford Local Nature Partnership & the district councils shows a diverse habitat approach could boost carbon storage by 28% & offset ~20% of emissions in 30 years.
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Designing a carbon strategy that delivers for climate, biodiversity and resilient land use
Developing a high-integrity nature-based carbon sequestration strategy for Oxfordshire
https://naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/4534/
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Tom Flood
17 days ago
Guitar Minimums > Parking Minimums 7 is the bare minimum of guitars needed for that perfect wall of noise - Brian Jonestown Massacre Montreal 2022.
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Causing A Scene
17 days ago
Inspirational BBC Radio 4 feature on Beaker, putting the Oxfordshire music scene, past and present, on the map. Catch them live at the Jericho Tavern on Friday 8th May.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Oxford indie band Beaker on returning after 25 years
Beaker first emerged from Oxford's 1990s music scene and have reunited more than 25 years later
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr9llprvedo?app-referrer=deep-link&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwQ8hgxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEecebWWXuP6H11Zc5YBccAiI0XpC8vimv_BuG9yINiszJikxB87xZ5Ne4qSXA_aem_gVS8GWDjnvwjX3eB2zDEAg
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Phillips OBrien
20 days ago
Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.
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Oxford Clarion
25 days ago
The Government consultation on how to reorganise Oxfordshire’s councils closes tonight at 23.59. Three proposals have been put forward: a single council for the whole county, two councils covering north+city and south (‘Ridgeway’), and three councils covering north, an enlarged Oxford, and south.
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Matt Bors
about 1 month ago
wow we are arriving at the exact situation every single person imagined within one second of seeing their first robot dog
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Ed Newton-Rex
about 2 months ago
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4
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Squeezy John
about 1 month ago
This new Harry Enfield character is really shit!
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Cllr Sam Casey-Rerhaye
about 2 months ago
Thames Water discharging sewage into watercourse at South Morton for 940 hours … and counting. No rain for ~4 days, and no storms or heavy rain for longer than that. They should be prosecuted for this asap and the law applied (which can be imprisonment btw not just fines that end up on bills)
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Oxford Clarion
about 2 months ago
Abingdon Green Party candidate Aidan Reilly has called on Thames Water to clean up a sewage filled watercourse just south of the town. Thames Water data shows it has been dumping raw sewage into Oday Hill Ditch alongside Peep-O-Day Lane for hundreds of hours in February alone.
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell
about 2 months ago
Just throwing it out there: telling people that they have legitimate grievances about immigration will never reduce the sense of grievance. This isn't how anything works and a government that paid even the merest attention to social science research would know their approach helps the far-right.
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Robert Wright
about 2 months ago
It’s actually a great political moment that Hannah Spencer apologised in her speech to clients whose pipes she now won’t be able to fix.
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Adam Bienkov
about 2 months ago
In a battle between hope and hate, hope won out. Why voters rejected the hateful politics of Reform and instead embraced the "Green Menace" in Gorton and Denton
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...
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Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory
A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/hope-beats-hate-green-party-defeats-reform-and-labour-in-huge-gorton-and-denton-by-election-victory/
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The Green Party of England & Wales
about 2 months ago
Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚
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John Bull
about 2 months ago
I don't know what the opposite of nominative determinism is. But Matt Goodwin does.
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Municipal Dreams
about 2 months ago
Please watch Channel 4's docudrama 'Dirty Business' on the pollution of our waters. There could not be a more shocking exposé of the human and environmental cost of privatisation, deregulation, corporate corruption and government complicity:
www.channel4.com/programmes/d...
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Dirty Business
Shocking real-life drama about the muck in our water and a corporate scandal
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/dirty-business
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚
about 2 months ago
Do you live in Abingdon, have kids at Europa, work in Culham, or know anyone who does? Please send them this consultation on improving the crossing nearby to the school if so.
letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/culham_a415_...
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Culham: A415 Abingdon Road - proposed Sparrow crossing & traffic calming
We're asking for your views on the proposal to construct the following features on & adjacent to the A415 Abingdon Road, in Culham – which are being put forward to help improve active travel route...
https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/culham_a415_crossingcalming2026
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South Oxfordshire District Council
about 2 months ago
Over £1.5M in grant funding will be available for community organisations in South Oxfordshire over the next year! This funding will come from a range of grant schemes supporting projects that help residents and the environment across the district.
https://orlo.uk/qjqzh
#YourMoneyYourServices
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Cllr Sam Casey-Rerhaye
about 2 months ago
Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
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End the sewage pollution scandal
We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/end-the-profit-driven-sewage-pollution-scandal-1?source=bluesky&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=bluesky&share=016796ca-4986-4492-9f10-276a8cd1504e
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After nearly 7 years as a councillor, it's my first council budget meeting tonight as part of the opposition group, so I'm proposing some budget amendments... we'll see what we can get through!
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Peter Geoghegan
2 months ago
🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-morgan-mcsweeneys-labour-together-investigators-journalists
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social
highlights that this Epstein/Mandelson moment goes far beyond politics into the integrity of our institutions, as Arlene Foster nods in unlikely agreement! The whole of last night's
#Newsnight
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Tom Scott
2 months ago
NB: It's not just Mandelson. The Tories' chief election strategist Isaac Levido was also a lobbyist for Palantir. Under both the Tories & Labour, this predatory mass surveillance corporation has had its tentacles deep into the heart of government.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry
3 months ago
The optimist vs pessimist divide in
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debates isn’t usually about the data. It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes. Here’s what I mean 🧵👇
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Zoe Gardner
3 months ago
Note the timing of Home Office re-press releasing the “most ever raids” & “hardest ever immigration crack down” today. Signalling alignment with Trump & ICE. They haven’t got a clue how to make ordinary British people’s lives better, only how to make migrants suffer.
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WOOD HQ
5 months ago
First artists announced for Wood 2026! 🤩 Read more on our new website at
woodhq.org
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Nice to have a mention for The Dreaming Spires' album "Normal Town" from The Clarion... an unexpected Batman comparison as well!
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Today in Oxford
@truckmusicstore.bsky.social
, 6pm. See you there if you're in the neighbourhood! The album is getting some nice reviews, including 4 stars in the new issue of Mojo.
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Natalie Bennett
6 months ago
I think we can officially now say the
#GreenSurge
of 2015 looks on the graph like a foothill. Great! Could you help this surge even higher?
join.greenparty.org.uk
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Green Elects
6 months ago
🚨 |
@greenparty.org.uk
has hit 150,000 members. It's incredible that in less than two months, the party has grown from 68,500 to 150,000. Happy Monday everyone 😀
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Green Elects
6 months ago
We can’t keep up - it’s now 6k Or by the time you’re reading this, it’ll be another number 🤷♂️
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as a 1/16th hot Chilean, I approve this message...🌶️
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Oxford Clarion
6 months ago
You folks do seem suddenly
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The Green Party of England & Wales
6 months ago
Support is available. If you need help this World Mental Health Day, visit
mind.org.uk
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We're Mind, the mental health charity | Mind
We're Mind, the mental health charity. We're here to make sure no one has to face a mental health problem alone.
https://mind.org.uk
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Like what you've seen in recent weeks? Join our club!*
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
*that's a Saint Etienne reference
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Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
https://join.greenparty.org.uk
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Adam Bienkov
7 months ago
BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
on Sunday. Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
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For supposed strategy geniuses, Morgan McSweeney and co always seem to choose the worst possible option for any given moment...
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The Green Party of England & Wales
8 months ago
"The era of trickle down economics was always a lie."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Patrick Galey
8 months ago
The UK government is now prioritising the resource needs of Gen AI slop machines over… *checks notes* Water. Actual water. What will they not sacrifice at the altar of these plagiarism machine snake oilers??
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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AI boom means regulator cannot predict future water shortages in England
Datacentres, which do not have to report amount of water used to cool servers, leave Environment Agency with no idea of shortfalls
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/17/ai-boom-environment-agency-cannot-predict-future-water-shortages-england-data-centres
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Stephen Frost
8 months ago
Powerful research with a clear message. “Children are fascinated by the natural world. It’s maintaining that through their childhood and schooling that’s essential, alongside urban greening. There’s policies starting to do that but we’ve got to think in transformational terms – not 30% but 1,000%.”
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Cllr Emma Garnett
9 months ago
✋ Stop Starving Gaza. 🕕 This Friday 25th July, 6pm 📍 Carfax Tower, Oxford. Anyone within hailing distance - please join us. Or if you have money to spare but not time, donate to MAP:
www.map.org.uk
www.facebook.com/oxfordpsc/po...
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10 months ago
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Dr. Steven Buckley
10 months ago
3 Reform in the top 10. 1st Lib Dem is at 24 1st Green at 84 This is a failure of the UK new media ecosystem.
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚
10 months ago
Anyone know anyone in Wantage? Consultation launches today on how to make Market Place a nicer public realm and better for walking and cycling. Do share the below with any people and groups you know there.
letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/wantage-mark...
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Wantage Market Place
Welcome to the engagement page for the Wantage Market Place Improvements project. About the project We want your help to make Wantage Market Place more vibrant, welcoming and accessible for everyone. ...
https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/wantage-market-place
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Stephen Frost
10 months ago
Two thoughts: 1) A (de)congestion charge will be effective in reducing traffic and making buses faster + more reliable. The thought put into the exemptions (eg for care workers, blue badge holders) is positive to see. 2) I hope an online survey is not the main/only way people are being consulted.
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Oxford temporary congestion charge for cars
We are asking for your views on six temporary congestion charge locations for cars in Oxford. The temporary congestion charge is being proposed to reduce traffic around Oxford during Network Rail’s ex...
https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/congestion-charge
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