Catherine Read

‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub With polls and membership at an all-time high, the Green party are having a moment – and it’s largely down to their charismatic (if slightly cheesy) new leader. Can he really pull off a socialist revo...

Want to know more about the leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social?
He oozes positivity, is thoughtful kind and fun, but not afraid to challenge an unfair status quo that only benefits the rich and powerful.
#HopeisHere
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Appointed” is that democratic?
Doesn’t live in Wales!
Good grief, what a shambles.
#VoteGreen

It’s easy being Green 💚
join.greenparty.org.uk

Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency Exclusive: Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gapin...

'Thiel has been publicly supportive of authoritarian government' he “no longer think[s] that freedom and democracy are compatible”
Is this really who we want to share our data with?
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Palantir and how its infiltrated our NHS and MOD.
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore

It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

Links everywhere of an elite and powerful gentlemen’s club seeking to destabilise democracy, making us all poorer and subservient to these extremely wealthy and greedy individuals.
Bannon, Trump, Farage, Epstein
#TaxWealth
#ExtremeWealthCorrupts
#BrexitDisaster

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Epstein files shed more light on Steve Bannon’s efforts to influence European politics Donald Trump’s former adviser told Epstein in 2019 that he was ‘focused on raising money for Le Pen and Salvini’ before European elections

“the issue was not Epstein’s files per se but the questions the messages raise about powerful foreign influences and the networks aimed at weakening Europe”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Polanski said Palantir “has absolutely no place in the NHS, looking after patients’ personal data … I understand there is a break clause in the contract this year and I would urge you not to renew the contract of such a disreputable corporation”

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I have thought of this quote a lot and shared it with lots of people. Helped me point out how car brained we have been guided to be: we have assumed it is a right to have a car wherever we want and gov should help us store it? Wrong. City spaces are meant for people not cars :)

Peter Mandelson is fleeing the House of Lords: now let’s throw out all the other rogues and idlers | Jenny Jones The disgraced politician throws all that is wrong with our present system into sharp focus. We need a second chamber the public can trust, says Jenny Jones, a Green party peer

@greenjennyjones.bsky.social reflects on the downside of patronage in the upper house and how “it would be better still to tear up the system and rebuild it in a more democratic way”
#Democracy

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If Reform ever wins power in Westminster, it will be because of Labour’s cowardice | George Monbiot Starmer could improve our unfair electoral system to stop the hard right, but he won’t. All the party has left are threats about ‘splitting the vote’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The splitting-the-vote argument is not a result of the system. It is the point of the system.
#MakeVotesMatter
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The legal age for riding a EAPC is 14yrs. This collision was avoidable and unnecessary by abiding by the law. I so hope the Mother and child recover well.

The incarceration of people for months and years without trial for offences that are in essence political has no place in a democracy like ours.

And in case it needed saying Greens oppose BOTH the increasing criminalisation of protest AND the removal of jury trials!

It’s very loud in Kyiv.
russia is attacking us with ballistic missiles.

Let the world know.

‘It sounds apocalyptic’: experts warn of impact of UK floods on birds, butterflies and dormice Events such as Storm Chandra take a terrible toll on ecosystems, but nature can be part of the solution for mitigating flood waters

“restoring wetlands and the natural flow of rivers, along with continuing the reintroduction of ecosystem engineers such as beavers, will help” to reduce flooding. Beavers do all this for free.
#ProtectNature
🦫🦋🐦‍⬛

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‘It’s ridiculous’: publicans bemused by rise of single-file queues to get served Bar owners say they struggle to dissuade people from forming a line as behavioural experts point to post-pandemic ‘new norms’

I am always overlooked at a bar and it’s really annoying that other customers walk up and get served straight away! Really, it is not fair customer service. Table service would be my preferred option.

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Not sure of the tone in your responce. I am trying to encourage a more climate friendly way of living to those who might not even consider it.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

Wondering why I am so angry and vocal about the UK Govt building a toolkit for tyrants?

In the USA, ICE agents took facial rec for tracking ‘non-citizens’ (so grim in itself!) and then immediately used it to build themselves a database of human rights protestors. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

The rise of ‘beef days’: why even meat lovers are cutting back Inspired by YouTube creators, some people are limiting beef to a handful of ‘feast days’ a year to cut their climate impact

Great idea. Eating cows on only 4 days a year. Make it special, if you need too.
Better still, expand that to dairy because there are loads of alternatives that have a smaller climate footprint.

www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ja...

Action and delivery are what is needed. When homes flood we need defences. When suffering heat exhaustion we need medical care and cool spaces. We don’t get action without convincing those in power to do it, and that’s the problem. Working out what works for whom. If only facts and logic prevailed.

‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk As rivers swell and homes are cut off, scientists say UK winter rainfall is already 20 years ahead of predictions

“The scale of investment remains insufficient relative to overall flood risk”
The government needs to up its game and fund adaptation and flood defence schemes for people’s homes.
#ClimateEmergency
🌊🛟⛑️

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‘It’s like a gift from God’: undocumented foreign workers welcome Spanish amnesty Half a million migrants will be ‘regularised’ under plans to boost economic growth that have angered rightwing parties

The positives of regularising immigrants “tax revenues increased by about €4,000 per regularised immigrant a year”
Welcoming those who want to work is a good thing, it avoids cheap labour & brings in tax revenues. Everyone gets a better life.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Optimist, but would like to see fossil fuels shrink more quickly.

Pessimist.

Optimist here.

Here, I would be a pessimist.

Great thread. Do you read the following graphs as an optimist or pessimist?

Reform UK council chair resigns after ‘illegally renting out unsafe properties’ Council said Edward Harris’s properties ‘failed to meet even most basic of living standards and legal requirements’

Reform just do not care about ordinary people. Why would you vote for someone who knowing kept his tenants from having hot water for 2 yrs?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

“wealth is concentrated in a few hands and everyone else is struggling”
#WealthTax
Share the wealth, eradicate poverty.

Well that’s pretty conclusive . The vast majority do not have a problem with trans people and are happy for them to use the gender facilities which are most appropriate for them. As it should be.
#TransInclusive 🏳️‍⚧️