Kate Oliver
kateoliver.bsky.social
Kate Oliver
@kateoliver.bsky.social
Grandy Kate: European green left feminist cycling and re-cycling through life; Chair Emerita and board advisor at Home-Start Bristol & South Gloucestershire supporting families with young children; director of Wernbrake Community Woodland
In our blood. In our water. In our babies. 🩸☠️💧Please ask @EmmaReynolds to stop the poisoning of Britain, and ban #ForeverChemicals immediately! 🚫 Join the @38_degrees consultation submission to #BanPFAs👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
Let’s flood the consultation to ban these poisons!
Linked to cancer, fertility issues, and birth defects -- forever chemicals (PFAS) are now found in our food, drinking water, and even our blood. When we reach 100k signatures, 38 Degrees will submit o...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I can't believe we are Actually seeing a mainstream politician openly say as need to be nice to refugees in 2025.

I wish Zack inspires movements across the world with his brand of politics
I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous.

People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.

We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Zack Polanski: Allow small boat migrants in and let them work
Green Party leader accuses Sir Keir Starmer of following Nigel Farage in ‘pushing racist rhetoric’ and calls JK Rowling’s stance on single-sex spaces ‘hateful’
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Energy bills are soaring, and the King is profiting at our expense. The King says he cares about the environment, so you’d expect him to stand behind cheap, clean power. Please will you sign the petition to demand the Crown Estate lower fees on seabeds and make wind farms more affordable to build?
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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BREAKING: We can reveal that QBE is the insurer behind Reform UK - the party campaigning to ❌scrap Net Zero, ❌scapegoat migrants, and ❌serve fossil fuel interests.

Tell #QBE to 🛑drop the contract 👉 actionnetwork.org/petitions/qb...

#BoycottBloodyInsurance #ReformUK
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
17 years in limbo. One year is too much for anyone. Wholesale overhaul of asylum system is needed based on humanity, morals, economics, evidence - which is not the way this Labour government is going about it, driven as it is by populism, not sound, long-term policy. @primeministeruk.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is what celebrity looks like for those of us who support the right to protest in many different and inclusive ways as this brave disability-defying woman exemplifies.
The Royal Courts of Justice will hear a Judicial Review over the ban on Palestine Action this week, launched by @lilwhuda, who recently embarrassed the Home Office further by stomping on their efforts to prevent the judicial review from happening

Sign up: wedonotcomply.org
Lift The Ban - Defend Our Juries
From November 18th to 29th, Defend Our Juries will launch the most widespread mass civil disobedience across the UK in modern British history. Find out more and get involved here. Following intensive ...
wedonotcomply.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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British five-year-olds are up to 7cm shorter than children of the same age in Europe, with experts suggesting poor nutrition is responsible. Yes, it bloody well is time the two-child benefit cap was scrapped.
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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England has the highest %age of urban/village roads in GB with unforgiving 30mph limits. When incidents happen the time/space to avoid them turning into crashes/casualties is minimised. England needs a Road Safety Strategy that facilitates and funds 20mph as an urban/village norm like Wales/Scotland
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Delivering 20 – Making 20mph Work. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
As 20mph limits become a defining feature of safer, more liveable streets across the UK, understanding how to deliver them successfully has never been more important. Delivering 20 – Making 20mph Work brings together leading experts to explore what the latest data, psychology, and policy thinking reveal about how communities can make lower speed limits effective, accepted, and enduring. This focused, one and a half hour session will unpack the behavioural and cultural factors that shape the success of 20mph implementation, drawing lessons from Wales and beyond. Attendees will gain insights from new casualty data, learn from behavioural science research, and hear reflections on the evidence behind national reviews and professional guidance. Topics include: • Data and delivery: Latest Welsh casualty figures and the speed limit exceptions review – compared with DfT 2024 data for England. • Insight Warehouse: Update/report on UK 20mph road mapping - how Local Authorities are already changing behaviour • Professional perspectives: Insights from the CIHT 2024 report on 20mph limits and evolving perceptions of their value. • Behavioural change: Understanding the “Goodwin Curve” and how it applies to implementing 20mph policies. Chaired by Adrian Berendt, this webinar will close with a live Q&A session, giving participants the opportunity to put questions to the panel and explore how best to navigate the challenges of change. Join us to learn how data, behaviour, and communication can combine to make 20mph work. Speakers Adrian Berendt, Director, 20's Plenty for Us CIC Sue Nicholls, Director and Media Coordinator, 20's Plenty for Us CIC Speaker TBC Kate Carpenter, Director of Operational Road Safety, Jacobs Phil Goodwin, Emeritus Professor of Transport Policy at UCL and UWE
us06web.zoom.us
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Banks are making record profits while our services are starved. 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS and schools. Please sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
#TaxTheBanks
Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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"Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests"
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Please sign the petition to demand the government taxes the super rich to rebuild our NHS, public transport, schools, social care, public toilets, community centres, libraries, youth and play services, parks and other public services. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Google wants to build an enormous new data centre in Essex - emitting 570,000 tonnes of CO2 and concreting a local wildlife site. Please tell the local council to refuse planning permission! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/th...
Thurrock Council - say no to Google's plan for a monster new Data Centre
Google wants to build an enormous new data centre in Essex - emitting 570,000 tonnes of CO2 and concreting a local wildlife site. Tell the local council to refuse planning permission!
www.foxglove.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The National Emergency Briefing on the grave threats posed by the #climate and #nature crisis, on the other hand, will still be going ahead next month, with experts including Lt General Richard Nugee on national security.

Has your MP confirmed yet? www.nebriefing.org
#TimeToStepUp
National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org
October 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Blaming snails for the housing crisis is misleading and harmful.

The lack of affordable homes stems from a broken market, land-banking and political failure. Not nature protections.

Every time nature is pit against progress, we end up with neither.
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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A common criticism of global warming is: “It’s only a few degrees”.
It may not sound like much but consider this…
Compare Earth’s escalating warmth to your body’s fever.
Now all of a sudden a few degrees is the difference between life and death!
Follow along for more… 1/
October 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Read CAAT's report on how the UK arms and supports Israel's genocide in Gaza: caat.org.uk/publications...
CAAT - How the UK arms and supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza
The UK is deeply complicit in supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza: through arms sales, RAF reconnaissance flights over Gaza, from which it is suspected intelligence is shared with Israel, training…
caat.org.uk
October 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
NHS dentistry is a mess: rising costs and appointments few and far between. The Government must properly fund our dental care, including all the children who currently cannot get to see an NSH dentist. Please will you join me and sign the 38 Degrees petition ? 38d.gs/supf
Save NHS dentistry now!
I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...
38d.gs
October 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Millions of people including children are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, please will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
Save NHS dentistry now!
I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds: Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries Adoption of a plant-rich “planetary health diet” could preven...
‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds
‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds: Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries Adoption of a plant-rich “planetary health diet” could preven...
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Michelle Mone is being forced to pay back £122m after supplying poor quality protective gear to our NHS during the pandemic. But she STILL hasn't been removed from the House of Lords. If you agree that Mone needs to go, please sign the petition today: 38d.gs/lrpq
Sign the petition: Michelle Mone should be removed from the House of Lords
This is big: Michelle Mone is being forced to pay back £122m after supplying poor quality protective gear to our NHS during the pandemic. But she STILL hasn't been kicked out of the House of Lords. Mo...
38d.gs
October 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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🚨LEGAL OPINION: UK nuke jets break international law! 🚨

A legal opinion sought by CND has found that Britain's purchase of nuclear-capable F-35A fighter jets violates its commitments under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty!

Read More: cnduk.org/legal-opinio...
September 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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On the blatant double standards the media - BBC included - deploys while showcasing Nigel Farage. He is constantly given a free pass not granted to other politicians. bylines.scot/news/the-far...
The Farage ‘mirage’: how the media is warping our politics
It is time that the media fulfils its role to critically examine politician’s statements and call them out when they stray from the truth
bylines.scot
September 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM