Thank you! And we are proud that our Chair, @franfd.bsky.social, contributed to 'When This is Over' - an important book. ❤️

But third and most important, the call for the Greens to back STV in the call for PR: 'First-Past-the-Post truly paves a road to a far-right hell for our country.... We need ... the Single Transferable Vote.'

All backed up through analysis of different measures of voters’ political opinions.

Second, the assessment that 'the Greens can safely target 100 or more Labour held seats that are out of the reach of Reform UK and the Conservatives, and be in with a very strong chance of taking them all.'

First, and perhaps not surprising, Ewan Hoyle's comment that "'The Green Party have a 5 point lead over Reform UK in the under 50s' is quite the headline that appears to have been overlooked."

The actual quote is "And why at the next election it won’t be the Conservatives v Labour, but the Greens against Reform."
A better ring to it, don't you think?

"Identifying the bodies is not just a question of restoring dignity to the dead; it is also necessary for the health of the living... [Pauline Boss] described the unresolved grief of relatives of the unidentified dead as an “ambiguous loss”

"Hundreds of families queue every day at hospitals and offices ... seeking information about missing relatives. Mughir said that at the civil defence headquarters in Gaza City alone, upwards of 30 families a day ask for help trying to locate and recover their loved ones."

“The whole world has seen the equipment that was brought in to retrieve the bodies of Israeli hostages [including bulldozers and excavators],” said Dr Mohammed al-Mughir, “We also need the same equipment to retrieve our bodies.”

I wasn't aware of that. It's complicated, and I can't speak for England, but in Caerphilly now the split vote between Plaid and the Greens may well lead to a Reform win which could be huge momentum-wise. The Senedd electoral system changes for May 2026 so whoever wins now won't be in post for long.

As I remember it, the problem in Ceredigion Green Party then was new arrivals who objected not to tactical voting but to Plaid's supposed 'nationalism'. Now GPEW and Plaid both support an independent Wales. And both are vehemently opposed to Reform, so Caerphilly makes no sense...

Exactly. And a formal joint campaign can be very successful. Cynog Dafis was elected as a joint Plaid Cymru–Green Party MP for Ceredigion in 1992.

Benjamin Zephaniah reading his poem People Need People on the One Show June 2020 in lockdown after George Floyd was killed, and talking about multicultural Britain