Great work @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social! One of five gains from Labour overnight, taking Green council number to 13. Congratulations also to other target winners James Thorniley, Alfie Davis, Sushila Dhall and Edward Mundy

Incredible night for us Greens in Oxford, and delighted to have won! Incredibly grateful for all the support.

The dreadful OFS has had its terrible decision regarding "gender critical" reactionary Kathleen Stock quashed by the High Court. Will have more thoughts once I have read the judgment.

Such blatant profiteering from human misery is sickening. And here at home families struggle to pay bills as energy giants rake in higher profits & destroy the climate. Time for a further windfall tax now

The experiment of bus privatisation has been an unmitigated disaster. Green councillors will campaign for publicly-controlled buses and free bus fares for all people under 22 years. Vote Green on 7 May to boost our buses 🚌

The governments plan will keep people working in key industries like care in temporary status for a decade or more, it will keep people in insecure work, make them more easily exploitable, poorer and marginalised - when did that become the policy of a Labour government?

It is now clear the Greens are directly challenging Reform. People are fed up with the status quo and want change but Farage is offering them old Tory solutions and scapegoats the vulnerable. The Greens have a real plan to lower bills, protect the NHS & cap extortionate rents.

🔴 Britain’s Solar Revolution Is Here and We Should Be Shouting It From the Rooftops Ed Miliband is helping to turn the country into a nation of ‘solar zealots’ and I'm enthusiastically along for the ride. Thankfully I'm not alone. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/22/b...

It’s illustrative to recognise when the Guardian uses the word investment (straightforward handing over cash to the private sector) and when it uses spending (welfare, public sector wages)

“A caring health system would place staff and patient health and wellbeing at the centre of policy decisions and promote improved public transport and active travel options as a way to achieve this, while also contributing to wider environmental and public health benefits.“

This is a great data visualisation. It clearly shows why policy interventions that support/subsidise driving tend to not just miss an opportunity to reduce inequality, they are likely to entrench inequality, because those in the most deprived areas will derive the least benefit.

Inspired by this video youtu.be/etwt75kYYhk I thought I'd explore some of the statistics around car access and deprivation with some #datavis and analysis. Usefully, the 2021 Census in the UK asked questions around car ownership as well as many aspects of 'deprivation'. So here is 📊 🧵... [1/8]

Free school meals for every primary child is such an obviously positive thing for health equity and academic outcomes, hence London, Wales and Scotland all taking it up. Not doing it in the rest of England is emblematic of the Labour govt's "things-can't-get-better" attitude to everything.

The govt is announcing plans to overhaul school dinners in England Jon Kay asks education minister Olivia Bailey: "Will you be giving schools extra money?" The answer is no.

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

The Green Party has launched its manifesto for the Oxford City Council elections, pledging to build a ‘fairer, greener and more equal city’. They say that the manifesto was written following thousands of doorstep conversations with voters and responds to the big issues that residents have raised.

We're getting people in Gipton and Harehills active one bike at a time! Working with The Big Bike Fix we've been taking used bikes, giving them a bit of TLC and putting them back into the hands of people ready to put them to use!

Cliftonville (Kent) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 38.8% (+26.7) ➡️ RFM: 33.1% (-7.0) 🌳 CON: 15.2% (-4.5) 🌹 LAB: 10.4% (-11.6) 🙋 Ind: 1.3% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.2% (-1.9) No Ind (-3.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.

This Lye valley cat is always purr-fectly happy to see @jamesthorniley.bsky.social and hear about @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social policies!

The Dream (Green) Team for Oxford!!! 🤩💚

Lye Valley: @jamesthorniley.bsky.social James Thorniley is a local campaigner, parent and school governor who has lived with his young family in Lye Valley ward for eight years. He is a software engineer for an independent online radio and music platform.

Headington and east Oxford people: don't miss the Warneford Hospital 200 anniversary travelling exhibition at Brookes and Headington library until the 17th April! warneford200.co.uk/events-calen...

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Portes is right. I have definitely come to see the value in political education, because "emotionally cathartic slopulism" has already taken over the Right and I think it could easily do so on the left too if we don't hold the line on, like, actually insisting that it matters you get things right.

The many media outlets calling @greenparty.org.uk transport policy a “war on motorists” should try talking to bereaved families and seriously injured survivors of road crashes rather than ignoring the trauma and pain left when people drive without considering the harm they may cause at the wheel.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

If you happen to be in Oxford today, the far right are mounting a protest against Lush and its staff at the Westgate at noon. We'll be assembling from 11.30 to counter-protest

I remember when it was a scandal that a company laid people off over Zoom. Now that seems warm and fuzzy compared to the norm today. Oracle laid off 30K people with a 6AM email with a link to click and accept terms if they wanted severance.

National Raise the Colours founder Ryan Bridge was arrested last night on Abingdon Road for public order offences. Bridge himself had called the police when an Oxford resident lay under his cherry-picker van. Mobile phone footage from local residents shows Bridge shouting “I’ve been arrested!”.

On Tuesday, activists from ‘Raise the Colours’ erected flags along Abingdon Road in broad daylight. We ask who is behind it – and why the campaign is so controversial. oxfordclarion.uk/raise-the-co...

Not enough that Reform has a 24/7 cheerleading channel (GB News)—they also get 37 mins live on the BBC, while the Greens' press conf. don’t even get a mention. Is Ofcom asleep, or selectively awake? And the BBC?Are they failing to do their jobs, or doing exactly what they’ve decided their job is?

More people are taking the bus since Oxford's temporary congestion charge was introduced say Oxfordshire County Council. Data from six local bus companies including Oxford Bus Company shows an 8% increase vs prior year since the introduction of the charge. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/more-people-...

As it is World Book Day, we are reposting this, from @archoxfordshire.bsky.social on volunteers helping children to read in schools across the county. oxfordclarion.uk/arch-oxfords...

On February 6th Lucy Powell, Labours deputy leader, wrote to Zack Polanski accusing him & the Greens of sharing "misleading election material & claims on social media" & told him "its time to stop the bogus bar charts" Labour on social media last night & the poll they're referring to⬇️

Delighted to hear from @causingascene.bsky.social in Full Council today - they are the grassroots champions for Oxford's Music Scene and want to help young artists and keep our music venues open. Follow them (or join them!). Also Oxford is the UK's rock capital. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?” Oli Dugmore It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

We have 400 volunteers on the streets of Gorton and Denton today. Labour are out of it. It's Greens vs Reform. Lower bills, tax the rich, protect the NHS. We will win. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

“Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For those just realizing how right I was about creeps like Lawrence Krauss & Richard Dawkins, you should know that I’m also right about good guys like Robin.

Local residents removed 8 flags hung around Oxford last night in response to an organised campaign from a group calling themselves the ’Raise the Colours Oxford’, who brought activists from the Midlands and Sheffield to ‘make Oxford look patriotic’

An excuse to remind you of this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=keGo...

Former Cherwell columnist, failed candidate for Oxford University Chancellor, ‘Prince of Darkness’, St. Catherine’s alumnus and architect of ‘New Labour’ Peter Mandelson has resigned as a member of the Labour Party over links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

Rent controls. Now. dev.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/camp...

Am I reading this right? 1. Developer claims new homes not viable without government help. 2. Gov. says fine here's £10m with some minor strings attached. 3. Developer suddenly discovers they didn't need that money after all, whoops!

Say hello to Hannah Spencer—councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and your Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton 💚

Labour government: "We can't really afford to feed children right now" Also Labour government "Hey AI companies here's some cash we just had laying around" This is what political choice looks like. There's always money, they're just deciding to give it to big business rather than look after people.

When will this regression end? Conversion therapy? It was someone who was on the board of sex matters who played a major part in me resigning from Monkey Cage because they like to bully people into silence

“We are putting Palantir on notice. This is a military surveillance company tied to authoritarian surveillance and the devastation in Gaza — and it has no role in our NHS.” Green Party leader Zack Polanski on why Palantir must be kept out of the National Health Service.

Fantastic news, huge thanks and congratulations to this campaign

This is like when I ask my daughter if she wants a snack and she replies "if you want me to."