Madeleine Greenhalgh
@madeleinegreen.bsky.social
she/her | Climate and social justice in rural Devon | Run Green New Deal Devon: gnddevon.org | mgreenhalgh523 on X
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⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
"island of strangers" and "squalid chapter". The more Labour say, the more relieved I am that I don't have their vote on my conscience.
May 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"island of strangers" and "squalid chapter". The more Labour say, the more relieved I am that I don't have their vote on my conscience.
When do I get to stop seeing the transphobic Observer on a Sunday, now they've separated from the Guardian?
The Observer view on Equality Act ruling: A dignified compromise that respects the rights of everyone | Editorial
The Observer view on Equality Act ruling: A dignified compromise that respects the rights of everyone | Editorial
The supreme court judgment gives protections to women at the same level as other groups
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
When do I get to stop seeing the transphobic Observer on a Sunday, now they've separated from the Guardian?
Trans women are women.
Trans men are men.
Trans men are men.
April 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Trans women are women.
Trans men are men.
Trans men are men.
I spotted this on Rightmove and flagged it to my local estate agent who don't seem particularly bothered... Am I overreacting or is this someone's racism on full display?
April 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I spotted this on Rightmove and flagged it to my local estate agent who don't seem particularly bothered... Am I overreacting or is this someone's racism on full display?
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IYCMI // SPECIAL REPORTS // South West peninsula devolution in disarray as Devon, Exeter, Plymouth, Torbay & Cornwall seek conflicting goals and seven Devon districts left out in cold.
exeterobserver.org/2025/01/29/s...
exeterobserver.org/2025/01/29/s...
South West peninsula devolution in disarray as Devon, Exeter, Plymouth, Torbay & Cornwall seek conflicting goals and seven Devon districts left out in cold - Exeter Observer
Contempt for local democracy laid bare by unlawful County Hall failure to publish plan to postpone local elections while Westminster looks set to back local Labour bids for disproportionate influence ...
exeterobserver.org
February 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
IYCMI // SPECIAL REPORTS // South West peninsula devolution in disarray as Devon, Exeter, Plymouth, Torbay & Cornwall seek conflicting goals and seven Devon districts left out in cold.
exeterobserver.org/2025/01/29/s...
exeterobserver.org/2025/01/29/s...
"Economic growth is more important to the UK government than net zero, Rachel Reeves has said"
Not surprised but shocked she's said it out loud. The logic that growth from a 3rd runway would raise money for net zero is nonsense. When would we even see ££ from Heathrow?! Far too late for the climate
Not surprised but shocked she's said it out loud. The logic that growth from a 3rd runway would raise money for net zero is nonsense. When would we even see ££ from Heathrow?! Far too late for the climate
New analysis: If four UK airport expansions including Heathrow are allowed to go ahead, they will cancel out the carbon savings of this government’s clean power plan IN JUST FIVE YEARS. This government must cancel these planned expansions.
neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp...
neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp...
January 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Economic growth is more important to the UK government than net zero, Rachel Reeves has said"
Not surprised but shocked she's said it out loud. The logic that growth from a 3rd runway would raise money for net zero is nonsense. When would we even see ££ from Heathrow?! Far too late for the climate
Not surprised but shocked she's said it out loud. The logic that growth from a 3rd runway would raise money for net zero is nonsense. When would we even see ££ from Heathrow?! Far too late for the climate
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⚡ NEW BLOG ⚡
tldr: financial markets caused temporary turmoil for the government this month, in a move that has likely now triggered public spending cuts, just to make "a quick buck"
(but you really should read it 👇)
positivemoney.org/update/how-d...
tldr: financial markets caused temporary turmoil for the government this month, in a move that has likely now triggered public spending cuts, just to make "a quick buck"
(but you really should read it 👇)
positivemoney.org/update/how-d...
How deregulation may have worsened Rachel Reeves’ bond market headache
If Labour wants to win the next election, they may have to depart from the failed orthodoxy that favours free-reigning financial markets coupled with cuts
positivemoney.org
January 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
⚡ NEW BLOG ⚡
tldr: financial markets caused temporary turmoil for the government this month, in a move that has likely now triggered public spending cuts, just to make "a quick buck"
(but you really should read it 👇)
positivemoney.org/update/how-d...
tldr: financial markets caused temporary turmoil for the government this month, in a move that has likely now triggered public spending cuts, just to make "a quick buck"
(but you really should read it 👇)
positivemoney.org/update/how-d...
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New analysis: If four UK airport expansions including Heathrow are allowed to go ahead, they will cancel out the carbon savings of this government’s clean power plan IN JUST FIVE YEARS. This government must cancel these planned expansions.
neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp...
neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp...
January 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
New analysis: If four UK airport expansions including Heathrow are allowed to go ahead, they will cancel out the carbon savings of this government’s clean power plan IN JUST FIVE YEARS. This government must cancel these planned expansions.
neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp...
neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp...
Of course. who could have predicted this
Labour councillors backed this cash-for-zero-affordable housing scam. Green councillors voted against.
We can't allow developers to buy their way out of providing what #Exeter desperately needs.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We can't allow developers to buy their way out of providing what #Exeter desperately needs.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Affordable housing scrapped from Exeter city centre development
The developer will now pay Exeter City Council at least £2m instead of providing affordable housing.
www.bbc.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Of course. who could have predicted this
Why are govts constantly beholden to markets for every move they make? As much as Liz Truss made crap decisions, I felt Corbyn would have had the same problem if he'd tried to implement opposite policies. We're at the mercy of rich individuals playing around with other people's money
Rachel Reeves faces another anxious week of second-guessing the City
Rachel Reeves faces another anxious week of second-guessing the City
Markets appear to be fretting over sustainability of tax and spending plans and whether UK is heading for ‘stagflation’
Rachel Reeves intended to spend January burnishing her reputation on the global stage with trips to Beijing and Davos, and flipping…
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Why are govts constantly beholden to markets for every move they make? As much as Liz Truss made crap decisions, I felt Corbyn would have had the same problem if he'd tried to implement opposite policies. We're at the mercy of rich individuals playing around with other people's money
My amazing sister has done absolutely fantastic work in the last few years to bring women's homelessness into public attention. How women experience homelessness is so different to the 'norm' and very varied - the Solace census has really brought this to light
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Hidden homeless crisis as hundreds more women sleep rough than official stats
A week-long charity census by the Single Homeless Project and Solace Women's Aid discovered more than 1,000 females had been on the streets – far higher than the government’s own count
www.mirror.co.uk
December 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM
My amazing sister has done absolutely fantastic work in the last few years to bring women's homelessness into public attention. How women experience homelessness is so different to the 'norm' and very varied - the Solace census has really brought this to light
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Excuse my indecorous language. I’m just so tired of this from Labour. It’s been decades now of choosing to ignore all of the available evidence on climate impacts. The kicker is aviation growth isn’t even good for an economy like the UK’s and hasn’t been for a long time
I don’t want to be harsh, but to say the things the aviation minister has said here you would have to know absolutely fuck all about it, or be comfortable with barefaced lying. Those are the only options travelweekly.co.uk/news/air/avi...
‘Aviation has to grow’ minister tells UK airport leaders | Travel Weekly
Conference told ‘judge us on what we deliver, not what we say’
travelweekly.co.uk
December 5, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Excuse my indecorous language. I’m just so tired of this from Labour. It’s been decades now of choosing to ignore all of the available evidence on climate impacts. The kicker is aviation growth isn’t even good for an economy like the UK’s and hasn’t been for a long time
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Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵
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December 4, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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My sister in law and her son will be massively affected by this. They've used the centres for over a decade and the impact of a change at this point will be life changing for her son. It just feels like people's lives are forgotten in the desperate attempts to save money (it's the same in Devon)
The sale of #Buckinghamshire Council's community assets gathers pace, with terrible impacts for vulnerable groups. This can't continue. The Tories have run Bucks for far too long. They need to go. www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/2476987...
‘It would ruin our lives’: Council warned against selling centres for disabled adults
Bucks Council’s plan to make millions of pounds by selling off centres for disabled adults ‘would ruin lives’, families have warned.
www.bucksfreepress.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 10:26 AM
My sister in law and her son will be massively affected by this. They've used the centres for over a decade and the impact of a change at this point will be life changing for her son. It just feels like people's lives are forgotten in the desperate attempts to save money (it's the same in Devon)
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God, imagine a world where disabled people didn't have to spend all our (often limited) energy fighting for treatment, for care, for access, for our lives.
The fight goes on.
The fight goes on.
November 29, 2024 at 2:45 PM
God, imagine a world where disabled people didn't have to spend all our (often limited) energy fighting for treatment, for care, for access, for our lives.
The fight goes on.
The fight goes on.
I do think assisted dying should be a thing in this country at some point, but I'm not sure we're ready for it as a society yet. We need functioning health, social and (state-funded!) palliative care services and we need to radically change our attitudes towards disabled people.
November 29, 2024 at 3:18 PM
I do think assisted dying should be a thing in this country at some point, but I'm not sure we're ready for it as a society yet. We need functioning health, social and (state-funded!) palliative care services and we need to radically change our attitudes towards disabled people.
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If you missed this yesterday, please help us out and add your voice to bring Manchester Police to account for this racist misconduct against Romani Gypsy and Traveller children!
Would you like to 'punch a nazi' today?
Here's a way to take REAL ACTION against racism taking place in the UK today in Manchester against Romani Gypsy and Traveller children. PLEASE contact Manchester Police and demand an explanation of their actions, bring them to account! Opre Roma! Please share!
Here's a way to take REAL ACTION against racism taking place in the UK today in Manchester against Romani Gypsy and Traveller children. PLEASE contact Manchester Police and demand an explanation of their actions, bring them to account! Opre Roma! Please share!
November 24, 2024 at 10:32 AM
If you missed this yesterday, please help us out and add your voice to bring Manchester Police to account for this racist misconduct against Romani Gypsy and Traveller children!
This is one the reasons I still think Twitter has value - showing the side of stories the media won't publish. Hoping more of this will come to Bluesky. Please sign below if you thought the coverage of Amsterdam violence was misleading and one-sided
🚨TOMORROW we hand in our complaint to Ofcom demanding they investigate Sky News’ coverage of Maccabi fans’ violence in Amsterdam
Today is the last chance to join the over 32k people who have added their name to support it.
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Today is the last chance to join the over 32k people who have added their name to support it.
Click to add your name:
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November 19, 2024 at 4:52 PM
This is one the reasons I still think Twitter has value - showing the side of stories the media won't publish. Hoping more of this will come to Bluesky. Please sign below if you thought the coverage of Amsterdam violence was misleading and one-sided
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Big day for reasoned debate on farms/inheritance today - a debate undermined by @BBCNews repeatedly and wrongly reporting as fact that “farms worth more than £1m would have to pay inheritance tax”. This is just flatly wrong in vast vast majority of cases
November 19, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Big day for reasoned debate on farms/inheritance today - a debate undermined by @BBCNews repeatedly and wrongly reporting as fact that “farms worth more than £1m would have to pay inheritance tax”. This is just flatly wrong in vast vast majority of cases