Morwenna Griffiths
@morwennag.bsky.social
Retired academic (education, feminism, social justice, research methods, etc). Now likes writing poetry, taking photographs and reading books.
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5 years after Brexit, it’s shamefully clear that UK is being left behind on environment policy. With few exceptions, Govt has *deliberately* chosen not to keep up with standards of EU neighbours. Worse, in a number of areas they’re planning to actively go backwards @ieep.eu
@europeanmovement.co.uk
@europeanmovement.co.uk
UK falling behind EU on environmental rules amid post-Brexit rollback
Exclusive: Labour ministers choosing to weaken green protections inherited from the bloc, analysis reveals
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
5 years after Brexit, it’s shamefully clear that UK is being left behind on environment policy. With few exceptions, Govt has *deliberately* chosen not to keep up with standards of EU neighbours. Worse, in a number of areas they’re planning to actively go backwards @ieep.eu
@europeanmovement.co.uk
@europeanmovement.co.uk
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"6 former Israeli hostages+widow of a slain hostage have released a video pleading with President Trump in English to support a comprehensive deal to make peace in Gaza so that the remaining hostages can be freed." + Mossad/IDF want Trump to stop the genocide.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israelis-u...
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israelis-u...
Israelis Understand That Trump Can End The Nightmare In Gaza. Americans Should Know This Too.
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
August 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"6 former Israeli hostages+widow of a slain hostage have released a video pleading with President Trump in English to support a comprehensive deal to make peace in Gaza so that the remaining hostages can be freed." + Mossad/IDF want Trump to stop the genocide.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israelis-u...
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israelis-u...
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This morning we've delivered an Open Letter, co-authored with Spokes, to the City Chambers - addressing the delays and deferrals of decisions on the East Area ‘Travelling Safely’ schemes, in London Rd, Willowbrae, Duddingston and beyond.
edi.bike/files/2025/p...
edi.bike/files/2025/p...
August 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This morning we've delivered an Open Letter, co-authored with Spokes, to the City Chambers - addressing the delays and deferrals of decisions on the East Area ‘Travelling Safely’ schemes, in London Rd, Willowbrae, Duddingston and beyond.
edi.bike/files/2025/p...
edi.bike/files/2025/p...
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🚨 BREAKING: 1,000 litres of “BLOOD” spills from a Shell platform in the North Sea.
Activists just installed a giant piece of protest art by world-famous artist Anish Kapoor to symbolise the DAMAGE oil giants like Shell are inflicting on people and planet.
Activists just installed a giant piece of protest art by world-famous artist Anish Kapoor to symbolise the DAMAGE oil giants like Shell are inflicting on people and planet.
August 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🚨 BREAKING: 1,000 litres of “BLOOD” spills from a Shell platform in the North Sea.
Activists just installed a giant piece of protest art by world-famous artist Anish Kapoor to symbolise the DAMAGE oil giants like Shell are inflicting on people and planet.
Activists just installed a giant piece of protest art by world-famous artist Anish Kapoor to symbolise the DAMAGE oil giants like Shell are inflicting on people and planet.
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Flower drawing in progress. Im not that fast, it’s a timelapse.
August 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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🚨 BREAKING: Activists just installed a giant piece of protest art on a gas platform to symbolise the DAMAGE fossil fuel giants like Shell are inflicting on people and planet.
Who else is FED UP of big oil polluting the planet and getting away with it?
Who else is FED UP of big oil polluting the planet and getting away with it?
August 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🚨 BREAKING: Activists just installed a giant piece of protest art on a gas platform to symbolise the DAMAGE fossil fuel giants like Shell are inflicting on people and planet.
Who else is FED UP of big oil polluting the planet and getting away with it?
Who else is FED UP of big oil polluting the planet and getting away with it?
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#ScottishPoetryEvents
LOUD POETS FRINGE 2025
Venue: Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
Dates: 1st, 8th, 14th, 21st Aug
Time: 8.30-9.45pm
Tickets: scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:61...
LOUD POETS FRINGE 2025
Venue: Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
Dates: 1st, 8th, 14th, 21st Aug
Time: 8.30-9.45pm
Tickets: scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:61...
July 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
#ScottishPoetryEvents
LOUD POETS FRINGE 2025
Venue: Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
Dates: 1st, 8th, 14th, 21st Aug
Time: 8.30-9.45pm
Tickets: scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:61...
LOUD POETS FRINGE 2025
Venue: Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
Dates: 1st, 8th, 14th, 21st Aug
Time: 8.30-9.45pm
Tickets: scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:61...
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Darkly funny: signs appearing across central London, protesting Starmer’s use of anti-terror laws against peaceful pro-Palestine protesters.
July 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Darkly funny: signs appearing across central London, protesting Starmer’s use of anti-terror laws against peaceful pro-Palestine protesters.
Hello @adriancoyle.bsky.social and @jennysanders.bsky.social I hardly ever look at bluesky but maybe I know you lovely people are here.
July 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Hello @adriancoyle.bsky.social and @jennysanders.bsky.social I hardly ever look at bluesky but maybe I know you lovely people are here.
I love this TED talk. It helps give some perspective on the news headlines that assail us every day and all the time. www.angushervey.com?ref=fixthene...
ANGUS HERVEY
www.angushervey.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I love this TED talk. It helps give some perspective on the news headlines that assail us every day and all the time. www.angushervey.com?ref=fixthene...
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What more is there to say. The USA/UK/Germany, to name the main culprits, will cry crocodile tears, perhaps. The genocide could have been stopped as soon as the ICC published its verdict. Soon a remnant of Gazans will be forcibly (called voluntarily) be pushed out.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/rafa...
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/rafa...
Rafah no longer exists. This is part of Israel’s plan to permanently occupy Gaza.
Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza’s territory into a giant buffer zone. This is part of Israel’s plan to permanently remain in Gaza and ethnically cleanse its people.
mondoweiss.net
April 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
What more is there to say. The USA/UK/Germany, to name the main culprits, will cry crocodile tears, perhaps. The genocide could have been stopped as soon as the ICC published its verdict. Soon a remnant of Gazans will be forcibly (called voluntarily) be pushed out.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/rafa...
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/rafa...
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Good news for fans of independent cinema in Edinburgh. The Filmhouse (@filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social) plans on reopening in June! www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/opening-th...
Opening the doors of Edinburgh Filmhouse
How the city's ‘fantastic four’ helped save art house cinema from life as a theme pub
www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk
April 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Good news for fans of independent cinema in Edinburgh. The Filmhouse (@filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social) plans on reopening in June! www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/opening-th...
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"If I knew where poems came from, I would go there." -- Michael Longley.
April 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
"If I knew where poems came from, I would go there." -- Michael Longley.
Nine of those that marched to demonstrate resistance against the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline have been remanded ahead of their trial, and are without basic provisions in Kampala's maximum security prison. If you're able to donate to support them, please do so here.
chuffed.org/project/stud...
chuffed.org/project/stud...
chuffed.org
April 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Nine of those that marched to demonstrate resistance against the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline have been remanded ahead of their trial, and are without basic provisions in Kampala's maximum security prison. If you're able to donate to support them, please do so here.
chuffed.org/project/stud...
chuffed.org/project/stud...
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This is called ‘The Futures aren’t Bright, the Futures are Orange’.
April 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is called ‘The Futures aren’t Bright, the Futures are Orange’.
Next Sunday poetry readings. 16 poets at the Story Telling Centre, Edinburgh. 11.30-12.30. Lunch available. I am one of the 16. #poems#poetry_readings#Edinburgh#School0fPoets#free
March 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Next Sunday poetry readings. 16 poets at the Story Telling Centre, Edinburgh. 11.30-12.30. Lunch available. I am one of the 16. #poems#poetry_readings#Edinburgh#School0fPoets#free
A tidy house, a tidy room
I look at them with envy.
I’d love to have a tidy place
Instead I’ve got high entropy
I’ve tried to please, to court and win
the gods of tidy living.
They turn their backs on all my pleas.
They stay aloof and unforgiving.
#poems#housework#tidyness#frustration#resignation
I look at them with envy.
I’d love to have a tidy place
Instead I’ve got high entropy
I’ve tried to please, to court and win
the gods of tidy living.
They turn their backs on all my pleas.
They stay aloof and unforgiving.
#poems#housework#tidyness#frustration#resignation
March 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A tidy house, a tidy room
I look at them with envy.
I’d love to have a tidy place
Instead I’ve got high entropy
I’ve tried to please, to court and win
the gods of tidy living.
They turn their backs on all my pleas.
They stay aloof and unforgiving.
#poems#housework#tidyness#frustration#resignation
I look at them with envy.
I’d love to have a tidy place
Instead I’ve got high entropy
I’ve tried to please, to court and win
the gods of tidy living.
They turn their backs on all my pleas.
They stay aloof and unforgiving.
#poems#housework#tidyness#frustration#resignation
A poem I wrote a couple of years ago about feminist philosophy in the 1980s and still relevant 40 years later. Modelled on one of my favourite Shakespeare sonnetsl #poem#philosophy#feminism#women#Shakespeare
March 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A poem I wrote a couple of years ago about feminist philosophy in the 1980s and still relevant 40 years later. Modelled on one of my favourite Shakespeare sonnetsl #poem#philosophy#feminism#women#Shakespeare
Some years ago these municipal crocuses were planted in serried ranks. They have broken free. Passing them today I noticed a single daffodil flowering. It brought on a haiku
Just one daffodil
in a crocus plantation
defiantly rogue
#crocus#daffodil#nature#haiku
Just one daffodil
in a crocus plantation
defiantly rogue
#crocus#daffodil#nature#haiku
March 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Some years ago these municipal crocuses were planted in serried ranks. They have broken free. Passing them today I noticed a single daffodil flowering. It brought on a haiku
Just one daffodil
in a crocus plantation
defiantly rogue
#crocus#daffodil#nature#haiku
Just one daffodil
in a crocus plantation
defiantly rogue
#crocus#daffodil#nature#haiku
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As @oxfamgb.bsky.social makes clear, Israel’s decision to block aid to over 2 million Palestinians Gaza is “a reckless act of collective punishment, and is explicitly prohibited under international humanitarian law”. Full Oxfam statement here: oxfam.org.uk/mc/yf84ug/
March 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
As @oxfamgb.bsky.social makes clear, Israel’s decision to block aid to over 2 million Palestinians Gaza is “a reckless act of collective punishment, and is explicitly prohibited under international humanitarian law”. Full Oxfam statement here: oxfam.org.uk/mc/yf84ug/
March 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Edinburgh Botanical Gardens
By what mechanics
do the Botanics
make us into romantics,
put us at ease
under their trees?
It’s no hocus pocus -
just a hill of white crocus
By what mechanics
do the Botanics
make us into romantics,
put us at ease
under their trees?
It’s no hocus pocus -
just a hill of white crocus
March 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The Edinburgh Botanical Gardens
By what mechanics
do the Botanics
make us into romantics,
put us at ease
under their trees?
It’s no hocus pocus -
just a hill of white crocus
By what mechanics
do the Botanics
make us into romantics,
put us at ease
under their trees?
It’s no hocus pocus -
just a hill of white crocus
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"Singing in the dark times."
Launching today, North Sea Poets - online poetry workshops, masterclasses and webinars:
northseapoets.com/about
Launching today, North Sea Poets - online poetry workshops, masterclasses and webinars:
northseapoets.com/about
The Poets | North Sea Poets
We are a collective of poets with national and international reputations. who believe in the importance of our artform.
northseapoets.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Singing in the dark times."
Launching today, North Sea Poets - online poetry workshops, masterclasses and webinars:
northseapoets.com/about
Launching today, North Sea Poets - online poetry workshops, masterclasses and webinars:
northseapoets.com/about
North Berwick Happiness
A day out, a sandy beach, blue sky,
seaweed, sea glass, shells and wispy cloud,
the sounds of the waves and the seagulls’ cry.
A day out, a sandy beach, blue sky,
seaweed, sea glass, shells and wispy cloud,
the sounds of the waves and the seagulls’ cry.
February 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
North Berwick Happiness
A day out, a sandy beach, blue sky,
seaweed, sea glass, shells and wispy cloud,
the sounds of the waves and the seagulls’ cry.
A day out, a sandy beach, blue sky,
seaweed, sea glass, shells and wispy cloud,
the sounds of the waves and the seagulls’ cry.
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With just a TINY tax on those with the broadest shoulders, we could have lower energy bills and cheaper public transport.
France have just voted for a tax on the super-rich. So what's the UK waiting for?
Add your name to demand a better future for us all. 👇 act.gp/4bk7NBS
France have just voted for a tax on the super-rich. So what's the UK waiting for?
Add your name to demand a better future for us all. 👇 act.gp/4bk7NBS
Tax the super-rich for a greener, fairer Britain
Britain is crying out for national renewal, and it’s climate solutions that can improve people’s lives starting tomorrow. Solutions that are achievable if those with the broadest shoulders - who also ...
act.gp
February 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
With just a TINY tax on those with the broadest shoulders, we could have lower energy bills and cheaper public transport.
France have just voted for a tax on the super-rich. So what's the UK waiting for?
Add your name to demand a better future for us all. 👇 act.gp/4bk7NBS
France have just voted for a tax on the super-rich. So what's the UK waiting for?
Add your name to demand a better future for us all. 👇 act.gp/4bk7NBS