Catherine Read

Get involved in a gentle “peasants revolt” by responding to gov consultation to opening up the land registry to see who exactly owns Britain. It shouldn’t be a secret about #WhoOwnsBritain www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Years of campaigning to get information from B&NES Planning on the impact on transport, retail and ecology in east Bath. So many people helped with their objections. Thanks to everyone! People still need help with the cost of living and cheaper food and we recognise that. #Lidl #GreenParty #BathUK

Student debt is a burden and unfair tax on eduction and learning. I signed this. The student loan system is supposed to open doors but it's become a tax on ambition. The harder you worked to get in, the more you owe. Add your name and make John Healey fix it: the.organise.network/campaigns/jo...

What is the biggest threat to people in the UK? Heatwaves killed thousands this year and Covid pandemic killed over two hundred thousand. These are just two things that need more investment to keep us safe in the UK.

We have until Thursday 29th October to stop Thames Water from being bailed out yet again at our expense Andy Burnham, block the bailout, remove their licence, TAKE IT BACK. Sign the petition 👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/tham...

It is the Labour gov unreasonable dictatorial demands that are interfering in locally elected councils. Green and Labour councillors are running services for their residents and Labour are putting all that in jeopardy. It is for them to explain why. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Does the Labour government have any intention to bring back water into public ownership, like the majority of the public want? Listen to the ministers reply and read the comments. Spoiler…no Greens will #NationaliseWater and protect the environment #VoteGreen 💚

Our NHS has been hollowed out over the last few decades. Thank you @premnsikka.bsky.social The UK has 2.4 NHS beds PER 1,000 people Japan: 12.6 Germany: 7.7 Austria: 6.6 France: 5.4 OECD average: 4.2 This is why we have the disgrace of corridor care. It's time to invest and rebuild our NHS

Amazing that councils can find these powers when they want to. Now do cars you cowards. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🗣 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "Western governments across the world have turned away while Palestinians have been murdered because they are Palestinians - that's very clearly racist."

"If fossil fuels keep burning at present rates, we are headed for apocalyptic civilisational collapse" "Because the rich own things, and the poor do not, it is legal for the rich to destroy Earth and illegal for the poor to stop them" 💚Sally Rooney💚

VICTORY: After a four-week trial, the jury refused to convict Academic Dylan Evans. For satirical posts in support of Palestine, Dylan faced the possibility of 14 years in prison under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act www.cage.ngo/articles/jur...

Now that Trump has dropped sanctions on Russia, it will have more money to spend. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The upcoming budget must put ordinary people’s interests before those of fossil fuel shareholders. Make polluters pay.

What a mockery this makes of the governments proscription of a campaign group. Authors not allowed to sell their books, singers not allowed to speak and pensioners arrested for holding cardboard signs! Our free speech rights are being eroded, and for what? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The truth will out. Green councillors help their community and want what’s best for everyone. Well done @mothinali.bsky.social for standing up against those that would destroy our communities.

Is it right to take account of a companies lack of morals and differing values when awarding contracts? I would not award a contract any company that supports a country committing a genocide. We don’t need to do that and that, there are other options available. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yesterday, the head of MI5 warned that far-right, anti-migrant and anti-Muslim extremists are becoming increasingly likely to consider carrying out terror attacks. This should worry us all. 🧵

🚨 GREEN WIN VS REFORM 🚨 Congratulations to Amber Valley Green Party on electing new councillor Bess Saunders in Kilburn, Denby, Holbrook & Horsley ward in Derbyshire 💚

If we keep burning fossil fuels today's extremes becomes tomorrow's normal. Are we paying attention to the signs?

Good news. A carbon intensive, traffic inducing, farmland destroying road scheme has been stopped. Here an opportunity for Wiltshire council to put its resources into public transport and active travel🚶🏿‍➡️👩‍🦼‍➡️🚍🚲 #SupportSustsinableTravel 💚 www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/2662427...

The Covid wave in England is growing very fast, and the overall Covid risk level has been raised to High. As of 4 October, 1 in every 175 people were infected, up 34% on the previous week. We continue to recommend that Covid-Cautious people take full precautions in ALL indoor places. A thread 🧵

The NHS needs investment so it can deliver the health services that we deserve. The health of its citizens should be a priority for a government, not a nice to have. Prevention, public health measures and social care will all ease the burden on the acute hospitals. Tax wealth:invest in health.

What's happening here? Maybe something changed part way through 2023 on urban/residential 30mph roads! I wonder if it could be that from Sep 17th 2023 95% of roads with a 30mph limit were changed to 20mph. #20splenty making your place an even better, safer, quieter, fairer place to be!

Bravo @greenparty.org.uk Motion means 4 anti-Palestinian apartheid racist UK parties: Labour Tory LibDem Reform And 1 non-racist party in UK: The Green Party This is small 1st step to us making reparations for dreadful colonial wrong UK's racist Balfour Declaration imposed on Palestinians

Overcrowding in UK A&E depts and treating patients in corridors linked to hundreds of deaths. Neoliberals urge cuts in public spending, silence on human consequences. Delayed care leads to premature deaths People sacrificed to gods of fiscal policies.

Hurrah. Don’t send them back here. We should not have been aiding the US to bomb innocent children. Everyday those bombers were flying overhead. I shall not miss them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

So many reasons to throw Palantir out of the NHS and not allow it anywhere near our police force or defence, and now this! Red flags everywhere. Do not ignore the danger. Labour need to stay well clear, just like other European countries that have banned it.

The solutions to the climate emergency and inequity are available to us now. All it takes is political will to choose them. The Green Party have made those choices to make life better for people and planet with our well thought out policies for sustainable living within planetary boundaries.

How about taxing the people with private jets, the frequent flyers, the people whose carbon footprint is destroying the planet? That way you could reduce inequality, fund social care, invest in home grown renewables, and restore sanity to the climate to improve food security. Win, win, win, win.

Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...

Jet fuel: 12,000 Wh/kg. Modern batteries: ~300 Wh/kg. Even with motor efficiency, jet fuel holds 20x the power per kg. Worse: planes rely on getting lighter as they burn fuel. Electric planes spend energy hauling dead battery weight all the way to landing. It's a physics wall.

If Oxfordshire can have quiet lanes what’s stopping Wiltshire?

Oh yes, and my first Covid infection led to blood clots in my leg, which dislodged, passed through my heart and could well have killed me as they lodged in my lungs. Is risking another #PulmonaryEmbolism an acceptable risk? I have been offered a free Flu vaccination; isn't Covid more dangerous?

The amount of electricity a data centre needs is massive! Where will it come from? From us. We get less and it gets more. As it’s classed as critical infrastructure, will be prioritised over us. Looking forwards to blackouts? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Cruel and inhumane actions from the Israel. “children suffer recurring stomach infections, diarrhoea and skin rashes. Damaged sewage networks and failed pumps have also left wastewater flowing between tents and through residential areas.” This is a genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Fifteen journalists led the Arday coverage. Between them they wrote 93 articles about a Black Cambridge professor accused of copying other people's work. Not one of them wrote a sentence about a Cambridge academic under police investigation for how a political party was funded.

Israel has been found guilty today in Geneva of war crimes including extermination, forcible transfer, starvation, torture and false imprisonment, sexual violence including rape... and many more If it was any other country than Israel all of Europe would boycott them. Instead there will be silence

🇵🇸🕎 If you’re Jewish or non-Jewish, let the world know. Jews all over the world are not responsible for the actions of the Zionist State of Israel. Israel does not represent the Jewish people. - Renowned Orthodox Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro (Voice of Rabbis)

Reform is a party funded by billionaires that chooses to attack people fleeing environmental breakdown, famine and war. We’re calling for safe routes so asylum seekers can apply before they leave their country, and never have to face a dangerous crossing in a small boat. join.greenparty.org.uk

🚨People vs Palantir - England day of action🚨 On Thu 1 Oct, join protests at 15+ locations across England demanding the government backs the break clause in Palantir's contract & gets them out of our NHS! 📍 Find your nearest protest: www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/inter...

More crazed "pragmatism" & "rationality" from Labour leaders who don't get even the basics of climate breakdown, see 🧵 below 👇👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Good article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on widespread acceptance - including by the police - of antisocial driving. Lovely to see a link to our recent motonormativity paper in here too www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“How much does it cost to become Prime Minister? That's the experiment Nigel Farage and Reform UK seem to be running, having received political donations of £72 million from two crypto billionaires.” Shouldn’t that be “how much does it cost to buy the Prime Ministership?”

A decade ago I would have spent an hour piling on this but now I realize it's a waste of time. Still, amazing how many otherwise intelligent people portray occasional anecdotes of crashes that didn't even happen as a crisis when motorists cause actual death and destruction that's 1000 times greater.

Good news that householders are benefitting from solar and contributing to renewable energy generation. Rooftop solar alone is not going to meet demand. We need a mix of wind & solar farms, battery storage and other renewables to really transition off volatile, ripoff fossil fuels.

Farage formula in a nutshell. “Dupe struggling people into believing their problems are caused by migrants, refugees and minorities – while championing the interests of the mega-rich who actually hold the power” A £72m is an obscene amount of money in politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“If I didn’t have the job I have now, I wouldn’t have a job. I’d be unemployed.” Deputy Mayor of Hackney Dylan Law on the brutal reality facing young people trying to find work, on LBC’s Cross Question.

Reminder covering 0.4% of UK farmland in Solar Panels would provide 100% renewable energy. 20% is currently unused and 2% is golf courses. The being outraged at solar panels on farmland is a Right Wing trope to keep you outraged at Renewable energy.