Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈
@annieingarden.bsky.social
Community psychologist; grandmother; educator; facilitator; mentor; ex-director DClinPsy Exeter & Plymouth; Playback actor; XRPsychologist; climate; poetry; childhood; health. Roots in NE England; Devon.
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THE ROS WILEY TRIBUTE GARDEN
A landscape for life The Garden House KEITH WILEY WRITES: The starting point for the Canyons area had been a 25ft high rampart to block out the view of the road and adjoining stables. This, of cour…
wileyatwildside.com
And Rebecca Elson’s words are now carved in stone at the most beautiful garden of memories and dreams: Wildside, in Devon. 3/3 wileyatwildside.com/tribute-gard...
Time for real change: democracy and climate justice www.totnespulse.co.uk/time-for-rea...
Time for real change: democracy and climate justice
Do we truly have the kind of democracy in our country which is fit for the challenges of the 21st Century? Does our government fairly represent the views and aspirations of voters? How can we best...
www.totnespulse.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Time for real change: democracy and climate justice www.totnespulse.co.uk/time-for-rea...
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“Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.”https://centralbylines.co.uk/politics/a-new-survey-reveals-negative-attitudes-to-reform-uk-ltd/
A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions
centralbylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.”https://centralbylines.co.uk/politics/a-new-survey-reveals-negative-attitudes-to-reform-uk-ltd/
This is it … www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people
Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is it … www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Spoiler alert: it matters. “Finally, we need to mobilise political agency. This is not a technocratic exercise. The fight for truth is a political struggle: against oligarchic media owners, corporate capture, and authoritarian impulses.”
Does the coup at the BBC matter? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
Does the coup at the BBC matter?
Is there a coup going on at the BBC, as many of its staff suggested in a meeting yesterday? Of course there is. Not only is that apparent in plain sight, as senior staff are toppled for what are, in t...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Spoiler alert: it matters. “Finally, we need to mobilise political agency. This is not a technocratic exercise. The fight for truth is a political struggle: against oligarchic media owners, corporate capture, and authoritarian impulses.”
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🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
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Are you interested in reflecting on and expanding your ability to be an inclusive leader? Then this event in January is for you . Looks like a rare opportunity and not to be missed www.bps.org.uk/event/explor...
Exploring & Valuing Differences - Navigating Obstacles | BPS
This workshop builds critical reflection and agency to foster inclusive leadership, exploring identity, power, barriers, and ways to shape equity and belonging.
www.bps.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Are you interested in reflecting on and expanding your ability to be an inclusive leader? Then this event in January is for you . Looks like a rare opportunity and not to be missed www.bps.org.uk/event/explor...
“…disturbing escalation in the assault on the BBC should be incredibly alarming to anyone who cares about truth, accountability & democracy.”Trump & his mates must be stopped. Well said @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“…disturbing escalation in the assault on the BBC should be incredibly alarming to anyone who cares about truth, accountability & democracy.”Trump & his mates must be stopped. Well said @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Panorama made a stupid editing mistake. But compare this to the deliberate and systemic attempt, sustained across years, to ensure that BBC output aligns ever more closely to the demands of economic power. Against your straw of bias, I raise you a haystack.
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Panorama made a stupid editing mistake. But compare this to the deliberate and systemic attempt, sustained across years, to ensure that BBC output aligns ever more closely to the demands of economic power. Against your straw of bias, I raise you a haystack.
That ICJ ruling was world changing. It’s starting to bite. So the backlash will be already building. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30?
Decision by international court of justice hailed as a gamechanger for climate justice and accountability
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
That ICJ ruling was world changing. It’s starting to bite. So the backlash will be already building. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Forced to resign over how a video shown on the BBC of Donald Trump over a year ago was edited.
Please remind me who runs the BBC.
Because it looks like it's the USA.
Please remind me who runs the BBC.
Because it looks like it's the USA.
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Forced to resign over how a video shown on the BBC of Donald Trump over a year ago was edited.
Please remind me who runs the BBC.
Because it looks like it's the USA.
Please remind me who runs the BBC.
Because it looks like it's the USA.
The unbalance of our so-called democracy is blatant. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out
Exclusive: Leading ecologists say warnings over threat to wildlife have been ignored in drive to build 1.5m new homes
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The unbalance of our so-called democracy is blatant. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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A seriously important paper about the links between health and climate change in Polar regions ⬇️
This really is an urgent call
#Arctic #COP30 #ClimateChange
This really is an urgent call
#Arctic #COP30 #ClimateChange
New publication:
A framework for assessing global health impacts of polar change: An urgent call for interdisciplinary research
Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A framework for assessing global health impacts of polar change: An urgent call for interdisciplinary research
Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A framework for assessing global health impacts of polar change: An urgent call for interdisciplinary research - Ambio
Research on the human health risks of climate change is expanding, yet the influence of polar region shifts on these risks remains underexplored. This paper presents a framework to assess global and r...
link.springer.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:22 AM
A seriously important paper about the links between health and climate change in Polar regions ⬇️
This really is an urgent call
#Arctic #COP30 #ClimateChange
This really is an urgent call
#Arctic #COP30 #ClimateChange
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State of the Cryosphere Report 2025
"Recent evidence suggests the AMOC is weakening more quickly than previously thought, raising serious concerns about an irreversible threshold being crossed..." - @iccinet.bsky.social
iccinet.org/statecryo25/
"Recent evidence suggests the AMOC is weakening more quickly than previously thought, raising serious concerns about an irreversible threshold being crossed..." - @iccinet.bsky.social
iccinet.org/statecryo25/
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
State of the Cryosphere Report 2025
"Recent evidence suggests the AMOC is weakening more quickly than previously thought, raising serious concerns about an irreversible threshold being crossed..." - @iccinet.bsky.social
iccinet.org/statecryo25/
"Recent evidence suggests the AMOC is weakening more quickly than previously thought, raising serious concerns about an irreversible threshold being crossed..." - @iccinet.bsky.social
iccinet.org/statecryo25/
Report by leading scientists “describes how a combination of melting polar ice sheets, vanishing glaciers, & thawing permafrost will have rapid, irreversible, & disastrous impacts worldwide.” The warm words blah blah blah aren’t what’s melting the ice, but they’re not - yet - stopping fossil fuels.
State of the Cryosphere Report 2025
"Recent evidence suggests the AMOC is weakening more quickly than previously thought, raising serious concerns about an irreversible threshold being crossed..." - @iccinet.bsky.social
iccinet.org/statecryo25/
"Recent evidence suggests the AMOC is weakening more quickly than previously thought, raising serious concerns about an irreversible threshold being crossed..." - @iccinet.bsky.social
iccinet.org/statecryo25/
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Report by leading scientists “describes how a combination of melting polar ice sheets, vanishing glaciers, & thawing permafrost will have rapid, irreversible, & disastrous impacts worldwide.” The warm words blah blah blah aren’t what’s melting the ice, but they’re not - yet - stopping fossil fuels.
“The pithiest reminder of the need for collective action came from Zimbabwe’s environment minister, Evelyn Ndlovu …: “The climate crisis is not a competition. There is no winner or loser. Either we all win or we all lose.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Giving up would be a betrayal’: Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30
Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“The pithiest reminder of the need for collective action came from Zimbabwe’s environment minister, Evelyn Ndlovu …: “The climate crisis is not a competition. There is no winner or loser. Either we all win or we all lose.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings ..”. 💕Ursula le Guin. Skip the intro by a man and start 5 mins in youtu.be/s2v7RDyo7os
Full Speech: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Passionate Defense of Art over Profits
YouTube video by American Masters PBS
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings ..”. 💕Ursula le Guin. Skip the intro by a man and start 5 mins in youtu.be/s2v7RDyo7os
Some men are good, sure enough, with António Guterres among them, so if we had many more women in power (as well as some more men with his clarity, vision, care, & courage), the world would be in a better, kinder, safer, more fully human, and less corporate, techie, monied, dehumanising state.
Speaking of women in the workplace, one time on a plane, the flight attendant announced that we were on an "unmanned flight" because the pilot, co-pilot, and all flight attendants were women. I'll take more of this, please and thank you. 👩✈️🛩️✊
I should have known better than to click on this 🤦🏻♀️
“The pathology in our institutions known as wokeness is distinctively feminine and feminized. And that, in a very literal sense, our institutions have gone woke because there are more women in them than there used to be.”
“The pathology in our institutions known as wokeness is distinctively feminine and feminized. And that, in a very literal sense, our institutions have gone woke because there are more women in them than there used to be.”
November 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Some men are good, sure enough, with António Guterres among them, so if we had many more women in power (as well as some more men with his clarity, vision, care, & courage), the world would be in a better, kinder, safer, more fully human, and less corporate, techie, monied, dehumanising state.
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Speaking of women in the workplace, one time on a plane, the flight attendant announced that we were on an "unmanned flight" because the pilot, co-pilot, and all flight attendants were women. I'll take more of this, please and thank you. 👩✈️🛩️✊
I should have known better than to click on this 🤦🏻♀️
“The pathology in our institutions known as wokeness is distinctively feminine and feminized. And that, in a very literal sense, our institutions have gone woke because there are more women in them than there used to be.”
“The pathology in our institutions known as wokeness is distinctively feminine and feminized. And that, in a very literal sense, our institutions have gone woke because there are more women in them than there used to be.”
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Speaking of women in the workplace, one time on a plane, the flight attendant announced that we were on an "unmanned flight" because the pilot, co-pilot, and all flight attendants were women. I'll take more of this, please and thank you. 👩✈️🛩️✊
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Guterres is right.
Even a temporary overshoot could unleash far greater destruction and costs for every nation. It could push ecosystems past catastrophic and irreversible tipping points.
Fossil fuel companies are deceiving the public and obstructing progress. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Even a temporary overshoot could unleash far greater destruction and costs for every nation. It could push ecosystems past catastrophic and irreversible tipping points.
Fossil fuel companies are deceiving the public and obstructing progress. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, Guterres tells Cop30 summit
UN secretary general urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Guterres is right.
Even a temporary overshoot could unleash far greater destruction and costs for every nation. It could push ecosystems past catastrophic and irreversible tipping points.
Fossil fuel companies are deceiving the public and obstructing progress. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Even a temporary overshoot could unleash far greater destruction and costs for every nation. It could push ecosystems past catastrophic and irreversible tipping points.
Fossil fuel companies are deceiving the public and obstructing progress. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We still hold the power to prevent the worst outcomes of climate change if we act decisively to end our dependence on fossil fuels. But that window is closing fast. Humanity needs to get their heads out of the sand before it is too late to stop climate change!
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We still hold the power to prevent the worst outcomes of climate change if we act decisively to end our dependence on fossil fuels. But that window is closing fast. Humanity needs to get their heads out of the sand before it is too late to stop climate change!
What can come out of today’s pre-COP meeting? As we run up to the Brazilian COP I’m reminded of our 2021 petition, signed by over 12,000 people calling for leadership with common purpose. We still want that. 1/2 c.org/jqBxXRRnHg
Petition unterschreiben
Psychologists & Psychotherapists calling for immediate climate action
c.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
What can come out of today’s pre-COP meeting? As we run up to the Brazilian COP I’m reminded of our 2021 petition, signed by over 12,000 people calling for leadership with common purpose. We still want that. 1/2 c.org/jqBxXRRnHg
Structural problems are turned to personal misery and blame. The fundamental attribution error (blame the victim) is hard to shift. “All the time people are looking for a scapegoat.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘People are always looking for a scapegoat’: tensions rise in UK’s asylum and refugee hotspot
With the highest proportion of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK, Crawley is engulfed in a housing crisis and anti-immigration protests
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Structural problems are turned to personal misery and blame. The fundamental attribution error (blame the victim) is hard to shift. “All the time people are looking for a scapegoat.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Reprehensible and completely inconsistent
Whether climate testimony is heard, and therefore if there is a good chance of acquittal, is entirely dependent on which judge you get
This makes complete nonsense of the justice system
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Whether climate testimony is heard, and therefore if there is a good chance of acquittal, is entirely dependent on which judge you get
This makes complete nonsense of the justice system
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Just Stop Oil protesters convicted after being denied right to state climate facts
Lawyers call for clarity over law as six are found guilty while being stopped from using defence used by fellow activists
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Reprehensible and completely inconsistent
Whether climate testimony is heard, and therefore if there is a good chance of acquittal, is entirely dependent on which judge you get
This makes complete nonsense of the justice system
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Whether climate testimony is heard, and therefore if there is a good chance of acquittal, is entirely dependent on which judge you get
This makes complete nonsense of the justice system
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Everyone must call out racism. It’s beyond appalling & heartbreaking and scary that the lid has been taken off people’s willingness to openly show their ugly prejudice. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff bearing brunt as ‘ugly’ racism of 70s and 80s returns, says Streeting
Exclusive: Health secretary and NHS England chief warn of winter pressures and rising levels of abuse
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Everyone must call out racism. It’s beyond appalling & heartbreaking and scary that the lid has been taken off people’s willingness to openly show their ugly prejudice. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...