Zel Ouse (Hazel F-R)
@zel-ouse.bsky.social
Sussex-based clinical psychologist & campaigner: nature & mental health, electoral reform, forging a healthier, more compassionate public sphere. Niche interests: springs, medieval sculpture, Celtic mythology. Personal account. /|\ #FBPPR #MVM #FBPE 🔶
I'm passionate about working cross-party to achieve a fair voting system with #ProportionalRepresentation so it was a delight to join the Make Votes Matter Sussex stall at Lewes Labour's Ideas Market "Transformations" today.
#ProportionalRepresentationNOW
#ProportionalRepresentationNOW
What a busy day! Thanks to everyone who visited our stall to talk about the urgent need for #ProportionalRepresentation in UK elections - including Stella Creasy MP who stopped for a quick chat on the importance of keeping local representation in the voting system.
#MakeVotesMatter
#MakeVotesMatter
November 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I'm passionate about working cross-party to achieve a fair voting system with #ProportionalRepresentation so it was a delight to join the Make Votes Matter Sussex stall at Lewes Labour's Ideas Market "Transformations" today.
#ProportionalRepresentationNOW
#ProportionalRepresentationNOW
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What a busy day! Thanks to everyone who visited our stall to talk about the urgent need for #ProportionalRepresentation in UK elections - including Stella Creasy MP who stopped for a quick chat on the importance of keeping local representation in the voting system.
#MakeVotesMatter
#MakeVotesMatter
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
What a busy day! Thanks to everyone who visited our stall to talk about the urgent need for #ProportionalRepresentation in UK elections - including Stella Creasy MP who stopped for a quick chat on the importance of keeping local representation in the voting system.
#MakeVotesMatter
#MakeVotesMatter
Happy to be joining the Make Votes Matter Sussex team for our stall at Lewes Labour's Ideas Market - calling for #ProportionalRepresentationNow!
We're all set up at Lewes Labour's Ideas Market #Transformations. Come and have a chat with us and add your voice to our poster on why we need #ProportionalRepresentationNow !
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Happy to be joining the Make Votes Matter Sussex team for our stall at Lewes Labour's Ideas Market - calling for #ProportionalRepresentationNow!
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We're all set up at Lewes Labour's Ideas Market #Transformations. Come and have a chat with us and add your voice to our poster on why we need #ProportionalRepresentationNow !
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We're all set up at Lewes Labour's Ideas Market #Transformations. Come and have a chat with us and add your voice to our poster on why we need #ProportionalRepresentationNow !
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Want to know why we need #proportionalRepresentationNow #makevotesmatter
Come to #lewes town Hall now !
Come to #lewes town Hall now !
We're all set up at Lewes Labour's Ideas Market #Transformations. Come and have a chat with us and add your voice to our poster on why we need #ProportionalRepresentationNow !
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Want to know why we need #proportionalRepresentationNow #makevotesmatter
Come to #lewes town Hall now !
Come to #lewes town Hall now !
A firework of a flower.
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A firework of a flower.
Mast year in Sussex.
October 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Mast year in Sussex.
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Our politics and media have become viciously obsessed with immigration. Farage has made sure of it. And in that obsession, they’ve all lost sight of the people they target. Fellow human beings trying to live and belong somewhere.
Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity
(Letter,Times)
Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity
(Letter,Times)
September 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Our politics and media have become viciously obsessed with immigration. Farage has made sure of it. And in that obsession, they’ve all lost sight of the people they target. Fellow human beings trying to live and belong somewhere.
Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity
(Letter,Times)
Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity
(Letter,Times)
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IMPORTANT 🧵
We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
1/11
We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
1/11
September 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
IMPORTANT 🧵
We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
1/11
We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
1/11
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Right now, Donald Trump is at a lavish banquet at Windsor Castle, while in Gaza a genocide is unfolding.
He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.
He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.
September 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Right now, Donald Trump is at a lavish banquet at Windsor Castle, while in Gaza a genocide is unfolding.
He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.
He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.
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Over 35,000 women were hospitalised with HG in 2023/24 according to Pregnancy Sickness Support with up to 2,000 pregnancies being terminated due to inadequate care. Yet, the govt is not including HG in its Maternal Safety Review - I am pressing them to change this absurd decision. 5/6
Pregnancy Sickness Support | UK Charity
pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk
August 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Over 35,000 women were hospitalised with HG in 2023/24 according to Pregnancy Sickness Support with up to 2,000 pregnancies being terminated due to inadequate care. Yet, the govt is not including HG in its Maternal Safety Review - I am pressing them to change this absurd decision. 5/6
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Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is extreme pregnancy sickness. It is hugely debilitating and misunderstood. My partner and I spoke about our own experience following my question on it to the Prime minister.
It is time for change. 🧵1/6
www.thetimes.com/article/5e39...
It is time for change. 🧵1/6
www.thetimes.com/article/5e39...
Kate knows extreme morning sickness is hell. Why’s help so hard to find?
Doctors are reluctant to prescribe Xonvea, the drug for hyperemesis gravidarum, even though it’s so debilitating that some women consider abortion or suicide
www.thetimes.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is extreme pregnancy sickness. It is hugely debilitating and misunderstood. My partner and I spoke about our own experience following my question on it to the Prime minister.
It is time for change. 🧵1/6
www.thetimes.com/article/5e39...
It is time for change. 🧵1/6
www.thetimes.com/article/5e39...
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A hosepipe ban has started in Mid Sussex — yet leaks have been running for months in places like Chanctonbury Road in Burgess Hill.
I spoke to ITV Meridian about why South East Water must act
📺 Watch the clip: www.itv.com/news/meridia...
I spoke to ITV Meridian about why South East Water must act
📺 Watch the clip: www.itv.com/news/meridia...
July 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A hosepipe ban has started in Mid Sussex — yet leaks have been running for months in places like Chanctonbury Road in Burgess Hill.
I spoke to ITV Meridian about why South East Water must act
📺 Watch the clip: www.itv.com/news/meridia...
I spoke to ITV Meridian about why South East Water must act
📺 Watch the clip: www.itv.com/news/meridia...
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Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release.
I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿
I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿
June 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release.
I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿
I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿
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Quick COVID update from me discussing latest variants and prospects for summer here.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Latest Covid variants and outlook for UK summer
There probably will be a Covid summer wave.
open.substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Quick COVID update from me discussing latest variants and prospects for summer here.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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The Beaker People are a warning from history that in thousands of years’ time we’ll be known as The Plastic Bottle People
May 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The Beaker People are a warning from history that in thousands of years’ time we’ll be known as The Plastic Bottle People
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A reminder that when the Sycamore Gap tree was cut down people immediately started blaming immigrants and teenagers...
It was neither. It was two white Englishmen in their 30s.
It was neither. It was two white Englishmen in their 30s.
May 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A reminder that when the Sycamore Gap tree was cut down people immediately started blaming immigrants and teenagers...
It was neither. It was two white Englishmen in their 30s.
It was neither. It was two white Englishmen in their 30s.
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“We’re now the biggest APPG in Parliament and the public supports our call for a National Commission for Electoral Reform by a margin of five to one. The government should listen and act.”
💬 @alexsobel.co.uk, Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social
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www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/05...
💬 @alexsobel.co.uk, Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social
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www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Cross-party MPs brand voting system ‘dangerous’ in an era of electoral volatility - Politics.co.uk
A cross-party group has described the local elections as a “dress rehearsal” for future “chaotic and unrepresentative” results.
www.politics.co.uk
May 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
“We’re now the biggest APPG in Parliament and the public supports our call for a National Commission for Electoral Reform by a margin of five to one. The government should listen and act.”
💬 @alexsobel.co.uk, Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social
🧵 1/3
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/05...
💬 @alexsobel.co.uk, Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social
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www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/05...
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1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"The government’s planning and infrastructure bill is the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory. It erases decades of environmental protections, including legislation we inherited from the EU, which even the Tories promised to uphold." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
"The government’s planning and infrastructure bill is the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory. It erases decades of environmental protections, including legislation we inherited from the EU, which even the Tories promised to uphold." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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You want to know the truth about why there are so many cases of autism, ADD, ADHD today?
It's the same reason why there are more planets and stars today compared to decades ago.
You're all caught up now. Leave the kids alone.
It's the same reason why there are more planets and stars today compared to decades ago.
You're all caught up now. Leave the kids alone.
April 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
You want to know the truth about why there are so many cases of autism, ADD, ADHD today?
It's the same reason why there are more planets and stars today compared to decades ago.
You're all caught up now. Leave the kids alone.
It's the same reason why there are more planets and stars today compared to decades ago.
You're all caught up now. Leave the kids alone.
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The stages in a Donald Trump deal:
1. Lie about something being a problem
2. Do something to "fix" it, which causes an actual problem
3. Say you won't reverse what you've done
4. Reverse what you've done
5. Say "Art of the deal"
1. Lie about something being a problem
2. Do something to "fix" it, which causes an actual problem
3. Say you won't reverse what you've done
4. Reverse what you've done
5. Say "Art of the deal"
April 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The stages in a Donald Trump deal:
1. Lie about something being a problem
2. Do something to "fix" it, which causes an actual problem
3. Say you won't reverse what you've done
4. Reverse what you've done
5. Say "Art of the deal"
1. Lie about something being a problem
2. Do something to "fix" it, which causes an actual problem
3. Say you won't reverse what you've done
4. Reverse what you've done
5. Say "Art of the deal"
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"When was the last time you said 'thank you,' Mr. Penguin?"
April 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"When was the last time you said 'thank you,' Mr. Penguin?"
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So the Ammonite Order of architecture exists just enough to get its own Wikipedia page. This is from Gideon Mantell's house Castle Place on Lewes High St, designed by Amon Wilds.
March 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
So the Ammonite Order of architecture exists just enough to get its own Wikipedia page. This is from Gideon Mantell's house Castle Place on Lewes High St, designed by Amon Wilds.
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Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says
Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says
Nuffield Trust says supply chains have shifted, with drugs for epilepsy and cystic fibrosis among those now scarce
Drug shortages in the UK have risen to their worst level for four years, official figures show, with Brexit considered a key reason so many medications are scarce.
Drug companies notified the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) about disruptions to supply 1,938 times during last year – the highest number since the 1,967 seen in 2021. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says