Caroline Russell

If you want places to be accessible to older and disabled people installing benches is one very helpful thing to do.

Seems a few people are worried that young people will sit on a bench and be a bit annoying, so the bench won’t be installed after all.

Highlights For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement. Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design. Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically. Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street. There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I joined the Greens in June. Conference last weekend felt like a kind of homecoming. I’ve been adrift these last few years, mourning Alice, despairing at a ruling class that seems intents on heaping misery on all minorities. In the depths of grief hope wasn’t enough, but now it breaths life into me.

Back from the most energising conference ever, filled with hope and the excitement of being part of a rapidly growing party that is beautiful, brilliant, dangerous,

… and ready to seize this moment.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

Courageous political leadership means telling an audience what they don't want to hear. Zack Polanski will never do that.

Or is it that I'm saying things the Telegraph doesn't want to hear?

I suggest they might want to avoid our Party Broadcast this evening!

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Breaking: over 3,000 people joined @greenparty.org.uk over conference weekend.

Membership now stands at over 86,000.

We’re just getting started.

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Renationalise the railways.
Cheaper tickets and a more reliable service.
Railways run for the passengers not the shareholders.

Buying train tickets shouldn’t be this hard. Price them exactly the same each day all day/ route and people will magically organise themselves to travel when they need to + around rush hour if they can.

It is really not that hard unless it is a scheme to make money.

If you catch trains this thread about trying to buy a super off-peak single is very relatable.

Love @carlafrancome.bsky.social’s determination to get a flexible affordable ticket, but it shouldn’t be this hard.

Co-Deputy Leaders' Speech - Rachel Millward & Mothin Ali at Green Party Conference 2025 YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

My two stand-out highlights of Green Party conference were @rachelmillward.bsky.social and @mothinali.bsky.social's Deputy Leaders' speeches. Grounded, emotional, and inspiring.

Well worth watching in full:
www.youtube.com/live/Nw1waIc...

#GPC25

As far as we know, the BBC didn't officially refused to interview @greenparty.org.uk leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social during conference - but leaving out our Jewish party leader in the week a terrorist murdered and terrorised Jewish people in his own city feels like a very deliberate editorial call

YouTube video by Novara Media 'Helping Fascist Farage Into Power is My Red Line' | Zack Polanski Interview

Final day of conference - and the energy has been amazing.

Our country is a mess. The world is in turmoil. We've got lots to do.

And we're ready.

youtu.be/tffONP7XErg?...

Thanks so much for the introduction @carolinerussell.bsky.social and for taking me under your wing so wholeheartedly ❤️

I was so glad to hear how much you loved the book. “Her Name Is Alice”
…no shade, getting the title wrong is a mistake even I have made!

Zack and Caroline Litman smiling and speaking together, Caroline offering Zack her book - busy with people in background looking in different directions in front of Green Party branding.

And so great to meet @alicemydaughter.bsky.social in person and introduce her to @zackpolanski.bsky.social so she could give him a copy of her book “Alice, my daughter” - which is brilliant, devastating and very well worth reading. #GPConf

Mothin speaking surrounded by photographers on stage at GP Conf.

Next up @mothinali.bsky.social who told us the leadership team is

Brave and unapologetic
Kind, but ready ready to show our teeth.

his dad wasn’t a tool maker, his dad made the steel that made the tools.
#GPConf

Rachel speaking surrounded by photographers against green branding on stage.

“beautiful, brilliant and ….dangerous”

@rachelmillward.bsky.social’s description of the Green Party

👏

Then she confirmed we have more members than the Liberal Democrats and

Shared that her dad taught her it is
“Good to pay tax as that’s how you get a good society”. #GPConf

Zack, Mothin and Rachel on the conference stage, holding yellow and red garlands surrounded by photographers leaning in. Green Party branding behind them.

Then spine tingling speeches from deputy leaders and new chief exec leaving us all emotional and filled with hope. #GPConf

I have an oral Q tabled for Mayor of London on Thursday about the impact of skilled worker visa changes on London’s transport workers, so super helpful to reconnect with Munya from @regulariseuk.bsky.social

Yesterday at #GPConf hostile environment fringe with @carladenyer.bsky.social @regulariseuk.bsky.social, @migrantvoice.bsky.social and @praxisprojects.bsky.social - challenge migration narratives, educate policy makers about migrant experience and urgent worries re skilled worker visa changes.

Important thread on the Attacks on Protest panel at #GPConf, highlighting the human cost as well as political impact of government policy.

And @kailajay.bsky.social spoke so brilliantly. A very emotional conference moment. 🏳️‍⚧️ 💚

#GPConf

Labour party response to Zacks speech. Guardian.com/livefeed

Rattled, much?

A speech about unity, community and cohesion.

About the 99% Vs the 1%.

I'm not surprised the Labour Party didn't quite get that....

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Two dozen people posing for a picture wearing 'elect the dolls' t shirts

Amazing show of solidarity for the LGBTQIA+ Greens at the first day of conference.

Elect the dolls!

Very clear and thoughtful from @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Can’t imagine how he is still stringing sentences together so coherently after the massive day of interviews and speeches at #GPConf

I’m about a third of the way back in a big and very packed hall in Bournemouth, where Zack Polanski is giving his first conference speech as Green leader. So far he is being received rapturously. It’s some way from the quite polite joint speeches of recent years.

People gathering around the panelists to hug them and thank them.

Thank you
@carolinelucas.bsky.social for chairing an intense and emotional panel with such compassion and care and for raising the importance of our commitment to non violent direct action.

Cole: The definition of what is legal protest shifts and changes depending on who is protesting about what.

Sukaina: the ways powers are used to silence dissent would be laughable if not so scary.

Asad: far right - big business are bank rolling far right. Vision of hope to counter hatred

Speaker from Defend our Juries. In front of green banner saying “attacks on protest”

Speaker from Defend our Juries (sorry didn’t catch her name) speaking with passion and absolute care about protecting the right to protest and dissent from our authoritarian government.

It is up to us what happens next. We can organise and resist fascism.

#GPConf

Cole Macdonald after delivering her speech. Looking resolute and slightly sad.

Cole Macdonald’s speech was devastating. Such bravery and clarity about the impact of over policing authoritarian government decisions. #GPConf

Now Cole Macdonald from Just Stop Oil arrested for spraying paint on private jets.

100s of JSO activists have been to prison. What comes next must be intersectional and inclusive.

Strong community bonds resist over-policing and racism.

Wherever there is resistance there is bravery.