Carole Irwin
@carolecam.bsky.social
Researcher w Lyn's House Cambridge, Aberdeen Uni & St Edmund's College Cambridge; Methodist; ordained; dogs, Uist, Italy, food, politics, yomping about.
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Carole Irwin
@carolecam.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Recently-arrived migrant saying hello! I'm Carole. I research theology, intellectual disability & community, am part of 'Lyn's House', community in Cambridge lynshouse.org & an ordained Methodist minister. Other Stuff: food, dogs, Hebrides, Italy/ian, Gaelic-learning (😭), politics, walks, wildlife
You might like to submit a comment to DEFRA’s consultation on DEC 3 about penalties for polluting water companies. We Own It thinks the private ownership model has failed. Take 2 mins if you agree and add your name to their email to DEFEA… weownit.org.uk/act-now/emai...
Email DEFRA - regulation won't fix our broken water system
weownit.org.uk
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
You might like to submit a comment to DEFRA’s consultation on DEC 3 about penalties for polluting water companies. We Own It thinks the private ownership model has failed. Take 2 mins if you agree and add your name to their email to DEFEA… weownit.org.uk/act-now/emai...
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If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.
Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
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Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
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Welcome to the National Trust 2025 voting website, hosted by independent voting service provider Civica Election Services.
secure.cesvotes.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.
Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
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imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.
September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.
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The LibDems have this to be signed, about bias in the BBC, - please sign and also share: www.libdems.org.uk/bbc
Balance the BBC
The BBC is our national broadcaster, people expect and deserve balanced news coverage.
www.libdems.org.uk
September 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The LibDems have this to be signed, about bias in the BBC, - please sign and also share: www.libdems.org.uk/bbc
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🚨 Yesterday we saw Britain’s largest ever far-right protest with police estimating 110,000 people in attendance for Tommy Robinson's “Unite the Kingdom” rally.
Read our analysis of the day with all the details of just how extreme it really was.
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/13/b...
Read our analysis of the day with all the details of just how extreme it really was.
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/13/b...
Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Protest: More than 100,000 attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally – HOPE not hate
Today saw Britain’s largest ever far-right protest with police estimating 110,000 people in attendance for the “Unite the Kingdom” rally. Organised by Stephen Lennon —...
hopenothate.org.uk
September 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
🚨 Yesterday we saw Britain’s largest ever far-right protest with police estimating 110,000 people in attendance for Tommy Robinson's “Unite the Kingdom” rally.
Read our analysis of the day with all the details of just how extreme it really was.
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/13/b...
Read our analysis of the day with all the details of just how extreme it really was.
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/13/b...
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Ed Davey, "Elon Musk has applied to sell energy in this country"
"When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously"
"I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
"When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously"
"I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
September 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Ed Davey, "Elon Musk has applied to sell energy in this country"
"When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously"
"I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
"When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously"
"I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
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FINALLY. YES. THANK YOU.
Ed Milliband on Elon Musk on LBC, "Just because you're a billionaire doesn't give you the right to tell us how to run our country"
"This guy is a publicity seeking narcissist, who is inciting violence on our streets"
"As the Americans would say: butt out of our politics"
"This guy is a publicity seeking narcissist, who is inciting violence on our streets"
"As the Americans would say: butt out of our politics"
September 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
FINALLY. YES. THANK YOU.
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You could make quite a statement by instructing all your MPs to close their accounts on X.
September 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
You could make quite a statement by instructing all your MPs to close their accounts on X.
You might like to consider signing this if you’re in UK and want to communicate a different narrative to our government…
TELL THE GOVERNMENT: Our communities welcome refugees
Our communities welcome refugees. And we demand a country that does the same.
act.refugee-action.org.uk
September 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
You might like to consider signing this if you’re in UK and want to communicate a different narrative to our government…
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NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
September 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
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There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
you.38degrees.org.uk
July 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
docs.google.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The Met Office are letting us submit our own storm name suggestions:
www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
There's space for five names in the submission boxes.
Let's go with:
Exxon Mobil
BP
Shell
Equinor
Chevron
At last, those companies will get the recognition they deserve.
Pls retweet!
www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
There's space for five names in the submission boxes.
Let's go with:
Exxon Mobil
BP
Shell
Equinor
Chevron
At last, those companies will get the recognition they deserve.
Pls retweet!
June 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The Met Office are letting us submit our own storm name suggestions:
www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
There's space for five names in the submission boxes.
Let's go with:
Exxon Mobil
BP
Shell
Equinor
Chevron
At last, those companies will get the recognition they deserve.
Pls retweet!
www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
There's space for five names in the submission boxes.
Let's go with:
Exxon Mobil
BP
Shell
Equinor
Chevron
At last, those companies will get the recognition they deserve.
Pls retweet!
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To often in this debate people have assumed that only those of religious conviction or conservative politics oppose assisted dying in principle. So I thought I would explain…
June 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
To often in this debate people have assumed that only those of religious conviction or conservative politics oppose assisted dying in principle. So I thought I would explain…
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June 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Your voice matters in shaping the future of parliamentary representation in the UK.
Did you know that MPs don't have to be registered to vote or live in the UK? Help change that.
Please read, sign and share as widely as you can ✍🏽
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Did you know that MPs don't have to be registered to vote or live in the UK? Help change that.
Please read, sign and share as widely as you can ✍🏽
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Require candidates for MP to be registered to vote and residents of the UK
Currently, a candidate for MP is not required to be registered to vote or be resident in the UK. We ask the Government to require candidates for MP be registered to vote and residents of the UK.
petition.parliament.uk
June 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Your voice matters in shaping the future of parliamentary representation in the UK.
Did you know that MPs don't have to be registered to vote or live in the UK? Help change that.
Please read, sign and share as widely as you can ✍🏽
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Did you know that MPs don't have to be registered to vote or live in the UK? Help change that.
Please read, sign and share as widely as you can ✍🏽
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
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🚅Want to end the Great British Train Robbery?
✍️It only takes 1 minute to sign our petition.
🤑The rolling stock companies have made £3.6 billion in dividends over the past decade.
Now's the perfect time to demand they take our trains into public ownership.
✍️It only takes 1 minute to sign our petition.
🤑The rolling stock companies have made £3.6 billion in dividends over the past decade.
Now's the perfect time to demand they take our trains into public ownership.
Petition: Take our trains into public ownership | We Own It
The government is taking railway operators into public ownership, but the trains themselves will remain in private hands. The government must take our trains into public ownership.
weownit.org.uk
April 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🚅Want to end the Great British Train Robbery?
✍️It only takes 1 minute to sign our petition.
🤑The rolling stock companies have made £3.6 billion in dividends over the past decade.
Now's the perfect time to demand they take our trains into public ownership.
✍️It only takes 1 minute to sign our petition.
🤑The rolling stock companies have made £3.6 billion in dividends over the past decade.
Now's the perfect time to demand they take our trains into public ownership.
Chilling
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Chilling
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Bored on a Friday night?
Sign a petition for meaning traditional and social media regulation improvements.
Hold all media to higher standards. Stop disinformation, misinformation and harmful content.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Sign a petition for meaning traditional and social media regulation improvements.
Hold all media to higher standards. Stop disinformation, misinformation and harmful content.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Review traditional and social media regulation
Review media regulation, including social media, to consider the introduction of stricter regulations to ensure truthful reporting, accountability and integrity across all platforms, including newspap...
petition.parliament.uk
March 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Bored on a Friday night?
Sign a petition for meaning traditional and social media regulation improvements.
Hold all media to higher standards. Stop disinformation, misinformation and harmful content.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Sign a petition for meaning traditional and social media regulation improvements.
Hold all media to higher standards. Stop disinformation, misinformation and harmful content.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes: