Martin Skelton 🕊️
@hiyamartin.bsky.social
Cultural explorer: arts 🎭 heritage 🏰 education 📚 Interests inc. well-being🌱 Green things. Born 340ppm 🌎 | He/ him
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PRESS RELEASE: A person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than someone in the bottom 50% produces all year🔥
Our new report exposes how the super-rich are using their influence to keep the world hooked on fossil fuels.
👉 oxf.am/climate-plun...
Our new report exposes how the super-rich are using their influence to keep the world hooked on fossil fuels.
👉 oxf.am/climate-plun...
October 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
PRESS RELEASE: A person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than someone in the bottom 50% produces all year🔥
Our new report exposes how the super-rich are using their influence to keep the world hooked on fossil fuels.
👉 oxf.am/climate-plun...
Our new report exposes how the super-rich are using their influence to keep the world hooked on fossil fuels.
👉 oxf.am/climate-plun...
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As Reeves travels to Riyadh to discuss trade, Saudi Arabia is in the middle of an execution spree. The UK must not cosy up to regimes with appalling human rights records.
Trade deals can’t come at the cost of our values; our govt must not prioritise profit over human rights.
Trade deals can’t come at the cost of our values; our govt must not prioritise profit over human rights.
October 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
As Reeves travels to Riyadh to discuss trade, Saudi Arabia is in the middle of an execution spree. The UK must not cosy up to regimes with appalling human rights records.
Trade deals can’t come at the cost of our values; our govt must not prioritise profit over human rights.
Trade deals can’t come at the cost of our values; our govt must not prioritise profit over human rights.
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The Green Team out in force in Hale 💚 Click the link to donate to our crowdfunder and keep Hale Green 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lets-keep-...
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Green Team out in force in Hale 💚 Click the link to donate to our crowdfunder and keep Hale Green 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lets-keep-...
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Desertification and drought threaten lives and livelihoods across the planet.
Globally, 2.2 billion people lack access to safe water at home.
Urgent and meaningful #ClimateAction is needed to create a sustainable future for generations to come: www.unep.org/topics/clima...
Globally, 2.2 billion people lack access to safe water at home.
Urgent and meaningful #ClimateAction is needed to create a sustainable future for generations to come: www.unep.org/topics/clima...
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Desertification and drought threaten lives and livelihoods across the planet.
Globally, 2.2 billion people lack access to safe water at home.
Urgent and meaningful #ClimateAction is needed to create a sustainable future for generations to come: www.unep.org/topics/clima...
Globally, 2.2 billion people lack access to safe water at home.
Urgent and meaningful #ClimateAction is needed to create a sustainable future for generations to come: www.unep.org/topics/clima...
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Thousands of civilians killed.
Food, water, and aid weaponised.
Gaza reduced to rubble.
These are red lines, which the Israeli gvmt continues to cross.
The UK gvmt must take action now to avoid complicity in these atrocities. SHARE to amplify. #RedLineForGaza
Credit: khadijadraws
Food, water, and aid weaponised.
Gaza reduced to rubble.
These are red lines, which the Israeli gvmt continues to cross.
The UK gvmt must take action now to avoid complicity in these atrocities. SHARE to amplify. #RedLineForGaza
Credit: khadijadraws
October 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Thousands of civilians killed.
Food, water, and aid weaponised.
Gaza reduced to rubble.
These are red lines, which the Israeli gvmt continues to cross.
The UK gvmt must take action now to avoid complicity in these atrocities. SHARE to amplify. #RedLineForGaza
Credit: khadijadraws
Food, water, and aid weaponised.
Gaza reduced to rubble.
These are red lines, which the Israeli gvmt continues to cross.
The UK gvmt must take action now to avoid complicity in these atrocities. SHARE to amplify. #RedLineForGaza
Credit: khadijadraws
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October 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Needing this t-shirt #CarlaSaysWealthTax 👕💸
Just trying on some of the new @greenparty.org.uk merch available at conference 👕😅💅
#CarlaSaysWealthTax #GPC25
#CarlaSaysWealthTax #GPC25
October 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Needing this t-shirt #CarlaSaysWealthTax 👕💸
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Crew member Greta Thunberg aboard the boat Alma sends a message as the Global Sumud Flotilla fleet is only miles away from 20 unidentified vessels.
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Crew member Greta Thunberg aboard the boat Alma sends a message as the Global Sumud Flotilla fleet is only miles away from 20 unidentified vessels.
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Aviation expansion is a disaster for the climate crisis.
Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet.
Just big business & their own interests.
#Gatwick
Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet.
Just big business & their own interests.
#Gatwick
September 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Aviation expansion is a disaster for the climate crisis.
Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet.
Just big business & their own interests.
#Gatwick
Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet.
Just big business & their own interests.
#Gatwick
Keep unethical gambling companies away from our vulnerable communities.
| Rachel Reeves due to appear at gambling lobbyist's event amid tax review - The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
| Rachel Reeves due to appear at gambling lobbyist's event amid tax review - The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rachel Reeves due to appear at gambling lobbyist’s event amid tax review
Chancellor’s invitation criticised as ‘strange timing’ with Treasury looking at whether to raise duties on £12bn sector
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Keep unethical gambling companies away from our vulnerable communities.
| Rachel Reeves due to appear at gambling lobbyist's event amid tax review - The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
| Rachel Reeves due to appear at gambling lobbyist's event amid tax review - The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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"Art shouldn't be destroyed because it criticises the government"
- Jo Maugham
@goodlawproject.org
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/arts/design/banksy-destroyed.html
- Jo Maugham
@goodlawproject.org
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/arts/design/banksy-destroyed.html
British Courts Service Destroys Banksy Mural Depicting Attack by Judge
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Art shouldn't be destroyed because it criticises the government"
- Jo Maugham
@goodlawproject.org
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/arts/design/banksy-destroyed.html
- Jo Maugham
@goodlawproject.org
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/arts/design/banksy-destroyed.html
Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies’
On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Kazumi Matsui urges younger people to recognise ‘inhumane’ consequences of nuclear weapons as a deterrent
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.”
City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.
I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero
City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.
I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
yle.fi
July 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.”
City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.
I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero
City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.
I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero
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Stop scapegoating migrants.
Once responsible for housing in this country, he could have built more social homes, ended right to buy, brought in rent controls...
The housing system needs a total rethink to become centred on providing truly affordable homes & not landlord profits.
Once responsible for housing in this country, he could have built more social homes, ended right to buy, brought in rent controls...
The housing system needs a total rethink to become centred on providing truly affordable homes & not landlord profits.
Robert Jenrick claimed on X that mass migration is solely responsible for record-high rents. Here's what he's not telling you.
Is Robert Jenrick right to say mass migration is causing record-high rents?
www.bigissue.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Stop scapegoating migrants.
Once responsible for housing in this country, he could have built more social homes, ended right to buy, brought in rent controls...
The housing system needs a total rethink to become centred on providing truly affordable homes & not landlord profits.
Once responsible for housing in this country, he could have built more social homes, ended right to buy, brought in rent controls...
The housing system needs a total rethink to become centred on providing truly affordable homes & not landlord profits.
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Huge congratulations to Katie and the whole team.
So happy to see a brand new Green councillor in Liverpool! 🎉
So happy to see a brand new Green councillor in Liverpool! 🎉
Congratulations to Katie Jarman, the new Green Party councillor for Sefton Park in Liverpool. Katie run a really positive campaign and she will make a great community focused councillor 🟢🌱💚
July 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Huge congratulations to Katie and the whole team.
So happy to see a brand new Green councillor in Liverpool! 🎉
So happy to see a brand new Green councillor in Liverpool! 🎉
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Scary to see extreme heat become the norm in the UK - this will cost more and more lives.
What is govt doing to protect us from these effects of climate change that are already with us?
And how can they justify giving go-ahead to airport expansion which will worsen the crisis?
What is govt doing to protect us from these effects of climate change that are already with us?
And how can they justify giving go-ahead to airport expansion which will worsen the crisis?
July 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Scary to see extreme heat become the norm in the UK - this will cost more and more lives.
What is govt doing to protect us from these effects of climate change that are already with us?
And how can they justify giving go-ahead to airport expansion which will worsen the crisis?
What is govt doing to protect us from these effects of climate change that are already with us?
And how can they justify giving go-ahead to airport expansion which will worsen the crisis?
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It's #CleanAirDay so we're taking a look at the ways in which advertising drives air pollution.
From cars, to flights to fossil fuels: if it pollutes there's probably an advert for it!
adfreecities.org.uk/2025/06/push...
From cars, to flights to fossil fuels: if it pollutes there's probably an advert for it!
adfreecities.org.uk/2025/06/push...
Pushing pollution: a blog for Clean Air Day 2025 - Adfree Cities
June 19th is Clean Air Day, so we’re taking a look at the ways in which advertising promotes pollution. If you walk around any town or city and look at the ads you see on screens and billboards, it’s ...
adfreecities.org.uk
June 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It's #CleanAirDay so we're taking a look at the ways in which advertising drives air pollution.
From cars, to flights to fossil fuels: if it pollutes there's probably an advert for it!
adfreecities.org.uk/2025/06/push...
From cars, to flights to fossil fuels: if it pollutes there's probably an advert for it!
adfreecities.org.uk/2025/06/push...
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Big digital billboards can emit 11 homes' worth of energy and cause harmful light pollution - but local authorities aren't allowed to take this into account when deciding whether to allow them to be built. This week I called for this to be changed #BetterWithoutBillboards @adfreecities.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Big digital billboards can emit 11 homes' worth of energy and cause harmful light pollution - but local authorities aren't allowed to take this into account when deciding whether to allow them to be built. This week I called for this to be changed #BetterWithoutBillboards @adfreecities.bsky.social
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Today marks nine years since Jo Cox MP was murdered by a far-right extremist while serving her constituents in Batley and Spen.
Jo dedicated her life to building a fairer, more compassionate society, and her belief that “we have more in common than that which divides us” continues to resonate.
Jo dedicated her life to building a fairer, more compassionate society, and her belief that “we have more in common than that which divides us” continues to resonate.
June 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Today marks nine years since Jo Cox MP was murdered by a far-right extremist while serving her constituents in Batley and Spen.
Jo dedicated her life to building a fairer, more compassionate society, and her belief that “we have more in common than that which divides us” continues to resonate.
Jo dedicated her life to building a fairer, more compassionate society, and her belief that “we have more in common than that which divides us” continues to resonate.
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Excellent thread showing very clearly why vehicles with high fronts are so lethal.
I stood in front of a parked Range Rover last night and the bonnet height was at my shoulder level - well above my centre of gravity.
Cars with high bonnets should have no place on city streets.
I stood in front of a parked Range Rover last night and the bonnet height was at my shoulder level - well above my centre of gravity.
Cars with high bonnets should have no place on city streets.
NEW RESEARCH: new car bonnets are trending higher every year and drivers of high fronted cars unable to see children as old as nine 😱🚙🚸❗
#Carspreading is out of control. What’s the latest? 🧵1/8
@transenv.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org
#Carspreading is out of control. What’s the latest? 🧵1/8
@transenv.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org
June 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Excellent thread showing very clearly why vehicles with high fronts are so lethal.
I stood in front of a parked Range Rover last night and the bonnet height was at my shoulder level - well above my centre of gravity.
Cars with high bonnets should have no place on city streets.
I stood in front of a parked Range Rover last night and the bonnet height was at my shoulder level - well above my centre of gravity.
Cars with high bonnets should have no place on city streets.
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Sir David Attenborough’s new film calls for ban on destructive fishing methods
www.channel4.com/news/sir-att...
www.channel4.com/news/sir-att...
Sir David Attenborough’s new film calls for ban on destructive fishing methods
The problem of over-fishing is highlighted in Sir David Attenborough's new documentary - which has galvanised calls to ban destructive fishing methods
www.channel4.com
June 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Sir David Attenborough’s new film calls for ban on destructive fishing methods
www.channel4.com/news/sir-att...
www.channel4.com/news/sir-att...
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🔵 Feel Good Your Way, was created by @gmmoving.co.uk and young people across Greater Manchester to inspire parents, teachers and coaches to support teenage girls to move in a way that works for them and feel the mental health benefits as a result.
May 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🔵 Feel Good Your Way, was created by @gmmoving.co.uk and young people across Greater Manchester to inspire parents, teachers and coaches to support teenage girls to move in a way that works for them and feel the mental health benefits as a result.
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It's 3 years today since Shell was given the go-ahead to drill for new gas at Jackdaw field. It was later ruled unlawful, but self-styled "green" chancellor Rachel Reeves made clear she doesn't care 👇
Repost if you agree Govt should make a break with fossil fuel polluters to make a safer future
Repost if you agree Govt should make a break with fossil fuel polluters to make a safer future
Reeves backs Jackdaw and Rosebank developments in North Sea #energysky
Reeves backs Jackdaw and Rosebank developments in North Sea
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has indicated the Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas developments in the North Sea will go ahead despite a court ruling invalidating their approval.
The post Reeves backs Jackdaw and Rosebank developments in North Sea appeared first on Energy Voice.
dlvr.it
June 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It's 3 years today since Shell was given the go-ahead to drill for new gas at Jackdaw field. It was later ruled unlawful, but self-styled "green" chancellor Rachel Reeves made clear she doesn't care 👇
Repost if you agree Govt should make a break with fossil fuel polluters to make a safer future
Repost if you agree Govt should make a break with fossil fuel polluters to make a safer future
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Shocking: "Ukraine's Western allies have paid Russia more for its hydrocarbons than they have given Ukraine in aid".
Western reliance on Russian fossil fuels has an appalling human cost.
Sanctions on Russia need to be far stronger.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Western reliance on Russian fossil fuels has an appalling human cost.
Sanctions on Russia need to be far stronger.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the West is helping Russia to fund its war on Ukraine
Data shows that Russian fossil fuel revenues are three times higher than aid allocated to Ukraine.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Shocking: "Ukraine's Western allies have paid Russia more for its hydrocarbons than they have given Ukraine in aid".
Western reliance on Russian fossil fuels has an appalling human cost.
Sanctions on Russia need to be far stronger.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Western reliance on Russian fossil fuels has an appalling human cost.
Sanctions on Russia need to be far stronger.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"Serious crashes on 20mph and 30mph roads in Wales are the lowest since records began, according to new data."
Almost as if 20mph is a resounding policy success which has saved lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Almost as if 20mph is a resounding policy success which has saved lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Serious collisions on 20mph and 30mph roads at record low
New data reveals casualties were at a record low in 2024, despite plans to change some speed limits.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"Serious crashes on 20mph and 30mph roads in Wales are the lowest since records began, according to new data."
Almost as if 20mph is a resounding policy success which has saved lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Almost as if 20mph is a resounding policy success which has saved lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...