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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈

@annieingarden.bsky.social

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Community psychologist; grandmother; educator; facilitator; mentor; ex-director DClinPsy Exeter & Plymouth; Playback actor; XRPsychologist; climate; poetry; childhood; health. Roots in NE England; Devon.

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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · Jun 23

And Rebecca Elson’s words are now carved in stone at the most beautiful garden of memories and dreams: Wildside, in Devon. 3/3 wileyatwildside.com/tribute-gard...

THE ROS WILEY TRIBUTE GARDEN

A landscape for life The Garden House KEITH WILEY WRITES: The starting point for the Canyons area had been a 25ft high rampart to block out the view of the road and adjoining stables. This, of cour…

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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 14h

“… we will try to fit that in”. 🤯

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for all the really amazing support from Question Time tonight!

You heard it several times (including even from Reform!):

@greenparty.org.uk are surging.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

#BBCQT

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Indy lass @pixie11.bsky.social · 1d

Typical BBC trash

“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 1d

🇬🇧 Another bbc twisted Headline, concealing a large decrease in homeless deaths in Scotland, within rocketing levels within England (uk)

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wolfstirfry @wolfstirfry.bsky.social · 1d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social absolutely eviscerating Zia Yusuf's #Lies and misinformation.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

What the hell does Farage thinks he’s doing, going off to America *again* to maliciously slag off British teachers at some private Christian college, while offering to peddle their courses over here?
What a repulsive, grubby little traitor.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 1d

I so wish I lived close enough to London to hear this concert. Corvus are magical: do go, if you can corvusconsort.co.uk/odyssey-ense...

Odyssey Ensemble: London - Corvus Consort

— C O N C E R T S — Saturday 25 October 2025, 7:30 pm Sinfonia Smith Square ‘The Lost Birds’ with Odyssey Ensemble TICKETS Experience an evening of powerful music and storytelling that gives voice...

corvusconsort.co.uk

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The Nerve @thenerve.news · 1d

🔗 Full piece here

www.thenerve.news/p/natasha-wa...

Natasha Walter: Why young women are going Green

As politics becomes increasingly xenophobic, the Greta Thunberg generation is flocking to join a party with both a strong stance on Gaza and refugee rights

www.thenerve.news

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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 1d

There we have it. Anti-science, ant-truth, anti-humanity m in one hit. This is how civilisations crumble.

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BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Six former US surgeons general warn RFK Jr is ‘endangering nation’s health’

Former top doctors condemn health secretary’s vaccine, research policies, saying ideology replaced science at HHS

Six former US surgeons general warn RFK Jr is ‘endangering nation’s health’

Former top doctors condemn health secretary’s vaccine, research policies, saying ideology replaced science at HHS

www.theguardian.com

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Brian 📎 @brianscant.bsky.social · 1d

The irony is more than I can bear.

Farage must NEVER be PM.

All anti-Reform / Tory Parties are going to need to cooperate on stopping this Nazi.

#Labour #Greens #LibDems #SNP

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 1d

Welfare not warfare goes international

Shabbir Lakha reports on the magnificent multinational rally in Paris against war and genocide, as a basis is laid for co-ordinated international action An international mass meeting against war an...

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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 2d

We need to talk about the climate crisis. Our weekly vigil. Teignmouth in Newton Abbot consituency, Devon. UK.

6 people by a war memorial with red flowers with a hand painted banner that says we need to talk about the climate crisis

Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 2d

In our constituency, each Saturday at 11am a bunch of us stand in centre of town for 10 min with a banner: “we need to talk about the climate” and placards: “ #sitforclimate” & we have conversations with members of the public. Tiny but real. And things grow from it eg we’re meeting our MP tomorrow.

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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 2d

Government could do more. Hard, just as putting us on a Covid footing or war footing was hard. And hard to counteract the forces of harm. But vital to do so. And yes we citizens need to take responsibility - incl by pushing all our MPs to support the Climate & Nature Bill @zero-hour.bsky.social

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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 2d

Very troubling, and made even more s, if it’s true that our government is suppressing this report. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Smith 🇺🇦 @robin.bobin.uk · 3d

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Spot on Ed.

Need more of this. Highlight how ridiculous they are in a good-natured way.

Labour Ed Davey but less cringe.

Don't interrupt your enemy but DO encourage them…

#UKPolitics #Labour #Tories #Millibacon

Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 3d

HAHAHA!

I missed this the other day, Ed Miliband has a message for Kemi Badenoch from the Labour Party:

"Keep up the good work...

...in uniting so many against her and her plans to rip up the Climate Change Act."

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Allen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com 94,698 田一彦 @allentien.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#SharedFacts

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 3d

Reeves’ casual sneering dismissal of nature is shocking. We should never pitch progress against the natural world: without ecological balance we humans will be swiftly snuffed out. Snails & other creatures matter. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 3d

🙏Jamie Russell & @zero-hour.bsky.social for brilliant presentation for Newton Abbot on how we need people power in every UK constituency to push for the Climate & Nature Bill. Good law is how we hold our politicians to account - so they protect & don’t abandon us, esp the most vulnerable.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 3d

I know I've been glazing Denmark like crazy lately — and honestly I'm not sure how they're going to enforce this — but nevertheless I am 100% behind governments banning social media for children under the age of 15. ❤️🇩🇰

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones ‘stealing childhood’

Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration

www.theguardian.com

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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 3d

“I’ve always been very optimistic,”... “Not because I’m an optimistic person, but because my life experience verifies it. …”

I’ve felt similarly as a woman born in UK 50s but not so sure now. Misogyny is growing.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

www.theguardian.com

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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t miss this, peeps. Eye opening about how the far right are infiltrating the UK. Very sinister for anyone who cares about a humane society, as we all should.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d

How the Far Right Project 2025 is going to be brought to the UK through the Reform Trojan horse.

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

open.substack.com

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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe - but there’s little evidence that much of the press is a neutral referee? If they were properly independently regulated in a trustworthy way then things might be different

Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 3d

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