Paul
@paulhutchings.bsky.social
Politics and wild walking. Former researcher and charity director, nowp mmp reincarnating as a teacher. Also very much #RefugeesWelcome
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Tomorrow I'll be on Laura Kuenssberg.
Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?
It's tantalisingly close to happening!
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Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?
It's tantalisingly close to happening!
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October 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Tomorrow I'll be on Laura Kuenssberg.
Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?
It's tantalisingly close to happening!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?
It's tantalisingly close to happening!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
"we live quietly, we live in peace and we learn from each other" some sanity, ¡Viva Villamalea! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance
Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"we live quietly, we live in peace and we learn from each other" some sanity, ¡Viva Villamalea! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
This is performative nonsense that just speeds our rush to a cruel and xenophobic island of flag wavers. And it won't help electorally. What a way to spaff that majority
Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:
Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering
Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering
September 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This is performative nonsense that just speeds our rush to a cruel and xenophobic island of flag wavers. And it won't help electorally. What a way to spaff that majority
Brilliant news, well done brave Moldova
The pro-EU Party of Action & Solidarity has crushed the pro-Russia Patriotic Electoral Bloc in the Moldovan election.
It won 51 seats - an outright majority.
Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership.
A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.
It won 51 seats - an outright majority.
Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership.
A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.
September 29, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Brilliant news, well done brave Moldova
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The micro-aggressions are daily, the abuse regular, and the threat of violence constant. I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who feel different. Because only then you might glean what those flags going up signify to someone who looks like me. 3/
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The micro-aggressions are daily, the abuse regular, and the threat of violence constant. I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who feel different. Because only then you might glean what those flags going up signify to someone who looks like me. 3/
This is an incredibly stupid idea
Labour set to 'move asylum seekers from hotels into military barracks'
Labour set to 'move asylum seekers from hotels into military barracks'
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is reportedly set to unveil plans to move asylum seekers being housed in hotels to barracks at former military bases, as the government seeks to toughen its immigration policies.
news.sky.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This is an incredibly stupid idea
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Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
Brutal
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Brutal
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Twice had to explain to different people that care home staff don't "stand around playing on their phones" while others are working, they're keeping a real-time record of every patient's handling on the care home's app.
August 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Twice had to explain to different people that care home staff don't "stand around playing on their phones" while others are working, they're keeping a real-time record of every patient's handling on the care home's app.
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Many of us would much rather share our country with people that risked their life to be here, than those who are born here but spend all of their time & energy on resentment, hatred, and conspiring to harm.
July 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Many of us would much rather share our country with people that risked their life to be here, than those who are born here but spend all of their time & energy on resentment, hatred, and conspiring to harm.
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KIDS IN THE CAGES by The Neighborhood Kids
July 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
KIDS IN THE CAGES by The Neighborhood Kids
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... some good news
UK sales of new Tesla cars slump by more than a third amid Musk backlash
Electric carmaker sold 36% fewer cars year on year in May as it loses ground to China’s BYD and other rivals
www.theguardian.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... some good news
History is going to declare that this was genocide and the world stood by. What unbearable cruelty and suffering www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Gaza doctor who lost nine children in Israeli airstrike dies from wounds in same attack
Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, was critically injured when Israeli forces bombed the family house in Khan Younis
www.theguardian.com
June 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
History is going to declare that this was genocide and the world stood by. What unbearable cruelty and suffering www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
What they gave looks ok, but *how* you give is critical. People penned in, at gunpoint, not enough food, not enough infrastructure, hostile relationships - all wrong with inevitable chaos and harm www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
BBC Verify examines footage of chaos at aid site in Gaza
The UN Human Rights Office has said it believes 47 people were injured in Gaza on Tuesday when crowds overwhelmed an aid distribution centre run by a controversial US and Israeli-backed group.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
What they gave looks ok, but *how* you give is critical. People penned in, at gunpoint, not enough food, not enough infrastructure, hostile relationships - all wrong with inevitable chaos and harm www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Hopefully www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Is Angela Rayner positioning herself for a Starmer succession race?
Whoever leaked deputy PM’s memo to the Telegraph, some believe it will have helped her leadership chances
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Hopefully www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Going to have to stop exasperating 'And this from a Labour government.' It's a new party that is unrecognisable. Mean-spirited, pandering to the right, lacking vision, incoherent
May 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Going to have to stop exasperating 'And this from a Labour government.' It's a new party that is unrecognisable. Mean-spirited, pandering to the right, lacking vision, incoherent
Extraordinary inspirational story of understanding on VE Day anniversary of two sons whose fathers were on different sides of the war #r4today
May 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Extraordinary inspirational story of understanding on VE Day anniversary of two sons whose fathers were on different sides of the war #r4today
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
The gorse in Scotland is looking magnificent
April 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The gorse in Scotland is looking magnificent
Waking up with the Song Thrush
April 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Waking up with the Song Thrush
4 glorious nights in a more sane world, this one of our camping spots near the Falls of Glomach
April 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
4 glorious nights in a more sane world, this one of our camping spots near the Falls of Glomach
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Lo del traslado de gente a cárceles del Salvador son desparecidos, hay que dejarse de eufemismos, son desaparecidos. Mañana podrían decidir tirarlos al mar desde el avión. A gente que cogen al azar por la calle. Esta es la realidad de EEUU. Si esto termina tiene que haber un juicio de Nuremberg
April 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Lo del traslado de gente a cárceles del Salvador son desparecidos, hay que dejarse de eufemismos, son desaparecidos. Mañana podrían decidir tirarlos al mar desde el avión. A gente que cogen al azar por la calle. Esta es la realidad de EEUU. Si esto termina tiene que haber un juicio de Nuremberg
Strong 'hold my beer' energy from Trump to Truss
April 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Strong 'hold my beer' energy from Trump to Truss
"welcoming people is not just morally right but also beneficial" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘It’s helping me build my future’: empowering migrant and refugee families in a London borough of sanctuary
In Islington, a panel of people with migrant and refugee backgrounds is allocating £500,000 in grants to directly help new arrivals who are where they once were
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"welcoming people is not just morally right but also beneficial" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :)
Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.
Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.
February 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :)
Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.
Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.