Can Zack Polanski’s ‘eco-populist’ vision revitalise the Green Party and see off the threat of Reform?
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Can Zack Polanski’s ‘eco-populist’ vision revitalise the Green Party and see off the threat of Reform?
More stuff about restaurants and food. I’m trying to grow this column into a vehicle to explore Brighton’s many food policy challenges sussexbylines.co.uk/community/li... #brighton #sustainability
Well done, Sussex Bylines. Excellent analysis and the issue is urgent.
If it is logarithmic then it's the only thing from O Level maths that has stuck with me. Cheers, Alistair 👍
His ability to pick good balls on middle stump and ping them over square leg into the crowd was awesome.
I've worked in a school for 14 years and I do this every year. Tomorrow I go into Year 60. Doh.
Fear and obfuscation at the Amex stadium 'Roger Wade, founder of fashion label Boxfresh and a 10-year Brighton & Hove Albion season ticket holder, had, it seemed, been denied access to his seat for wearing a Palestine t-shirt.' @jpjoughin.bsky.social @sussexbylines.co.uk
It really does.
That is so moronic it beggars belief.
I beg to differ. Trump knows nothing about anything. He’s as dumb a schmuck as it’s possible to be.
The man is a lunatic.
Mapping Israel's influence on the UK parliament. 🔍 "Two names stand out: Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) and Labour Friends of Israel (LFI)... CFI claims 80% of Tory MPs as members. It’s funded 118 current Conservative MPs on 160 trips, spending over £330,000."
If Zoe Gardner got as much airtime as Farage, the migrant "crisis" would not be a "crisis" at all.
Henry Foster applauds the Men's Shed movement, describing the friendships made, the skills learned and offered and the wellbeing engendered
Want to read all the shortlisted poems? You can! You should! They are incredible. Citizen writing at its best. Find the poems here: bylinesnetwork.substack.com/s/poetry-pri...
According to an article on the BBC website today "Keeping yourself warm by wearing thick clothes, using blankets and drinking hot drinks can help reduce heating bills." I mean, who knew? This could change everything.
Exactly that. Trump doesn’t know what he’s saying even when he’s in the middle of saying it. Thus, he doesn’t know what he said the moment he’s finished saying it.
No, they still wouldn’t get it, Nick.
“Don’t get me wrong, I’m not racist, I’m just a pig ignorant halfwit devoid of any humanity.”
Loved both of those shows when I was a kid 😀
How the fuck aren't people in that room just laughing at him? He's a dribbling loon.
one of our young writers has just been shortlisted for the Bylines Network Young Journalist Award, to be judged by Will Hutton. Read one of @rudibanfield.bsky.social articles here: sussexbylines.co.uk/community/cu...
We're proud to announce that young writer @rudibanfield.bsky.social whose articles for @sussexbylines.co.uk include pieces on Sussex punk rock bands and the view from the mosh pit in the Royal Albert Hall, has been shortlisted for the Bylines Network Student Journalism Award. Congratulations Rudi!
I think about that most days...
This important article by one of my colleagues looks at how the UK government has largely solved its problem with rulings on disabled people's welfare being overturned on appeal - by taking away the legal support that made appeals possible. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/bar... #disability ♿
Think curry is a post-war import? Think again. Victorians were simmering vegetable curries long before chicken tikka masala became Britain’s favourite dish. We tried one of their recipes from 1901 from the Audley End House kitchens and it tasted great! Here it is ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk
It was all part of his negotiation plan, Mike 🤣
Vance is an abomination of a human being.
The pause between breaths The change of seasons is a time to slow down, reflect and renew @sussexbylines.co.uk
Can only wish you the best of luck, David.
Presumably Lammy watches this and thinks “yeah…that’s my mate…”
My latest article is out and it's a deeply personal one. Thank you to @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk for letting me share my story to highlight the housing crisis in Britain
The Great Land Grab – Brighton and Hove City Council’s proposals to extend their boundaries
Miller truly is a subhuman.
The Online Safety Act directly acknowledges the impact of algorithms in targeting content to young people and requires platforms to adjust their algorithms to filter out content likely to be harmful to young people.
All is not well down on the allotment Pressure to build housing may threaten our treasured allotments @sussexbylines.co.uk
Abolish ICE
The notion that Ed Martin could “follow the facts” is comical.
Being part of nature is good for us. A nature writer and lecturer has spent 15 years rewilding land in Essex and says that even small acts of renaturing can impact on our well-being and local wildlife. @eastangliabylines.co.uk
What’s happened to the “broad church?” @leftwithnoparty.bsky.social @sussexbylines.co.uk
I was in Our Price most of the 80s. Once, in Bromley 1, a guy came up to the counter. He wanted that record by Ron Skibbet. He couldn’t sing it to us so we all put our heads together and after a few minutes we figured out he wanted Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat. Happy days.
If you had the President's ear, Justin, he wouldn't understand a fucking word you're saying. Which is why he has ignorant sycophants in place, instead.
Amazing! That last red down the cushion. Wow!
A festival of films set in East Anglia? Where? When? Find out what’s on, including a chance to see some fantastic films about Suffolk’s history and landscape | Jenny Rhodes
I wondered if he'd ever make another one. Delighted that he has!
15 August 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the ending of World War II in SE Asia, Japan, and the Pacific. Read Vic Ient's article of his father's involvement in the war.
Trump is so dumb he wouldn't even know if Newsom was trolling him.
Nah, fuck the stupid fucker.
I guess this is the case, and I understand what Hannah Arendt was saying, but Trump lies so constantly and so stupidly, it’s not hard to know that the truth is pretty much the complete opposite of everything he says.
Aw, bless 'im, the dopey fucking bellend.
I'm going to assume that is a very funny joke about the Arizona Cardinals being rubbish, Alistair.
He's a liar and ignorant of the law. And a piece of shit.
Why did not every person in the room just roll about laughing when he said that? It's the only way Trump will ever understand what a joke everyone thinks he is.
The key line is “Any sort of rational discussion becomes pretty much impossible.” There is no point is listening to anything that “jack of all tirades” Farage says. No point whatsoever. If only the media would just ignore him and stop platforming Reform. They have nothing useful to offer.
Every word of this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What does it say about David Lammy that he considers this fucknut his mate?
Waging peace: women’s defiance of war and patriarchal power In the face of deteriorating trust between nations, Women in Black campaign to resist war and build peace @sussexbylines.co.uk
Few peace movements have demonstrated the longevity or moral clarity of Women in Black. My latest article for @sussexbylines.co.uk sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/dem... @wilpf.bsky.social @jvp.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social @cnduk.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @thecanaryuk.bsky.social
I thought you said you didn't know Goodwin, Aid?
If only they would look at Brexit in purely pragmatic terms...
In the face of deteriorating trust between nations, Women in Black campaign to resist war and build peace.
Jesus fucking Christ 🤮
Exactly right.
Helena Handcart is magnificent.
Very interesting piece (from 2024) claiming that Higgins was set up in the match-fixing scheme and that the video used as evidence had been tampered with. sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/headline-i... #snooker #WeLoveSnooker
The UK government recently announced a returns agreement to discourage people from making the channel crossing and economic sanctions against people smugglers.
Excellent, have a great time!
Where are you?
He had a prime???
Brexit can’t break every bond! 🌍🎶 Triorca Youth Orchestra brings together young musicians from Norwich, Serbia, Germany – and now Rouen. This summer, they turned twinning into music, friendship, and a stunning Rouen cathedral concert | Sarah Patey 🎻 Read their inspiring story ⤵️
RFK genuinely embarking on a program to kill a percentage of the American people. Mad and evil.
You're ace, Zoe. Never give up.
He’s inventing entirely new forms of stupidity, too.
Every single day he says something more stupid than the last.
Cancer free? Perhaps, but as Ness Stockman points out in her heartfelt article, you are never free of the anxiety, even after 7 years in remission.... This is the latest in a series of articles on the journey that she has been through after first receiving a cancer diagnosis, over eight years ago
Just like a pill The fear that accompanies an annual mammogram post breast cancer never leaves you | Ness Stockman writes for @sussexbylines.co.uk
Telling the truth "It should not need to be said: Judaism is not the Israeli government, just as the IDF is not the Jewish people." @sussexbylines.co.uk
@bylinesnetworkpod.bsky.social features three members of our editorial team talking about the development of Sussex Bylines, and two of our authors on writing for @sussexbylines.co.uk If you're interested in volunteering with us, do have a listen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
☠️ Lead poisoning kills an estimated 50,000-100,000 waterbirds annually in the UK. Many more birds are poisoned, but not killed.
No, there really isn't. Hassett has had his brain scraped out and replaced with hamburgers Trump hasn't finished chewing.
I mean, honestly, what the fuck is wrong with them?
Are they incapable of self-reflection? Of thinking, should this be the way to behave? Democracy seems to be dead in America under Trump.
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
Lead poisoning kills an estimated 50,000-100,000 waterbirds annually in the UK. Many more birds are poisoned, but not killed.
Stephen Colbert, "You warned everyone about the future under our president" Kamala Harris, "You're correct that I did predict a lot of it. What I did not predict was the capitulation. I didn't see that coming"
Motherfucking wind farms…
Please, for the love of god, when is a journalist gonna laugh in his face? It’s gotta happen soon, he’s talking ever more crazy bollocks.
Who is that lunatic?
I would think there are plenty of people already in the world who know irrefutably that it was a catastrophic error to have had anything to do with Donald fucking Trump (for that is without question how they refer to him) whatsoever.
It truly is Invasion of the Body Snatchers in real life.
Because they are a bunch of mutants for whom breathing is not as essential to life as lying is.
Telling the truth. Fear is censoring our public discourse
In a world of fake news and disinformation, factchecking claims and veracity of images has become an important part of impartial journalism.
I have done it. It asked me if it wasn't time for my nap. Cheeky fucker.
Brink said “the disastrous meeting between Trump and Zelensky in the Oval Office in February was only one of many “horrific” incidents, just the most public showcasing of the administration’s problematic stance.”
Are we building a bridge or reinforcing a cage?
Kneecap and Bob Vylan The mounting campaign against political expression in music, by Rudi Banfield #kneecap #bobvylan
Hello, Anthony.