There were so many people at Trans Pride Brighton! Lovely to see my local MP @sianberry.bsky.social and many other friends there 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights are Human Rights

Best wishes for a healthy recovery, physically and from the shock. No pets, so here's a frog at my allotment

Thanks to @swedenborghouse.bsky.social for hosting two beautiful evenings of conversation, film and music in celebration of 100th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's birth. Including UK premier of the extraordinary documentary Outrider on the work of incomparable poet Anne Waldman. Watch it if you can!

Several venues in Scandinavia now listing Bob Dylan concert dates for October, so looks like he'll be back in UK in November. Saw him in Bournemouth 2022, Royal Albert Hall 2024, and a beautiful performance in my home town of Brighton in 2025. Keeping fingers crossed he'll be back!

🙏 Thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social for joining us yesterday in Hove. One week left to get Nadia Barton Ahmad elected in the Goldsmid by-election. See nadia4goldsmid.uk to get involved! 💚 And as the fortuitously placed hoarding says, vote Green 'for the goodness of one's health'!

🎉 Happy 100th Birthday Allen Ginsberg! 3 June 1926 - 5 April 1997 Subject of so much of my research and attention for many years! His poetry, organizing and networking brought into being the Beat movement and ongoing counterculture 🙏 www.drlukewalker.com/publications www.drlukewalker.com/media

I had a search, and found this on marriage. Not exactly what you asked for, but perhaps it's helpful? But anyway, all our policies are democratically proposed and voted on by members, so join the party and propose yours! join.greenparty.org.uk

Local election seats forecast by @britainelects.com for the New Statesman. We'll know next week how accurate this turns out to be, but there's no real doubt that the result will be devastating for Labour. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Some crazy shit being pulled by Labour in Gorton & Denton today. Confirmed this was Labour not Reform

Looks like there's another G&D constituency poll due out soon 👀 Unclear from the phrasing here whether it has Greens or Reform in first place, but definitely has Greens ahead of Labour How long will you make us wait, @bylinetimes.bsky.social ?

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes - Zoe Playdon

Out of the Ordinary - Michael Dillon

Now with this rather lovely cover! Due to be published in April

Just watching the Godfather III and found it stars an instantly recognizable Gregory Corso, for a scene-stealing 10 seconds, playing 'Unruly Stockholder 2'

Delighted to receive author proofs for a project in which I had two roles! Allen Ginsberg in Context (Cambridge UP) includes my chapter on Ginsberg's Blakean contexts, and an index also by me, as a professional indexer. Available for indexing, copyediting and proofreading work www.drlukewalker.com

So excited to be going to see Bob Dylan in my home town of Brighton in 3 weeks! I saw him in 2022 in Bournemouth and 2024 at the Royal Albert Hall, but I never imagined he'd be coming back to UK again this year, and performing in Brighton!

I had a great time volunteering behind the bar at the Hanover Beer Festival at the weekend 🍻 It's a lovely annual event which raises funds for our very special local community centre 🏫 Once again @sianberry.bsky.social sponsored a barrel. She was at Green conference, so picture of her last year! 💚

More vile tweets from @bhlabour.bsky.social candidate Simon Charleton

I knew that @bhlabour.bsky.social candidate in Brighton's Queen's Park by-election was Blue Labour, but turns out he also retweets vile transphobic and racist content from the SDP and Spiked. Good job @bhgreens.bsky.social are putting all our effort into making sure Marina Lademacher beats him!

Follow @lgbtiqagreens.bsky.social (and/or sign up to their email list). They are asking candidates for all internal elections to sign these pledges. I don't know when the results will be released?

I've got plenty of respect for Sultana and Corbyn's political views, but the 'launch' of their 'party' has just been one disaster after another. Meanwhile @zackpolanski.bsky.social is showing how things can be done differently, with videos like this ⤵️

Great episode of @drugscience.bsky.social podcast, on one of my favourite topics, psychedelic Romanticism! I've written myself about 20th C psychedelic Romanticism, but in this case it's Thomas Beddoes, Humphry Davy and poet friends Coleridge and Southey. I had to buy @mikejay.bsky.social book!

Not usually one to post pretty pictures on here, but my allotment is looking particularly lovely right now!

Nice to see the New Statesman taking the Greens seriously, and identifying @zackpolanski.bsky.social as the leadership contender who poses the biggest threat to Labour www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

Just had my hair cut and did my bit for society by turning the comics-reading, stoner-dude barber on to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Amazingly, he'd never heard of them. The kids of today don't know their countercultural history!

Zack is not only a great media communicator, he's also shown he can be relied on to support Green teams around the country. There's a lot of enthusiasm for him among members in Brighton & Hove. His energy is inspirational. I'm backing Zack to be leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social

@zackpolanski.bsky.social has strongly supported @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social in his role as a Green party member of the London Assembly, asking this question of Sadiq Khan:

BHCC council leader Bella Sankey clearly has no idea about the history of Brighton & Hove. Her claim that the new Hove Beach Park is the first new park in 100 years will surprise residents of Elm Grove where the wonderful Patch park was opened in 1980s www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/news/2025/ce... 1/3

This is a mad headline, even by the standards of the anti-trans extremists in charge of The Telegraph and other UK media. Well done Carla!