Joanna Hastings
@joannahastings.bsky.social
Writer, editor, lover of dreams and folktales. BLM. Trans Rights. Women's Rights. Refugee Rights. Human Rights. Green Party member. We're all just walking each other home.
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15 years ago today the Tory & Lib Dem government tripled tuition fees.
Young people, our economy and society are robbed of the learning and skills universities offer- whilst graduates face average debt of £53,000.
Education should be a right, not a privilege. Scrap tuition fees.
Young people, our economy and society are robbed of the learning and skills universities offer- whilst graduates face average debt of £53,000.
Education should be a right, not a privilege. Scrap tuition fees.
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
15 years ago today the Tory & Lib Dem government tripled tuition fees.
Young people, our economy and society are robbed of the learning and skills universities offer- whilst graduates face average debt of £53,000.
Education should be a right, not a privilege. Scrap tuition fees.
Young people, our economy and society are robbed of the learning and skills universities offer- whilst graduates face average debt of £53,000.
Education should be a right, not a privilege. Scrap tuition fees.
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Absolutely lovely set of photos from the Traveller community's London Christmas drive – something I've been lucky enough to see on a couple of occasions.
www.theguardian.com/world/gal...
www.theguardian.com/world/gal...
The Traveller community’s London Christmas drive – in pictures
Photographer Jill Mead joined the Traveller community’s London Christmas drive on Saturday – a 14-mile trip by 200 or so horse-drawn carts and carriages through the capital, stopping at Buckingham Palace, Soho and Borough Market
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Absolutely lovely set of photos from the Traveller community's London Christmas drive – something I've been lucky enough to see on a couple of occasions.
www.theguardian.com/world/gal...
www.theguardian.com/world/gal...
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charles rafferty
In Praise of the Invisible
In Praise of the Invisible
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
charles rafferty
In Praise of the Invisible
In Praise of the Invisible
This is my first time posting a screenshot from X because I don't go on X. But I saw this in a blog and it shocked me because a recent #Sheffield MP used the same colour for her most recent newsletter. Bit horrified. Are there others, @greenparty.org.uk?
December 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is my first time posting a screenshot from X because I don't go on X. But I saw this in a blog and it shocked me because a recent #Sheffield MP used the same colour for her most recent newsletter. Bit horrified. Are there others, @greenparty.org.uk?
This is so beautiful.
In sleep, in dream song,
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
December 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is so beautiful.
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Depuis que nous sommes 27 pays unis, il n'y a plus eu de guerre mondiale en Europe, , c'est bien pour ça que #Putin et les collabos nationalistes de la #5èmecolonnerusse veulent nous diviser.
Isolés nous serons vulnérables et affaiblis, et une proie pour nos ennemis.
Isolés nous serons vulnérables et affaiblis, et une proie pour nos ennemis.
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Depuis que nous sommes 27 pays unis, il n'y a plus eu de guerre mondiale en Europe, , c'est bien pour ça que #Putin et les collabos nationalistes de la #5èmecolonnerusse veulent nous diviser.
Isolés nous serons vulnérables et affaiblis, et une proie pour nos ennemis.
Isolés nous serons vulnérables et affaiblis, et une proie pour nos ennemis.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
Looks like Starmer just bumped the Green Party fundraiser past the £250,000 line. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
December 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Looks like Starmer just bumped the Green Party fundraiser past the £250,000 line. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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A) Starmer is lying.
B) This is a breathtakingly irresponsible way to characterise a sensible solution to a serious public health problem.
B) This is a breathtakingly irresponsible way to characterise a sensible solution to a serious public health problem.
The paramedics cut the gloves off so they could check for a pulse
December 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A) Starmer is lying.
B) This is a breathtakingly irresponsible way to characterise a sensible solution to a serious public health problem.
B) This is a breathtakingly irresponsible way to characterise a sensible solution to a serious public health problem.
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Dec. 5, 1925: Langston Hughes at work as a waiter at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. At around this time he comes across the poet Vachel Lindsay at the hotel and shows him some of his own poetry, an encounter that will lead to Hughes being published.
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Dec. 5, 1925: Langston Hughes at work as a waiter at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. At around this time he comes across the poet Vachel Lindsay at the hotel and shows him some of his own poetry, an encounter that will lead to Hughes being published.
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A really important read. It’s time those who seek to lead Wales next May were forced out into the open.
We have written a special report looking at the people behind Reform in Wales.
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
Special report: Who are Reform in Wales?
We dived into the wild world of Reform UK in Cymru
willhaywardwales.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A really important read. It’s time those who seek to lead Wales next May were forced out into the open.
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Stunning picture.
Corner Clothes Shop with Mary Quant advert, photo by Middlesbrough photographer Graham Smith (b.1947).
December 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Stunning picture.
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A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."
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Louise Glück ♥️
“I speak / because I am shattered.”
Always revisiting this poem.
“I speak / because I am shattered.”
Always revisiting this poem.
December 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Louise Glück ♥️
“I speak / because I am shattered.”
Always revisiting this poem.
“I speak / because I am shattered.”
Always revisiting this poem.
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"12.39pm. Lots of people are buying fresh fruit today, which is good to see, but not many people are buying books. At least books don’t spoil after a few days, with the exception of Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts."
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
December 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"12.39pm. Lots of people are buying fresh fruit today, which is good to see, but not many people are buying books. At least books don’t spoil after a few days, with the exception of Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts."
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
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This is what tangible positive interaction looks like, in a way that's good for all the children. Hurrah for #Bradford, and hurrah for treating people like people. May it continue, spread, blossom and bring them lasting joy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Empathy that lasts a lifetime’: charity bridges gap between Bradford schools
Pupils from schools with differing demographics meet and play under charity scheme set up after city’s 2001 riots
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
This is what tangible positive interaction looks like, in a way that's good for all the children. Hurrah for #Bradford, and hurrah for treating people like people. May it continue, spread, blossom and bring them lasting joy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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The hunger strikes are not being televised. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Listen: The hunger strike is not being televised – nor will the last gasps of our dying freedoms
Read by Matthew Alford
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The hunger strikes are not being televised. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Wow, Zia Yusuf is a nasty piece of work. He had hurt feelings at the end there, though, enough to be thoroughly rude to his audience because they didn't like what he was saying. #bbcqt
December 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Wow, Zia Yusuf is a nasty piece of work. He had hurt feelings at the end there, though, enough to be thoroughly rude to his audience because they didn't like what he was saying. #bbcqt
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"I don't want to know how I write poetry. Poetry is dangerous: talking too much about it, like naming your gods, brings bad luck... you may improve your so-called technique, but only at the expense of your so-called soul." Margaret Atwood
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"I don't want to know how I write poetry. Poetry is dangerous: talking too much about it, like naming your gods, brings bad luck... you may improve your so-called technique, but only at the expense of your so-called soul." Margaret Atwood
See? It's not just me.
Wes Streeting is one of the worst people to be made a Minister in my lifetime.
He has a lot of stiff competition, obviously, I lived through Thatcher's government and every UK government since, but he is right up there with the worst of the worst.
He has a lot of stiff competition, obviously, I lived through Thatcher's government and every UK government since, but he is right up there with the worst of the worst.
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
See? It's not just me.
I love this more than I can say. Mis palabras gang oot the door.
What do you do when the sun forgets to come out
in the longest darkness of winter months?
Bueno I go out into the frosted forest
all things twinkling with ice like tiny eyes with a lust for life…
—Juana Adcock, “What do you do…”
SPLIT (Blue Diode, 2019)
#poetry
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in the longest darkness of winter months?
Bueno I go out into the frosted forest
all things twinkling with ice like tiny eyes with a lust for life…
—Juana Adcock, “What do you do…”
SPLIT (Blue Diode, 2019)
#poetry
www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...
December 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I love this more than I can say. Mis palabras gang oot the door.
Someone recently called Zack Polanski an 'opportunist.'
Let me introduce you to some opportunists:
Johnson. Truss. Sunak. Starmer. Streeting. Farage. Gill. Tice. Yusuf.
ZP's Green Party is a force to be reckoned with. That's not opportunism, it's skill, courage, conviction, work & care.
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Let me introduce you to some opportunists:
Johnson. Truss. Sunak. Starmer. Streeting. Farage. Gill. Tice. Yusuf.
ZP's Green Party is a force to be reckoned with. That's not opportunism, it's skill, courage, conviction, work & care.
Join GP🌱👇
The Labour Government refused a 1% asset tax on the super rich, yet raised taxes on people already struggling.
All whilst their "black hole" turned out to be utter nonsense.
Active choices to refuse to fund our communities which they desperately need.
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All whilst their "black hole" turned out to be utter nonsense.
Active choices to refuse to fund our communities which they desperately need.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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December 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Someone recently called Zack Polanski an 'opportunist.'
Let me introduce you to some opportunists:
Johnson. Truss. Sunak. Starmer. Streeting. Farage. Gill. Tice. Yusuf.
ZP's Green Party is a force to be reckoned with. That's not opportunism, it's skill, courage, conviction, work & care.
Join GP🌱👇
Let me introduce you to some opportunists:
Johnson. Truss. Sunak. Starmer. Streeting. Farage. Gill. Tice. Yusuf.
ZP's Green Party is a force to be reckoned with. That's not opportunism, it's skill, courage, conviction, work & care.
Join GP🌱👇
Just as Trump has rebranded the US Department of Defence as the Department of War, Wes Streeting should come clean about his position as Secretary of State for Suffering and Social Oppression.
I'm so tired of Wes Streeting waving his 'I am a monster' flag.
The response to a sharp increase of mental (or any) health problems ought to be to scrutinise the source of those problems. Identify root causes. Improve things. Don't gaslight the victims. Such bs.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The response to a sharp increase of mental (or any) health problems ought to be to scrutinise the source of those problems. Identify root causes. Improve things. Don't gaslight the victims. Such bs.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Just as Trump has rebranded the US Department of Defence as the Department of War, Wes Streeting should come clean about his position as Secretary of State for Suffering and Social Oppression.
I'm so tired of Wes Streeting waving his 'I am a monster' flag.
The response to a sharp increase of mental (or any) health problems ought to be to scrutinise the source of those problems. Identify root causes. Improve things. Don't gaslight the victims. Such bs.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The response to a sharp increase of mental (or any) health problems ought to be to scrutinise the source of those problems. Identify root causes. Improve things. Don't gaslight the victims. Such bs.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I'm so tired of Wes Streeting waving his 'I am a monster' flag.
The response to a sharp increase of mental (or any) health problems ought to be to scrutinise the source of those problems. Identify root causes. Improve things. Don't gaslight the victims. Such bs.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The response to a sharp increase of mental (or any) health problems ought to be to scrutinise the source of those problems. Identify root causes. Improve things. Don't gaslight the victims. Such bs.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...