‘I dwell in possibility’(Dickinson) #MakeHopeNormal 💚 #English #Teaching #Reading 📖 #JoyFE💛 Deputy Chair, Fellow & Trustee @EnglishAssoc /own views💚
Manchester, England
Joined March 2009
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EVENT! Thinking Forwards:Collaboration :The Davy Notebooks Project A crowdsourced initiative to transcribe & study notebooks of Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829), revealing a pioneering chemist & poet whose ideas emerged through collaboration - SIGN UP!
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Over 1 million marine organisms are killed each year due to plastic pollution in the ocean. It's time to end plastic pollution.
There is no planet B. Use less, buy less, waste less.
#ActOnClimate #climate #PlasticsTreaty
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We have to try
We still have time to turn things around for the better.
Fixing the planet is possible, but it means transforming how we power our world, grow food, manage waste, and protect nature.
The payoff? Up to US$100 trillion in benefits every year.
Read more: unep.org/news-and-stories/st…
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Great cartoon by Martin Rowson on the Greens’ victory in Gorton and Denton – The Green Alternative and the Compost Heap of History theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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"Dirty Business TV review — thrilling drama about Britain’s filthy water is a rallying call to arms."
The @FT gets it, every kid in the street get's it, you get it, how come govt doesn't?
ft.com/content/ed366f23-c4a0…
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This is a photo of a bee in the US
The pollen on her legs is from dandelions & her tongue is sticking out because she’s been killed due to weed killer on dandelion flowers
Remember this #Spring what many see as weeds, is natures food for #insects
No bees, no insects, no life
#FirstDayOfSpring
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The critically endangered Amur Leopard
About 100 left in the wild.
Nature is amazing. Protect it.
📹 itseriksen
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We know this.
But seeing the stats is shocking.
New research at Cardiff University shows just how little airtime Greens have received over the last year despite hugely increased support in polls & party membership, while Reform UK has seen a spike in media coverage. enhancingimpartiality.com/bl…
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Look at that graph!!!
Let's keep it rising.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
📈 @LeftieStats
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"Thames Water sewage spills set for record high."
Hard to believe isn't it, even after all of the outrage, all of the publicity, all of the anger Thames Water is well on course to dump more sewage this year than at any point in the last 10 years.
Time for govt to act, time to take back TW.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Green Party has over 200,000 members.
More members, more councillors, more MPs.
The Green Party just keep growing.
Join us ⤵️
ALT HOPE IS HERE 200K GREEN PARTY MEMBERS Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE169GQ
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The Green party has hit 200,000 members, marking a 186% increase since Zack Polanski was elected leader in September 2025.
When Polanski won the leadership race with an 85% landslide, the party had only 69,000 members.
With support at an all-time high, the Greens now poll at 17% with YouGov, up from 8% in January 2025. This puts the Greens only one percentage point below Labour and the Conservatives.
Support for the mainstream parties has fallen dramatically in recent years. In August 2025, the Times reported that Labour had lost almost 200,000 members between 2020 and 2025, with an estimated new membership of 333,000. Meanwhile, the Tories were last estimated to have 123,000 members.
The highest polling group in the UK currently is Reform, with 24% of the population saying they’d vote for Nigel Farage’s party. Its website claims a membership of 270,000.
The Greens are the most popular party for people under 50, with just under half (46%) of 18-24 year olds saying they’d vote Green, according to YouGov.
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Both Reform’s Nigel Farage and Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer have accused the Green Party of engaging in “sectarian” politics after Green candidate Hannah Spencer won the Gorton and Denton by-election last night.
But are these claims even remotely accurate?
Middle East Eye’s Imran Mulla takes a closer look at the Greens’ campaign, which brought together people from diverse ethnic, class and religious backgrounds around a shared political programme, and explains why it was, in fact, anti-sectarian.
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Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt
#WomensHistoryMonth
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‘Daffodowndilly’
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour
“Winter is dead.”
~A.A.Milne #daffodil #spring #StDavidsDay
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What. A. Moment.
Hope triumphed over hate.
The moment @TheGreenParty members heard Hannah Spencer had been declared the next Green MP! (🚨 Volume/Headphone warning)
With: @EllieChowns @rachelmillward @MothinAli
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This is just the beginning.
Join the Green Party today ⤵️
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The UK only elected 3 of Reform's MPs. 5 defected.
The UK has elected 5 Green MPs. All elected as Green MPs.
We look forward to an increase in coverage.
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One reason Hannah Spencer did well is she passed the “gets it test” few politicians do on two levels. First: personally we heard praise she seemed normal in touch & respected voters. Second message; the below from her speech is the perfect distillation of what we hear in groups.
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Wow listening to the coverage of Gorton & Denton Green win today you hear so much Islamophobia, sour grapes, and negativity. Meanwhile any normal person out there is seeing a brilliant working class woman beat the odds and applauding her. Our media and political elites are supremely out of touch