Speaking as a party member. Is it possible to consider a more stupid policy for @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to support? Oversees workers provide a lifeline for a service on its knees. This will inevitably result in reduced care quality for the most vulnerable 🤯 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A red wall box in a circular stone box with roof. Behind it is a castle with trees and in grass
And the award for the loveliest rustic postbox in a castle setting goes to this little gem at Chirk Castle in Wrexham
In Brazil this week for prep meetings for the Global Citizens’ Assembly for #COP30 and really tuning into how we can working with farming, forest, indigenous and any community that’s living in harmony with the land…
Great to see @pollycurtis.bsky.social in news yesterday pushing for a better plan to activate people www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Today I’m at Windsor trying to work out precisely how we do this with @localtrust.org.uk Here’s my initial take 👇
A great interview of Asif by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social with some brilliant quotes:
Kapadia won an Oscar for Amy, his heartbreaking film about Amy Winehouse. This is emotional too, a sci fi thriller set in the future made of fragments of the present. I tell the story of how I accidentally ended up in the film. But it’s so much more than that.
youtu.be/YDE97KrYDuU?...
This is what the Observer team & I were doing between strikes. Please read it because it couldn’t be more relevant. I interview @asifkapadia.bsky.social
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
🔔 Mark your calendars!
@iswe-foundation.bsky.social and @participedia.bsky.social invite you for an open virtual workshop exploring inclusive and innovative methods for #GlobalCitizensAssembly selection and recruitment.
📅 Date: 23 April 2025
⏰ Time: 6 - 8 P.M. CET
Register now!
It's a theme that Iñaki Goñi explores in this fantastic new paper on how STS and Deliberative democracy should talk more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... - exploring how for some "digital technologies promise to close the gap between careful deliberation and mass participation"
📢 Call for participation!
Interested in innovative selection methods of the #GlobalCitizensAssembly?
Join us for the Global Citizens Assembly Citizen Selection and Recruitment Workshop, co-hosted with @iswe-foundation.bsky.social.
CFP and registration at the 🔗 ⬇️!
drive.google.com/file/d/1KBv-...
MUST WATCH : @gilduran.com explains not only what, why and how the tech bros and Trump came together to destroy democracy, but also why and how the mainstream Democrats are being so quiet: many are just hoping for a cut of the billionaire $$$.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=66yV...
Join Prof Luis Cabrera, Dr @marithammond.bsky.social, @richwil.bsky.social, and Dr Mathias Koenig-Archibugi as they discuss the promise, limits, and future development of transnational citizen initiatives and other forms of citizen involvement in policy-making on matters of global concern.
#polisky
New forms of citizen participation in global governance
Join a conversation on 4 March between Luis Cabrera, @marithammond.bsky.social and @richwil.bsky.social on the development of transnational citizen initiatives, such as the Global Climate Assembly.
#CitizensAssembly
🌱🌍 While faith in multilateralism has severely declined due to rising geopolitical uncertainty, a new permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly is being launched for COP30, offering a new model of inclusive global governance.
4/6 📚
@richwil.bsky.social @iswe-foundation.bsky.social
🌎 🌱 While public faith in climate multilateralism has been severely undermined by rising geopolitical uncertainty, a new permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly introduces a new model of inclusive, action-driven global governance.
Latest commentary
🔗 europeandemocracyhub.epd.eu/how-a-new-gl...
✍️ Rich Wilson (@richwil.bsky.social) and David Levaï, Iswe Foundation (@iswe-foundation.bsky.social)
WTF? I mean what? For real?!? 😵💫
As climate change accelerates, civic activism has diversified its tactics of engagement to progress on climate goals.
But the movement faces increasing repression & backlash. Read more in this compilation edited by Erin Jones & Richard Youngs ⬇️
New post just out:
"Policy vs Politics: the paralysis of technocratic government in a populist age"
Why Labour is getting stuck on identifying an approach to governing.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/p...
Looks like Ramaswarmy got the best ROI.
I think it’s what Morgan McSweeney has decided will play best with swing voters in Basildon & Billericay. Or me might have already given up on that, given the majority of 20 🤣
At #COP29 the US elections and @clubofrome.bsky.social Open Letter calling for COP reform generated real debate around how to change politics. This was my response on the global political systems change movement youtu.be/J0H-O-0d2EY?...
How a randomized People‘ Assembly could fix the broken US legislature
Great read by @nickcoccoma.bsky.social, Maxwell Goodman and @drpaulzeitz.bsky.social
#CitizensAssembly
At #COP29 🌐 today Wednesday 13 Nov. Join me and Noora Firaq 🇲🇻 from Climate Outreach for:
The Global Struggle for a Better Politics
Extreme Hangout, Greenzone 🌍
13 Nov. 2024
15:00 - 15:30
Post Trumps re-election there's still grounds for a better politics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7G5...
Last year, I wrote this about how the climate COPs are structured in a way that guarantees failure, and made some suggestions about what a successful structure might look like. I'm not expecting any government to listen, but you have to try, don't you?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'Fossil fuel companies broke the planet, they should pay for it,' says website cop29.com
via Global Witness
#COP29Baku
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What do people want from government on climate change? This new briefing summarises our research, and says that people want action, but don't trust government.
We suggest a much more upfront dialogue with citizens.
climatecitizens.org.uk/new-report-p...
If anyone's headed to #COP29 I'll be in Baku Mon to Fri this week for Global Citizens' Assembly creating a permanent citizens' track from COP30. Get in touch if you fancy a ☕ 🍵 🍻 Our event Tues 12 Nov, 11.15am - 12.15pm AZT in Blue Zone with Brazil Gov, ECF, CECG, African Climate Foundation + more!
Democracy was the top issue apparently amongst US voters. We the democracy field have a hell of a lot of work to do... www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
