Amy Clancy
@amyclancy.bsky.social
Comms for social justice │ Strategy, storytelling & design | Consultant @neweconomics.bsky.social & others │ Associate @Abundance-org.bsky.social │ Printmaker & Arts Advocate | Barcelona & NW England
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Amy Clancy
@amyclancy.bsky.social
· Oct 14
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🪧 Social justice & climate campaigners;
✏️ Creative comms folk; &
🙃 Funny anecdotes!
But the algorithm has other plans...
If you're here, please, say hi!
🪧 Social justice & climate campaigners;
✏️ Creative comms folk; &
🙃 Funny anecdotes!
But the algorithm has other plans...
If you're here, please, say hi!
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NEW EPISODE: Why the right wins online - and what the left need to learn
Why are right-wing influencers so successful? What does the left need to learn? What do we do when biggest platforms are owned by billionaires?
Ayeisha is joined by Dunya Kamal & @will-davies.bsky.social 1/2
Why are right-wing influencers so successful? What does the left need to learn? What do we do when biggest platforms are owned by billionaires?
Ayeisha is joined by Dunya Kamal & @will-davies.bsky.social 1/2
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
NEW EPISODE: Why the right wins online - and what the left need to learn
Why are right-wing influencers so successful? What does the left need to learn? What do we do when biggest platforms are owned by billionaires?
Ayeisha is joined by Dunya Kamal & @will-davies.bsky.social 1/2
Why are right-wing influencers so successful? What does the left need to learn? What do we do when biggest platforms are owned by billionaires?
Ayeisha is joined by Dunya Kamal & @will-davies.bsky.social 1/2
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On its 75th anniversary, here's a reminder:
The ECHR defends your rights to speak out, to live freely, to be treated fairly.
When politicians attack it, they’re attacking us.
We need to fight back
https://goodlawproject.org/nigel-farage-is-wrong-about-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/
The ECHR defends your rights to speak out, to live freely, to be treated fairly.
When politicians attack it, they’re attacking us.
We need to fight back
https://goodlawproject.org/nigel-farage-is-wrong-about-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/
Nigel Farage is wrong about the European Convention on Human Rights | Good Law Project
The Reform leader is unveiling legislation to leave the ECHR. His arguments are wrong – and that move would be a disaster.
goodlawproject.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
On its 75th anniversary, here's a reminder:
The ECHR defends your rights to speak out, to live freely, to be treated fairly.
When politicians attack it, they’re attacking us.
We need to fight back
https://goodlawproject.org/nigel-farage-is-wrong-about-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/
The ECHR defends your rights to speak out, to live freely, to be treated fairly.
When politicians attack it, they’re attacking us.
We need to fight back
https://goodlawproject.org/nigel-farage-is-wrong-about-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/
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Scotland’s offshore wind should power a fairer future - not just profits for distant shareholders.
The wind belongs to all of us. We should all have a stake in our energy future. 🧵
The wind belongs to all of us. We should all have a stake in our energy future. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Scotland’s offshore wind should power a fairer future - not just profits for distant shareholders.
The wind belongs to all of us. We should all have a stake in our energy future. 🧵
The wind belongs to all of us. We should all have a stake in our energy future. 🧵
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Don't trust the dodgy data saying wealthy people are fleeing the country because of higher taxes.
NEF chief exec @dhnnjyn.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk Cross Questions.
NEF chief exec @dhnnjyn.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk Cross Questions.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Don't trust the dodgy data saying wealthy people are fleeing the country because of higher taxes.
NEF chief exec @dhnnjyn.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk Cross Questions.
NEF chief exec @dhnnjyn.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk Cross Questions.
Now this is the kind of news I like waking up to! 🎉
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Now this is the kind of news I like waking up to! 🎉
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We used to own our essential services, like water, energy, and transport. Not anymore.
This week @kmilb.bsky.social, co-director of @abundance-org.bsky.social, joined the New Economics Podcast to talk Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic economy.
🎧 linktr.ee/neweconomics...
This week @kmilb.bsky.social, co-director of @abundance-org.bsky.social, joined the New Economics Podcast to talk Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic economy.
🎧 linktr.ee/neweconomics...
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We used to own our essential services, like water, energy, and transport. Not anymore.
This week @kmilb.bsky.social, co-director of @abundance-org.bsky.social, joined the New Economics Podcast to talk Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic economy.
🎧 linktr.ee/neweconomics...
This week @kmilb.bsky.social, co-director of @abundance-org.bsky.social, joined the New Economics Podcast to talk Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic economy.
🎧 linktr.ee/neweconomics...
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Orkney Council has confirmed all profits from its new wind farm will go into local services - wealth will circulate locally, not flow to distant shareholders.
It's a glimpse of what community benefit from renewables can look like. But how typical is this?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It's a glimpse of what community benefit from renewables can look like. But how typical is this?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Much fairer’: all profits from new Orkney windfarm to benefit locals
Construction due to begin in 2027 on what is expected to become UK’s largest publicly owned windfarm
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Orkney Council has confirmed all profits from its new wind farm will go into local services - wealth will circulate locally, not flow to distant shareholders.
It's a glimpse of what community benefit from renewables can look like. But how typical is this?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It's a glimpse of what community benefit from renewables can look like. But how typical is this?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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🏴 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🏴 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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🚨 NEW: We’ve been told for years that private finance will fix Scotland’s nature crisis. Our new research shows why it won’t – and sets out a bold public-led alternative.
Highlights in 🧵
Read full report 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
Highlights in 🧵
Read full report 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
October 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🚨 NEW: We’ve been told for years that private finance will fix Scotland’s nature crisis. Our new research shows why it won’t – and sets out a bold public-led alternative.
Highlights in 🧵
Read full report 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
Highlights in 🧵
Read full report 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
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“In a new report, Future Economy Scotland said relying on investors such as banks, pension funds and asset managers was wasteful and counterproductive.”
Our report on why private finance won’t fix the nature crisis is covered in @theguardian.com 👇
Our report on why private finance won’t fix the nature crisis is covered in @theguardian.com 👇
NatureScot may raise ‘more than £100m’ in private investment for conservation
Investors in talks about supporting up to 15 government-backed nature restoration projects in Scotland
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
“In a new report, Future Economy Scotland said relying on investors such as banks, pension funds and asset managers was wasteful and counterproductive.”
Our report on why private finance won’t fix the nature crisis is covered in @theguardian.com 👇
Our report on why private finance won’t fix the nature crisis is covered in @theguardian.com 👇
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Yesterday, Rachel Reeves spoke of the choices facing the UK at the next Westminster election.
But Scotland’s choices come sooner - with the Holyrood election in May 2026.
We've set out 11 priorities for a fairer, more resilient Scotland. Now it’s up to the parties to take note.
But Scotland’s choices come sooner - with the Holyrood election in May 2026.
We've set out 11 priorities for a fairer, more resilient Scotland. Now it’s up to the parties to take note.
September 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Yesterday, Rachel Reeves spoke of the choices facing the UK at the next Westminster election.
But Scotland’s choices come sooner - with the Holyrood election in May 2026.
We've set out 11 priorities for a fairer, more resilient Scotland. Now it’s up to the parties to take note.
But Scotland’s choices come sooner - with the Holyrood election in May 2026.
We've set out 11 priorities for a fairer, more resilient Scotland. Now it’s up to the parties to take note.
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The only people who benefitted from PFI were the private companies that made billions in profit from public money, while the public sector faced extraordinary bills, hospitals in special measures and mothballed schools. 1/2
Fears of new PFI-style ‘disaster’ as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics
Fears of new PFI-style ‘disaster’ as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics
Exclusive: Consultants and lawyers hired to advise on using public-private partnerships to build ‘neighbourhood health centres’ in England
Ministers have handed firms £6m in contracts to help devise plans to build a network of new NHS clinics using private capital, despite fears the move could turn into a PFI-style disaster.
The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded contracts worth £3m each to the management consultants Deloitte and the lawyers Addleshaw Goddard. They are advising the DHSC on whether to use public-private partnerships (PPPs) to help build dozens of the promised “neighbourhood health centres” in England. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The only people who benefitted from PFI were the private companies that made billions in profit from public money, while the public sector faced extraordinary bills, hospitals in special measures and mothballed schools. 1/2
🍓📙🚀 Standing room only at tonight's sell-out book launch!
Grab a copy of the book and a ticket for events in Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Norwich and Sheffield while you can 👇
🍓 www.in-abundance.org/latest/radic...
Grab a copy of the book and a ticket for events in Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Norwich and Sheffield while you can 👇
🍓 www.in-abundance.org/latest/radic...
TOMORROW is the launch of Radical Abundance: How to win a Green Democratic Future.
A new book by our co-directors @bertrussell.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social & kaiheron.bsky.social, published by @plutopress.bsky.social.
Tickets are gone, but we've a waitlist: www.in-abundance.org/latest/book-...
A new book by our co-directors @bertrussell.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social & kaiheron.bsky.social, published by @plutopress.bsky.social.
Tickets are gone, but we've a waitlist: www.in-abundance.org/latest/book-...
September 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🍓📙🚀 Standing room only at tonight's sell-out book launch!
Grab a copy of the book and a ticket for events in Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Norwich and Sheffield while you can 👇
🍓 www.in-abundance.org/latest/radic...
Grab a copy of the book and a ticket for events in Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Norwich and Sheffield while you can 👇
🍓 www.in-abundance.org/latest/radic...
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Episode one of the latest series of the New Economics podcast is out now!
@faizashaheen.bsky.social and @alchap.bsky.social join Ayeisha Thomas-Smith to discuss where it's all gone wrong for Labour and why so many people are turning to Reform?
@faizashaheen.bsky.social and @alchap.bsky.social join Ayeisha Thomas-Smith to discuss where it's all gone wrong for Labour and why so many people are turning to Reform?
September 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Episode one of the latest series of the New Economics podcast is out now!
@faizashaheen.bsky.social and @alchap.bsky.social join Ayeisha Thomas-Smith to discuss where it's all gone wrong for Labour and why so many people are turning to Reform?
@faizashaheen.bsky.social and @alchap.bsky.social join Ayeisha Thomas-Smith to discuss where it's all gone wrong for Labour and why so many people are turning to Reform?
Fantastic opportunity to join NEF's brilliant economy and environment team!
✨OPPORTUNITY: Researcher (Environment & Net Zero)
🕐 Full-time (32hr week)
📍 London-based (hybrid)
🪙 £42,868 - £45,850
🗓️ DL: 28 Sept 2025
Do you want to shape bold, evidence-based environmental policy and drive systemic change?
Apply now👇
neweconomics.org/about/work-w...
🕐 Full-time (32hr week)
📍 London-based (hybrid)
🪙 £42,868 - £45,850
🗓️ DL: 28 Sept 2025
Do you want to shape bold, evidence-based environmental policy and drive systemic change?
Apply now👇
neweconomics.org/about/work-w...
September 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Fantastic opportunity to join NEF's brilliant economy and environment team!
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NEW: Scotland is at a crossroads of crises. The 2026 election must be a turning point towards transformative action.
Our new briefing sets out 11 bold, practical ideas to tackle the country’s biggest challenges.
It’s time to move beyond business-as-usual 👇
Our new briefing sets out 11 bold, practical ideas to tackle the country’s biggest challenges.
It’s time to move beyond business-as-usual 👇
August 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
NEW: Scotland is at a crossroads of crises. The 2026 election must be a turning point towards transformative action.
Our new briefing sets out 11 bold, practical ideas to tackle the country’s biggest challenges.
It’s time to move beyond business-as-usual 👇
Our new briefing sets out 11 bold, practical ideas to tackle the country’s biggest challenges.
It’s time to move beyond business-as-usual 👇
[Your salary]* x 122 = Average CEO pay.
That’s not talent, that’s inequality baked into the system with a cherry on top.
* Average full-time worker
That’s not talent, that’s inequality baked into the system with a cherry on top.
* Average full-time worker
New figures from the @highpaycentre.bsky.social reveal a third successive record year for CEO pay while the rest of us struggle. Our huge inequality of income means this is 122 times more than the median full-time worker's salary.
August 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
[Your salary]* x 122 = Average CEO pay.
That’s not talent, that’s inequality baked into the system with a cherry on top.
* Average full-time worker
That’s not talent, that’s inequality baked into the system with a cherry on top.
* Average full-time worker
We must protect the right to dissent, not criminalise it.
NEF's Chief Executive @dhnnjyn.bsky.social on the arrests during the national march for Palestine that took place in London, last weekend.
NEF's Chief Executive @dhnnjyn.bsky.social on the arrests during the national march for Palestine that took place in London, last weekend.
Protecting civic freedoms is essential to protecting democracy. It feels hugely disproportionate to treat peaceful protesters as terrorists. Our view on the weekend's arrests.
August 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We must protect the right to dissent, not criminalise it.
NEF's Chief Executive @dhnnjyn.bsky.social on the arrests during the national march for Palestine that took place in London, last weekend.
NEF's Chief Executive @dhnnjyn.bsky.social on the arrests during the national march for Palestine that took place in London, last weekend.
I was on Syros last week. A quiet, lesser-known Greek island.
It seems even the quietest places know when silence becomes complicity, and when simple actions can speak volumes.
It seems even the quietest places know when silence becomes complicity, and when simple actions can speak volumes.
July 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I was on Syros last week. A quiet, lesser-known Greek island.
It seems even the quietest places know when silence becomes complicity, and when simple actions can speak volumes.
It seems even the quietest places know when silence becomes complicity, and when simple actions can speak volumes.
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🏠 Scotland’s rents have surged by 32 % since May 2020.
This means tenants are paying an average of £245 more per month - in a cost-of-living crisis.
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This means tenants are paying an average of £245 more per month - in a cost-of-living crisis.
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June 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🏠 Scotland’s rents have surged by 32 % since May 2020.
This means tenants are paying an average of £245 more per month - in a cost-of-living crisis.
🧵
This means tenants are paying an average of £245 more per month - in a cost-of-living crisis.
🧵
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Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future, by our founding co-directors @bertrussell.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social, and @kaiheron.bsky.social.
Release date: 20 September 2025.
Available to pre-order now from @plutopress.bsky.social (via link below).
in-abundance.org/latest/new-b...
Release date: 20 September 2025.
Available to pre-order now from @plutopress.bsky.social (via link below).
in-abundance.org/latest/new-b...
Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future (available to preorder)
Jun 25, 2025
in-abundance.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future, by our founding co-directors @bertrussell.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social, and @kaiheron.bsky.social.
Release date: 20 September 2025.
Available to pre-order now from @plutopress.bsky.social (via link below).
in-abundance.org/latest/new-b...
Release date: 20 September 2025.
Available to pre-order now from @plutopress.bsky.social (via link below).
in-abundance.org/latest/new-b...
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"Rivers of sewage, mountains of debt, and the danger of repeating past mistakes"
In our new blog, @bertrussell.bsky.social and @kmilb.bsky.social set out why, to truly serve the public, Thames Water must be brought under social control.
📖 Read Beyond Bailouts: www.in-abundance.org/latest/beyon...
In our new blog, @bertrussell.bsky.social and @kmilb.bsky.social set out why, to truly serve the public, Thames Water must be brought under social control.
📖 Read Beyond Bailouts: www.in-abundance.org/latest/beyon...
June 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
"Rivers of sewage, mountains of debt, and the danger of repeating past mistakes"
In our new blog, @bertrussell.bsky.social and @kmilb.bsky.social set out why, to truly serve the public, Thames Water must be brought under social control.
📖 Read Beyond Bailouts: www.in-abundance.org/latest/beyon...
In our new blog, @bertrussell.bsky.social and @kmilb.bsky.social set out why, to truly serve the public, Thames Water must be brought under social control.
📖 Read Beyond Bailouts: www.in-abundance.org/latest/beyon...
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The #SpendingReview may appear 'fiscally prudent', but it’s taking place in an era of uncontrolled billionaire wealth. This @equalitytrust.bsky.social report equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas... underlines how wealth is a profound societal issue that demands both moral and policy attention.
June 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The #SpendingReview may appear 'fiscally prudent', but it’s taking place in an era of uncontrolled billionaire wealth. This @equalitytrust.bsky.social report equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas... underlines how wealth is a profound societal issue that demands both moral and policy attention.
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"New Labour took 14 years and billions of pounds worth of policies to lift half a million children out of poverty.
Keir Starmer could do the same overnight with one policy costing just a fraction of that."
NEF's @maxmosley.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk calling for removal of the two-child benefit cap.
Keir Starmer could do the same overnight with one policy costing just a fraction of that."
NEF's @maxmosley.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk calling for removal of the two-child benefit cap.
May 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"New Labour took 14 years and billions of pounds worth of policies to lift half a million children out of poverty.
Keir Starmer could do the same overnight with one policy costing just a fraction of that."
NEF's @maxmosley.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk calling for removal of the two-child benefit cap.
Keir Starmer could do the same overnight with one policy costing just a fraction of that."
NEF's @maxmosley.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk calling for removal of the two-child benefit cap.