Tim Kiely
@timkiely1.bsky.social
💚 Irish; barrister; poet; Green Party member. Chat on all of the above - views my own.
📚 Buy my books at timkielybooks.bigcartel.com
📚 Buy my books at timkielybooks.bigcartel.com
💚 been ripping through @mikaelaloach.bsky.social’s ‘It’s Not That Radical’ in the beauty of the North Yorkshire countryside. I feel energised to return to movement work like I haven’t in a long time.
✊ heartily recommended to everyone working for #climatejustice both new and old. We will win this.
✊ heartily recommended to everyone working for #climatejustice both new and old. We will win this.
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
💚 been ripping through @mikaelaloach.bsky.social’s ‘It’s Not That Radical’ in the beauty of the North Yorkshire countryside. I feel energised to return to movement work like I haven’t in a long time.
✊ heartily recommended to everyone working for #climatejustice both new and old. We will win this.
✊ heartily recommended to everyone working for #climatejustice both new and old. We will win this.
😡 this means: no jury trials for robbery; for serious assaults, including SA; for fraud; for breaching protective orders. The kind of work I prosecute and defend on a daily basis.
✍️ The CBA are against this and so am I. Write to your MP and tell them this isn’t how you fix our broken system.
✍️ The CBA are against this and so am I. Write to your MP and tell them this isn’t how you fix our broken system.
MoJ considering ‘extreme’ proposal to scrap jury trials for all but the most serious cases
MoJ considering ‘extreme’ proposal to scrap jury trials for all but the most serious cases
The radical plan from David Lammy has been criticised by senior lawyers, who say it could ‘destroy justice as we know it’
Jury trials for all except the most serious crimes such as rape, murder and manslaughter are set to be scrapped under radical proposals drawn up by David Lammy.
In proposals that drew a swift backlash from senior lawyers, who said that they would not reduce court backlogs and could “destroy justice as we know it”, the justice secretary has proposed that juries will only pass judgment on public interest offences with possible prison sentences of more than five years. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
😡 this means: no jury trials for robbery; for serious assaults, including SA; for fraud; for breaching protective orders. The kind of work I prosecute and defend on a daily basis.
✍️ The CBA are against this and so am I. Write to your MP and tell them this isn’t how you fix our broken system.
✍️ The CBA are against this and so am I. Write to your MP and tell them this isn’t how you fix our broken system.
Rutger Bregman’s description of Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt President in American history” is both defensible and, critically, an expression of his legitimate opinion on a topic he was *invited* to discuss by the BBC. Cutting it reads as pure cowardice - so don’t let it go quietly.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Rutger Bregman’s description of Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt President in American history” is both defensible and, critically, an expression of his legitimate opinion on a topic he was *invited* to discuss by the BBC. Cutting it reads as pure cowardice - so don’t let it go quietly.
‘(Say, roughly, now, the truth). A man seeded me without consent. I bloomed.’
🤔 there are times when Paul Tran’s sense of drama, and clear love of punning, just hits my ear as thuddingly obvious. But for the energetic inventiveness of this collection I would say it is worth at least one read.
🤔 there are times when Paul Tran’s sense of drama, and clear love of punning, just hits my ear as thuddingly obvious. But for the energetic inventiveness of this collection I would say it is worth at least one read.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
‘(Say, roughly, now, the truth). A man seeded me without consent. I bloomed.’
🤔 there are times when Paul Tran’s sense of drama, and clear love of punning, just hits my ear as thuddingly obvious. But for the energetic inventiveness of this collection I would say it is worth at least one read.
🤔 there are times when Paul Tran’s sense of drama, and clear love of punning, just hits my ear as thuddingly obvious. But for the energetic inventiveness of this collection I would say it is worth at least one read.
🖼️’These paintings are largely empty landscapes / where we can meet them, where we can exist…’
🎨 Knowing Mark Ward from his editorship of ‘Impossible Archetype’ it was a treat to take in these furtive, intimate, wry and melancholy poems in this lush pamphlet from @theemmapress.bsky.social
🎨 Knowing Mark Ward from his editorship of ‘Impossible Archetype’ it was a treat to take in these furtive, intimate, wry and melancholy poems in this lush pamphlet from @theemmapress.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🖼️’These paintings are largely empty landscapes / where we can meet them, where we can exist…’
🎨 Knowing Mark Ward from his editorship of ‘Impossible Archetype’ it was a treat to take in these furtive, intimate, wry and melancholy poems in this lush pamphlet from @theemmapress.bsky.social
🎨 Knowing Mark Ward from his editorship of ‘Impossible Archetype’ it was a treat to take in these furtive, intimate, wry and melancholy poems in this lush pamphlet from @theemmapress.bsky.social
‘[o]ur work, they sing in chorus / is what will have had to happen’
🙏 I have taken a number of poetry books up on holiday with me that can do useful work in the quiet, and this debut from Victoria Adukwei Bulley does just that, even when it may not have been meant for me. For them, I give thanks.
🙏 I have taken a number of poetry books up on holiday with me that can do useful work in the quiet, and this debut from Victoria Adukwei Bulley does just that, even when it may not have been meant for me. For them, I give thanks.
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
‘[o]ur work, they sing in chorus / is what will have had to happen’
🙏 I have taken a number of poetry books up on holiday with me that can do useful work in the quiet, and this debut from Victoria Adukwei Bulley does just that, even when it may not have been meant for me. For them, I give thanks.
🙏 I have taken a number of poetry books up on holiday with me that can do useful work in the quiet, and this debut from Victoria Adukwei Bulley does just that, even when it may not have been meant for me. For them, I give thanks.
😊 Tim isn’t here right now - he’s in Yorkshire drinking pints of Theakston’s Best and looking at the stars. But if you’d like to leave a message he’ll get back to you in… a week, say?
🍻
#holiday
🍻
#holiday
November 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
😊 Tim isn’t here right now - he’s in Yorkshire drinking pints of Theakston’s Best and looking at the stars. But if you’d like to leave a message he’ll get back to you in… a week, say?
🍻
#holiday
🍻
#holiday
🤔 back to Heaney for a quick holiday up North.
✍️ I had always known ‘Seeing Things’ was a heavyweight collection, but now its explicitly Dantean tone and themes of afterlife and otherworldliness hit differently.
🙏 still poems to hold up and catch the light, and then circulate with new perspective.
✍️ I had always known ‘Seeing Things’ was a heavyweight collection, but now its explicitly Dantean tone and themes of afterlife and otherworldliness hit differently.
🙏 still poems to hold up and catch the light, and then circulate with new perspective.
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🤔 back to Heaney for a quick holiday up North.
✍️ I had always known ‘Seeing Things’ was a heavyweight collection, but now its explicitly Dantean tone and themes of afterlife and otherworldliness hit differently.
🙏 still poems to hold up and catch the light, and then circulate with new perspective.
✍️ I had always known ‘Seeing Things’ was a heavyweight collection, but now its explicitly Dantean tone and themes of afterlife and otherworldliness hit differently.
🙏 still poems to hold up and catch the light, and then circulate with new perspective.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Tim Kiely
🏳️⚧️ Every #TransDayOfRemembrance seems to come around with a greater sense of pain and urgency for how much has been lost - but a renewed resolve to keep going.
🕯️ mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living.
🕯️ mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living.
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🏳️⚧️ Every #TransDayOfRemembrance seems to come around with a greater sense of pain and urgency for how much has been lost - but a renewed resolve to keep going.
🕯️ mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living.
🕯️ mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living.
🤷♂️ anyone else doing holiday shopping for young relatives?
🎁 Looking for credibly age-appropriate presents I seem to find myself turning into Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head…
“‘Ages 3 and Up’ - it’s on the box! ‘Ages 3 - AND - UP’…”
🎁 Looking for credibly age-appropriate presents I seem to find myself turning into Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head…
“‘Ages 3 and Up’ - it’s on the box! ‘Ages 3 - AND - UP’…”
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🤷♂️ anyone else doing holiday shopping for young relatives?
🎁 Looking for credibly age-appropriate presents I seem to find myself turning into Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head…
“‘Ages 3 and Up’ - it’s on the box! ‘Ages 3 - AND - UP’…”
🎁 Looking for credibly age-appropriate presents I seem to find myself turning into Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head…
“‘Ages 3 and Up’ - it’s on the box! ‘Ages 3 - AND - UP’…”
🥋 returning to where it all began for a one-day Shorinji Kempo seminar in Oxford. 9 years after first getting the t-shirt, and 16 years after starting my training, it feels GOOD to be one of those still keeping up the training.
🙏 many thanks to Sensei Chris, Steve, Jess and Oxford Dojo for hosting!
🙏 many thanks to Sensei Chris, Steve, Jess and Oxford Dojo for hosting!
November 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🥋 returning to where it all began for a one-day Shorinji Kempo seminar in Oxford. 9 years after first getting the t-shirt, and 16 years after starting my training, it feels GOOD to be one of those still keeping up the training.
🙏 many thanks to Sensei Chris, Steve, Jess and Oxford Dojo for hosting!
🙏 many thanks to Sensei Chris, Steve, Jess and Oxford Dojo for hosting!
😌 okay, so…
☸️ not all its claims stick, but there is a real, deep authority in the words and method of Thich Nhat Hanh that rings through this classic text, written for his fellow monks and peace activists, down to the present day.
🙏 may all beings be free of suffering, and attain liberation.
☸️ not all its claims stick, but there is a real, deep authority in the words and method of Thich Nhat Hanh that rings through this classic text, written for his fellow monks and peace activists, down to the present day.
🙏 may all beings be free of suffering, and attain liberation.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
😌 okay, so…
☸️ not all its claims stick, but there is a real, deep authority in the words and method of Thich Nhat Hanh that rings through this classic text, written for his fellow monks and peace activists, down to the present day.
🙏 may all beings be free of suffering, and attain liberation.
☸️ not all its claims stick, but there is a real, deep authority in the words and method of Thich Nhat Hanh that rings through this classic text, written for his fellow monks and peace activists, down to the present day.
🙏 may all beings be free of suffering, and attain liberation.
🪡’Unpick me old, spin me a yarn worthy of queer…’
😮 extraordinary things happen across Rachel Mann’s poems, where trans self-realisation and spiritual transformation blend together, and words are stitched and re-stitched in dizzying display.
👏 another challenge to be sure, but worth it.
😮 extraordinary things happen across Rachel Mann’s poems, where trans self-realisation and spiritual transformation blend together, and words are stitched and re-stitched in dizzying display.
👏 another challenge to be sure, but worth it.
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
🪡’Unpick me old, spin me a yarn worthy of queer…’
😮 extraordinary things happen across Rachel Mann’s poems, where trans self-realisation and spiritual transformation blend together, and words are stitched and re-stitched in dizzying display.
👏 another challenge to be sure, but worth it.
😮 extraordinary things happen across Rachel Mann’s poems, where trans self-realisation and spiritual transformation blend together, and words are stitched and re-stitched in dizzying display.
👏 another challenge to be sure, but worth it.
😊 well ain’t that a fun bit of news to wake up to…
Huge congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! 🎉💚
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
😊 well ain’t that a fun bit of news to wake up to…
🤔 strange to take a rest day that includes being haunted from two directions at once… but then I think it fits. As the Eve of All Hallows goes into All Saints Day, so Ella Hickson’s ‘Oedipus’ goes into Jay Bernard’s still-haunting ‘Surge’.
🙏 if there is such a thing as ‘the communion of saints’…
🙏 if there is such a thing as ‘the communion of saints’…
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🤔 strange to take a rest day that includes being haunted from two directions at once… but then I think it fits. As the Eve of All Hallows goes into All Saints Day, so Ella Hickson’s ‘Oedipus’ goes into Jay Bernard’s still-haunting ‘Surge’.
🙏 if there is such a thing as ‘the communion of saints’…
🙏 if there is such a thing as ‘the communion of saints’…
🎃 there are definitely worse ways of dealing with that old end-of-October pumpkin surplus!
😋 many thanks ManCandy for a first-rate evening of merry-making and gourd-based gladiatorship!
😋 many thanks ManCandy for a first-rate evening of merry-making and gourd-based gladiatorship!
November 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
🎃 there are definitely worse ways of dealing with that old end-of-October pumpkin surplus!
😋 many thanks ManCandy for a first-rate evening of merry-making and gourd-based gladiatorship!
😋 many thanks ManCandy for a first-rate evening of merry-making and gourd-based gladiatorship!
✊now *this* one is a beauty - quite proud that one of my poems found its way into this handsome pamphlet with some very venerable company!
🙏 thank you @janinebooth.bsky.social for allowing me a poem, and Harry Wyld for the excellent illustrations!
🙏 thank you @janinebooth.bsky.social for allowing me a poem, and Harry Wyld for the excellent illustrations!
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
✊now *this* one is a beauty - quite proud that one of my poems found its way into this handsome pamphlet with some very venerable company!
🙏 thank you @janinebooth.bsky.social for allowing me a poem, and Harry Wyld for the excellent illustrations!
🙏 thank you @janinebooth.bsky.social for allowing me a poem, and Harry Wyld for the excellent illustrations!
💚’@greenparty.org.uk are a small environmentalist party transforming into a mass party of the left.’
And now my favourite magazine has picked it up for their blog!
There are real challenges ahead. But I am so excited about how we meet them.
join.greenparty.org.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
And now my favourite magazine has picked it up for their blog!
There are real challenges ahead. But I am so excited about how we meet them.
join.greenparty.org.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
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Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, says he wants to replace Labour. That still seems...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
💚’@greenparty.org.uk are a small environmentalist party transforming into a mass party of the left.’
And now my favourite magazine has picked it up for their blog!
There are real challenges ahead. But I am so excited about how we meet them.
join.greenparty.org.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
And now my favourite magazine has picked it up for their blog!
There are real challenges ahead. But I am so excited about how we meet them.
join.greenparty.org.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
🌕 so my wife has never seen ‘Wallace & Gromit’ before, and in the process of introducing her to this cherished national institution and pillar of my childhood, we just happen to have come to… well…
🎃 #HappyHalloween all!
🎃 #HappyHalloween all!
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
🌕 so my wife has never seen ‘Wallace & Gromit’ before, and in the process of introducing her to this cherished national institution and pillar of my childhood, we just happen to have come to… well…
🎃 #HappyHalloween all!
🎃 #HappyHalloween all!
⚖️ rights are alarmingly fragile things, no less so for being absolutely essential.
✊now more than ever, we need defenders of our precious liberties. I am privileged to stand with them.
✊now more than ever, we need defenders of our precious liberties. I am privileged to stand with them.
Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week...
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
⚖️ rights are alarmingly fragile things, no less so for being absolutely essential.
✊now more than ever, we need defenders of our precious liberties. I am privileged to stand with them.
✊now more than ever, we need defenders of our precious liberties. I am privileged to stand with them.
🎭 night at the Wyndham for a date went rather well!
😁 so yes, the play might as well have been called ‘Hot Renaissance Drama That F***s’ but however fast and loose it gets with the history, especially towards the end, it is a lot of fun, especially for my kind of drama nerd.
😁 so yes, the play might as well have been called ‘Hot Renaissance Drama That F***s’ but however fast and loose it gets with the history, especially towards the end, it is a lot of fun, especially for my kind of drama nerd.
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
🎭 night at the Wyndham for a date went rather well!
😁 so yes, the play might as well have been called ‘Hot Renaissance Drama That F***s’ but however fast and loose it gets with the history, especially towards the end, it is a lot of fun, especially for my kind of drama nerd.
😁 so yes, the play might as well have been called ‘Hot Renaissance Drama That F***s’ but however fast and loose it gets with the history, especially towards the end, it is a lot of fun, especially for my kind of drama nerd.
😳 stunning dereliction of duty from Labour, over 300 MPs were absent for a vote to take us out of the European Convention on Human Rights.
✍️ it is worth writing to your MP and making a stink about this. We need parliamentary representatives who will actually be prepared to defend our rights.
✍️ it is worth writing to your MP and making a stink about this. We need parliamentary representatives who will actually be prepared to defend our rights.
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
😳 stunning dereliction of duty from Labour, over 300 MPs were absent for a vote to take us out of the European Convention on Human Rights.
✍️ it is worth writing to your MP and making a stink about this. We need parliamentary representatives who will actually be prepared to defend our rights.
✍️ it is worth writing to your MP and making a stink about this. We need parliamentary representatives who will actually be prepared to defend our rights.
🙌 the Green Surge continues!
💚 there are exciting things happening in my Party at the moment - you want in?
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 there are exciting things happening in my Party at the moment - you want in?
join.greenparty.org.uk
🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
October 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🙌 the Green Surge continues!
💚 there are exciting things happening in my Party at the moment - you want in?
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 there are exciting things happening in my Party at the moment - you want in?
join.greenparty.org.uk