Lived experience partner. Former agricultural researcher. Also society / transport. Opinions are my own(?). Retweets & Likes = "Good!", or "Bad!", or "What!?!"
Cambridge, UK
Joined May 2010
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Must read from @FT weekend magazine
The Putin whisperers
as.ft.com/r/d6e24911-6b8d-4e…
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48 hours left to create change. Help us get Palestinian citizens to the polls link.standing-together.org/8…
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How is Donald Trump’s criticism of President Zelensky interpreted in Moscow? “Moscow perceives these words as a mandate to continue military pressure,” writes one Russian paper. I ask Muscovites to name one word that’s important to them, & read what Russian schoolkids are taught about “defence of the Motherland.” #ReadingRussia
💜 "What the Israeli election means to me as a #Palestinian citizen" 😇
With elections for Israel's Knesset (Parliament) due to take place on 27 October, we republish this message from Palestinian Standing Together activist Bakr Jabr Zoubi: ukfost.co.uk/what-the-israel… via @UK_FOST
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Greater Cambridge Growth: Planning for Bus Services. How not to create a new development: (1) Bar Hill (2) Cambourne. A positive exemplar: Waterbeach New Town cambridgebususers.org/2026/1…
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Better bus services, please! Not managed decline. Mayor Bristow must live up to his promise to 'Get Cambridgeshire Moving!'
cambridgebususers.org/2026/1…
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The first 20 editions of my experimental literary magazine @ReadProofArt are on view at @CRASSHlive.
Their 25th-anniversary exhibition, Knowledge in a Fractured World, runs until December 11.
If you want to meet me there, come to the exhibition reception on October 19, 17:30.
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We all want clean water, healthy rivers and confidence that our bills support a service we can trust.
Baggy Shanker MP asked Ministers to explore mutual ownership of water companies, giving communities more say over a service we all depend on.
🚨 *Solidarity with Protect The Harvest*
Yesterday, Israeli forces arrested over 80 participants in Protect The Harvest, an international mobilisation to stand with Palestinian olive farmers against state-backed settler terror.
♻️ @UK_FoST’s statement: ukfost.co.uk/statement-21-oc…
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Want to hear more about agroecology and the role it can play in supporting farmers with climate resilience?
Niamh Furey explains more about our upcoming event on Monday 19 October which will discuss the BRACE Technical Report Launch. Sign up here. ⤵️
bit.ly/4Ayso1y
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What’s the secret sauce for happy scientists at work? These eight countries offer some clues
The country with the happiest scientists, of those with more than 100 respondents, was Canada. The least satisfied cohort was in China, although they are the most likely to say that their career prospects are better than those of previous generations.
nature.com/articles/d41586-0… #happiness
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If you're unfamiliar with the route; if you're absorbed in social media; if you're trying to pacify your toddler, you should never need to miss your stop. Audiovisual Next-Stop Announcements Are Now the Law! cambridgebususers.org/2026/1…
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Psychiatry, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence: A Call for Engagement
Kelila Kahane, John Torous |
Journal of Psychiatric Practice 32(4):p 209-211, July 2026. | ovid.com/jnls/practicalpsych… via @ovid_wkhealth
🟣 🫒 Activists from Standing Together’s Solidarity Guard are in the occupied West Bank to support Palestinian olive farmers this harvest .
They’ll be joined by several members of @UK_FOST, as part of the international Protect The Harvest mobilisation.
my.israelgives.org/en/fundme…
Week of Prayer for World Peace
11-18 October
For more information on this week go to:
weekofprayerforworldpeace.co… via @paxchristiEW
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Peter Thiel, $PLTR, has a frosty relationship with the Catholic Church.
This spring, in large part in response to Thiel’s earlier Antichrist lectures, Vatican adviser Friar Paolo Benanti wrote an essay titled: “The American Heresy: Should We Burn Peter Thiel?”
via politico.com/decoded, @politico vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/…
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It's election day in Holborn and St Pancras.
Like hundreds of other @UKLabour members today I’ll be knocking on doors & talking to voters to get
@Sagal_AW elected as the new MP.
You can get involved here
here ⬇️
events.labour.org.uk/event/5…
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More than 200 people gathered in Leverington on Sunday to protest against plans to house 26 asylum seeking mothers and babies at Roman Court.
Reform UK county councillor Chris Tirrell told the crowd he would organise a larger demonstration this Sunday, promising "more razzmatazz". #Cambridgeshire
Read the full story on CambsNews.
cambsnews.co.uk/gallery-200-…
ALT More than 200 people gathered in Leverington on Sunday to protest against plans to house 26 asylum seeking mothers and babies at Roman Court. Reform UK county councillor Chris Tirrell told the crowd he would organise a larger demonstration this Sunday, promising "more razzmatazz". Read the full story on CambsNews.
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🚍 1 in 7 people in England are at risk of being left behind by inadequate bus services. We're calling on the Gov to use the Budget to invest an extra £300m a year in local buses to reconnect communities, boost opportunities and ensure everyone can access a decent bus service.
ALT Bus stop advertisement highlighting that 1 in 7 people in England lack decent bus service and £300m yearly funding could improve it.