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dad / head of comms @_wearepossible / books editor @resurgence_mag / proudly 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, proudly London, proudly @IWGBunion / my views / him

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Russell Warfield
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On fossil fuels and literary festivals. Ignore the people sneering at campaigners trying to kick fossil fuels out of culture. It's the climate activists who dare to dream of art for its own sake. In defence of @FossilFreeBooks , me for @BylineTimes :
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🥳UKIP have lost ALL of their six remaining councillors. This means UKIP has been *completely* wiped out as an electoral force. As of today, there isn’t a single UKIP politician elected anywhere in the country.
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🔵Reform won four seats. 🟢The Greens won four seats. This graphic shows the four Reform seats. The four Green seats are lumped in with ‘other’. It has begun. There will be more. Call it out when you see it. Give the Greens the platform they have earned.
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hang on WHAT??
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iconic reply to the question “what would you change about your local area?”
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why would Just Stop Oil do this? don’t they see how much this inconveniences working people and just turns everyone off their cause?
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HOW TO SURVIVE THE #HEATWAVE 🥤stay hydrated 🍦treat yourself to an ice cream ✊dismantle the fossil fuel industry which is literally burning the planet for the short term profit of a vanishingly small capitalist class 👕loose fitting clothing
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really hope that the Mirror doesn’t publish any pics of me at the Green Party London Assembly campaign Christmas party, because i don’t want you to see a picture of me alone in my flat drinking 8% IPA in my pants
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people often laugh at me when I tell them I have opened wedding DJ sets with the theme tune from Grandstand but I think this video vindicates my position
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These children have barricaded themselves against diggers sent to rip out the pedestrianisation outside their school. It’s right to reduce traffic outside schools. It’s safer, healthier and better for the planet. These kids know it. They’re heroes.
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The Green Party supports a 15% NHS pay rise pass it on
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“I once texted Nancy Pelosi a poem, and told her I was Bono”
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2 years
We opened a Fixing Factory today! An actual shop on an actual high street! People can bring their broken stuff and get it fixed for free. This will reduce waste, cut carbon, and help with the cost of living crisis in the local community.
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Want to hear a simple idea to tackle climate change? Give workers extra time off to go on holiday by train rather than plane. This would cut the carbon of a trip from the UK to Paris by 90%. Any organisation could introduce this overnight.
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when the headline says ‘car’ it slightly downplays the sheer, inherent danger of a vehicle the size of a land rover. these death traps need banning from our cities.
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@DCSboudicca a media landscape like this has not helped
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5 years
And I did not speak out, because I am not a car.
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First they came for the diesel cars, then they came for the petrol cars, then they came for everyone’s cars...
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Just heard @grantshapps say he isn’t in favour of onshore wind because he thinks wind farms are an “eyesore” Anyone else think that wind turbines are quite beautiful?
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I know all the caveats here, the Tories have adopted a lot of their stuff wholesale etc. but a) it is nonetheless great to see that taking the most reactionary possible position on everything sent them into oblivion b) come on, embrace joy for once!! just enjoy it! UKIP is dead!
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head in my hands listening to new Secretary of State for environment Thérèse Coffey on #BBCBreakfast says she might go to COP for a “couple of days”, asked about a key climate report says she hasn’t read it, & demonstrated her commitment to the brief by citing her reusable cup.
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This is like McDonalds saying it's going to be a vegan restaurant, but not including food.
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Heathrow has become carbon neutral in emissions, but only from the parts of the airport it runs and not including flights
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In his final major speech as PM, Johnson suggests that people spend £20 on a new kettle to save £10 a year on electricity. A clear plan to take bills down from £3,549 to £3,539.
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@MichaelJRoots The graphic isn’t showing gains.
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hello 👋 I'm head of comms for a climate charity. yesterday, I played a part in getting my colleague Leo on GB News last night. there he is below. it was a reminder of what we’re up against when we're advocating for climate solutions. yes, it's a 🧵
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@nickw84 This is the best I’ve ever seen in real life. Absolutely, extraordinarily bad.
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a common criticism made of disruptive environmental protest like Just Stop Oil is that “it just turns people off your cause” this is wrong. the opposite is true. the rise of disruptive environmental protest has seen public concern for climate/nature go through the roof🧵
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This is the best three minutes from a @TheGreenParty politician in years.
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@DerbysPolice @DerPolDroneUnit official government advice is that you can leave your house for exercise, as long as alone or with members of your household. why are you shaming people for walking their dog? genuine question. am i missing something?
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UPDATE⚠️ Someone corrected me and pointed out that UKIP actually had SEVEN cllrs going into todays election. Not sure where/when they went up from six to seven but there you go. Anyway, they just lost their seat too 🥳
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every time you see Reform discussed on tv, remember that it’s all just one man pumping money into a rogue rightwing project. and when you much more rarely see a Green on tv, that’s the result of half a century of hard graft, grassroots support, & actual electoral success.
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there’s lying down on the job, and then there’s lying down on the job while the Tories smash up our democracy, I’m so glad to have politicians like @jon_bartley defying the ban on protest to stand up for our rights
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European cereal harvest to be 60% less than last year, lowest since 2007. It’s remarkable how little discussed this is as a symptom of climate change and a driver of core inflation.
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oh fuck wish I hadn’t rinsed those plates before loading the dishwasher
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Shaun Bailey is currently visiting all 32 boroughs in 32 hours to take 32 literally identical photographs of him stood by the side his bus with absolutely nothing else in shot, completely negating the point of going anywhere
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2 years
How to fix the energy crisis explained in 90 seconds.
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1 year
NEW CAR-FREE FUTURE JUST DROPPED💚 Hammersmith Bridge has been closed to cars for years, and it should stay that way for good. Explore an ✨interactive✨ car-free crossing with: ☕️Coffee! Yum! 🚴‍♀️Segregated cycle lanes! 🚋Driverless pods!!!
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@gablodian glad to see we agree on the number of seats regarding this graphic specifically showing the number of seats
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the thing I can’t get my head around is that they didn’t vote against some utopian notion of feeding every child forever, it was feeding the poorest children for a WEEK, during a global pandemic. five lunches.
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@LozzaFox @SadiqKhan do you believe in free speech or not? struggling to keep up
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remember when they locked down Bradford - a city with a 25% Muslim population - the night before Eid?
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Boris Johnson 'considering lifting rule of six for 24 hours on Christmas Day'
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HOW ABOUT YOU TEST US FOR COVID
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Excl: Priti Patel backs plans to force large firms to randomly test their staff for Class A drugs:
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿I proudly took part in the mass action to break in and shut this place down in 2016, so this is absolutely incredible news. huge credit to the many locals and campaigners who kept pushing to make this happen. no new coal. not in merthyr. not anywhere.
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this misses the point of artwash/divestment movements entirely. the point is not that art must be politicised. it is that the funders of genocide & climate change must be delegitimated.
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This is essential viewing if you have watched in horror #BaillieGifford ’s withdrawal of funding to several #literaryfestivals . @MarinaHyde brilliant as ever “if you insist that all art must be politicised..you are wishing for a contraction of the human experience “.
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if you want to contribute to something which actually matters while this weird circus plays out, I work for a climate change charity and we’d make good use of a donation if you have the means, big or small
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2020 ❗️Breaking news❗️ We have broken the record for number of deaths in a heatwave! 2030 ❗️Breaking news❗️ We have broken the record for percentage of crop failure this season! 2035 ❗️Breaking news❗️ We have broken the record for water shortages across the UK!
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❗ Breaking news ❗ We have broken our maximum July temperature record Was 36.7 °C Now 36.9 °C at Heathrow, London We may still break the all-time UK record of 38.5 °C Follow @PHE @age_uk for advice on actions to take during the hot weather #heatwave #UKHottestJulyDay
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@sophielouisecc This is you an *hour* ago
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Russell Warfield
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If a critical mass of people get used to working shorter hours for full pay (and see that the sky doesn’t fall in when we work a little less) people won’t stand for going back to the five day grindstone for their bosses. A four day week is on the way.
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@GeorgeMonbiot are you going to collate these into a book? I think you should, would really help us make sense of the scale and scope of all this, when we are being battered by it in fragments during a time of national trauma
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Lynne Jones was a Labour MP from 1992 until 2010
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Sorry to see Lynne Jones join the Greens but wish her all the best. I’ve noticed that quite a few people who joined Labour under Jeremy Corbyn have left us again to join the Green Party. It will be interesting to see how it shapes Green Party policies and priorities in the
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oh and also for everyone pointing out (with some justification) that UKIP remodelled the contemporary Tory party… The Tory vote is in absolute free fall too 🥳
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There's no better way to celebrate than watching their then interim leader Pat Mountain being interviewed by Adam Bolton ahead of the 2019 general election. Surely one of the most inept interviews ever broadcast. Happy Friday! 💚
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we should close roads more often
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and for the dozens of you asking, yes, she has also done Ski Sunday
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love to see Caroline Lucas literally ripping up the illegal immigration bill
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no fucking way
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@bbcweather 2080: A new February record has been set for the UK, as eighty children have been ritualistically murdered in an attempt to appease the spirit of the towering flames in Trawsgoes, Ceredigion just now.
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today I was effectively forced to vote for a candidate I didn't really want to vote for, so it's a good opportunity to give a shout out to @MakeVotesMatter who do excellent work on making our voting system simpler and fairer.
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Starmer blames bad polling on the success of the vaccine roll out. That doesn't explain why the Greens (who have not rolled out the vaccine) are up by +23 among 18 - 24 year olds (who are almost entirely unvaccinated). It's because Greens offer a real vision for the future.
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Nick Ferrari asks Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer why he seems to be 'going down and down in the polls.' #CallKeir | @Keir_Starmer | @NickFerrariLBC
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@ColinBest1978 yeh man, totally agree. I have always thought the thin justification is that no sitting NI parties stand in any other nation but I fully agree it’s not fair or good
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just spent a couple hours walking my 3mo daughter around outside, and genuinely got a little bit emotional that tomorrow we’ll wake up with the protection of ULEZ, making the air that much cleaner in the years that really matter for her
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The highly misleading opening credits of Postman Pat portray Pat with a range of skills and competencies largely absent from the show itself, in which he actually delivers just one parcel per day in the most shambolic and counterintuitive manner imaginable.
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woah this is doing numbers!!! glad it’s given everyone as much joy as it brought me. Follow this person at @saffronroseacts and is on TikTok too! Pls like this tweet to boost it up the replies and she gets some new follows!
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NEW🚨| We're calling on Premier League to BAN private jets for games in England. 🟢Private jets 40x emissions of coach 🟢Over 80% games less than 4.5h away by coach 🟢Some teams already going 'no fly' Time to show sky high emissions the red card🟥
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looks like a great night for Greens across the continent we’re ready to deliver real action on the climate emergency, not just warm words we’ve got a world to win. lets do this 🌍❤️💪 #EuropeanElection2019 #EUelections19 #GreenWave
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I am simply at a loss to believe that a Conservative government has openly and successfully incited a far right brawl on Whitehall at 11am on Armistice Day. genuinely cannot believe it.
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@bbcweather 2065: A new February record has been set for the UK, with fire falling from the sky at Trawsgoes, Ceredigion just now, the horror, the fucking horror, oh my word, the fucking horror.
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@bbcweather 2055: A new February record has been set for the UK, as a fledgling blade of grass has been spotted in the scorched dust of Trawsgoes, Ceredigion just now.
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it's hard to say anything original about the #IPCC report on #climatechange because none of the fundamentals of the situation have changed in DECADES. if you think Brexit negotiations are frustrating, it's nothing compared to global capital trying to outmaneuver the ACTUAL PLANET
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@bbcweather 2030: A new February record has been set for the UK, with 29.0C recorded at Trawsgoes, Ceredigion just now. 2035: A new February record has been set for the UK, with 33.0C recorded at Trawsgoes, Ceredigion just now.
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Let’s be clear about what’s going on here. For decades, the tobacco lobby fought tooth and nail to discredit the growing mountain of evidence linking smoking to lung cancer. Now we’re seeing the same thing with cars, air pollution, and public health.
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2 years
If you're keeping score, this government has made Nadine Dorries sound reasonable, made Esther McVey sound leftwing, and made Shell sound like campaigners for wealth redistribution.
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I’m no fancy political strategist, but maybe next time the Conservatives should consider putting forward a candidate to be Mayor of London who is not the worst person they could possibly find in the entire country.
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@JackDMurphy still in the top eight of our hearts
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it is genuinely remarkable that Labour have taken their best by-election result *ever* alongside their best result in Uxbridge since 1970, and used it to batter the most successful Labour politician in the country
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2 years
@FisherAndrew79 As a former comms staffer for the Greens, I also feel compelled to point out that we were/are very happy to tell people about these policies, contrary to the claim on the leaflet.
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the neighbours in the flat above mine, who I had never really spoken to before all of this, just lowered down a present for my son’s first birthday on a bit of string ❤️🌈😭
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1 year
RIP Barry. This remains one of the best bits I’ve ever seen on daytime telly.
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9 months
massive congrats to the whole team at @BylineTimes for launching this extremely handsome print edition of their brilliant work, on newsstands from today! looking forward to tucking in later tonight.
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The overwhelming majority of cars driven in London are ULEZ compliant. When we expand ULEZ, it will affect a very small number of people, but it will benefit absolutely everybody. Me on @BBCLondonNews :
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If I wanted the Greens to focus on climate change I simply would not be the single biggest impediment to the Greens focussing on climate change.
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@AdamBienkov The internal logic of this quote also makes absolutely no sense as it was Starmer who *stayed* rather than ‘taking advantage’ of his ‘freedom’ to campaign away from duties attendant upon a PM, and Sunak who went back to routine campaign activity and *didn’t* do his PM duties.
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Arguably one of the most important UK political careers of the century so far. Certainly one of the boldest & bravest voices we’ve ever had in Parliament, standing up for people & planet with rock steady principles. A glowing source of hope for millions. Thank you Caroline 💚
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Caroline Lucas
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In 2010 #Brighton Pavilion made history by electing me UK’s 1st Green MP & it’s been the honour of my life. My open letter to residents & friends explains why I’m not standing at next General Election. With love & gratitude, I hope I've done you proud 👇
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this song is structurally critical to the whole movie, and restoring it makes the Muppets Christmas Carol the absolutely definitive adaptation of the novel. there's a particular thing that I like about this song that makes it so important to the film imo 🧵
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Scott Bryan
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Important: From today, The Muppet Christmas Carol on @DisneyPlus will include the 'lost' song where Michael Caine and Meredith Braun sing "When Love Is Gone."
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Baby if you got to go away Don’t think I could take the pain Won’t you come back Easter Sunday
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🚨 PERSONAL NEWS KLAXON 🚨 In a few weeks I'll be starting a new role as communications manager for @_wearepossible and I just cannot wait to get started. I've always loved their positive, practical approach to climate action, and they're just fizzing with ideas and energy⭐️
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This is the climate emergency.
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how it started how it’s going
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just 15% of us take 70% of all the flights. there’s no fairer way of cutting those excess emissions than a frequent flyer levy.
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3 years
I've finished my last day at the @TheGreenParty after five amazing years. I've seen two General Elections, a few locals, (missed the European Elections to become a dad) and a London Mayoral campaign. So many moments I'll look back on fondly & with pride. Thank you to everyone.
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having one of those days where I simply cannot get my head around how you can work full time, be a parent, fulfil basic needs like cooking and exercising, and do *anything* outside the parameters of a completely packed and inflexible routine. feeling pretty overwhelmed 🤪
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Ten days ago, Thérèse Coffey's own department published figures saying the UK is off track on meeting its own legally binding carbon targets. She says she hasn't read it, and her officials haven't briefed her.
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£250m is the cost to reopen it for *motor vehicles* they could reopen it for cyclists and pedestrians very quickly for much less money. and if they had real vision, they could create a permanent car-free crossing for the capital:
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The Standard
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The cost to repair Hammersmith Bridge has soared to £250 million - raising fears that it will never reopen #frontpage Find out why one of the oldest suspension bridges in the world faces an "embarrassing" fate:
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1 in 10 flights taking off from the UK are up to 30 times more polluting than ordinary flights, aren’t taxed properly, and need banning
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1 year
We were shown what the authors produced ahead of being on the show, and it was barely a side of A4. A few hundred words from a blogger formed the basis of the segment, and was treated with equal legitimacy as research from Imperial College London which it sought to discredit.
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Well done to Leo for standing up for clean air, and to everyone chipping away at the vested interests standing in the way of climate action.
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Russell Warfield
5 years
i wrote a quick untitled poem. its lines alternate between quotes from @metoffice , @SkyNews and @bbcweather tweets celebrating this winter heatwave, and quotes from recent news reports about #climatechange . enjoy.
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4 years
Virgin is a weird name for a company determined to fuck every last one of us
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Virgin Atlantic boss urges Boris Johnson to sanction £7.5bn airline bailout
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3 years
I got engaged on the weekend 😍💍
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2 years
@CJ_PITT staunch republican I reckon
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