Danny Chivers
@dannychivers.bsky.social
Freelance writer, carbon analyst and climate action flag-waver. Trying to mainly post useful and hopeful things. He/him.
Some wise words from Adam here. The Greens have a real shot in this by-election but canvassers may be missing a trick if they aren’t explaining to voters how a Green victory will shake up Westminster for the better, rather than just saying “vote for us to beat Reform”. I hope they’re doing both!
For Greens to win in Gorton and Denton, they must rage against the political machine. Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/for-the-gr...
'For The Greens to Win, They Must Rage Against the Political Machine'
Green Party member Adam Ramsay argues that the Greens need to prove to voters that they are a better way to shake up Westminster than the pseudo-radicals of Reform
www.bylinesupplement.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Some wise words from Adam here. The Greens have a real shot in this by-election but canvassers may be missing a trick if they aren’t explaining to voters how a Green victory will shake up Westminster for the better, rather than just saying “vote for us to beat Reform”. I hope they’re doing both!
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For Greens to win in Gorton and Denton, they must rage against the political machine. Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/for-the-gr...
'For The Greens to Win, They Must Rage Against the Political Machine'
Green Party member Adam Ramsay argues that the Greens need to prove to voters that they are a better way to shake up Westminster than the pseudo-radicals of Reform
www.bylinesupplement.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:24 PM
For Greens to win in Gorton and Denton, they must rage against the political machine. Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/for-the-gr...
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NEW: Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK, shocking the many people who were sure that she had already.
January 26, 2026 at 12:20 PM
NEW: Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK, shocking the many people who were sure that she had already.
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By 2029, @zackpolanski.bsky.social is gonna be doing backflips off multistorey car parks while railing against billionaires in iambic pentameter
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 8:50 PM
By 2029, @zackpolanski.bsky.social is gonna be doing backflips off multistorey car parks while railing against billionaires in iambic pentameter
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It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot
There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
I interviewed Harjeet for @newint.bsky.social last year, about how countries of the Global North need to do more to support the South’s energy transition. Awful to see this kind of sensible policy advocacy targeted by the state. Solidarity with Harjeet and his colleagues. newint.org/energy/2025/...
January 12, 2026 at 11:05 AM
I interviewed Harjeet for @newint.bsky.social last year, about how countries of the Global North need to do more to support the South’s energy transition. Awful to see this kind of sensible policy advocacy targeted by the state. Solidarity with Harjeet and his colleagues. newint.org/energy/2025/...
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I am so so delighted that Cllr Ed Mundy has joined the Green Party.
This takes us up to 9 councillors at Oxford City Council.
Ed is a hugely experienced and principled councillor who will be a huge asset to @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
Welcome Ed!
This takes us up to 9 councillors at Oxford City Council.
Ed is a hugely experienced and principled councillor who will be a huge asset to @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
Welcome Ed!
🚨Former Labour Councillor Ed Mundy has defected to the Oxford @greenparty.org.uk
January 12, 2026 at 8:36 AM
I am so so delighted that Cllr Ed Mundy has joined the Green Party.
This takes us up to 9 councillors at Oxford City Council.
Ed is a hugely experienced and principled councillor who will be a huge asset to @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
Welcome Ed!
This takes us up to 9 councillors at Oxford City Council.
Ed is a hugely experienced and principled councillor who will be a huge asset to @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
Welcome Ed!
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At a church in Minneapolis that is hosting an anti-ICE singing vigil, which will later process through the neighborhood.
They sing: “This is for our neighbors who are locked inside, together we will abolish ICE.”
They sing: “This is for our neighbors who are locked inside, together we will abolish ICE.”
January 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
At a church in Minneapolis that is hosting an anti-ICE singing vigil, which will later process through the neighborhood.
They sing: “This is for our neighbors who are locked inside, together we will abolish ICE.”
They sing: “This is for our neighbors who are locked inside, together we will abolish ICE.”
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I’ve heard from campaigners in a couple of recent council by-elections here in Cardiff that they’re finding surprising numbers of people wavering between Green and Reform. They’re obviously and rightly angry at the status quo. Time to offer them ambition and hope, not fear and despair.
Great to do this long form interview with @skynewsrss.bsky.social
We're engaging with Reform voters because they're fed up with the system - and right to be.
But instead of more division, we need to invest in communities and stop the super rich screwing us over.
youtu.be/MuRccrQ0D88?...
We're engaging with Reform voters because they're fed up with the system - and right to be.
But instead of more division, we need to invest in communities and stop the super rich screwing us over.
youtu.be/MuRccrQ0D88?...
The Rise of Zack Polanski: Inside the Green Party’s transformation
YouTube video by Sky News
youtu.be
January 9, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I’ve heard from campaigners in a couple of recent council by-elections here in Cardiff that they’re finding surprising numbers of people wavering between Green and Reform. They’re obviously and rightly angry at the status quo. Time to offer them ambition and hope, not fear and despair.
I spent a lot of time in 2025 working towards this - so happy that the money is secured and the installation work will (everything crossed) start soon! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this effort, it’s such a well-used building and these improvements should make a real difference.
Florence Park Community Centre will be cosier on cold days after volunteers won a £35,000 grant for new insulation, draught-proofing, and replacement ceiling tiles. Solar panels will be installed on flat sections of the roof and electricity-saving insulation installed in the beer chiller room.
January 5, 2026 at 10:08 AM
I spent a lot of time in 2025 working towards this - so happy that the money is secured and the installation work will (everything crossed) start soon! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this effort, it’s such a well-used building and these improvements should make a real difference.
One of the hardest things to gain in progressive politics is attention. I think the Greens might have cracked the code…
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
One of the hardest things to gain in progressive politics is attention. I think the Greens might have cracked the code…
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Alarmed to hear Rachel Reeves talking about "selling government assets we no longer have any use for"
Look at everything that's been stolen from YOU since 2010 👇👇👇
*We need MORE publicly owned assets not fewer* to "break the cycle of austerity" #Budget2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN4...
Look at everything that's been stolen from YOU since 2010 👇👇👇
*We need MORE publicly owned assets not fewer* to "break the cycle of austerity" #Budget2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN4...
The truth about what 14 years of CUTS looks like
YouTube video by We Own It
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Alarmed to hear Rachel Reeves talking about "selling government assets we no longer have any use for"
Look at everything that's been stolen from YOU since 2010 👇👇👇
*We need MORE publicly owned assets not fewer* to "break the cycle of austerity" #Budget2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN4...
Look at everything that's been stolen from YOU since 2010 👇👇👇
*We need MORE publicly owned assets not fewer* to "break the cycle of austerity" #Budget2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN4...
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it's so good to hear a british politician on the main bbc news platforms actually saying this stuff though. like we just got used to it not happening for years
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
it's so good to hear a british politician on the main bbc news platforms actually saying this stuff though. like we just got used to it not happening for years
My latest column in NI: resistance to fossil fuels is very much alive!
Africa Shows the Way
💪🏿 Coordinated protests against fossil fuels in 10+ countries
☀️ 20 African countries set new solar power records
+🔵 Pacific islanders' long campaign leads to ICJ ruling
Read 'Temperature Check' @dannychivers.bsky.social regular climate action column for New Internationalist:
💪🏿 Coordinated protests against fossil fuels in 10+ countries
☀️ 20 African countries set new solar power records
+🔵 Pacific islanders' long campaign leads to ICJ ruling
Read 'Temperature Check' @dannychivers.bsky.social regular climate action column for New Internationalist:
Temperature check: Power to the planet
From court rooms to solar panels, Danny Chivers gives us a round-up of global climate action.
newint.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My latest column in NI: resistance to fossil fuels is very much alive!
Love the Clarion.
Hello bluesky! Are you thinking about heading home on your commute? Here are 12 easy hacks to beat the Congestion Charge. Don't forget to share!
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Twelve easy hacks to beat Oxford’s congestion charge
Don't want to pay? We got you. Here's the tea on how you can avoid the congestion charge entirely, and still visit all your favourite places in the city centre. Here's the official website, but our ha...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Love the Clarion.
Looking forward to seeing more data on this, but it sounds promising!
Buses are getting around Oxford faster as a result of the congestion charge, according to Oxford Bus Company. MD Luke Marion said “We’ve already seen encouraging improvements to traffic flow and bus journey times in the scheme’s first week.”
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Looking forward to seeing more data on this, but it sounds promising!
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.
Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
October 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.
Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
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Excited that the Oxford Congestion Charge means that the 3/3A will now run to the station!! Amongst a whole host of other bus improvements.
Oxford Bus Co has announced more frequent bus services from November to coincide with the congestion charge coming into effect. The improvements mean Blackbird Leys and Cowley will have services to the city centre every 10 minutes, while Iffley Road gets a new night bus.
October 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Excited that the Oxford Congestion Charge means that the 3/3A will now run to the station!! Amongst a whole host of other bus improvements.
More of this sort of thing please.
September 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
More of this sort of thing please.
Genuinely refreshing to hear a politician say these things.
No other party says the basic truth: migration is good for Britain.
The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services.
That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.
The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services.
That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.
September 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Genuinely refreshing to hear a politician say these things.
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"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress