Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈
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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- “But, dear reader: savour life, be happy, value what truly matters, flee from toxicity and show empathy … lots of empathy.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Great animation ⬇️ The evidence based background to it is here. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
- 🎥 How the WHO is taking #ClimateAction to ensure #health systems are resilient to #ClimateChange PL RP🩷💚💙 @lanebaldwin.bsky.social @rickybrad.bsky.social @janeylou.bsky.social @oddthing.bsky.social @musicman75.bsky.social @lsiao338.bsky.social @kobe1991.bsky.social original #climate graph: IPCC
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- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈Not guilty of one of the principle justifications for designation as a terror group? Big yikes for the government, who could have foreseen this?
- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈My other overview. Journalists like @carolecadwalla.bsky.social have documented the information warfare aspect of the hybrid war launched by Trump/Russia/Brexit But Epstein provides much of the international base to this superstructure, as he provided the financial architecture for it all to happen
- Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...
- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈When people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, there’s a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not ‘real’ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why that’s wrong.
- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak. But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
- Must read🧵on why government must level with us about the harms - now & future - of climate & nature damage. They’d rather not for many reasons incl ignorance of science & of social psychology, & fear of implications: unravelling from vested interests, changing paternalistic mindset, new imaginaries
- A friend pointed me to a post on social media of a letter by Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour, Bristol East) about a request for a televised emergency briefing on the #ClimateEmergency I was stunned by how casually the idea & its urgency were dismissed. Let’s unpack why this response is so wrong-headed 🧵
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- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈13/ There’s also a legal obligation being ignored. Under Article 6 of the #UNFCCC, governments must ensure: – public access to #climate information – education and awareness – meaningful public participation People have a right to know the risks they face. unfccc.int/resource/doc...
- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈11/ Even more striking: @climateoutreach.bsky.social themselves (cited in McCarthy’s letter) explicitly argue for government-led public information campaigns on #climate, drawing lessons from Brexit and COVID. "Public engagement is not window dressing; it is the essential foundation for all policy"
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- “Meanwhile the political opposition, with anticipatory obedience, has fallen into sclerotic silence. Citizen pushback is pretty much the only game in town. It’s potent and may spread, re-igniting courage in other sectors,…”
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- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈My newspaper column, just out, on the ongoing suppression of the intelligence services’ security assessment… PLEASE SHARE WIDELY www.edp24.co.uk/news/2581162... #climate #biodiversity #news
- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈🔴The Case for Charging Peter Mandelson With Misconduct in Public Office An example must be set for all politicians considering abusing their office for personal gain, argues barrister Gareth Roberts bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/t...
- @onbeing.bsky.social I love this latest post from Krista Tippett onbeing.substack.com/p/my-heart-i...
- Brilliant piece,from @thierryaaron.bsky.social “Structural neglect, not personal behaviour, underlies the distribution of harm.” So let’s make care politically - and socially - unavoidable.
- I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene. Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
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View full threadReposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈10. Mandelson's betrayal was institutional. It was not a bug but a feature of the New Labour government. And it has been a feature of every government since.
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- This is good ⬇️ maybe esp now for us in UK southwest, feeling storm ravages. “We cannot seek to change the world, but we can choose to change where we are, and doing so will change who we are and what we do, and what we do may very well one day have changed all that is far beyond our reach.”
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- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈“four-fifths of farmers are concerned about not being able to make a living as extreme weather conditions reduce productivity every year” Climate impacts are hitting harder than expected. UK plans are inadequate. We aren’t ready. It’s time to brief the nation. www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈So much of this sleaze was in plain sight. When US Ambassador, Mandelson took Starmer for a photo opp at Palantir, a client of Global Counsel in which he had a huge stake. This was a monstrous conflict of interest and it was all public domain. Why did Starmer think it appropriate to go?
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- The harm is happening; the costs are clear; and we’ve still not bent the global carbon emissions curve. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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- I went to a beautiful natural funeral yesterday. Jill was a loved GP and environmentalist, whose shroud and place of burial, with friends and family, songs and snowdrops, were comforting and inspiring www.bellacouche.com/blog/more-ab...
- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority. The “silent majority” for #ClimateAction needs to get loud. People want action. Smart cities need to go much further, much faster.
- Intolerance of children is part of a greater malaise - intolerance of wildness. Yet without children & wildness along with creativity, play and disruption, we obviously can’t survive . www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- “Through the power of collective action, radical hope, and ethics of care, we can resist the Trump administration’s authoritarian agenda and forestall its harmful and dangerous consequences. There is no time to delay.”
- How does authoritarianism spread?: propaganda; conformity & obedience; moral disengagement; dehumanisation; systemic racism; perceived helplessness. Psychologists, let’s not be silent about all this. www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/a... @bpsofficial.bsky.social @psychmag.bsky.social
- Let’s keep talking, peeps: suffering shared means being less scared - and being less scared is good for us all, being stronger together. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈Confirming our story: 👉 bylinetimes.com/2026/01/29/d... "Agents are tapping into a database, built by the data analytics company Palantir, that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
- How does authoritarianism spread?: propaganda; conformity & obedience; moral disengagement; dehumanisation; systemic racism; perceived helplessness. Psychologists, let’s not be silent about all this. www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/a... @bpsofficial.bsky.social @psychmag.bsky.social
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- Please consider making a donation - however small - to support these health workers who raised the alarm to protect their patients, and us all www.crowdjustice.com/case/6-clima...
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- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data. It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes. Here’s what I mean 🧵👇
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- Such a good and timely piece. We’ve all got to come together as citizens, activists, educational & health professionals, psychologists and far beyond. We are in an emergency. @zero-hour.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social
- We're in a polycrisis that threatens the conditions that sustain human life and wellbeing. We must decide, as educational psychologists, not IF, but HOW we will adapt. Silence is no longer tenable and incrementalism is not sufficient #edpsychs #climatecrisis www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
- Important call to heed for all educationalists & psychologists - and beyond @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bps-swoe.bsky.social @bps-swoe.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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- Science and Technology Facilities Council seeking £162m in cuts by 29-30, with existing research projects facing axe, @resprofnews.bsky.social reveals. Backdrop is wider funding shift at UKRI. Big story from @francesjones.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈"[A new British intelligence report] echoes warnings some of us have made for years, only to be dismissed as nutters, doomsayers and extremists." "Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse...” You won't find more crucial reading than this.
- This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- “The obvious starting point is that limiting and responding to the climate crisis should be at the centre of decision-making and national discussion – for politicians, voters, businesses, communities and media – in a way it still isn’t..”
- Column today, first of 2026. About heat and what it does and related things. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- “When the ruling party compares unfavourably with the one that brought us Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, it’s worse than a betrayal. It’s a threat to our survival.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈This. I'm not a BBC-basher but IMO Mason is a poor political journalist. It's not that he's 'biased' per se, it's that he reports politics as a kind of giggly spectator sport and as such is preoccupied with spectacle, talking up 'exciting' events rather than analysing them. 1/2
- ~ Chris Mason, the BBC's Farage fanboy - The New World ~ thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sack-chri…
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- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈Ever played the board game Pandemic? I think it contains a surprisingly good lesson for tackling the #climate crisis, especially in a moment of rising far-right politics. Here's why🧵
- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈At a time of growing political instability and jeopardy, rejoining the EU isn’t an academic issue or one borne of nostalgia. It’s a matter of political necessity. From Dominic Grieve and me 👇
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- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈Left: Nigel Farage suggests that Alex Pretti was openly carrying a gun Right: Evidence shows Alex Pretti had a phone in one hand, and the other hand was empty
- Reposted by Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈When you think of health and safety laws and human rights laws as “obstructive bureaucracy”, stopping you being as vicious and damaging as you want to be to immigrants - who you encourage voters to blame for your own abject failures - you’ve become a monster. Let’s hope it ends up devouring itself.
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