Rachel 🇵🇸
@lovebillybragg.bsky.social
'The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are' (Jung) Chair @mhtimeforaction Fully occupied mother of 3 adorables Peer Supported Open Dialogue (POD) Practitioner
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If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....
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The establishment is rattled. Great work 👏
HUGE congrats to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ✊
Let's change the world 🔥
HUGE congrats to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ✊
Let's change the world 🔥
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The establishment is rattled. Great work 👏
HUGE congrats to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ✊
Let's change the world 🔥
HUGE congrats to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ✊
Let's change the world 🔥
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"hard left disruptors."
Or just give a crap about people?
And want things to be affordable.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Or just give a crap about people?
And want things to be affordable.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"hard left disruptors."
Or just give a crap about people?
And want things to be affordable.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Or just give a crap about people?
And want things to be affordable.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Zine-making as a tool for Collective Intelligence
We've been using creative, participatory methods for gathering insights, zine-making.
Authentic voices that speak to what open, collaborative research feels like as much as what it means.
#OpenResearch #PublicEngagement #ResearchCulture #Zines
We've been using creative, participatory methods for gathering insights, zine-making.
Authentic voices that speak to what open, collaborative research feels like as much as what it means.
#OpenResearch #PublicEngagement #ResearchCulture #Zines
November 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Zine-making as a tool for Collective Intelligence
We've been using creative, participatory methods for gathering insights, zine-making.
Authentic voices that speak to what open, collaborative research feels like as much as what it means.
#OpenResearch #PublicEngagement #ResearchCulture #Zines
We've been using creative, participatory methods for gathering insights, zine-making.
Authentic voices that speak to what open, collaborative research feels like as much as what it means.
#OpenResearch #PublicEngagement #ResearchCulture #Zines
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Bet365 CEO Denise Coates paid herself £277,000,000 this year, and £410,000,000 in 2020.
This was more than 20,000x the Minimum Wage that she paid most of her workers.
The betting industry needs to be taxed, heavily.
This was more than 20,000x the Minimum Wage that she paid most of her workers.
The betting industry needs to be taxed, heavily.
October 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Bet365 CEO Denise Coates paid herself £277,000,000 this year, and £410,000,000 in 2020.
This was more than 20,000x the Minimum Wage that she paid most of her workers.
The betting industry needs to be taxed, heavily.
This was more than 20,000x the Minimum Wage that she paid most of her workers.
The betting industry needs to be taxed, heavily.
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Our movement knows & believes in our collective power.
110,000+ people across England and Wales getting involved in our communities to do politics differently.
A politics of community to build a country we can all afford to live in.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
110,000+ people across England and Wales getting involved in our communities to do politics differently.
A politics of community to build a country we can all afford to live in.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
October 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Our movement knows & believes in our collective power.
110,000+ people across England and Wales getting involved in our communities to do politics differently.
A politics of community to build a country we can all afford to live in.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
110,000+ people across England and Wales getting involved in our communities to do politics differently.
A politics of community to build a country we can all afford to live in.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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If you are having trouble absorbing the magnitude of what 2,000 patient deaths means, this picture is a crowd of 1,000. Double this many people died whilst under the care of Essex Partnership Trust, though Baroness Lampard acknowledged the true number harmed is under reported. #StopOxevision
October 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
If you are having trouble absorbing the magnitude of what 2,000 patient deaths means, this picture is a crowd of 1,000. Double this many people died whilst under the care of Essex Partnership Trust, though Baroness Lampard acknowledged the true number harmed is under reported. #StopOxevision
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Please read our paper out now about the resistance, repurposing and reimagining of oppressive mental health technologies, such as Oxevision (now LIO), used on us against our will. And how we must dream them differently.
Our paper - ‘Towards a Mad Technoscience: revealing, repurposing, and reimagining carceral mental health technologies’ is out now (limited access here) bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
August 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Please read our paper out now about the resistance, repurposing and reimagining of oppressive mental health technologies, such as Oxevision (now LIO), used on us against our will. And how we must dream them differently.
Please have a look at our new project Open Dialogue in Schools and Communities (ODiSC)
This is what early intervention could look like!
mentalhealthtimeforaction.org/open-dialogu...
#MentalHealthTimeForAction
#OpenDialogue
#Hope
This is what early intervention could look like!
mentalhealthtimeforaction.org/open-dialogu...
#MentalHealthTimeForAction
#OpenDialogue
#Hope
Open Dialogue in Schools and Communities (ODiSC)
Open Dialogue in Schools and Communities (ODiSC) ODiSC is a collaboration between healthcare practitioners from the NHS involved in the ODDESSI trial and researchers based in the UK who are interes…
mentalhealthtimeforaction.org
October 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Please have a look at our new project Open Dialogue in Schools and Communities (ODiSC)
This is what early intervention could look like!
mentalhealthtimeforaction.org/open-dialogu...
#MentalHealthTimeForAction
#OpenDialogue
#Hope
This is what early intervention could look like!
mentalhealthtimeforaction.org/open-dialogu...
#MentalHealthTimeForAction
#OpenDialogue
#Hope
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I'll be on Any Questions on Radio 4 tomorrow. I don't yet know who the other panellists are, but given the way things are shaking out, I'm bound to disagree with them.
October 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I'll be on Any Questions on Radio 4 tomorrow. I don't yet know who the other panellists are, but given the way things are shaking out, I'm bound to disagree with them.
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Greta Thunberg is the best of us.
If you are not on her side there is something very wrong with you.
If you are not on her side there is something very wrong with you.
October 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Greta Thunberg is the best of us.
If you are not on her side there is something very wrong with you.
If you are not on her side there is something very wrong with you.
Huge thanks to Bessel van der Kolk for writing us a
#MentalHealthTimeforAction pledge at the recent #Oxford TraumaSummit
'Time for Action!
Yes we can!'
#MentalHealthMatters #TraumaResolution
#TheBodyKeepsTheScore
#MentalHealthTimeforAction pledge at the recent #Oxford TraumaSummit
'Time for Action!
Yes we can!'
#MentalHealthMatters #TraumaResolution
#TheBodyKeepsTheScore
October 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Huge thanks to Bessel van der Kolk for writing us a
#MentalHealthTimeforAction pledge at the recent #Oxford TraumaSummit
'Time for Action!
Yes we can!'
#MentalHealthMatters #TraumaResolution
#TheBodyKeepsTheScore
#MentalHealthTimeforAction pledge at the recent #Oxford TraumaSummit
'Time for Action!
Yes we can!'
#MentalHealthMatters #TraumaResolution
#TheBodyKeepsTheScore
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Please, for God's sake, put aside petty differences and practice some solidarity. We desperately need coherent and effective alternatives.
A group called 'Our Party' is trying to take over 'Your Party'
A group called ‘Our Party’ is trying to take over ‘Your Party’
They've called for Corbyn and Sultana to 'hand the reins over to the grassroots membership'
leftfootforward.org
September 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Please, for God's sake, put aside petty differences and practice some solidarity. We desperately need coherent and effective alternatives.
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"This is not dialogue. This is licking his boots."
September 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"This is not dialogue. This is licking his boots."
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Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens’ leader
Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens’ leader
Zack Polanski calls mass privatisation a ‘failed experiment’ as report finds it has cost UK households £250 a year more
The privatisation of the UK’s key industries is driving the cost of living crisis, damaging critical public services and making life harder for millions of people, the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski, has said.
Speaking after the Guardian revealed the British public have been paying a “privatisation premium” of £250 per household per year since 2010, he described the mass privatisation of UK industry as a “failed experiment”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens’ leader
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Yeah we have to maintain diplomatic ties with the US, but we can do that from a position of strength/morality like the Canadians, Brazilians and others, not this mewling capitulation to a dictator coming from Lab/Con/Ref.
Zack Polanski, "Are you comfortable with the most powerful man on earth banning books, militarising the police?"
Penny Mordaunt, "That's not the point"
Penny Mordaunt, "That's not the point"
September 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Yeah we have to maintain diplomatic ties with the US, but we can do that from a position of strength/morality like the Canadians, Brazilians and others, not this mewling capitulation to a dictator coming from Lab/Con/Ref.
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Never forget whose side the Media is on.
1m+ marched to stop the Genocide in Palestine. They barely covered it.
2m marched to stop Brexit. They barely covered it.
Less than a 1/10th show up for a Far Right Riot, nonstop coverage.
The Far Right thugs are their voters.
1m+ marched to stop the Genocide in Palestine. They barely covered it.
2m marched to stop Brexit. They barely covered it.
Less than a 1/10th show up for a Far Right Riot, nonstop coverage.
The Far Right thugs are their voters.
September 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Never forget whose side the Media is on.
1m+ marched to stop the Genocide in Palestine. They barely covered it.
2m marched to stop Brexit. They barely covered it.
Less than a 1/10th show up for a Far Right Riot, nonstop coverage.
The Far Right thugs are their voters.
1m+ marched to stop the Genocide in Palestine. They barely covered it.
2m marched to stop Brexit. They barely covered it.
Less than a 1/10th show up for a Far Right Riot, nonstop coverage.
The Far Right thugs are their voters.
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Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal are now all considering boycotting Eurovision unless Israel are removed.
Like if they should.
RT if Israel should be kicked out
Like if they should.
RT if Israel should be kicked out
September 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal are now all considering boycotting Eurovision unless Israel are removed.
Like if they should.
RT if Israel should be kicked out
Like if they should.
RT if Israel should be kicked out
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I see people bleating yet again that "elections are won from the centre". Let's examine this claim.
1. Not long ago, the current Labour government, with its grovelling to corporations and oligarchs, extreme deregulation, island of strangers rhetoric etc, would have been classed as radical right. 🧵
1. Not long ago, the current Labour government, with its grovelling to corporations and oligarchs, extreme deregulation, island of strangers rhetoric etc, would have been classed as radical right. 🧵
September 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I see people bleating yet again that "elections are won from the centre". Let's examine this claim.
1. Not long ago, the current Labour government, with its grovelling to corporations and oligarchs, extreme deregulation, island of strangers rhetoric etc, would have been classed as radical right. 🧵
1. Not long ago, the current Labour government, with its grovelling to corporations and oligarchs, extreme deregulation, island of strangers rhetoric etc, would have been classed as radical right. 🧵
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" Suspected we had some new garden visitors so set a camera up."
Busted ! Thank you @skybluejen13.bsky.social for sharing , your new visitor is today's #FoxOfTheDay
Busted ! Thank you @skybluejen13.bsky.social for sharing , your new visitor is today's #FoxOfTheDay
August 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
" Suspected we had some new garden visitors so set a camera up."
Busted ! Thank you @skybluejen13.bsky.social for sharing , your new visitor is today's #FoxOfTheDay
Busted ! Thank you @skybluejen13.bsky.social for sharing , your new visitor is today's #FoxOfTheDay
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"You're sat there saying 'oh, please think of the billionaires'.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social lays out the need to tax the super-rich properly on GMB.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social lays out the need to tax the super-rich properly on GMB.
August 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"You're sat there saying 'oh, please think of the billionaires'.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social lays out the need to tax the super-rich properly on GMB.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social lays out the need to tax the super-rich properly on GMB.
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NHS patients from Wales needing hip or knee operations in England are facing delays — after a Welsh health board asked English hospitals to align with Wales’ longer waiting times.
This highlights ongoing pressures in the Welsh NHS.
📖 Full story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This highlights ongoing pressures in the Welsh NHS.
📖 Full story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
NHS England told to keep patients in Powys waiting for operations
One woman says the Welsh NHS "can't be bothered" to send letters to patients to explain.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
NHS patients from Wales needing hip or knee operations in England are facing delays — after a Welsh health board asked English hospitals to align with Wales’ longer waiting times.
This highlights ongoing pressures in the Welsh NHS.
📖 Full story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This highlights ongoing pressures in the Welsh NHS.
📖 Full story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I wrote a little something about why Open Dialogue inspires me, as a survivor and as a practitioner. Be great to know what you think about it ☺️
dialoguerevolution.com/2025/07/20/w...
dialoguerevolution.com/2025/07/20/w...
What is Open Dialogue? Why It Inspires Me - Dialogue (R)Evolution
Exploring what is Open Dialogue and what it might offer mental health services in the UK and beyond. Considers the role of Lived Experience.
dialoguerevolution.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I wrote a little something about why Open Dialogue inspires me, as a survivor and as a practitioner. Be great to know what you think about it ☺️
dialoguerevolution.com/2025/07/20/w...
dialoguerevolution.com/2025/07/20/w...
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This is economic warfare by the rich against the rest. The point and purpose of the Labour Party was to resist such attacks. Starmer and Reeves have turned their party into the opposite of what it once was.
July 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is economic warfare by the rich against the rest. The point and purpose of the Labour Party was to resist such attacks. Starmer and Reeves have turned their party into the opposite of what it once was.
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Capital demands that:
1. The government must strip away sensible rules which prevent businesses from attacking the public good.
2. The government must constrain *itself* with insanely restrictive pledges, such as Rachel Reeves's fiscal rules.
3. Protesters challenging capital must be locked up.
1. The government must strip away sensible rules which prevent businesses from attacking the public good.
2. The government must constrain *itself* with insanely restrictive pledges, such as Rachel Reeves's fiscal rules.
3. Protesters challenging capital must be locked up.
July 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Capital demands that:
1. The government must strip away sensible rules which prevent businesses from attacking the public good.
2. The government must constrain *itself* with insanely restrictive pledges, such as Rachel Reeves's fiscal rules.
3. Protesters challenging capital must be locked up.
1. The government must strip away sensible rules which prevent businesses from attacking the public good.
2. The government must constrain *itself* with insanely restrictive pledges, such as Rachel Reeves's fiscal rules.
3. Protesters challenging capital must be locked up.