🗳️ On May 7th vote for: ✅ Safer C7 route ✅ Prioritise road safety ✅ Safer, better roads 💚 Paul Keene, Green Party candidate for Ouse Valley West and Downs @lewes.greenparty.bsky.social @strat4040.bsky.social

👋🏽 Meet Paul Keene @PaulKeeneSussex your Green Party candidate for Ouse Valley West and Downs. 🤔 Thinking who to vote for? Paul lives in Newhaven with his wife and young daughter and cares deeply about the area. 🗳️✅ Vote Hope 💚 May 7th

Hi, I'm Paul Keene, your Green candidate for Ouse Valley West and Downs 💚 On May 7th vote for: ✅ Affordable Housing ✅ Clean air and water ✅ Investment in the region To read my full statement, go to whocanivotefor.co.uk and search by your postcode. @LewesGreenParty

Standing for Ouse Valley West & Downs, 7 May 💚 Chaired the Southern Water investigation. Censured the Police Commissioner. Co-founded the campaign against FM Conway. The Greens defeat Reform — I have the record. Vote Paul Keene.

The State of the Union 2026 → strat4.co.uk/insights/sta...

What makes for effective storytelling? Our latest blog explores how ethos, logos and pathos — Aristotle’s classic principles of persuasion — can be applied to how organisations can connect with people today. Read more → strat4.co.uk/insights/eth...

What happens when the “Western model” of progress runs out of credibility, yet global capitalism carries on just fine without its supposed values of equality, rights and welfare? ➡️ www.strat4.co.uk/insights/no-...

Culture wars aren't just about values. They're enjoyment wars ➡️ strat4.co.uk/insights/enj...

Stuart Hall’s “The Great Moving Right Show” isn’t history—it’s our reality. The Right’s rise is a long project, not a blip. How do we build flank-turning strategies that shift common sense? 🩷 strat4.co.uk/insights/fro...

What if the problem with dominant narratives isn’t that they’re morally wrong, but epistemically rigged? Ideology critique becomes an “epistemic audit” of the concepts, metrics and stories organisations use to certify their own legitimacy: www.strat4.co.uk/insights/whe...

Hope is with the Green Party. Delighted to welcome Cllr Brett Wright, who represents part of Eastbourne on East Sussex County Council, into the Green Party!

Lovely piece exploring our 'snowballing' movement. At Lewes District Council, we've been busy sharing what we've learned on our journey, and busier putting it into practice. Nature is not a resource to be bought and sold, ignored, trashed, or exploited. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My latest blog explores the convergence of political theory and marketing strategy, arguing that we are entering a new political formation beyond liberal democracy—one governed by a shared managerial logic. Read more: www.strat4.co.uk/insights/mar...

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

How do biological agents learn for the future? Our perspective piece on the value of prospective learning in neuroscience is finally out. This is part of a long running collaboration with @kordinglab.bsky.social & Josh Vogelstein (as well as many other people) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please sign Sian Berry’s (MP) open letter in support of her Climate and Nature Duty amendment (NC29) to the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill. This gov is destroying environmental safeguards - WE MUST FIGHT BACK. localclimatepledge2024.uk100.org?link_id=1&ca...

Those who’ve lived injustice, those with "the splinter in their eye", are society’s sharpest critics. Discover what organisations seeking to be more equitable and socially accountable can do to genuinely engage with critiques. Read: strat4.co.uk/insights/inj...

Just joined Lewes District Green Party? There's lots of ways to get involved. Any commitment you can make will make a difference. 📥 Check your Inbox and Spam folder for an email from us 📨 detailing how to get involved and next steps. We also have a WhatsApp chat 💬 Comment if you're stuck 💚

Devastated this unecessary attack on nature has been forced through, by a government in thrall to fake promises by the development industry. This won't fix our housing crisis, because evidence shows developers focus on profit not need, but it will trash nature. #Trashforcash search.app/uzpbd

Green SEO is a digital sustainability strategy that everyone can adopt. From dark mode, to green website hosting, reducing script and load times, there are numerous solutions to reduce the energy used by our digital devices 🌿📲 www.strat4.co.uk/insights/gre...

Starmer would have allowed Farage's motion to pass if 63 Labour MPs hadn't done the right thing and defied the whip. Terrible stuff !!! #LabourIsDead

NO ONE IS ILLEGAL

Great to see the progress on refurbishing the playground at Walmer Rd rec! Can't wait till it re-opens! Green-led Lewes District Council is investing in playgrounds. Vital to families' well-being; essential for kids' physical development - especially when indoor activities can be so expensive!

Why did Budweiser's Super Bowl ad have “zero impact on beer sales”? In my latest blog I unpack the neuroscience behind marketing. Read it here: www.strat4.co.uk/insights/win...

2026 British Society for Phenomenology conference at Sussex www.thebsp.org.uk/bsp26/

If Wittgenstein were alive today, I imagine he’d say that much of Reform UK’s rhetoric is nothing more than “language on holiday”... powerful incantations but empty of substance. I unpack this in my latest blog: strat4.co.uk/insights/far...

Public Philosophy in Brighton - this one's on 10th October.

Zack Polanski is shaking up UK politics. Could the Green Party under Polanski become what Antonio Gramsci called the “modern prince”? ➡️ Read Strat4's blog to explore what the Greens must do to win hearts, minds and seats in the next general election: strat4.co.uk/insights/zac...

Just got reminded of the fabulous work of Alfred Korzybski at the Emergence Workshop @sussex.ac.uk hosted by the Centre of Cognitive Science (COGS). Thanks to Inês Hipólito, Michael Silberstein, Anna van Oosterzee and Lionel Barnett for some great presentations.

“Phenomenologies of Mental Health, Well-Being, and Flourishing” Call for abstracts and proposals - Interdisciplinary Conference September 19-20, 2025, Lehigh University, College of Health www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/phenomenolog... #Phenomenology

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