Great to see Cllr Tom Crone's motion to bring Merseyrail back into public hands was passed unopposed at the full meeting of Liverpool City Council last night. Merseyrail pays millions in dividends to shareholders- this money is needed to build a cleaner, greener and safer network.

Overall, UK solar growth in 2025 reached the highest level in a decade, but is yet to recover from the crash that followed the then-Conservative "cutting the green crap" in the 2010s www.carbonbrief.org/... 2/3

Huge welcome to Cllr Chantelle Lunt, brilliant to have you with us www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Well this makes me feel very old

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

I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes

Hang that in the Louvre!

The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥 Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.

We can't keep up... Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000. Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

An exciting new role @vitalxposure for disabled, Deaf, or neurodivergent playwrights with leadership ambitions! Be VX’s Literary Associate and help shape the future of new writing. Apply by 5pm, Thu 6 Nov: www.vitalxposure.co.uk/literary-associate ‎

9th Sept - 70,000 members 28th Sept - 80,000 members 5th Oct - 85,000 members 8th Oct - 90,000 members 👏 join.greenparty.org.uk today to help us translate this at the ballot box too 👌

🎉 80,000 Green Party members! 📈 But we're not stopping there. 💚 We have no time to waste. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

the thing about optimo is it emerged out of, reflected, was part of the wider cultural scene in millenial glasgow. it and the visual arts scene, especially, orbited each other. that’s part of what made it like cbs or the hac. the other part was people *wanting* it to be.

Gutted we've lost one of the best folk. Glasgow owes you so much Keith. We'll remember you. Be more Twitch.

The Green Party has taken great strides in being a liberatory space for trans people. It must not allow organisations to bully us into having stalls at conference that are against our aims and makes people feel unsafe. So a group of us have created a petition ✍️ you.38degrees.org.uk/p/Greens-Tra...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 📈 The Green Party has just hit 75,000 members! 💚 There's no time to waste. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

Learn everything you need to know about Groypers and Charlie Kirk.

The Green Party has decided - overwhelmingly - to stand up and fight against the powerful: Me on @zackpolanski.bsky.social, @mothinali.bsky.social and @rachelmillward.bsky.social’s victory: novaramedia.com/2025/09/02/t...

On #WorldLetterWritingDay a favourite from our #NormanMcLaren Archive collections.stir.ac.uk/collections/... #CultureOnStirCampus @artatstirling.bsky.social

‘The Federal Theatre Project, set up under FDR’s New Deal to give work to unemployed theatre practitioners, produced more than a thousand plays, estimated to have been seen by roughly one in four Americans.’ Susannah Clapp on the US national theatre project: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.

Liverpool Green Party Stands Against Racism On Saturday 23 August 2025, join together to show UKIP that their ‘Mass Deportations Now Tour’ is not welcome here. In Liverpool, we are proud of our diversity and racism has no place in our city. 📅 Sat 23 Aug 2025 🕛 12pm 📍 St George’s Hall

As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put it: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

Congratulations to Katie Jarman, the new Green Party councillor for Sefton Park in Liverpool. Katie run a really positive campaign and she will make a great community focused councillor 🟢🌱💚

Sefton Park by-election in Liverpool. Green hold. Lab 211 Tory 14 Ref 54 Grn 468 LDs 193 @greenelects.world

The pace at which decades' worth of progress is being shredded genuinely scares me. When I attended my first Pride events, we all knew that most police officers there had been recruited and trained at a time when we were criminalised. They had been taught that we were their targets. 1/4

20 Stories High (‪@20storieshigh.bsky.social‬) artistic director and co-chief executive Keith Saha has announced he is to depart the company after 19 years at the helm 👇

Only 73% of children in Liverpool are vaccinated, vs 85% in north-west England. The World Health Organisation has a target of 95%, because that's where herd immunity kicks in. The measles vaccine is safe. Encourage everyone you know to get their kids vaccinated. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dinah Murray died on this day four years ago, in Dalgety Bay. She had lived to see her work on Monotropism as a theory of autism becoming more and more widely recognised, and died surrounded by people who loved her. Read about her life and legacy, and read her work, here: monotropism.org/dinah/

Interesting note in the evaluation doc. "When comparing the data per year, this has resulted in a 12% reduction in all injury collisions that equates to a cost saving of around £1.2 million..." Total cost was £223,000. What a return 😮 democracy.wirral.gov.uk/documents/s5...

The initial results are in for Phase 1 of Wirral's 20mph rollout. An amazing success. Imagine arguing against this stuff "A 23% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI)" Article here featuring a quote by me www.birkenhead.news/fewer-casual...

Came across this memorial in Bebelplatz in Berlin yesterday, recognising the burning of books by Nazis in May 1933. The books burned included 20,000 books from the library of Magnus Hirschfeld who set up the Institute for Sexual Research, the world’s first trans health clinic.

Last week we had our first Community Company session!💙 It was great to get our amazing bunch together in the room, get to know each other and have some fun 🙌 Led by the boss Paislie Reid, the group played some games, created some devised scenes and had a laugh! 😆

A UK-wide academic initiative was launched yesterday by non-trans feminist academics and educators (allies) who oppose the recent anti-trans Supreme Court ruling & the concerning EHRC attitude to it called 'Not In Our Name'. To co-sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🌈🎓 #AcademicSky

This piece - about the consequences of coming out as autistic- is very important to me, and pretty damn personal. I hope people find it useful. observer.co.uk/news/first-p...

I.D.I.C. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.

Absolutely every word of this! I can identify with so many of @pennyred.bsky.social’s experiences here it’s not real. What’s happening right now in US under RFK absolutely terrifying. Which is why it’s so important for autistic folks to speak about our experiences. observer.co.uk/news/first-p...

It is VE Night, Tobermory. Cottages blaze and shimmer in the mirror of the bay. Light is necklaced everywhere… —Hugh McMillan, “Old Photograph” published in AFTER THE STORM (Smith/Doorstop Books, 2005) A poem for #VEDay #VEDay80 www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/old-pho...

So that's trans people, lawyers and doctors calling out the Supreme Court decision for being nonsensical, who's next?

We believe the UK is now in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention of Human Rights and we plan to ask the High Court for a declaration of incompatibility. We would be grateful for your help:

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ After the disgraceful events of the last two weeks I’ve just donated to @GoodLawProject to support their campaign to take the Supreme Court ruling to the European Court of Human Rights You can donate at: goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

Latest from me: The idea that autism is some aberration that can be cured is typical of a movement that celebrates simplistic thinking and loathes human difference www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:

On this day, April 10 1848, the last great Chartist rally took place - on Kennington Common in London. Here, almost unbelievably, is a photograph of the event.

Toussaint Louverture died in prison on this day in 1803, at the age of 59. "In overthrowing me, you have cut down in Saint Domingue only the trunk of the tree of liberty; it will spring up again from the roots, for they are numerous and they are deep."