Ruth Kettle-Frisby 🍉 ☮️ 🧡
@ruthyphro.bsky.social
Unpaid Carer; Quaker Socialist; Writer; Disability activist; #CleanAir & Peace Activist; #CDKL5 UK Trustee 💚🧬; #Havering arts/theatre reviewer; Clear the Air in Havering + CND Essex co-founder; Furnisher of Fairy Lights. Join @greensorganise.bsky.social
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The Smiths - Shoplifters Of The World Unite (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by The Smiths
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youtube.com/watch?v=lJRN...
Oh my goodness the outrage about shoplifting! The real disgrace is this unjust, inequitable society.
Poverty is rife + many have very little in the way of choices in an ongoing politically-sanctioned cost of living crisis.
Life should entail a lot more than basic survival
Oh my goodness the outrage about shoplifting! The real disgrace is this unjust, inequitable society.
Poverty is rife + many have very little in the way of choices in an ongoing politically-sanctioned cost of living crisis.
Life should entail a lot more than basic survival
When you have a medically complex child, you don't deny any child the privilege of vaccination
Misinfo ➡️ avoidable deaths
Disabled kids are disproportionately vulnerable to horrendous effects of disease outbreak
Vaccine apartheid is where the real injustice lies
Children globally deserve better
Misinfo ➡️ avoidable deaths
Disabled kids are disproportionately vulnerable to horrendous effects of disease outbreak
Vaccine apartheid is where the real injustice lies
Children globally deserve better
January 24, 2026 at 6:48 AM
When you have a medically complex child, you don't deny any child the privilege of vaccination
Misinfo ➡️ avoidable deaths
Disabled kids are disproportionately vulnerable to horrendous effects of disease outbreak
Vaccine apartheid is where the real injustice lies
Children globally deserve better
Misinfo ➡️ avoidable deaths
Disabled kids are disproportionately vulnerable to horrendous effects of disease outbreak
Vaccine apartheid is where the real injustice lies
Children globally deserve better
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Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
What is this obsession with policing children's toileting?
Come on, many of them are only four when they start school!
Give these families a break, many of whom are parenting disabled children and doing a fabulous job with limited resources.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Come on, many of them are only four when they start school!
Give these families a break, many of whom are parenting disabled children and doing a fabulous job with limited resources.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Staggering number of children starting school not toilet trained, study finds
Findings spike concern that children are not taught essential life skills
www.independent.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
What is this obsession with policing children's toileting?
Come on, many of them are only four when they start school!
Give these families a break, many of whom are parenting disabled children and doing a fabulous job with limited resources.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Come on, many of them are only four when they start school!
Give these families a break, many of whom are parenting disabled children and doing a fabulous job with limited resources.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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86% of our UK arms imports come from the United States.
We are far too reliant on Donald Trump - he is unpredictable and dangerous.
Stop hoping it's going to go away. Time to stand up to the bully and to rebuild our relationships outside of the USA.
youtu.be/fDr9nrIywHI?...
We are far too reliant on Donald Trump - he is unpredictable and dangerous.
Stop hoping it's going to go away. Time to stand up to the bully and to rebuild our relationships outside of the USA.
youtu.be/fDr9nrIywHI?...
Trump's tariffs are 'a tantrum' and 'completely unacceptable', says Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Sky News
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 11:58 PM
86% of our UK arms imports come from the United States.
We are far too reliant on Donald Trump - he is unpredictable and dangerous.
Stop hoping it's going to go away. Time to stand up to the bully and to rebuild our relationships outside of the USA.
youtu.be/fDr9nrIywHI?...
We are far too reliant on Donald Trump - he is unpredictable and dangerous.
Stop hoping it's going to go away. Time to stand up to the bully and to rebuild our relationships outside of the USA.
youtu.be/fDr9nrIywHI?...
GLA member for Redbridge & Havering and now the MP for Romford have both now defected to Reform.
The stealth unelected party represention is worrying indeed.
It can feel like a dismal time to be bringing up young kids, but the Greens are going nowhere - the only party offering a real alternative.✊🏻
The stealth unelected party represention is worrying indeed.
It can feel like a dismal time to be bringing up young kids, but the Greens are going nowhere - the only party offering a real alternative.✊🏻
January 18, 2026 at 9:36 PM
GLA member for Redbridge & Havering and now the MP for Romford have both now defected to Reform.
The stealth unelected party represention is worrying indeed.
It can feel like a dismal time to be bringing up young kids, but the Greens are going nowhere - the only party offering a real alternative.✊🏻
The stealth unelected party represention is worrying indeed.
It can feel like a dismal time to be bringing up young kids, but the Greens are going nowhere - the only party offering a real alternative.✊🏻
Once a carer, always a carer.
Care is vital - yet not paid or valued.
Disabled people are disproportionately vulnerable in hospitals.
It's scandalous that carers allowance is withdrawn after 28 days in hospital.
As if we haven't got enough on our plates.
petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...
Care is vital - yet not paid or valued.
Disabled people are disproportionately vulnerable in hospitals.
It's scandalous that carers allowance is withdrawn after 28 days in hospital.
As if we haven't got enough on our plates.
petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...
Petition: Amend the 28-day rule for the Carer’s Allowance for carers giving hospital care
Amend the Carer’s Allowance rules so unpaid carers continue to be paid their allowance after 28 days if they are still providing essential care in the hospital and require NHS trusts to confirm in wri...
petition.parliament.uk
January 18, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Once a carer, always a carer.
Care is vital - yet not paid or valued.
Disabled people are disproportionately vulnerable in hospitals.
It's scandalous that carers allowance is withdrawn after 28 days in hospital.
As if we haven't got enough on our plates.
petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...
Care is vital - yet not paid or valued.
Disabled people are disproportionately vulnerable in hospitals.
It's scandalous that carers allowance is withdrawn after 28 days in hospital.
As if we haven't got enough on our plates.
petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...
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Labour cancelling elections tells me one thing: anyone who does have an election coming up might not get another chance to get rid of their Labour representatives for a long time. So take it.
Vote Green.
Vote Green.
January 16, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Labour cancelling elections tells me one thing: anyone who does have an election coming up might not get another chance to get rid of their Labour representatives for a long time. So take it.
Vote Green.
Vote Green.
Huge sigh of relief!
January 13, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Huge sigh of relief!
My latest review! Just love the @habbitfactory.bsky.social ♥️ #InclusiveTheatre
thehaveringdaily.co.uk/2026/01/13/t...
thehaveringdaily.co.uk/2026/01/13/t...
The Habbit Factory’s Sleeping Beauty Was A real Treat For Havering’s Community.
Sleeping Beauty by the Habbit Factory at MyPlace in Harold Hill this Christmas was a triumph of a production and a real treat for Havering families. A rare, anti-elitist gem that delivered unmatche…
thehaveringdaily.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 8:58 AM
My latest review! Just love the @habbitfactory.bsky.social ♥️ #InclusiveTheatre
thehaveringdaily.co.uk/2026/01/13/t...
thehaveringdaily.co.uk/2026/01/13/t...
If the bus is coming in 3 mins+ I walk.
Earlier, I missed the bus and the traffic was so awful, I overtook not only the bus I missed, but the bus in front of that - beating both to the bus stop on foot!
I get so fed up with dirty, noisy traffic & selfish drivers, but for once, I came out on top!
Earlier, I missed the bus and the traffic was so awful, I overtook not only the bus I missed, but the bus in front of that - beating both to the bus stop on foot!
I get so fed up with dirty, noisy traffic & selfish drivers, but for once, I came out on top!
January 12, 2026 at 10:20 AM
If the bus is coming in 3 mins+ I walk.
Earlier, I missed the bus and the traffic was so awful, I overtook not only the bus I missed, but the bus in front of that - beating both to the bus stop on foot!
I get so fed up with dirty, noisy traffic & selfish drivers, but for once, I came out on top!
Earlier, I missed the bus and the traffic was so awful, I overtook not only the bus I missed, but the bus in front of that - beating both to the bus stop on foot!
I get so fed up with dirty, noisy traffic & selfish drivers, but for once, I came out on top!
I don't normally share these unless a satisfying pattern emerges, but this was pretty cool so here it is for posterity!
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January 11, 2026 at 12:02 PM
I don't normally share these unless a satisfying pattern emerges, but this was pretty cool so here it is for posterity!
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Yesterday I dragged myself to a very muddy Park Run, and this morning a ran another 5K in the crisp night air with a fox and the moon for company.
January 11, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Yesterday I dragged myself to a very muddy Park Run, and this morning a ran another 5K in the crisp night air with a fox and the moon for company.
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"Havering Council unanimously voted to pass ‘Zane’s Law’ last month, which requires local authorities and the Environment Agency to hold public registers of landfill sites."
Amazing work from the brilliant @ruthyphro.bsky.social and others.
Amazing work from the brilliant @ruthyphro.bsky.social and others.
January 8, 2026 at 6:41 PM
"Havering Council unanimously voted to pass ‘Zane’s Law’ last month, which requires local authorities and the Environment Agency to hold public registers of landfill sites."
Amazing work from the brilliant @ruthyphro.bsky.social and others.
Amazing work from the brilliant @ruthyphro.bsky.social and others.
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Over 1,000 nitrous oxide canisters collected in Moseley, Brum - despite being banned. A public health, environmental & road safety issue, as the city faces a road safety emergency and the UK launches a new strategy today. Our streets shouldn’t look like this
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
Volunteers collect over 1,000 laughing gas cannisters in Birmingham suburb
Litter pickers in Moseley collected more than double the amount of nitrous oxide cannisters off streets in 2025
www.birminghammail.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Over 1,000 nitrous oxide canisters collected in Moseley, Brum - despite being banned. A public health, environmental & road safety issue, as the city faces a road safety emergency and the UK launches a new strategy today. Our streets shouldn’t look like this
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
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Happy New Year! We're getting back into the swing of things, and happy to see this news over the weekend that we're "leaving the #Diesel age".
Considering the #Health effects of the excess diesel emissions that we're still breathing today, losing diesel from our roads can't come soon enough.
Considering the #Health effects of the excess diesel emissions that we're still breathing today, losing diesel from our roads can't come soon enough.
Battery electric cars will overtake diesels in Great Britain by 2030, analysis suggests
London predicted to be the first UK city to go diesel-free, largely because of the ultra-low emission zone
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Some disabled people can work.
Very lucky disabled people can work doing a job they love or in which they find fulfilment.
Remember that profoundly disabled people who can't work are enough and MORE 😍, with so much to offer to enrich us as a society in ways that go well beyond the bounds of GDP.
Very lucky disabled people can work doing a job they love or in which they find fulfilment.
Remember that profoundly disabled people who can't work are enough and MORE 😍, with so much to offer to enrich us as a society in ways that go well beyond the bounds of GDP.
January 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Some disabled people can work.
Very lucky disabled people can work doing a job they love or in which they find fulfilment.
Remember that profoundly disabled people who can't work are enough and MORE 😍, with so much to offer to enrich us as a society in ways that go well beyond the bounds of GDP.
Very lucky disabled people can work doing a job they love or in which they find fulfilment.
Remember that profoundly disabled people who can't work are enough and MORE 😍, with so much to offer to enrich us as a society in ways that go well beyond the bounds of GDP.
Impossible to tell the real Keir Starmer social media pages from the parody ones these days isn't it!
International Law indeed!
International Law indeed!
January 4, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Impossible to tell the real Keir Starmer social media pages from the parody ones these days isn't it!
International Law indeed!
International Law indeed!
I feel for Toad here.
I know repeat offenders get backs up, but given the inequality knitted into our systems, a bit of a leg-up or a blind eye when we're at a disadvantage goes a long way. I've long suspected the world to be made significantly worse by jobsworths in their miserly officiousness!
I know repeat offenders get backs up, but given the inequality knitted into our systems, a bit of a leg-up or a blind eye when we're at a disadvantage goes a long way. I've long suspected the world to be made significantly worse by jobsworths in their miserly officiousness!
January 4, 2026 at 8:15 AM
I feel for Toad here.
I know repeat offenders get backs up, but given the inequality knitted into our systems, a bit of a leg-up or a blind eye when we're at a disadvantage goes a long way. I've long suspected the world to be made significantly worse by jobsworths in their miserly officiousness!
I know repeat offenders get backs up, but given the inequality knitted into our systems, a bit of a leg-up or a blind eye when we're at a disadvantage goes a long way. I've long suspected the world to be made significantly worse by jobsworths in their miserly officiousness!
@drmk.link is 💯 spot on that:
"Dr Eisenhauer’s behaviour was a product of the GMC’s ‘adversarial’ disciplinary model that ‘actively incentivises the “lack of candour” it claims to abhor’.
"Dr Eisenhauer’s behaviour was a product of the GMC’s ‘adversarial’ disciplinary model that ‘actively incentivises the “lack of candour” it claims to abhor’.
January 4, 2026 at 7:37 AM
@drmk.link is 💯 spot on that:
"Dr Eisenhauer’s behaviour was a product of the GMC’s ‘adversarial’ disciplinary model that ‘actively incentivises the “lack of candour” it claims to abhor’.
"Dr Eisenhauer’s behaviour was a product of the GMC’s ‘adversarial’ disciplinary model that ‘actively incentivises the “lack of candour” it claims to abhor’.
Whenever I see a celebrity advertising gambling, I wince: they are making money off the back of a lie that actively harms some of the most trodden on in society.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Whenever I see a celebrity advertising gambling, I wince: they are making money off the back of a lie that actively harms some of the most trodden on in society.
This is really good news. 💙
Can't help but wish it had happened eight years ago so that I could have got my girls jabbed for free as opposed to paying (which isn't cheap!), but really pleased for babies, children and relieved parents across the UK.
Can't help but wish it had happened eight years ago so that I could have got my girls jabbed for free as opposed to paying (which isn't cheap!), but really pleased for babies, children and relieved parents across the UK.
UK children to get chickenpox vaccine with measles, mumps and rubella jab
UK children to get chickenpox vaccine with measles, mumps and rubella jab
NHS to administer combined immunisation in move in line with approach in US, Canada, Australia and Germany
Children in the UK are to be immunised against chickenpox at the same time as measles, mumps and rubella.
The NHS across the UK’s four home nations will administer a combined vaccine to young children to protect them against all four diseases from Friday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:42 AM
This is really good news. 💙
Can't help but wish it had happened eight years ago so that I could have got my girls jabbed for free as opposed to paying (which isn't cheap!), but really pleased for babies, children and relieved parents across the UK.
Can't help but wish it had happened eight years ago so that I could have got my girls jabbed for free as opposed to paying (which isn't cheap!), but really pleased for babies, children and relieved parents across the UK.
Complete and utter liability, Reform.
Third of Reform UK’s council leaders have expressed vaccine-sceptic views
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Third of Reform UK’s council leaders have expressed vaccine-sceptic views
Health minister decries criticism of vaccinations by heads of four authorities as ‘dangerous and utterly irresponsible’
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Complete and utter liability, Reform.
Not only is Paddington 2 the best Paddington (I've only seen two, but willing to bet this'll always be true), it's one of the best films.
Hugh Grant is delightful from start to finish.
Comparable to the Muppets bringing out the best in Michael Caine; outstanding performances in two legendary films.
Hugh Grant is delightful from start to finish.
Comparable to the Muppets bringing out the best in Michael Caine; outstanding performances in two legendary films.
December 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Not only is Paddington 2 the best Paddington (I've only seen two, but willing to bet this'll always be true), it's one of the best films.
Hugh Grant is delightful from start to finish.
Comparable to the Muppets bringing out the best in Michael Caine; outstanding performances in two legendary films.
Hugh Grant is delightful from start to finish.
Comparable to the Muppets bringing out the best in Michael Caine; outstanding performances in two legendary films.