Hannah Roberts
@chinkles.bsky.social
Retired librarian & councillor. Cat 🐈 lives with me. Loves books, cooking & having a good time. We can work together to make a better world 🌎
Enjoying the first fundraising dinner for Oldham Young Carers organised by @PositiveSteps at Billingtons - all donations welcome at PS website
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Enjoying the first fundraising dinner for Oldham Young Carers organised by @PositiveSteps at Billingtons - all donations welcome at PS website
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Lucy Listens event today. Lucy pledged to be a full time deputy leader, listening to members, making our voice heard & rebuilding our winning coalition.
October 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Lucy Listens event today. Lucy pledged to be a full time deputy leader, listening to members, making our voice heard & rebuilding our winning coalition.
One of the best nights of the year - Oldham's Foster Carer Celebration Evening. Flowers, Mayor & Mayoress at the ready to thank our foster carers for their hard work caring for slme of our most vulnerable children & young people
October 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
One of the best nights of the year - Oldham's Foster Carer Celebration Evening. Flowers, Mayor & Mayoress at the ready to thank our foster carers for their hard work caring for slme of our most vulnerable children & young people
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As a former public health consultant, I know how important it is that strong evidence drives clinical practice. To date there is no such evidence to indicate paracetamol causes autism. Vaccinations are also important to help protect children (& adults) from serious infectious diseases. #evidence
September 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
As a former public health consultant, I know how important it is that strong evidence drives clinical practice. To date there is no such evidence to indicate paracetamol causes autism. Vaccinations are also important to help protect children (& adults) from serious infectious diseases. #evidence
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Always a pleasure to meet constituents at my surgeries, like the one I had at the weekend. I will endeavour to do what I can to help. If you need support please contact my office via abrahamsd@parliament.uk or 0161 624 4248
September 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Always a pleasure to meet constituents at my surgeries, like the one I had at the weekend. I will endeavour to do what I can to help. If you need support please contact my office via abrahamsd@parliament.uk or 0161 624 4248
Memorial to Oldhamers who died fighting in the International Brigades trying to save Spain from fascism
On display for the first time in many years in the JR Clynes Building in Oldham town centre
On display for the first time in many years in the JR Clynes Building in Oldham town centre
September 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Memorial to Oldhamers who died fighting in the International Brigades trying to save Spain from fascism
On display for the first time in many years in the JR Clynes Building in Oldham town centre
On display for the first time in many years in the JR Clynes Building in Oldham town centre
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Speaking to Nick Robinson for Political Thinking on why I’m standing to be a full time Deputy Leader - being clear about whose side we are on, being a bridge between the movement & leadership, lifting the two child limit, the atrocities in Gaza and telling a unifying story 👇
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson - Lucy Powell: People have lost sense of Labour's values - BBC Sounds
Lucy Powell on being sacked by Starmer, and why she now wants to be his deputy.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Speaking to Nick Robinson for Political Thinking on why I’m standing to be a full time Deputy Leader - being clear about whose side we are on, being a bridge between the movement & leadership, lifting the two child limit, the atrocities in Gaza and telling a unifying story 👇
Seems pretty clear cut that's what happened given public pronouncements & sequence of events
Alleged is an inaccurate description
Alleged is an inaccurate description
Susan Monarez alleged she was fired from being the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “holding the line on scientific integrity.”
Follow live updates from her Senate testimony:
Follow live updates from her Senate testimony:
Live updates: Fired CDC leader tells senators about pressure from RFK Jr.
Susan Monarez, the fired CDC director, and Debra Houry, one of three top agency leaders who resigned in protest, are testifying before the Senate health committee.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Seems pretty clear cut that's what happened given public pronouncements & sequence of events
Alleged is an inaccurate description
Alleged is an inaccurate description
Quakers are pacifists
They believe in that of God in every man
They will bear witness
They believe in that of God in every man
They will bear witness
On Tuesday 26th August tear gas canisters were fired near Ramallah Friends School and a parent was fired on by a sniper while trying to reach the school gates.
Nobody at the school was injured but the children were left shaken and their families anxious.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Nobody at the school was injured but the children were left shaken and their families anxious.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn dangerous Ramallah Friends School incursion
On Tuesday, 26 August, the Israeli army carried out a dangerous incursion outside the gates of the Quaker Ramallah Friends School in the occupied West Bank.
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Quakers are pacifists
They believe in that of God in every man
They will bear witness
They believe in that of God in every man
They will bear witness
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Today, we welcome Joanne Thomas as Usdaw’s new General Secretary - the first woman to hold this position in our Union’s history 🙌
Watch our video to learn about Joanne's story so far and her vision for Usdaw 👏
📲 You can follow Joanne on Facebook, Instagram, X and Bluesky:
@JoanneGSUsdaw
Watch our video to learn about Joanne's story so far and her vision for Usdaw 👏
📲 You can follow Joanne on Facebook, Instagram, X and Bluesky:
@JoanneGSUsdaw
July 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Today, we welcome Joanne Thomas as Usdaw’s new General Secretary - the first woman to hold this position in our Union’s history 🙌
Watch our video to learn about Joanne's story so far and her vision for Usdaw 👏
📲 You can follow Joanne on Facebook, Instagram, X and Bluesky:
@JoanneGSUsdaw
Watch our video to learn about Joanne's story so far and her vision for Usdaw 👏
📲 You can follow Joanne on Facebook, Instagram, X and Bluesky:
@JoanneGSUsdaw
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Legitimate concerns, huh?
Exposed: the neo-Nazis who are organising the Epping, Essex anti-immigrant protests
Epping hotel anti-migrant protests were organised by members of Neo-Nazi groups
Two members of the Homeland Party have been identified as administrators of the Facebook group organising the protests
www.independent.co.uk
July 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Legitimate concerns, huh?
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A third year of beaver births at Sculthorpe Moor highlights the vital role these ecosystem engineers play in restoring biodiversity
By Kate Moore
By Kate Moore
A dam good year: those fascinating beavers breed again
A third year of beaver births at Sculthorpe Moor highlights the vital role these ecosystem engineers play in restoring biodiversity
eastangliabylines.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A third year of beaver births at Sculthorpe Moor highlights the vital role these ecosystem engineers play in restoring biodiversity
By Kate Moore
By Kate Moore
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If you were born between 1970-1990 you may not have full MMR protection, even if you had parents who took you for all your jabs. The NHS will give you a free booster. With cases surging, this is a great way to protect yourself & your community. I’m getting mine tomorrow www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
July 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If you were born between 1970-1990 you may not have full MMR protection, even if you had parents who took you for all your jabs. The NHS will give you a free booster. With cases surging, this is a great way to protect yourself & your community. I’m getting mine tomorrow www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
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The Evening Standard reveals that Emma Watson is “banned from driving alongside” Zoe Wanamaker. So she’s still allowed to drive if it’s on her own or alongside other friends? If only there were some kind of punctuation mark that could get rid of these sorts of ambiguities.
July 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The Evening Standard reveals that Emma Watson is “banned from driving alongside” Zoe Wanamaker. So she’s still allowed to drive if it’s on her own or alongside other friends? If only there were some kind of punctuation mark that could get rid of these sorts of ambiguities.
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‘MMR vaccination uptake rate for children by the age of five in Liverpool is just 73% ... The World Health Organisation says a threshold of 95% is needed to achieve herd immunity’
Please protect child by allowing them to be vaccinated. If you are worried, talk to your doctor. Misinformation kills.
Please protect child by allowing them to be vaccinated. If you are worried, talk to your doctor. Misinformation kills.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A child has died after contracting measles in Liverpool, where public health officials fear a growing outbreak of the disease.
Full story: www.thetimes.com/article/bb28...
Full story: www.thetimes.com/article/bb28...
Measles outbreak kills child in Liverpool as vaccination rate plunges
The death in Liverpool, where one in four young children are not protected, is fuelling warnings that the virus could spread like ‘wildfire’
www.thetimes.com
July 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
‘MMR vaccination uptake rate for children by the age of five in Liverpool is just 73% ... The World Health Organisation says a threshold of 95% is needed to achieve herd immunity’
Please protect child by allowing them to be vaccinated. If you are worried, talk to your doctor. Misinformation kills.
Please protect child by allowing them to be vaccinated. If you are worried, talk to your doctor. Misinformation kills.
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My statement on the amended #UCandPIPBill.
The Bill still has issues, but the significant concessions from government mean 800,000 disabled people will not be affected by PIP changes and 300,000 protected from poverty.
I will continue to look for ways to mitigate against these impacts.
The Bill still has issues, but the significant concessions from government mean 800,000 disabled people will not be affected by PIP changes and 300,000 protected from poverty.
I will continue to look for ways to mitigate against these impacts.
July 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
My statement on the amended #UCandPIPBill.
The Bill still has issues, but the significant concessions from government mean 800,000 disabled people will not be affected by PIP changes and 300,000 protected from poverty.
I will continue to look for ways to mitigate against these impacts.
The Bill still has issues, but the significant concessions from government mean 800,000 disabled people will not be affected by PIP changes and 300,000 protected from poverty.
I will continue to look for ways to mitigate against these impacts.
Interesting pm in Tallinn - visited the Banned Books Museum - titles include Animal Farm, 1984, A Handmaid's tale,
Pippi Longstocking, Black Beauty, Where the wild things are & Winnie the Pooh.
Also strong solidarity with 🇺🇦
Pippi Longstocking, Black Beauty, Where the wild things are & Winnie the Pooh.
Also strong solidarity with 🇺🇦
June 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Interesting pm in Tallinn - visited the Banned Books Museum - titles include Animal Farm, 1984, A Handmaid's tale,
Pippi Longstocking, Black Beauty, Where the wild things are & Winnie the Pooh.
Also strong solidarity with 🇺🇦
Pippi Longstocking, Black Beauty, Where the wild things are & Winnie the Pooh.
Also strong solidarity with 🇺🇦
Just home from a great evening out @thelowry.com - Dear England is funny, moving, thoughtful & entertaining. Rousing chorus of Sweet Caroline sent the audience home smiling
It's more than a story about football - it's about who we are
And redemption
It's more than a story about football - it's about who we are
And redemption
May 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Just home from a great evening out @thelowry.com - Dear England is funny, moving, thoughtful & entertaining. Rousing chorus of Sweet Caroline sent the audience home smiling
It's more than a story about football - it's about who we are
And redemption
It's more than a story about football - it's about who we are
And redemption
We can only deal with what in front of us
The alternative to the deal we have is no deal & the threat to industries & jobs here
Yes a lower general tariff would be helpful but as far as I can tell not on offer
A different POTUS would be nice too but equally not in our gift
The alternative to the deal we have is no deal & the threat to industries & jobs here
Yes a lower general tariff would be helpful but as far as I can tell not on offer
A different POTUS would be nice too but equally not in our gift
"What happens if #Trump returns to negotiating table wanting far more than we've given?"
On the unreliability of #trumptariff deal with UK
w/ @peterjukes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social & Peter Geoghegan from Democracy For Sale
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
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On the unreliability of #trumptariff deal with UK
w/ @peterjukes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social & Peter Geoghegan from Democracy For Sale
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
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Byline Podcast: Deal or No Deal? Trump's UK Tariffs
Adrian Goldberg explores Donald Trump's tariff deal with the UK in the company of Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes, and Peter Geoghan from Democracy For Sale.Originally broadcast on Byline...
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May 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
We can only deal with what in front of us
The alternative to the deal we have is no deal & the threat to industries & jobs here
Yes a lower general tariff would be helpful but as far as I can tell not on offer
A different POTUS would be nice too but equally not in our gift
The alternative to the deal we have is no deal & the threat to industries & jobs here
Yes a lower general tariff would be helpful but as far as I can tell not on offer
A different POTUS would be nice too but equally not in our gift
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Been here and it's genuinely wonderful.
Adam Ramsay recounts how his parents' adoption of beavers has transformed their upland farm into a rich, biodiverse haven for birds, mammals, fish and amphibians
The Magic of Beavers
www.bylinesupplement.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Been here and it's genuinely wonderful.
I too was struck by the format (shared by other Penguin Cookery Books, I also have some Elizabeth David ones) - my copy from my mother, a good cook of a wide range of dishes. She served moussaka & was an early adopter of spaghetti bolognese & chilli
I'm going to give Mr Singh a go!
I'm going to give Mr Singh a go!
New on Substack: Who was Dharamjit Singh, the man who taught Britons how to cook Indian food?
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open.substack.com/pub/rostaylo...
An epicurean, a man of the world
Who was Dharamjit Singh, the man who taught Britons how to cook Indian food?
open.substack.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I too was struck by the format (shared by other Penguin Cookery Books, I also have some Elizabeth David ones) - my copy from my mother, a good cook of a wide range of dishes. She served moussaka & was an early adopter of spaghetti bolognese & chilli
I'm going to give Mr Singh a go!
I'm going to give Mr Singh a go!
Claire Fox on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social ignoring almost everything said supported by evidence & expressing her opinion at length, talking over the rest of the Panel
Poor
Poor
May 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Claire Fox on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social ignoring almost everything said supported by evidence & expressing her opinion at length, talking over the rest of the Panel
Poor
Poor
Quite
"Shortly before the 2024 election, Labour was polling at 44%, and now it struggles to stay above half that. Those people did not abandon the party over net zero, or over immigration. They voted for change, and everything the party says suggests they are instead delivering more of the same old shit."
Now Labour must change course
Copying Reform on immigration while cutting money from OAPs and the disabled has been a disaster
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Quite
This is bonkers
Green new deal will deliver sustainable jobs
Exactly what is needed
Election results about welfare (PIP) & winter fuel allowance
Putting ££ in pockets not taking away
Green new deal will deliver sustainable jobs
Exactly what is needed
Election results about welfare (PIP) & winter fuel allowance
Putting ££ in pockets not taking away
Labour MPs are starting to get nervous about net zero, after a disappointing set of election results
A minister cast doubt over Ed Miliband's political future
An MP said net zero could "play out the same way as Brexit"
Story by me & @matildamartin.bsky.social 👇
A minister cast doubt over Ed Miliband's political future
An MP said net zero could "play out the same way as Brexit"
Story by me & @matildamartin.bsky.social 👇
Labour Figures Starting To Get Nervous About Net Zero Following Local Election Results
Labour MPs are growing increasingly nervous about the government’s approach to net zero following Reform’s sweeping success in the local and mayora...
www.politicshome.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This is bonkers
Green new deal will deliver sustainable jobs
Exactly what is needed
Election results about welfare (PIP) & winter fuel allowance
Putting ££ in pockets not taking away
Green new deal will deliver sustainable jobs
Exactly what is needed
Election results about welfare (PIP) & winter fuel allowance
Putting ££ in pockets not taking away