Insomniac
@insomniac2013.bsky.social
Fled twitter when it turned dark. Now excited to find a new light. NHS Consultant, big fan of the great work done by PAs, I think we should invest less in healthcare and more in public health. New member of the Green Party
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#Sudan: Following multiple reports of imminent attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Dar Zaghawa region of North Darfur, MSF was forced to cease activities, evacuate our teams and withdraw from Umbaru, Kornoy and Tina on Dec. 24.
December 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
#Sudan: Following multiple reports of imminent attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Dar Zaghawa region of North Darfur, MSF was forced to cease activities, evacuate our teams and withdraw from Umbaru, Kornoy and Tina on Dec. 24.
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Along with more than 50 other organisations, we have signed a letter to the Transport Secretary asking for the cycling and walking investment strategy to be more ambitious than it is.
Active travel should have a clear, long-term, fully deliverable national plan.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Active travel should have a clear, long-term, fully deliverable national plan.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Active travel groups call for clear targets on walking and cycling in England
Exclusive: Groups including British Cycling call for active travel strategy to be put on equal footing with road and rail
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Along with more than 50 other organisations, we have signed a letter to the Transport Secretary asking for the cycling and walking investment strategy to be more ambitious than it is.
Active travel should have a clear, long-term, fully deliverable national plan.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Active travel should have a clear, long-term, fully deliverable national plan.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Since 2020, three of the five worst harvests on record have hit the UK.
This year, we saw the hottest and driest spring on record, then the hottest summer. Drought conditions spread across the country, resulting in the second-worst harvest since records began.
This year, we saw the hottest and driest spring on record, then the hottest summer. Drought conditions spread across the country, resulting in the second-worst harvest since records began.
December 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Since 2020, three of the five worst harvests on record have hit the UK.
This year, we saw the hottest and driest spring on record, then the hottest summer. Drought conditions spread across the country, resulting in the second-worst harvest since records began.
This year, we saw the hottest and driest spring on record, then the hottest summer. Drought conditions spread across the country, resulting in the second-worst harvest since records began.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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As Israel have been allowed to compete in Eurovision 2026, the UK must follow in the footsteps of Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands and boycott the competition.
The world's largest live music event cannot be used to whitewash Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The world's largest live music event cannot be used to whitewash Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
December 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
As Israel have been allowed to compete in Eurovision 2026, the UK must follow in the footsteps of Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands and boycott the competition.
The world's largest live music event cannot be used to whitewash Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The world's largest live music event cannot be used to whitewash Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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Why tf would a hypothetical trans woman be a member of a fashy party like UK Labour in 2026?
Why isn't that hypothetical trans woman in the Greens? 🤔
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Why isn't that hypothetical trans woman in the Greens? 🤔
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026
All delegates will be able to attend fringe programme as party tries to find compromise while complying with supreme court ruling on gender
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Why tf would a hypothetical trans woman be a member of a fashy party like UK Labour in 2026?
Why isn't that hypothetical trans woman in the Greens? 🤔
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Why isn't that hypothetical trans woman in the Greens? 🤔
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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A million minutes ago? Its 2023.
A billion minutes ago? Its the Roman Empire.
A trillion minutes ago? Its the Pleistocene era.
#TaxWealthNotWork
A billion minutes ago? Its the Roman Empire.
A trillion minutes ago? Its the Pleistocene era.
#TaxWealthNotWork
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A million minutes ago? Its 2023.
A billion minutes ago? Its the Roman Empire.
A trillion minutes ago? Its the Pleistocene era.
#TaxWealthNotWork
A billion minutes ago? Its the Roman Empire.
A trillion minutes ago? Its the Pleistocene era.
#TaxWealthNotWork
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This got the largest applause of the night on BBCQT, and well deserved too 👇
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This got the largest applause of the night on BBCQT, and well deserved too 👇
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Four questions for people who say their driving is essential:
1. why is it essential to drive THAT car?
2. do you drive it as little as possible?
3. why is it essential to drive it that fast?
4. why do you need priority over people who aren't driving?
1. why is it essential to drive THAT car?
2. do you drive it as little as possible?
3. why is it essential to drive it that fast?
4. why do you need priority over people who aren't driving?
May 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Four questions for people who say their driving is essential:
1. why is it essential to drive THAT car?
2. do you drive it as little as possible?
3. why is it essential to drive it that fast?
4. why do you need priority over people who aren't driving?
1. why is it essential to drive THAT car?
2. do you drive it as little as possible?
3. why is it essential to drive it that fast?
4. why do you need priority over people who aren't driving?
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It's December. You're panicking about buying things for people. Why not consider an alternative gift, by making a donation to support the work of @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk?
WfW works to ensure that everyone can access the benefits of cycling. Donate here: cafdonate.cafonline.org/11192#!/Dona...
WfW works to ensure that everyone can access the benefits of cycling. Donate here: cafdonate.cafonline.org/11192#!/Dona...
Wheels for Wellbeing - Donate now
cafdonate.cafonline.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
It's December. You're panicking about buying things for people. Why not consider an alternative gift, by making a donation to support the work of @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk?
WfW works to ensure that everyone can access the benefits of cycling. Donate here: cafdonate.cafonline.org/11192#!/Dona...
WfW works to ensure that everyone can access the benefits of cycling. Donate here: cafdonate.cafonline.org/11192#!/Dona...
Year on year we know where the next collision killing or severely injuring road users will happen yet nothing changes.
If you live in London, please use this LCC action to write to the Mayor of London calling for action
If you live in London, please use this LCC action to write to the Mayor of London calling for action
👨💻 Emailed the Mayor to call for safer junctions?
🚧 Urgent action is needed across London, and especially in Wandsworth, if the most dangerous junctions are going to be made safe for cycling...
📨 Email the Mayor today: bit.ly/47QcmUF
🚧 Urgent action is needed across London, and especially in Wandsworth, if the most dangerous junctions are going to be made safe for cycling...
📨 Email the Mayor today: bit.ly/47QcmUF
November 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Year on year we know where the next collision killing or severely injuring road users will happen yet nothing changes.
If you live in London, please use this LCC action to write to the Mayor of London calling for action
If you live in London, please use this LCC action to write to the Mayor of London calling for action
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People complain when the bikes are on the pavement, but also don’t want to give up a single parking space…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Mind-boggling' e-bike parking pen to be moved from Nottingham road
The metal fencing has been bolted into a parking area at the side of a road, close to a junction.
www.bbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
People complain when the bikes are on the pavement, but also don’t want to give up a single parking space…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
@nhsmillion.bsky.social blaming again.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025....
@theguardian.com I expect more from you.
Focus on women in infertility is a long term misogynistic problem. In many cultures women are abandoned if the don’t produce a baby, no questions asked.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025....
@theguardian.com I expect more from you.
Focus on women in infertility is a long term misogynistic problem. In many cultures women are abandoned if the don’t produce a baby, no questions asked.
‘It was soul destroying’: men on the struggle to get answers about infertility
Failure by GPs to diagnose treatable causes had huge time, money and mental health costs for these men
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
@nhsmillion.bsky.social blaming again.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025....
@theguardian.com I expect more from you.
Focus on women in infertility is a long term misogynistic problem. In many cultures women are abandoned if the don’t produce a baby, no questions asked.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025....
@theguardian.com I expect more from you.
Focus on women in infertility is a long term misogynistic problem. In many cultures women are abandoned if the don’t produce a baby, no questions asked.
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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Zack Polanski, along with a group of MPs and campaigners, has left a massive pile of 'wealth tax revenue' cash outside Parliament this morning
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Zack Polanski, along with a group of MPs and campaigners, has left a massive pile of 'wealth tax revenue' cash outside Parliament this morning
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lord Cameron reveals he had prostate cancer
In other words, he has been told he has a cancer gone through a load of unpleasant invasive expensive treatment, for something that most likely would never have harmed him. #overtreatment #overdiagnosis
In other words, he has been told he has a cancer gone through a load of unpleasant invasive expensive treatment, for something that most likely would never have harmed him. #overtreatment #overdiagnosis
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Lord Cameron reveals he had prostate cancer
In other words, he has been told he has a cancer gone through a load of unpleasant invasive expensive treatment, for something that most likely would never have harmed him. #overtreatment #overdiagnosis
In other words, he has been told he has a cancer gone through a load of unpleasant invasive expensive treatment, for something that most likely would never have harmed him. #overtreatment #overdiagnosis
And if your kids travel to school actively it’s likely that this will improve their academic achievements
Have you been looking around primary schools recently?
When looking, have you thought about #AirPollution and the impact of how you travel to a particular school?
Can you choose a school you can walk, scoot, cycle or wheel to? You'll be making that journey around 2,730 times over the next 7 years!
When looking, have you thought about #AirPollution and the impact of how you travel to a particular school?
Can you choose a school you can walk, scoot, cycle or wheel to? You'll be making that journey around 2,730 times over the next 7 years!
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
And if your kids travel to school actively it’s likely that this will improve their academic achievements
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Have you been looking around primary schools recently?
When looking, have you thought about #AirPollution and the impact of how you travel to a particular school?
Can you choose a school you can walk, scoot, cycle or wheel to? You'll be making that journey around 2,730 times over the next 7 years!
When looking, have you thought about #AirPollution and the impact of how you travel to a particular school?
Can you choose a school you can walk, scoot, cycle or wheel to? You'll be making that journey around 2,730 times over the next 7 years!
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Have you been looking around primary schools recently?
When looking, have you thought about #AirPollution and the impact of how you travel to a particular school?
Can you choose a school you can walk, scoot, cycle or wheel to? You'll be making that journey around 2,730 times over the next 7 years!
When looking, have you thought about #AirPollution and the impact of how you travel to a particular school?
Can you choose a school you can walk, scoot, cycle or wheel to? You'll be making that journey around 2,730 times over the next 7 years!
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I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
How Labour Negate Progressive Ideas Through ‘Divide and Rule’ | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
Podcast Episode · Bold Politics with Zack Polanski · 19/11/2025 · 40m
podcasts.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
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At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
Proud to work with Anna Goodman and team @lshtm.bsky.social on this Editorial for @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Reducing the harms from ever larger cars
Parking policy, taxation, and regulation could help curb sales and health risks
Sports utility vehicles (SUVs) are passenger cars that have a chassis with extra ground clearance and are generally tal...
www.bmj.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Proud to work with Anna Goodman and team @lshtm.bsky.social on this Editorial for @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
This is exactly why I joined the Green Party.
I never thought I'd join a political party but, after Zack giving us hope that the UK can be run for the benefit of all, I decided I had to throw my (extremely light) weight behind the Greens.
If you want the UK to be for everyone and not just billionaires why not join too?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
If you want the UK to be for everyone and not just billionaires why not join too?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is exactly why I joined the Green Party.
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Help save nature by rewilding the Church’s massive landholdings!
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences.
They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...