Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

The Christmas story begins with a family forced to flee violence and seek safety elsewhere. That memory calls us to stand with today’s migrants and refugees, and to choose welcome over fear as we work toward a more just and caring world.

Disability can subject people to financial dependency on their partners. This puts people in vulnerable and potentially harmful positions and must be stopped. Please sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Astonishing stats that show how urgently we need electoral reform. (As opposed to electing Reform.)

Scary times. The in-laws’ house is flooded - luckily, they’re on a visit to London - and the water is getting closer and closer to ours. Stay safe, everyone. The struggle for the climate is also a fight for our lives and livelihoods.

Some reasons to join us towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/08/j...

All out to stop UKIP Islamophobes in Tower Hamlets towerhamlets.greenparty.org.uk/2025/10/20/a...

Things have been hectic, and I’ve been a bit inconsistent/tardy with updates. So for those interested…

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture. It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

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

Last year 100,000 people marched across London in support of nature and BBC News didn’t cover it, leading to complaints to Ofcom about political bias. Today BBC News covered a similar size march on front pages and every channel demonstrating fully its political bias. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Theatrical experiments in minimising hierarchy and mimicking an ecosystem… a brief blogpost on making Dysbiosis.

This Thursday, we'll be bringing this lovely show to St Nicholas Priory, in Exeter. And, as ever, it'll be adapted to celebrate local radical history and feature some guest artists from the area. The amazing location is an added bonus. 1/2

Hi all! You might like to know about this project, if you’re in the Exeter area. It’s a history of English protest told through folk music, and featuring local guest artists. Celebrate radical English history with a song, a dance, and maybe the start of the revolution! Booking links etc below.

Last week Palestinian activist Awdah Hathleen was murdered by a settler. Now Israel refuses to return his body. Join me and tell David Lammy and ‪@mphamishfalconer.bsky.social‬ to demand Israel return Awdah's body. actionnetwork.org/letters/brin...

Dear Angela Raynor, the problem isn’t immigration, we all have a right to flee poverty or persecution. It’s racism, lies, ignorance, cynical politicians, well-organised fascists, an elitist visa system and an inhumane asylum process, compounded by lack of legal routes and decent accommodation.

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

Some rare good news!

Well, it's out in the world! It was such a lovely and well-attended launch. After such a huge amount of work from SBTD’s Sustainable Design Working Group and all the other amazing people who contributed, it’s fantastic to see that level of support and interest from our community. 1/3

So, violent racists were threatening asylum seekers in a hotel in Epping, which was my local council growing up, and today they are showing up in Tower Hamlets, where I live. I know my connection to these places is irrelevant, but it does bring home how scarily close and present this danger is.

We’re launching our sustainable materials guide this Wed on Zoom. Created by designers and makers, it shares knowledge about materials from a practical perspective and is the result of some fantastic work from project lead Hamish Muir and the rest of the team. Do join if you can.

What's that, NYT? The sound of you finally saying things that some of us have been talking about since *checks watch* all this began? www.lifeisasacredtext.com/bravely-faci...

This is terrifying.

I’ve always said I never perform on stage unless I have a violin under my chin, but live video creation as part of Daedalus Theatre’s Dysbiosis project turns out to be quite a piece of physical theatre! Photos from our work-in-progress showing at the Omnibus Theatre last week by Devika Bilimoria.

🚨 𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧: On Mon 7 July, MPs will debate a ban on fossil fuel ads and sponsorship. This is a pivotal moment for the UK to tackle Big Oil like it did Big Tobacco. ✉️ Ask your MP to show up. It takes just 2 mins. 👉 Use our email template tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

#FactoryFarming - you would need to be Dante to be adequately describe the planned onshore salmon installation #AnimalWelfare #PublicHealth #EnvironmentalHealth

What can you even say, as the awe-inspiring fruits of millions of years of evolution are wiped out in a few generations by a civilisation willingly pushing itself closer to extinction?

"The trip to Saudi ... signals not just a new even closer relationship between Trump and the Gulf but also the enmeshment of Silicon Valley in a global autocratic network."

Trans Derangement Syndrome is terrifying. Imagine amassing more wealth than any human in existence can imagine and spending it all on trying to hurt people whose lives don't affect you at all

JK Rowling turning out to be a monstrous bigot a few years back wasn't much of a surprise to me. I guess I was lucky enough that her books came out when I was a young adult, rather than an impressionable child. 🧵

Stop Funding Hate have proved the success of this approach time and time again; use your power as a consumer to hit the hate-mongers in their advertising revenue. Now in partnership with the Good Law Project, it can be even more effective. Takes a minute.

Correct. Stop trying to negotiate with the GOP and the fossil fuel industry. They are not good faith participants in the climate policy discussion. The only solution is to crush them at the ballot box, which is a thin reed, at this point.

Amazing to be part of this, helping ReStage develop collaborative R&D for modular sets. Days like today are exactly what we need: getting people together with time to dig into details and work stuff out. Big thanks to Sara, Paul et al. ReStage is such an exciting initiative. (Photos: Sara Turnbull)

Let's get this straight. Farage and his cronies know they won’t get any votes for their actual agenda, which is about maximising deregulation and corporate profit, so they tried to make us hate Europe. Well, Brexit happened and was a complete disaster, so they can’t flog that dead horse anymore. 🧵

Honeysuckle’s coming out!

Lovely to see my grandma was a diligent student of Eng Lit!

Fantastic May Day gig in Brighton with all the leftie solidarity and queerness you could wish for. Such a privilege to be the fiddler for so much joyful dancing.

People say nobody will work if they have basic income etc but honestly the super rich stay distressingly active

I needed a break from spreadsheets earlier today, so here’s a tune I learnt at an impromptu folk session around 1am sometime last year at the Centre for Alternative Technology. It’s called The Pride of Petravore.

This is the kind of thing I would’ve dismissed as neoliberal business as usual a few years ago but now my first thought is, ‘Phew, a bulwark against US fascism!’ (Although it still is neoliberal business as usual, and it’s still harming planet and people).

I was reflecting on the value of studying at CAT, which is not just the fantastic tutors, the grounded, solutions-oriented teaching & the incredible location; it's also the student body. I'm coming to the end of my second year part-time, & the good company, mutual support & knowledge sharing… 1/2

Can anyone tell me what I just saw?

Bluebells and apple blossom.

Carole Cadwalladr uncovered the data harvesting/Cambridge Analytica/Brexit scandal. I’ve been following her work ever since, and donated to the fundraiser following her last TED Talk (watch to see why that’s relevant!). 1/2

A deeply disturbing and simplistic decision, rejecting modern scientific understandings of gender and indeed biological sex. And made without listening to any trans people. Trumpism in the UK.

Donald Trump is waging war on our hard-won rights – it’s time to fight back. Join me and Good Law Project and say loud and clear: not in our country. goodlawproject.org/s/c22468

My latest (perhaps somewhat provocative but at least very short) blog post.

Only 11% of England is built on - but land use is still a national concern. The government is preparing England’s first Land Use Strategy to balance housing, food, nature, and climate. What it’s about & have your say ⤵️ | Stephen McNair @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

The only way to challenge the anger that Reform is channelling is to improve peoples living conditions. Improve wages, fund & nationalise our vital public services and build council housing. I spoke to @turnleftmedia.co.uk about Reform. 👇🏼 youtu.be/6D4flu4Cy-I?...