Robin Bennett
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Musician, Festival organiser and Green Party Councillor
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Cllr Emily Kerr đ
21 days ago
I'm absolutely delighted that Cabinet has agreed to pilot a locally-led filtered Quiet Lanes policy to improve rural active travel. It's innovative and I'm so proud of my role in it alongside others. Do share, AT policy enthusiasts (short thread)
mycouncil.oxfordshire.gov.uk/%28S%2803u25...
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Great to see my council (South Oxfordshire) is now on Bluesky, and also handing out capital grants for community buildings and projects...
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Hannah Fearn
25 days ago
Politics is actually dull but worthy. Get out if you don't want to be responsible for hard, invisible, extremely important things.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform councillor Barry Martin quits after saying role was 'dull and boring'
Staffordshire Reform councillor Barry Martin has been the subject of a council complaints inquiry.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy2528e248o?app-referrer=deep-link
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the 90s are trending in all aspects of culture...
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Oxford Clarion
about 1 month ago
If you fancy supporting local producers this weekend, consider heading to a local market - there's one in the county every day of the week. We made this directory of markets in Oxfordshire.
oxfordclarion.uk/oxfordshire-...
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Oxfordshire Market Directory
Looking for fresh food, affordable clothes, or simply fed up with trudging round supermarkets? Oxfordshireâs markets might have the answer. Weâve taken a look at the history of the countyâs markets i...
https://oxfordclarion.uk/oxfordshire-market-directory/
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Tom Flood
about 2 months ago
where the hell am I supposed to park to have a pint? this is the nightmare all those urbanists want.
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Adam Bienkov
about 2 months 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
about 2 months ago
Good time to re-up this đ
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New reading material Iâve acquired direct from the authors⌠nice and varied!
about 2 months ago
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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
2 months ago
Climate + nature need joined-up solutions đż 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
3 months ago
The Government consultation on how to reorganise Oxfordshireâs 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 (âRidgewayâ), and three councils covering north, an enlarged Oxford, and south.
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Matt Bors
3 months 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
3 months ago
đ¨ 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. đ§ľ 1/4
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Squeezy John
3 months ago
This new Harry Enfield character is really shit!
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Cllr Sam Casey-Rerhaye
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 months ago
Itâs actually a great political moment that Hannah Spencer apologised in her speech to clients whose pipes she now wonât be able to fix.
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Adam Bienkov
3 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 âGreen Menaceâ 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
3 months ago
Introducing Hannah Spencer MP đ
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John Bull
3 months ago
I don't know what the opposite of nominative determinism is. But Matt Goodwin does.
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Municipal Dreams
3 months ago
Please watch Channel 4's docudrama 'Dirty Business' on the pollution of our waters. There could not be a more shocking exposĂŠ 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 đ
3 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 â 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
3 months ago
Over ÂŁ1.5M 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
3 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 - itâs 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!
@southandvalegreens.bsky.social
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Peter Geoghegan
4 months ago
đ´ BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm ÂŁ30k 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:
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BREAKING: McSweeneyâs 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
is well worth 30 minutes of your time.
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4 months ago
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Tom Scott
4 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
4 months ago
The optimist vs pessimist divide in
#climate
debates isnât usually about the data. Itâs about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes. Hereâs what I mean đ§ľđ
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Zoe Gardner
5 months ago
Note the timing of Home Office re-press releasing the âmost ever raidsâ & âhardest ever immigration crack downâ today. Signalling alignment with Trump & ICE. They havenât got a clue how to make ordinary British peopleâs lives better, only how to make migrants suffer.
#r4today
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WOOD HQ
6 months ago
First artists announced for Wood 2026! 𤊠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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7 months ago
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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.
7 months ago
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Natalie Bennett
8 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
8 months ago
đ¨ |
@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 đ
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Green Elects
8 months ago
We canât keep up - itâs now 6k Or by the time youâre reading this, itâll be another number đ¤ˇââď¸
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as a 1/16th hot Chilean, I approve this message...đśď¸
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8 months ago
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Oxford Clarion
8 months ago
You folks do seem suddenly
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The Green Party of England & Wales
8 months ago
Support is available. If you need help this World Mental Health Day, visitÂ
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 ÂŁ6 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
8 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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9 months ago
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The Green Party of England & Wales
9 months ago
"The era of trickle down economics was always a lie."
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lays out the Green Party's plan for a fairer taxation system on Sky News.
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Patrick Galey
10 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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