Writer, webbie and comms person in the charity and cultural sectors. Mostly on twitter being sensible for other people.
Pickering, Yorkshire + London
Joined January 2009
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Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
With all the talk about migrating to mastodon, I'm starting to picture myself as a tribal elder who realizes he has already made his last migration as he watches everyone pack up their furs and babies and earthenware pots and start traveling south ahead of the advancing glacier.
Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
I have to confess that I had never *really* understood how a government with a huge majority in Parliament could simply implode while in power, to the extent that it became simply incapable of remaining in office.
The period from 1903 to 1905 is making a lot more sense now.
Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
Did you know it takes 1kg of wild fish, anchovies, mackerel, sardines etc to produce 1kg of farmed salmon?
Yes, they catch wild fish and feed it to farmed salmon.
Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
🚨 Fall in support for the Anti-Growth Coalition:
AGC: 71% (-1)
CON: 24% (=)
RFM: 3% (=)
Labour leads by 28%, tied largest lead for them that we've EVER recorded.
Westminster Voting Intention (5 Oct.):
Labour 52% (–)
Conservative 24% (–)
Liberal Democrat 10% (–)
Green 5% (–)
SNP 4% (-1)
Reform UK 3% (–)
Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 2 Oct.
redfieldandwiltonstrategies.…
Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
There is the broadest imaginable social consensus for a windfall tax on energy companies, that Shell need to be part of it, so as not to become associated/toxicity by the Truss administration's opposition to it.
The CEO of Shell has called on the government to tax oil and gas companies in order to protect the poorest people in society from soaring energy costs trib.al/8JbTe0f
Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
During a march held by Iranian exapts in central London today over the death of #MahsaAmini and in support of protesters inside Iran, demonstrators chant "we will win all together" as they walk past a rally for Ukraine in Whitehall.
#مهسا_امینی
تو تظاهرات امروز لندن این صحنه جالب هم ایجاد شد وقتی راهپیمایی ایرانیها رسید به تجمع اوکراینیها و همه با هم شعار دادن «آل توگِدِر وی ویل وین».
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
#OpIran
'Call an immediate general election' >> petition started a week ago, ticking along at quite a good crack (68k), could take off >> useful outlet for our well justified rage:
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
Every kind of marine life on Marske beach today amongst loads of seaweed, all dead sadly😑 Video and photos taken Sharron Bell
Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
We have a Brexit libertarian government - a set of always wrongheaded ideas but utterly wrong for the menacing times in which we live. Putin is waging an economic war with Europe. Britain’s absurd energy plan plays into his hands theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
Going to this 👇. 1/2
World-renowned experts will discuss the power of “positive tipping points” to tackle the climate crisis at @UniofExeter next week in a public event which is sold out but available online. #TippingPoints
greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk/ar…
Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
Starmer: "The head of BP has called this crisis 'a cash machine' for his company'- and households are on the other end of that cash machine."
Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
Very few people focus on the fact that the standing charge for gas and electricity is independent of the size of the property being supplied.
A pensioner in the world's smallest one-bed cottage pays the same daily standing charge as a millionnaire in his 28-bedroom mansion.
Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
V big day for the economy and country.
We’re about to see quite possibly the single biggest fiscal intervention by any peacetime government in history.
This is something that’ll affect all of us - even more than furlough. And it’ll be even more expensive.
Quick primer
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Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
The energy price cap will rise AGAIN this week. We are heading for a national emergency
Labour has called for an urgent freeze to energy bills
But neither the Prime Minister nor the candidates to replace him have anything of substance to say
The lack of leadership is shameful
Kate Smith - passed away peacefully 15th november retweeted
In 2018, the GMB union found that “at least 71 per cent of shares in England’s nine privatised water companies are owned by organisations from overseas including the super-rich, banks, hedge funds, foreign governments and businesses based in tax havens.”
