Roc Huskisson
@rochuskisson.bsky.social
Lancashire lass 🧀 loving life in Watford 🏟️ (via Italy 🇮🇹) running a mad house🏡, surrounded by teenagers and fantastic friends and family! 🥰 🤘😎
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Love Not Hate - sending prayers and healings to all those affected.
December 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Love Not Hate - sending prayers and healings to all those affected.
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The @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government recently announced a massive expansion of the free school meals programme. That will benefit thousands of children in #Watford and the pockets of their families.
June 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government recently announced a massive expansion of the free school meals programme. That will benefit thousands of children in #Watford and the pockets of their families.
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Herts Law Society annual dinner at Hatfield House on Friday 6 June. Fantastic evening and we were supporting the New Hope trust Homeless charity in Watford.
June 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Herts Law Society annual dinner at Hatfield House on Friday 6 June. Fantastic evening and we were supporting the New Hope trust Homeless charity in Watford.
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The UK has the worst paternity leave in Europe - two weeks at less than half the minimum wage. I joined @dadshiftuk.bsky.social to hang these baby grows in #Watford because this needs to change!
May 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The UK has the worst paternity leave in Europe - two weeks at less than half the minimum wage. I joined @dadshiftuk.bsky.social to hang these baby grows in #Watford because this needs to change!
@ucu.org.uk I managed just in time to make the UCU march in London!
May 12, 2025 at 5:27 AM
@ucu.org.uk I managed just in time to make the UCU march in London!
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Thank you to the thousands of members who joined and made our voices heard in the corridors of power and across the airwaves.
Power in the union. 👊#UCU and proud.
Power in the union. 👊#UCU and proud.
May 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Thank you to the thousands of members who joined and made our voices heard in the corridors of power and across the airwaves.
Power in the union. 👊#UCU and proud.
Power in the union. 👊#UCU and proud.
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Tender and joyous celebration of the life of Norman Tyrwhitt today. Very well-attended ceremony.
April 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Tender and joyous celebration of the life of Norman Tyrwhitt today. Very well-attended ceremony.
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Voters in Watford and Hertfordshire, it’s very important to remember this when heading to the polling station to vote tomorrow.
April 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Voters in Watford and Hertfordshire, it’s very important to remember this when heading to the polling station to vote tomorrow.
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26.30 this week on the park run, and down to the allotment, with Mrs Trebar, here’s an aquilegia i sowed last year which is thriving! #parkrun #allotment
April 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
26.30 this week on the park run, and down to the allotment, with Mrs Trebar, here’s an aquilegia i sowed last year which is thriving! #parkrun #allotment
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The reason why protest is essential to political change is that only when people *see* the scale of discontent do they realise they are not alone, and that the tide can turn.
April 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The reason why protest is essential to political change is that only when people *see* the scale of discontent do they realise they are not alone, and that the tide can turn.
This spring we celebrate 8 years on our ‘new’ allotment. It’s lovely at Holywell but it will never be Farm Terrace Allotments and there are still 195 historic plots lost forever. Hollywell allotment is now at full capacity and there is a VERY long waiting list… #allotments
April 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This spring we celebrate 8 years on our ‘new’ allotment. It’s lovely at Holywell but it will never be Farm Terrace Allotments and there are still 195 historic plots lost forever. Hollywell allotment is now at full capacity and there is a VERY long waiting list… #allotments
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12th parkrun over 13 weeks. Got Luca out as well, gorgeous morning, and just under 27 mins. Also this is our new community orchard plot. #parkrun #allotment
March 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
12th parkrun over 13 weeks. Got Luca out as well, gorgeous morning, and just under 27 mins. Also this is our new community orchard plot. #parkrun #allotment
Great to be out canvassing with @turmaine.bsky.social MP and County councillor Nigel Bell ahead of the county elections on May 1st! Vote Nigel Bell! 🌹🗳️
March 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Great to be out canvassing with @turmaine.bsky.social MP and County councillor Nigel Bell ahead of the county elections on May 1st! Vote Nigel Bell! 🌹🗳️
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Tonight, I voted for the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation! It’s time to #MakeWorkPay 😀💷
March 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Tonight, I voted for the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation! It’s time to #MakeWorkPay 😀💷
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This evening MPs voted for the biggest expansion of workers’ rights in decades.
Yet Conservative and Reform MPs — including self-proclaimed “man of the people” Nigel Farage — voted against.
They’re on the side of bad bosses, not the real creators of wealth: the working class.
Yet Conservative and Reform MPs — including self-proclaimed “man of the people” Nigel Farage — voted against.
They’re on the side of bad bosses, not the real creators of wealth: the working class.
March 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This evening MPs voted for the biggest expansion of workers’ rights in decades.
Yet Conservative and Reform MPs — including self-proclaimed “man of the people” Nigel Farage — voted against.
They’re on the side of bad bosses, not the real creators of wealth: the working class.
Yet Conservative and Reform MPs — including self-proclaimed “man of the people” Nigel Farage — voted against.
They’re on the side of bad bosses, not the real creators of wealth: the working class.
@massimotrebar.bsky.social - this just popped up on my memories. Our allotment on Holywell when we first got it!
March 10, 2025 at 6:36 AM
@massimotrebar.bsky.social - this just popped up on my memories. Our allotment on Holywell when we first got it!
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I have some new followers, so here I am with the paperback version of my book. Read it! Especially if you like stories about working people fighting and winning, or if you like to think about union democracy, labor history, and the transformative nature of resistance.
March 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I have some new followers, so here I am with the paperback version of my book. Read it! Especially if you like stories about working people fighting and winning, or if you like to think about union democracy, labor history, and the transformative nature of resistance.
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It's that time of the year. The Utrecht fish digi-doorbell opens today for the fifth time. You can watch a live feed and help migrating fish through the sluice gate. It's ace. Here's my piece about it from a couple of years ago www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
It’s lo-fi Attenborough! Why the internet’s going wild for a ‘fish doorbell’
QI has tweeted about it, American football players have put it on their TikTok and over a million viewers have been hooked in. All you do is wait for a fish, press a button – and save their lives
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It's that time of the year. The Utrecht fish digi-doorbell opens today for the fifth time. You can watch a live feed and help migrating fish through the sluice gate. It's ace. Here's my piece about it from a couple of years ago www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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9th park run in a row. Bit slower this week, played football which always slows me up. Got to allotment and almost there with completing raspberry bed.
March 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
9th park run in a row. Bit slower this week, played football which always slows me up. Got to allotment and almost there with completing raspberry bed.
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7th week in a row and down to 26.31, fastest this year. Luca was a bit slower, but at least he made it. And down to the allotment! #parkrun #allotment
February 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
7th week in a row and down to 26.31, fastest this year. Luca was a bit slower, but at least he made it. And down to the allotment! #parkrun #allotment
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‘We water, rest, water’: the green belt of vegetable plots cooling a city
‘We water, rest, water’: the green belt of vegetable plots cooling a city
A green belt circling the capital of Burkina Faso is preparing the country for the climate crisis
As far as the eye can see is a hodge-podge of trees, vegetable plots and water tanks. Up close it may look like a gigantic allotment, but this unusual…
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February 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
‘We water, rest, water’: the green belt of vegetable plots cooling a city
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Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
February 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
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I've just found out from this article that my whip still hasn't been restored.
Turns out speaking up for Palestine is still a punishable offence.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Turns out speaking up for Palestine is still a punishable offence.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Keir Starmer restores whip to Labour rebel MPs - but some left out
Keir Starmer suspended the group of seven Labour MPs in July 2024 after they supported an SNP amendment to the King's Speech to scrap the Tory two-child benefit limit
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February 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I've just found out from this article that my whip still hasn't been restored.
Turns out speaking up for Palestine is still a punishable offence.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Turns out speaking up for Palestine is still a punishable offence.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Latest from me: what a post-industrial town in Staffordshire told me about Donald Trump & the politics of the populist right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think Trumpism couldn't take root and flourish in Britain? Think again | John Harris
In the shadow of a defunct Amazon warehouse in Staffordshire, I spoke to people who felt the appeal of a strongman leader who ‘does what he says’, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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February 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Latest from me: what a post-industrial town in Staffordshire told me about Donald Trump & the politics of the populist right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...