Phil Groom

Power to the parish: can community ownership successfully scale up? The UK government has hopes of doubling the size of the co-operative sector, evolving the model beyond post offices and pubs to brownfield sites and storied estates

"Community ownership under a CBS... is increasingly being embraced by fired-up groups to buy land and take it out of the speculative developer market."

Thanks, much appreciated 💚

Eh up me ducks: just realised I missed the last one on that list — self-control. Every bit as important as the rest!

I'm not on here too much these days, things have been a little busy 👀🤭

But the love and support I'm feeling on here is incredible. Being a woman, in politics, online is often utterly grim.

So thank you to everyone who has my back. It means the world 💚

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE TODAY WE CELEBRATE LGBT+ MONTH, RIGHTS, AND CULTURE Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Today, and every day, the Green Party stands with LGBTIQA+ people 💚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#MorningPrayer
Guide us, Lord Jesus,
as we build your Church
on the foundation
you have laid;
may our life together
witness to your love,
our relationships
witness to your grace,
our priorities
witness to your love,
and our mission be
the revealing
of your kingdom
and your glory.

Thanks for this, very helpful, now following most of the list 💚💚💚 — any chance of adding me, please?

“the first Green MP from Manchester would be transformative”

Whatever Farage and his ilk tell you, this is not—repeat NOT—Christianity. Christianity is the Way of Christ, the way of “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness and humility” as one of Jesus’ early followers expressed it. The way of Farage’s Reform is the polar opposite.

go.bsky.app/RF64nqH

Every journalist needs to ask Nigel Farage why he will not debate Zack Polanski

Hundreds of volunteers hitting the streets this morning in Gorton and Denton.

Lower bills, tax the super-rich- hope will win.

Only the Greens can stop Reform in this by-election.

#HopeNotHate 💚
#VoteGreen ✅

Zack laughing

That feeling when you know you're going to spend your Saturday helping Hannah Spencer take on Reform.

Join us - Saturday!

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#MorningPrayer
When we fall
from your way, Lord Jesus,
give us the confidence
to open ourselves to you,
to turn to you in penitence and faith,
facing not condemnation
but the love by which
you came to save us,
the healing by which
you renew and restore us,
and set us right again.

The South West Coast Path 💨🌧 Storms hit the South West Coast Path 🌧💨 January has been relentless – three named storms in quick succession have hit our coastline affecting communities, infrastructure, and the natural...

Want to help save the #SouthWestCoastPath?
Donate here ⬇️

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Photo: #MikeNewman on the South West Coast Path Facebook page (alt: massive waves crashing against Penzance promenade during recent storms)

Instead of supporting them, however, he chooses to ask us to pay HIM £3.99 per month to deprive them of their audience.

Here’s a better way, people: if you’re tempted by Zuckerberg’s offer, think again and donate your £3.99 per month to one of the charities whose ads he wants to save you from.

Screenshot of Bloomberg’s billionaires index showing Mark Zuckerberg ranked at no.5 in the top ten richest men in the world, net worth $236B

Here’s what bugs me most about #FacebookAds: most ads in my feed are from charities, charities having to PAY a multibillionaire (I’m looking at you, #Zuckerberg) for their ads when that multibillionaire could, if he so chose, support almost ALL of them without even noticing it in his bank balance ⬇️

In #GortonAndDenton? Here’s your candidate ✅
Choose hope, not hate: vote #HannahSpencer 💚

‘The spiritual senses tradition saw that God self-discloses in a manner different than the world does to us through our five physical senses,’ says Paul Dominiak, on our latest DLT Writing for You newsletter.

Plus, all the latest news and upcoming books from DLT.

dlted.substack.com/i/186215340/...

Only 20?? You’d expect more, given who they’re working for…
#DumpTrump

Prices do go down, actually… but only back down to what they were before they went up, and they try to sell that to you in smaller packs as a special offer for a limited period 😕

(I’ve been there too: 5 years on the night shift at Sainsbury’s)

Quick, everyone: get vaccinated!! 🙌

Congratulations to Hannah Spencer, our new candidate for Gorton and Denton @greenpartyhan.bsky.social

Brilliant launch speech here on Manchester Evening News (of course!) @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

www.youtube.com/live/odbCx0e...

Make Green Candidate Hannah Spencer the new MP for Gorton & Denton.

Not owned by GB News, a free working woman, not a landlord, not a millionaire, just someone free to vote for whatever she wants.

There are no other candidates, just puppets.

We’re delighted to announce the appointment of The Revd Neil Traynor as Salisbury Cathedral’s new Canon Treasurer.

Neil joins us from the Holland Park Benefice in London and will be installed at Evensong on 27 April.

Read more: www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/new-canon-tr...

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Screenshot of Bloomberg’s billionaires index showing Mark Zuckerberg at No.5, net worth $226B

Imagine being so obscenely rich that you could give away $1m every day for the rest of your life & still be one of the richest people in the world, but instead, you think to yourself, “Everyone hates the ads on my platform so I’ll offer it ad-free for £3.99 a month.” That’s #MarkZuckerberg for you ⬇️

Why? Because it isn’t a board of peace, it’s a political game to legitimise war. If the USA wants peace, it needs to #DumpTrump
#MAGA: Make America Go Away

The Voice of Hind Rajab | Official Website | 16 January 2026 Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for The Voice of Hind Rajab on the official site. In cinemas 16 January 2026 brought to you by Altitude Film. Directed by: Kaouther Ben Hania. Starrin...

Saw The Voice of Hind Rajab last night and I'm still in pieces
It's almost too painful to watch but you must go to see it if you get a chance
There is a concerted Israeli led push to stop it winning the Oscar it's been nominated for, which it certainly deserves
uk.thevoiceofhindrajabfilm.com/home/