Tara Hawes
@tarahawes.bsky.social
Kiwi DJ & edtech leader living in MK/UK with my cat Rosa. Head of Digital Platform Delivery @CUOL. SFHEA. DJing for fun as FlibbertiGibbet & half of Amaluna. Free-Spirit Records resident DJ. Strategy Advisor @Psy-Sisters: psysisters.com
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URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts
To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money
petition.parliament.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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This is very good
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is very good
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Clearing the Air answers all your burning questions about the net-zero transition, with optimistic, data-led insights designed to address misinformation about climate change, says Madeleine Cuff
Hannah Ritchie's new book on net zero is a breath of fresh air
Clearing the Air answers all your burning questions about the net-zero transition, with optimistic, data-led insights designed to address misinformation about climate change, says Madeleine Cuff
www.newscientist.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Clearing the Air answers all your burning questions about the net-zero transition, with optimistic, data-led insights designed to address misinformation about climate change, says Madeleine Cuff
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If you need something to read while AWS failures make the internet all wonky, this is incredible.
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/a-h...
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/a-h...
A history of Pacific nuclear testing and the successful campaign to stop it - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Despite a name suggesting peace and tranquillity, about 325 nuclear weapons were detonated in the Pacific region by the governments of the USA, Britain and France between 1946 and 1996. The total cumu...
www.greenpeace.org
October 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
If you need something to read while AWS failures make the internet all wonky, this is incredible.
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/a-h...
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/a-h...
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The people who build their heaven on your land are telling you that yours is in the sky. - Nina Simone
Pic of the day
#photography
Pic of the day
#photography
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The people who build their heaven on your land are telling you that yours is in the sky. - Nina Simone
Pic of the day
#photography
Pic of the day
#photography
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Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
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Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.
It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.
Investigation now!
#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes
It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.
Investigation now!
#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes
October 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.
It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.
Investigation now!
#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes
It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.
Investigation now!
#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes
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The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show
bylinetimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
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If you could take the men & women who won the Second World War, and show them what people who claim to venerate their memory are doing to the country and its ideals, you would make some very unhappy spirits indeed.
🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:
October 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
If you could take the men & women who won the Second World War, and show them what people who claim to venerate their memory are doing to the country and its ideals, you would make some very unhappy spirits indeed.
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The U.S. government's attempts to stop this report from being published make it especially worth reading.
The U.S. government doesn't want you to read this report on Israel's business deals
The report submitted to the U.N. details how Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories has evolved into an “economy of genocide.”
reason.pub
October 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The U.S. government's attempts to stop this report from being published make it especially worth reading.
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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 kick out of the House of Lords. Mone has to go. Agree? 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 kick out of the House of Lords. Mone...
38d.gs
October 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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 kick out of the House of Lords. Mone has to go. Agree? Sign the petition today: 38d.gs/lrpq
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October 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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BREAKING
More than 70 activists from 17 countries have joined Greenpeace Belgium in blockading Putin's and Trump’s fossil gas at Belgian LNG terminal using kayaks and giant inflatable heads
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
#StopFossilGas #ClimateCrisis
More than 70 activists from 17 countries have joined Greenpeace Belgium in blockading Putin's and Trump’s fossil gas at Belgian LNG terminal using kayaks and giant inflatable heads
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
#StopFossilGas #ClimateCrisis
Ongoing blockade against Putin’s and Trump’s gas at the Zeebrugge terminal in Belgium - Greenpeace International
Activists from 17 countries have joined a blockade of the Zeebrugge liquified gas terminal, in protest of Europe’s dependence on gas imports from the US and Russia.
www.greenpeace.org
October 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
BREAKING
More than 70 activists from 17 countries have joined Greenpeace Belgium in blockading Putin's and Trump’s fossil gas at Belgian LNG terminal using kayaks and giant inflatable heads
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
#StopFossilGas #ClimateCrisis
More than 70 activists from 17 countries have joined Greenpeace Belgium in blockading Putin's and Trump’s fossil gas at Belgian LNG terminal using kayaks and giant inflatable heads
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
#StopFossilGas #ClimateCrisis
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This is fascinating, 94% of college students had heard of Charlie Kirk - and 70% of those who heard of him disagreed with him puck.news/what-college...
What College Students Really Think of Charlie Kirk
New data from Generation Lab undercuts Trump’s mythmaking about his murdered ally, who was unquestionably a savvy organizer, even if he wasn’t at all popular on the campuses he loved to visit.
puck.news
September 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This is fascinating, 94% of college students had heard of Charlie Kirk - and 70% of those who heard of him disagreed with him puck.news/what-college...
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I don’t have a lot of time for petitions any more but this one has got to have legs. Because Musk is an ignorant, entitled, too-rich-to-care-about-the-harm-he-does arsehole.
There are lines you don’t cross and he’s crossed them multiple times with NO GOV pushback
So I’ve signed
I hope you do too
There are lines you don’t cross and he’s crossed them multiple times with NO GOV pushback
So I’ve signed
I hope you do too
Progressive outlet The Lead have launched a petition to ban Elon Musk from the UK following his incitement at the Tommy Robinson demo.
Perhaps someone will launch one for Govt departments and politicians to ditch X...
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
Perhaps someone will launch one for Govt departments and politicians to ditch X...
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
Petition: Ban Elon Musk from the UK
We call on the Home Secretary to act following Musk's vile words and hatred stirring at the 'Unite The Kingdom' rally. Sign our petition now and get Elon Musk banned.
open.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I don’t have a lot of time for petitions any more but this one has got to have legs. Because Musk is an ignorant, entitled, too-rich-to-care-about-the-harm-he-does arsehole.
There are lines you don’t cross and he’s crossed them multiple times with NO GOV pushback
So I’ve signed
I hope you do too
There are lines you don’t cross and he’s crossed them multiple times with NO GOV pushback
So I’ve signed
I hope you do too
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A growing number of Labour voices now demanding Keir Starmer start taking on Elon Musk and the far-right.
Here Labour MP Noah Law writes for Byline Times on why it's time for the Government to quit Twitter and start treating Musk as the 'foreign extremist' he now is
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...
Here Labour MP Noah Law writes for Byline Times on why it's time for the Government to quit Twitter and start treating Musk as the 'foreign extremist' he now is
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...
'My Government Must Quit Twitter and Call Out Elon Musk's Far-Right Hate'
Labour MP Noah Law explains why it's time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the 'foreign extremist' he now is
bylinetimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A growing number of Labour voices now demanding Keir Starmer start taking on Elon Musk and the far-right.
Here Labour MP Noah Law writes for Byline Times on why it's time for the Government to quit Twitter and start treating Musk as the 'foreign extremist' he now is
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...
Here Labour MP Noah Law writes for Byline Times on why it's time for the Government to quit Twitter and start treating Musk as the 'foreign extremist' he now is
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...
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Nigel Farage & Reform Party
want a US-style health system
where millionaires
get the very best care
and everyone else
is either bankrupted
or left to die
meme via TGL - The Good Life
want a US-style health system
where millionaires
get the very best care
and everyone else
is either bankrupted
or left to die
meme via TGL - The Good Life
September 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Nigel Farage & Reform Party
want a US-style health system
where millionaires
get the very best care
and everyone else
is either bankrupted
or left to die
meme via TGL - The Good Life
want a US-style health system
where millionaires
get the very best care
and everyone else
is either bankrupted
or left to die
meme via TGL - The Good Life
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Farage’s “probity and judgment were sold as the product called Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit.”
And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out.
What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out.
What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr
Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Farage’s “probity and judgment were sold as the product called Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit.”
And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out.
What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out.
What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As Farage parades around the studios and airwaves today can reporters please ask him why there were no Channel crossings prior to the Brexit which he claimed would "take back control of our borders".
Thanks
Thanks
August 26, 2025 at 6:16 AM
As Farage parades around the studios and airwaves today can reporters please ask him why there were no Channel crossings prior to the Brexit which he claimed would "take back control of our borders".
Thanks
Thanks
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Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”
August 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”
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Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
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Last night fighting an ex Liz Truss minister (for goodness sake) on Newsnight about what to do about asylum accommodation.
Pitch forks are dictating UK asylum policy now. 🤦♀️
My thanks as always to the brilliant @implausibleblog.bsky.social for the clip ❤️🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8auh...
Pitch forks are dictating UK asylum policy now. 🤦♀️
My thanks as always to the brilliant @implausibleblog.bsky.social for the clip ❤️🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8auh...
Epping asylum hotel CLOSED BY MOB RULE? Where should they go?
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
www.youtube.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Last night fighting an ex Liz Truss minister (for goodness sake) on Newsnight about what to do about asylum accommodation.
Pitch forks are dictating UK asylum policy now. 🤦♀️
My thanks as always to the brilliant @implausibleblog.bsky.social for the clip ❤️🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8auh...
Pitch forks are dictating UK asylum policy now. 🤦♀️
My thanks as always to the brilliant @implausibleblog.bsky.social for the clip ❤️🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8auh...
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August 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM