Thanks very much to @york.ac.uk for having me tonight - a great audience and some great questions!

I don't get it - everyone else at the countryside pub where they serve dinner at 4 PM was voting Reform!

friend sent this over from the other place and unfortunately I did laugh

If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

the dumbass zombies of British retail and private equity really dumbass-zombied this up huh

It's fascinating to watch cooler Labour heads like Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham say that comparing the Greens and Reform together is a terrible tactic. Yet Labour ministers are hourly on shows keeping up the same narrative. The Green Party and Reform are completely the opposite!

They say the electorate is fracturing, I say it's re-coalescing. Greens are on the rise to the extent to which FPTP starts helping rather than hindering.

Sometimes a @railnatter.uk clip comes with bonus extras... youtu.be/Jo-2YlIR87Q

tell you what lads, maybe getting ourselves off gas and oil wasn't such a bad idea after all

New podcast just a week after the last one?! A conversation with @garethdennis.uk of the Rail Natter podcast. We talk about capacity, HS2, Midlands Hub and air quality in New Street. betterstreetsforbirmingham.org/ep-7-the-fut... www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3af... #birmingham #westmids #rail

The @greenparty.org.uk is now earning £1 million A MONTH. They are already extremely effective at spending very little cash and getting results. When it comes to campaigning, they've now got Labour and Reform on the ropes. A lot more is possible than you're being told.

This is not only a gross violation of privacy that the vast majority of politicians are not subjected to. It's a warning to anyone on the left that if they publicly take a stand, the media will come after everyone close to them.

Amused how many friends & old colleagues (actors, waiters, night club staff) keep getting in touch to say press keep phoning them or turning up at their door for stories. They can't stand the growth of our movement - lower bills & take on power & wealth. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Today we remember the 10 people who died in the Selby rail crash at Great Heck, 25 years ago on 28 February 2001. Six passengers and four railwaymen lost their lives in this tragedy and 80 people were seriously injured. Today railway colleagues will be gathering in Newcastle and Selby to remember

Can we go back to yesterday? I preferred it

Shabana Mahmood will continue to pitch-roll for Reform and to try and ban legitimate protest against Israeli genocide. Wes Streeting will continue his war on trans youth whilst lying about it. Bridget Phillipson will continue with her new section 28. And Labour will continue to haemorrhage votes.

lo and behold

who from Labour front ranks has spoken today? Starmer, Alexander, Powell... anyone else? feels pretty telling that they've almost all been like: "this is your mess, dog"

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

Proper Documentary VIDEO! spent the whole day at Victoria Coach Station, behind the scenes to see how everything works! like this ... youtu.be/zXw3W69BE-U

These normal guys are Democracy Volunteers, the only people who saw evidence of family voting, a term they invented.

Keir Starmer has written to all Labour MPs attacking the Green Party for embracing "divisive" and "sectarian" politics I'm picking up concern among Labour MPs about how this letter will come across to people who have voted/are tempted to vote Green, as it could risk further alienating these voters

@garethdennis.uk First MP for Gorton, Richard Peacock, of Beyer, Peacock was a Unitarian, believed strongly in equality of opportunity. He donated large sums to self-help / social projects in Gorton. Had a successful business partnership with an LGBT+ immigrant. He'd approve i think 💚

I've never been more excited for a Polly Toynbee column in my life

GREEN VICTORY but what's next? youtube.com/shorts/9ECtc...

RIP to a real one

Gorton and Denton was 127th on the list of Green Party target seats. To win by such a margin there suggests there is much bigger potential for Green gains in May's local elections than most people expect bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

what i love about this particular attack is that the greens haven't actually changed any policies to appeal to ppl we have a set of policies. that's it. we haven't changed any policies with the intent of appealing to specific demographics in the way that, say, labour does. we're not trangulating.

Grew up watching a Trans woman win Big Brother, hearing music with lyrics that celebrated Trans people, seeing folk flourish as themselves. Now we’re going backwards I will ALWAYS stand against the politicisation and degradation of human rights. Solidarity to our Trans family 🏳️‍⚧️ 💪🏻

Uh oh

This is absolutely what will happen; the full power of the establishment will be turned on the Green Party. Every newspaper, every TV channel, every social media algorithm. The whole lot will be focused on discrediting the Green Party.

This should be the No.1 case study in privatisation. Private water companies pumped human waste in British waterways & ran off with all the money.

Given that we're told that Muslims as a bloc are communalist, anti-Semitic, misogynist homophobes, you might assume voting for a non-religious white woman, standing for a LGBT friendly party, led by a gay Jewish man, might lead you to stand down all those sectarianism headlines.

you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe

so I hope nobody seriously thinks Labour are going to do anything other than tack further to the right

In which people CHOOSE TO VOTE for a female plumber representing a party with broadly liberal values and an unelected life peer declares it to be the end of liberal democracy.

Amazingly having switched over briefly, the GB News coverage this morning is actually emphasising the significance of the Green win, and the shortfall of Reform, far more than the BBC

Newsnight can put Zack Polanski in a Russian hat. They can portray him as Voldermort. James O'Brien can accuse him of "breaking Britain". It's not going to work this time, lads. People have seen too much. The electorate just knows more. Watch the attacks ramp up and recognise their toothlessness.

Also I couldn't be more glad at the demonstration that threatening a Manchester suburb with the threat of drug decriminalisation is a fucking stupid political strategy for Labour. Many families will know people who have had their lives destroyed by criminalisation.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social 💚🙌

green morning

okay, it's time to do this properly I guess

This is a good point, and also makes it worth asking what Reform takes from this now that they have challengers that are way more online and further to the right, but also can’t really function if they become softer or more moderate

Live footage of Labour pissing away their majority in yet another by-election defeat.

There’s a special kind of knot in your throat that comes with being a migrant in Britain today, the kind that always stays in the back of your mind. I’m forever indebted to the Greens for making it go away in a sigh of relief at least for one night. Onwards to the next! 💚

It's so fucking embarrassing that they've just started lifting our right-wing aesthetics wholesale, you guys are supposed to be all about British culture and tradition and you're posing with two thumbs up like a doofus because that's what the president of the United States does?

Legit funny that the current Labour leadership have managed to lose a by-election AND strengthen the leadership challenge of their big internal rival in one syper combo move. Top strategery lads. AA+ would strategery again. Still, i'm sure one more pivot to the right will do it. 👍👍🙄😆

Treasury Brain holding country back. www.ippr.org/media-office...