Local Green Councillor Martin Hey brings some seasonal cheer by sharing his five greatest wishes for 2026, as seen in this week's Halifax Courier!

People have had enough of Labour. They can change leader but the problem is the hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are Labour MPs. More and more people joining the Green Party every day! www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

“At no time in history are the good guys shooting kids”

We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got a

Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

No newsletter from us in January, but ICYMI here's the last one of 2025 👇 Take a look for: * Crucible and Platform in South Africa * More about the re-launch of Leeds' Areas of Research Interest * The conclusion of our work with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture * New blogs and events

When you're both the eldest daughter and have your own children, Christmas is basically a glitter-covered bundle of additional administrative tasks.

Tomorrows is the first day of slight busyness after a length period of too-busyness. Anyone got any tips for resetting and climbing down from mental overload that doesn’t involve staring into space for three hours?

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.

We’re at our Interdisciplinary Leadership Programme residential with researchers from @uniofbradford.bsky.social and @universityofleeds.bsky.social today. Lots of great discussion about ideal projects already.

Sat in a bar (with coffee) on my laptop as I'm stupidly early for a nearby meeting. I obviously look very professional, because a group of women all thanked me, thinking I was the landlady...

The new US National Security Strategy mentions climate change once: "We reject the disastrous “climate change” and “Net Zero” ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries." www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

It was fabulous to be able to capture some of the wonderful connections, collaborations and friendships emerging last week in Johannesburg. They really were a lovely group to work with!

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

This is a stunning location, and the hotel is gorgeous. Privileged to be included in the delivery team for this.

Interesting discovery this morning - BBC website has ads outside of the UK. At least I know where to go for premium festive treats in Johannesburg now...

Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social

Next week we're hosting our final in-person Global Crucible lab, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The in-person part of the programme is always an exciting opportunity to spark ideas and make connections. Last year, we captured this for participants to share their thoughts - take a look 👇

Reform's former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, a 10.5 year jail term for taking bribes from the Kremlin. Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill. Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?

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💼 Ahead of the Budget, the Green Party is calling for: ✅️ Immediate cost of living measures to cut bills by hundreds of pounds. ✅️ Fair taxes on wealth to raise over £30 billion a year. ➡️ Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

In a world where people are literally dying of starvation.

Pass the phone… to the 40,000 Young Greens! 📲 💚 We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳 This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️

Support for the Green Party in Calderdale is surging. We’re working hard to run candidates in three target wards in next year’s Local Authority elections, but we need your help! Please donate to our crowdfunder if you can: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/local-elec...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Wainhouse Action Day today 💚

This was one of my favourite Insight Series sessions this year. Paul shared some really candid insights into some of the challenges facing interdisciplinary teams, and offered some tangible advice on how to overcome these. Well worth a read/watch 👇

Day 5 of #COP30 🌎 Part 1 Today’s aim: Systems transformation to support the global push to triple renewable energy, double energy efficiency, and transition away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner. Its a busy day for our delegates, with our members involved in six sessions!

On ITV LastOrders tonight I will be raising this very issue for Leeds, another site of deployment of this demonstrably discriminatory technology @leedsgreenparty.bsky.social

Can anyone help with some popular #science #BookRecommendations? I had a very good run of books a while back, with The Good Virus, Entangled Life, Blue Machine, and Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, but all of my recent recommendations are a bit too 'self-help' for my liking.

Trying to keep up with everything going on at #COP30? Follow @priestleycentre.bsky.social for daily updates on how @universityofleeds.bsky.social researchers are contributing, as well as lots of insights from the latest in climate research 👇

Nice one, Zadie Smith.

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Child poverty across the UK is at a record high of 31%. Scrapping the two-child benefit cap would lift 630,000 children out of absolute poverty. Green councillor Martin Hey speaks to the Calderdale Lead, urging an end to the ‘cruel’ policy: calderdale.thelead.uk/i/178399372/...

Congratulations to Horizons Platform and Global Crucible participant Prof Philippe Gradidge ahead of his inaugural professorial lecture tomorrow! For more information on how to attend or watch, please visit the Wits website: www.wits.ac.za/events-archi...

Wainhouse will be a new ward in the Calderdale Local Elections this coming May. Join us for Wainhouse Action Day Sunday, 16 November @ 11am in Crow Wood Park (from 1pm @ Wainhouse Tavern). It's a great chance to meet local Green Party campaigners while helping new Green candidates get elected! 🌱 💚

I have absolutely zero doubt that Reform UK's plan for small business will basically consist of "supply-side reforms" that end up deregulating employees into having lower pay and fewer rights. That's a guarantee.

In 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that climate impacts must be considered in planning decisions. Yet councils are allowing mega farms to conceal their emissions. Thirty-five developments have routinely ignored or downplayed the industry’s carbon footprint.

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Are you an early career researcher working in healthy buildings? The Healthy Buildings Network at @universityofleeds.bsky.social have launched a small-grant call for ECRs, looking to support small-scale impact activities, such as seminars, workshops or hackathons. Take a look for more information 👇

Bradford Greens loved seeing the energy and enthusiasm at today's Yorkshire & the Humber Green Party regional conference 💚💚💚 ➡️ Let's get more Greens elected! Join.greenparty.org.uk

So very, very done with fireworks now, and we don’t even have pets. There’s been so little let-up this year. Constant explosions for a week.

'"Other shareholder meetings are snoozefests but ours are bangers. Look at this. This is sick," he added.' Sick is the right word, although perhaps not in the way he meant it. £1tn for one man, while more than half the planet are struggling to live in basic human dignity.

Reform voters on the reintroduction of flogging...

Reform supporters should be polled on a reintroduction of the ducking stool.

Tesla have approved a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk. That's 20 billion times more than a nurse in the UK earns. Don't let anyone tell you immigrants or disabled people are the problem. It's the richest 1% hoarding all the wealth. Time to tax the super-rich properly.

Always lovely putting this newsletter together - and it was great to see such varied activities from our research networks.

Incredibly sad story, and hugely alarming too edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Milka Chocolate Peace