MASSIVE paddle-out protest with Surfers Against Sewage this morning on Brighton beach. Loved that Dame Kelly Holmes joined us!
💩No more sewage in our seas and rivers.
🧻 Wipe away privatised water!

Extraordinary that in discussion on Gaza on Laura Kuenssberg just now Grant Shapps was asked nothing about restarting funding for UNRWA & nothing about UK Govt continuing to grant licenses for arms exports to Israel - how can UK complicity in war crimes be so easily ignored?

A real treat to share the stage at The Charleston Trust today with the fab Billy Bragg & Zakia Sewell to talk about progressive patriotism, the urgent need for better stories than British exceptionalism & imperialism nostalgia, & the search for #AnotherEngland

Thank you, Caroline Lucas, for nominating With The End In Mind as a 'Book for a better world.' There are some wonderful books nominated by writers, thinkers & creatives, so it's a delightful honour to be in that company.
theguardian.com/books/article/…

Inspiring to see such a range of texts chosen as Books for a Better World. My choice *With the End in Mind* by the amazing ⁦Kathryn Mannix⁩ - a book about dying that’s one of the most life-affirming you could ever hope to read ⁦Hay Festival⁩ theguardian.com/books/article/…

It was a strange dissociative experience listening to Amol Rajan and Cindy McCain Cindy McCain discussing famine in #Gaza on Today this morning. They did not mention the word 'Israel' once. It was all passive voice: 'aid routes are blocked', 'crossings closed', etc etc., as if

Events for #IDAHOBIT are always a mix of joyous celebration and serious discussion of the harm homophobia, biphobia and transphobia cause to us all in society. At the The Ledward Centre in Brighton today, the sunshine was brought by Rainbow Chorus 💕🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💚

Watching Rainbow Chorus rehearse before Brighton’s #IDAHOBIT event and I am just so grateful to live in a place with a strong and vibrant queer community. You can feel the sense of safety and acceptance it generates to have a critical mass of queer people in one place!

Great to meet up with some of the growing_hollingdean team and Caroline Lucas today to talk about their efforts to protect their area from the Council’s wrongheaded new glyphosate herbicide programme. And to visit the community orchard to play around among the trees and pond!

#Brighton and #Hove has a proud history of promoting kindness and inclusivity. So I'm alarmed at the vile and racist comments Councillor Mohammed Asaduzzaman has received following his appointment as Mayor, and wish him well in his new role

We stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBTQIA+ community on International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia 💚

The messages I get from constituents affected by dementia are incredibly moving so I'm pleased to support Dementia UK bid to put dementia on the agenda at the next election and transform dementia care for everyone. #PutDementiaOnTheAgenda

On #BetterBusinessDay I'm pleased to have co-signed this letter and that The Green Party is committed to supporting a #BetterBusinessAct next Parliament so that companies put people and planet before profit to accelerate action to address the climate and nature emergencies.

In all that talk of change, did they mention climate change Beth Rigby?

Great to join Christian Aid & so many more all campaigning for #debtjustice . Countries across the Global South are at crisis point and we need urgent reforms to mobilise capital on a huge scale to tackle the global climate emergency now.

The Secretary of State for Education insults schools by saying 'Teachers are there to teach children facts, not push the agendas of campaign groups.' Horribly ironic as it is she & PM politicising sex & relationships ed which is really about safety and respect.

morbidly funny how the first of starmer's new pledges contrasts with the first of his old pledge card, the new third directly contradicts the old sixth, can also make a case for the new fifth versus the spirit of the old 4, 8 and 9

In the meantime folks, don't drink the water or worry about vanishing wildlife, flooded farms & streets, rising food prices, cold, unaffordable homes & dirty air cutting lives short or global climate change & ecological breakdown. It's not 1997. When will Keir Starmer look up?

The ICJ is considering the South African application that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza again tomorrow. These are some of the binding provisional measures that the ICJ told Israel it must implement. I'm not going to get ahead of the court, but I think it's pretty clear

Thanks Hannah Bourne-Taylor - it was great to champion my favourite bird of all - the swift. It is so frustrating that there are sometimes really simple things this Govt could be doing to protect nature, and STILL they won't take action!