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

Good time to re-up this 🎉

New reading material I’ve acquired direct from the authors… nice and varied!

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.

Guitar Minimums > Parking Minimums 7 is the bare minimum of guitars needed for that perfect wall of noise - Brian Jonestown Massacre Montreal 2022.

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...

Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.

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.

wow we are arriving at the exact situation every single person imagined within one second of seeing their first robot dog

🚨 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

This new Harry Enfield character is really shit!

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)

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.

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.

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.

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...

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

I don't know what the opposite of nominative determinism is. But Matt Goodwin does.

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...

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_...

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

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...

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

🔴 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-...

@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.

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.

The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate 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 🧵👇

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. #r4today

First artists announced for Wood 2026! 🤩 Read more on our new website at woodhq.org

Nice to have a mention for The Dreaming Spires' album "Normal Town" from The Clarion... an unexpected Batman comparison as well!

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.

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

🚨 | @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 😀

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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You folks do seem suddenly

Support is available. If you need help this World Mental Health Day, visit mind.org.uk

Like what you've seen in recent weeks? Join our club!* @zackpolanski.bsky.social *that's a Saint Etienne reference join.greenparty.org.uk

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...

For supposed strategy geniuses, Morgan McSweeney and co always seem to choose the worst possible option for any given moment...

"The era of trickle down economics was always a lie." @zackpolanski.bsky.social lays out the Green Party's plan for a fairer taxation system on Sky News.

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/...

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%.”

✋ 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...

Great idea! 💚 🚲

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.

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...

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.