Cath Martin 59
@cathmartin59.bsky.social
Books, walking, dog owner,climate, renewables, community energy, Green Party, Humanist, traditional music, NHS, Byline Times supporter.
Views my own.
Views my own.
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The Green Party leadership has called on the government to "act before it's too late" after the party’s deputy leader became the first political figure to visit activists affiliated with Palestine Action who are on hunger strike
Green Party's Mothin Ali calls on Lammy to help Palestine Action hunger strikers
Ali became the first politician to visit the activists who have been on hunger strike more than 30 days
www.middleeasteye.net
December 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The Green Party leadership has called on the government to "act before it's too late" after the party’s deputy leader became the first political figure to visit activists affiliated with Palestine Action who are on hunger strike
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Labour are attacking Greens. Fine. I have yet to see any party that has entirely affordable aspirations.
But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations.
Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.
But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations.
Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Labour are attacking Greens. Fine. I have yet to see any party that has entirely affordable aspirations.
But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations.
Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.
But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations.
Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.
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More hours of sunlighte kan not returne fast ynogh. Why doth it have to be 3AM at 5PM?
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
More hours of sunlighte kan not returne fast ynogh. Why doth it have to be 3AM at 5PM?
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Thinking of studying for a PhD? I'd be happy to hear from anyone considering research into British or Irish prehistory, monuments, radiocarbon dating, heritage. Part-time, distance options. There are funding schemes here at @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social - but be quick, deadlines are in Jan/Feb!
PhD funding | PhD and Research Degrees | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Thinking of studying for a PhD? I'd be happy to hear from anyone considering research into British or Irish prehistory, monuments, radiocarbon dating, heritage. Part-time, distance options. There are funding schemes here at @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social - but be quick, deadlines are in Jan/Feb!
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Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
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It's 25th anniversary of the 1st offshore wind turbine in the UK this week
Offshore wind now provides over 1/6 of UK power
Success was not inevitable, and it continues to be a battle against the fossil fuel industries
Greenpeace UK has been part of the fight
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/powerin...
Offshore wind now provides over 1/6 of UK power
Success was not inevitable, and it continues to be a battle against the fossil fuel industries
Greenpeace UK has been part of the fight
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/powerin...
Powering Britain’s future: Greenpeace’s battle for offshore wind - Greenpeace UK
In 25 years, offshore wind power went from niche concept to the backbone of the UK's energy system. But this success wasn't inevitable.
www.greenpeace.org.uk
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It's 25th anniversary of the 1st offshore wind turbine in the UK this week
Offshore wind now provides over 1/6 of UK power
Success was not inevitable, and it continues to be a battle against the fossil fuel industries
Greenpeace UK has been part of the fight
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/powerin...
Offshore wind now provides over 1/6 of UK power
Success was not inevitable, and it continues to be a battle against the fossil fuel industries
Greenpeace UK has been part of the fight
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/powerin...
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New analysis shows:
That there are now more people alive in the UK that voted Remain in 2016 than those who voted Leave in 2016.
The "will of the people" expressed by direct vote in 2016... has changed.
That there are now more people alive in the UK that voted Remain in 2016 than those who voted Leave in 2016.
The "will of the people" expressed by direct vote in 2016... has changed.
The majority opposed to Brexit has reached eight million
Ministers need courage to keep it that way
kellnerp.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
New analysis shows:
That there are now more people alive in the UK that voted Remain in 2016 than those who voted Leave in 2016.
The "will of the people" expressed by direct vote in 2016... has changed.
That there are now more people alive in the UK that voted Remain in 2016 than those who voted Leave in 2016.
The "will of the people" expressed by direct vote in 2016... has changed.
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🚨PHD Opportunity 🚨
Funded PhD place available from next autumn to work with me on a project improving services for children with complex health needs!
Calling interested graduates with degrees in a numerate subject.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD place available from next autumn to work with me on a project improving services for children with complex health needs!
Calling interested graduates with degrees in a numerate subject.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Mathematics PhD – System dynamics modelling of services for children with complex health needs at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Mathematics PhD – System dynamics modelling of services for children with complex health needs at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🚨PHD Opportunity 🚨
Funded PhD place available from next autumn to work with me on a project improving services for children with complex health needs!
Calling interested graduates with degrees in a numerate subject.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD place available from next autumn to work with me on a project improving services for children with complex health needs!
Calling interested graduates with degrees in a numerate subject.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Economy aside, migrants are human beings, and should be treated as such.
🔊 So, once again for the people in the back: migrants aren't the minority group to blame for the UK's worsening inequalities - billionaires are.
🔊 So, once again for the people in the back: migrants aren't the minority group to blame for the UK's worsening inequalities - billionaires are.
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Economy aside, migrants are human beings, and should be treated as such.
🔊 So, once again for the people in the back: migrants aren't the minority group to blame for the UK's worsening inequalities - billionaires are.
🔊 So, once again for the people in the back: migrants aren't the minority group to blame for the UK's worsening inequalities - billionaires are.
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The Telegraph is amplifying hate & misinfo again. Here are facts they've ignored:
🟣 Migrants boost the economy
🟣 It's not illegal to seek asylum, nor is one "illegal" when one's asylum is rejected
🟣 If it's legality you're worried about, the US' mass deportations aren't lawful
🟣 Migrants boost the economy
🟣 It's not illegal to seek asylum, nor is one "illegal" when one's asylum is rejected
🟣 If it's legality you're worried about, the US' mass deportations aren't lawful
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Telegraph is amplifying hate & misinfo again. Here are facts they've ignored:
🟣 Migrants boost the economy
🟣 It's not illegal to seek asylum, nor is one "illegal" when one's asylum is rejected
🟣 If it's legality you're worried about, the US' mass deportations aren't lawful
🟣 Migrants boost the economy
🟣 It's not illegal to seek asylum, nor is one "illegal" when one's asylum is rejected
🟣 If it's legality you're worried about, the US' mass deportations aren't lawful
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Just listening to the @LBC news, and it occurred to me - why do they read out the ftse100, and exchange rates, as if these make a difference to the everyday person?
Maybe it’s time to add CO2 levels, or global temperature increase, or climate change deaths, so we’re all more informed?
Maybe it’s time to add CO2 levels, or global temperature increase, or climate change deaths, so we’re all more informed?
December 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Just listening to the @LBC news, and it occurred to me - why do they read out the ftse100, and exchange rates, as if these make a difference to the everyday person?
Maybe it’s time to add CO2 levels, or global temperature increase, or climate change deaths, so we’re all more informed?
Maybe it’s time to add CO2 levels, or global temperature increase, or climate change deaths, so we’re all more informed?
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Two former SNP and Labour councillors have joined the Scottish Greens
Ex-SNP and Labour councillors join Scottish Greens
www.thenational.scot
December 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Two former SNP and Labour councillors have joined the Scottish Greens
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The Renters' Rights Act has given tenants and their pets protection against being hounded out by landlords.
Meet the renters and pets spending their first Christmas together
www.bigissue.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Renters' Rights Act has given tenants and their pets protection against being hounded out by landlords.
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Nantmor, Gwynedd, painting by Chris Neale, Welsh landscape artist.
December 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Nantmor, Gwynedd, painting by Chris Neale, Welsh landscape artist.
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We’re not really used to filibustering in the UK, but this is what it looks like. This is a bad faith abuse of the legislative process at public expense in an attempt to wreck a measure approved by democratically elected members. Deeply immoral and disreputable. humanists.uk/2025/12/05/n...
Needlessly cruel: Peer proposes mandatory pregnancy tests for all in assisted dying amendment
A member of the House of Lords has suggested that anyone applying for an assisted death needs to do a pregnancy test, including men and older people. Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision are disappo...
humanists.uk
December 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We’re not really used to filibustering in the UK, but this is what it looks like. This is a bad faith abuse of the legislative process at public expense in an attempt to wreck a measure approved by democratically elected members. Deeply immoral and disreputable. humanists.uk/2025/12/05/n...
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It’s a fact - the budget knocked £1bn off energy bills by removing an ‘insulation tax’ - in the same month that £1bn was added in a ’nuclear tax’. We all stood still.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
December 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It’s a fact - the budget knocked £1bn off energy bills by removing an ‘insulation tax’ - in the same month that £1bn was added in a ’nuclear tax’. We all stood still.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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My free advice to this couple? Instead of paying £47k a year in school fees and scraping by, stick 15k a year in each kid's bank account so that they each have around £100k at age 18 to spend on a house, business or uni. You then have £17k/year leftover to spend on luxuries. Better life all round
One couple — she works for the NHS and he for the RAF — are doing everything they can to give their children an independent education ⬇️
We’re almost broke and still paying for private school
One couple — she works for the NHS and he for the RAF — are doing everything they can to give their children an independent education
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
My free advice to this couple? Instead of paying £47k a year in school fees and scraping by, stick 15k a year in each kid's bank account so that they each have around £100k at age 18 to spend on a house, business or uni. You then have £17k/year leftover to spend on luxuries. Better life all round
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Gas cookers can be harmful through polluting the air in homes.
Induction hobs removes the nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide that are problematic with gas hobs, and Global Action Plan have provided a guide on how to change over:
Induction hobs removes the nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide that are problematic with gas hobs, and Global Action Plan have provided a guide on how to change over:
Learn more about our retrofit project in partnership with @clasp-ngo.bsky.social:
www.globalactionplan.org.uk/clean-air/ga...
#CleanAir #NetZero #Cooking
www.globalactionplan.org.uk/clean-air/ga...
#CleanAir #NetZero #Cooking
![Image of a gas hob burner flame. Image caption reads: “With the gas cooker, [my daughter] could go in and just turn the knob and that would release gas into the kitchen. Kids get inquisitive and they start playing with things that they shouldn’t, and she was playing with the ignition sometimes. Obviously, there’s no risk of that now, and [the induction hob] doesn’t get hot to touch as well.“](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ikumj2d35lpwz2lppc7rtojj/bafkreieetgsow2nlc3jfhllc5z42oavqrdwluyplg2nd5ebdfexcgebgt4@jpeg)
December 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Gas cookers can be harmful through polluting the air in homes.
Induction hobs removes the nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide that are problematic with gas hobs, and Global Action Plan have provided a guide on how to change over:
Induction hobs removes the nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide that are problematic with gas hobs, and Global Action Plan have provided a guide on how to change over:
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"I don't think you can solve a men's health crisis without tackling poverty"
@davidfrancisgreen.bsky.social on the crisis in men's health and the long-term health impacts of austerity.
CW: mental health, suicide
@davidfrancisgreen.bsky.social on the crisis in men's health and the long-term health impacts of austerity.
CW: mental health, suicide
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"I don't think you can solve a men's health crisis without tackling poverty"
@davidfrancisgreen.bsky.social on the crisis in men's health and the long-term health impacts of austerity.
CW: mental health, suicide
@davidfrancisgreen.bsky.social on the crisis in men's health and the long-term health impacts of austerity.
CW: mental health, suicide
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Beavers and Storks returning to East London thanks to a rewilding project
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bea...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bea...
Beavers and Storks returning to East London thanks to a rewilding project
Beavers are to be reintroduced to a park in east London, as part of a rewilding scheme in Dagenham.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Beavers and Storks returning to East London thanks to a rewilding project
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bea...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bea...
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In case you missed it: Job ad: Solicitor/IAA Level 3 Caseworker (IAAS Senior Caseworker) | Free Movement
Job ad: Solicitor/IAA Level 3 Caseworker (IAAS Senior Caseworker) - Free Movement
This post is based in Manchester providing face to face and online legal immigration advice and representation to people across North West England. GMIAU
freemovement.org.uk
December 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
In case you missed it: Job ad: Solicitor/IAA Level 3 Caseworker (IAAS Senior Caseworker) | Free Movement
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Covering enormous ground, these interviews powerfully link personal stories to themes that touch on what it means to be human – spanning art, politics, history, campaigning and activism, the environment, human nature, growing up, and growing old. humanists.uk/whatibelieve/
Order 'What I Believe' today!
Inspiring and thought-provoking What I Believe is a series of interview essays with high-profile non-religious people in the public eye, around the theme of ‘What I Believe’, which is to say, delving ...
humanists.uk
December 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Covering enormous ground, these interviews powerfully link personal stories to themes that touch on what it means to be human – spanning art, politics, history, campaigning and activism, the environment, human nature, growing up, and growing old. humanists.uk/whatibelieve/
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Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres.
Get in quick.
Details in link.
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Get in quick.
Details in link.
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HODDER & STOUGHTON OPEN SUBMISSIONS
Visit the post for more.
www.hodder.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres.
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
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Big Issue vendors are running their own micro-businesses. Here's how they sell the magazine to earn a legitimate income and make money
How do Big Issue sellers earn money?
www.bigissue.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Big Issue vendors are running their own micro-businesses. Here's how they sell the magazine to earn a legitimate income and make money