Tomorrow, Sunday 16, we will be at the southern side of Lye Valley in East Oxford to mow and rake the fen and pollard some willows. Whether your first go at practical conservation, or you're a regular, we'll welcome you with open arms (and some tools) 🙌 ocv.org.uk

People aren't using food banks because their local supermarket has run out of food. Save your outrage for the people responsible for food poverty, namely the government

Today's CPI inflation at 10.1% is the September measure used for uprating pensions accrued. This will affect those who have USS pensions saved since 2011. I'll try to outline that in this thread 🧵

In 2014, 87% of asylum claims were decided within 6 months. That figure has now dropped to a woeful 6%. If the asylum system is broken, who broke it?

Gavin Williamson is the 80th minister to have resigned of been sacked in 2022. If this were a school it would be in special measures. If it were a company it would be in administration. Yet this is our chaotic Conservative Government. Time for change.

Oxford UCU rally gathering momentum in Broad Street #ucuRISING

#ucuRISING Negotiators heard you✊🏾. This is what changes the tone of negotiations. Guess who couldn’t get out of the room quick enough for a tea break while the march went past? Make no mistake - the bosses heard you LOUD and CLEAR. Video in thread

Today, over 100,000 Nursing Staff will be on picket lines fighting for our profession, our safety, to protect our patients, and to fight for the future of our NHS! Our fight is your fight. If you stand with us - Please RT 💙

It’s so easy to do what the Jeremy Clarksons of this world do. You just start typing. And you write something like this:

In the mid-90s I set fire to myself. My sister and her husband arrived for dinner from the Isle of Wight. I turned up the gas on the stove and threw the pasta into the boiling water. 1/18

Hysteria around the BBC is nonsense. No one thinks Gary's expressing the official opinion of Match of the Day🙄 Gary Lineker is using his platform to speak for the most vulnerable, threatened with blanket detention without trial Time for everyone else to speak up, too, frankly.

Today, 700,000+ workers take part in the biggest strike in decades: 🧑‍🏫 Teachers 🩺 Junior doctors 📚 University staff 🏢 Civil servants 📦 Amazon workers 🚆 London Underground 📻 Local radio journalists RT this if you support their fight for a cost-of-living pay rise!

📣 This harmful narrative about disabled people must end. It’s time to ditch the 'burden' rhetoric for good. Coverage like this is irresponsible. It has a direct impact on how disabled people see themselves and how others see them.

The most corrupt Prime Ministers of the most corrupt British governments in living memory are filling the House of Lords with their corrupt friends and family members. Retweet if you are not happy about this.

I cannot continue to hear the rubbish “wage-price spiral” it’s quite obvious we are in a profits-price spiral. Super market bosses and the richest people in the country are getting wealthier while ordinary people getting poorer: It is not our wages that are the problem. #r4today

Mornin’ folks. We’ve had a lot of people enquiring about and commenting on #bumblebees asleep on #flowers, especially at this time of year, so here’s a quick (long)🙄 thread explaining what’s going on. Please retweet so more are more informed. Thanks good people. #bees 1/16

Word of the Day is 'boodlery' (19th century): unprincipled behaviour in public office.

Destitution is when people cannot afford to meet their most basic physical needs to stay warm, dry, clean and fed. Our new report reveals a shameful rise in the number of people experiencing destitution in the UK. Here are the key findings 🧵 #DontIgnoreDestitution

Just heard the Home Secretary stand up in Parliament and declare that "the British people support the Rwanda plan". I'm sick of these guys telling me what I support. I do not support the "Rwanda plan". If you don't either, please retweet.

❌ We NEVER want to see a sign like this ever again. ❌ The next government has the power to make that happen. They can end the need for food banks.