“If you’ve lived in Greater Manchester all your life like I have, or you came here yesterday — if you’re part of our community and you’re mucking in, you’re one of us.” Our candidate for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, rejects the demonisation of immigrants and calls for politics that unite.

Together with cross-party Parliamentarians I have written to the Home Secretary calling on her to accept today's ruling on Palestine Action. Instead of criminalising those protesting genocide, the govt must examine its own complicity and work to support justice for Palestinians.

Meet Hannah Spencer - Green MP candidate for Gorton and Denton, and the only vote to stop Reform.

Reform Vs Green. Hate Vs Hope. Hundreds and hundreds of people out on the streets today making sure hope wins. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"A good first step would be to replace the fossil fuel sponsorship of the Tour Down Under. You cannot sell health, human performance, and the future, while promoting businesses that actively undermine that future." www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

Study shows that using a simple saline solution nasal spray regularly reduces risk and severity of colds, flu, and other respiratory viral infections by around 25%... www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2024/07...

The heavily redacted UK national security assessment "Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security" is an eye opener, even when you know what's coming... more shocking is that the govt buried the full report!! #dontlookup #FOI assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

Hands up all those who believe the American authorities can impartially investigate their own wrong-doing? #bluewallofsilence

"Although the security agenda is dominated by [] Trump’s territorial ambitions, the breakdown of nature is not a side issue that can be buried behind headlines. It’s a national security threat and should be treated with the same seriousness as any military risk." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And thus Labour shoots itself with precision accuracy in the foot …. Fortunately @greenparty.org.uk will be fighting the by-election to win and offering a powerful alternative to the hate-filled politics of Reform #MakeHopeNormalAgain

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead Pic of the day #photography

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

Bored of peace... then you've come to the right place!

🤔What next for the Scottish Passivhaus Equivalent? The Scottish Government's latest progress report suggests the policy is on track to make significant changes to building standards. A Stage 2 policy consultation is due later in 2026. https://www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/?nId=1528

Trump is acting like an international gangster. The Prime Minister has tried appeasing him for 12 months and has failed. It's time we finally stood up to him and united with our European allies to make him back down.

UK 'must prepare to kick US troops out of country', Zack Polanski says www.thenational.scot/news/2577822...

341 flavours of the same thing...

Billionaires who are "Bored of Peace"... Because it's hard to make a decent buck, without constantly breaking stuff. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/w...

For a minute, I thought they were referring to FFP2 mask mandates and ASHRAE 241 ventilation protocols... alas, the main focus seems to be on hand washing!

42% of Americans see this as a success??

Hab geträumt, dass @arminthurnher.bsky.social einen #Club2 moderiert, in dem @markusmarterbauer.bsky.social, @thomasczypionka.bsky.social und @robscot.bsky.social zum Schluss kommen, dass sich der nachträgliche Einbau von Lüftungsanlagen in öff. Schulen recht schnell rechnen würde. #Luftmilliarde

BREAKING: “Mr Speaker the Prime Minister just looks ridiculous when he won’t tell the truth that Trump has broken international law” Ed Davey #PMQs

The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law. After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.

Meanwhile... "Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, who won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, is pitching a post‑Maduro future to US investors, describing a “US$1.7 trillion opportunity” to privatise Venezuela’s oil, gas and infrastructure." theconversation.com/why-is-trump...

Reminder.

Great work @ukhadds.bsky.social calling out this toxic disinformation/ social manipulation, masquerading as science by @thetelegraphnews.bsky.social

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda. For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

"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

Clean air, ventilation & masks all stop the spread of disease “Flu Season” is just cold weather.. leading to closed windows.. leading to inadequately ventilated buildings.. leading to a build up of virus in the air #FluIsAirborne

Near-field vs. Far-field viral transmission in schools. Recent Swiss study published in Nature Comms provides new insights on relative risks... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Mask up, ventilate, vaccinate... 👇

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Lesson 2 - from the "lost month", as Baroness Hallett so vividly describes it - February 2020: If you can't be arsed to do your job even as a deadly pandemic grips the world, you certainly don't deserve to be within a thousand miles of Downing Street. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

" A small number of rogue nations can not be allowed to block progress for the rest of the world..."

Why bother with peer reviewed science🧪... when you can just make stuff up? 🤔

Your thoughts... is this a) Gross misconduct in public office? b) Gross negligence? c) Misuse of power? d) Social murder? e) All of the above?

Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.

To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.

I've always worked really hard to protect myself and my family from COVID. I tried following public health recommendations for the first year, using cloth/surgical masks. We all caught COVID as a result. Unfortunately, I've never recovered. Its been 5 long years. I've learned a lot...

1,600+ fossil fuel lobbyists at COP30, outnumbering every delegation except Brazil This isn’t ‘dialogue’; it’s the industry responsible for the crisis hijacking the negotiations meant to stop it If this doesn’t make you furious, you’re not paying attention www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Was anyone consulted about this... Do most Europeans even know that Von der Leyen just made a massive u-turn by siding with the far-right to water down her own European Green deal policies? Does this signal that US politics are now driving the EU towards the abyss? www.politico.eu/article/far-...

When the government decided to let COVID-19 loose, they decided at that exact same time to do two things. Make life difficult and lonely for elderly and disabled people. Kill elderly and disabled people by playing dress up and pretend it’s 2019, because we want to be “kind”.

"Only what gets measured gets managed"...

It's #WorldVentil8Day and the Austrian Health Initiative www.igoe.at is conducting a community air quality measurement campaign. Post your measurements on social media or enter them into a CO2 atlas: indoorco2map.com. TL;DR results show both good & very poor ventilation in Austrian indoor spaces...

“The fight in the big pandemic public health story has moved from proving COVID is airborne to building a public health system that acts like it.” thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...