Nick Hubble

@thehubble101.bsky.social

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Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher & critic. Author: Culture Wars in Britain (May, 2026). Columnist at Vector. Incoming editor of Foundation.
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 23d

My essay 'Should Galadriel have taken the Ring?' has been nominated for the #BSFA Award for Best Short Non Fiction and @speculativeinsight.bsky.social have very kindly made it free to read for the voting period. So please read to find out about the significance of #Galadriel being the Fairy Queen.

Should Galadriel have taken the Ring? — Speculative Insight

The Fourth Age under the dominion of men isn’t going too well, is it? Did the free peoples of Middle-earth really combine to overthrow Sauron so that the world would be delivered on a plate to the lik...

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 12h

Thoughts on the first section of our reread of The Two Towers is now up, where we talked about narrative structure, a hero's death, Aragorn's leadership, how Tolkien talks about peoples as a whole, and the problems inherent in his portrayal of the orcs amongst themselves.

A Close Reading of LotR – Episode 9 – People and Peoples

After a little yuletide gap of mulling things over (or loafing about eating cheese, delete as appropriate), Ed and I have come back to our The Lord of the Rings reread, picking up now with The Two …

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 13h

There was quite a lot of snow at the cyclocross in Brussels today.

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Devolved Election Projections @devolvedelections.bsky.social · 20h

A Projection on the latest Norstat poll in Scotland:

🎗️ SNP — 59
🌹 Lab — 19
🌳 Con — 11
🌱 GP — 11
🐤 LD — 6
➡️ Ref — 23

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d

One of my all time favourite writers.

Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 1d

Gwyneth Jones (1952-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Sue Lanzon, 1985; R, Lionel Jeans, 1986
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

Cover for Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind. Woman with earring looks at the expanses of the cosmos.

Cover for Escape Plans. Woman with a cybernetic brain looks across an urban expanse.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 1d

New post: LABOUR'S SECTION 28 IS HERE - ACT NOW.

I explain how the Labour government's proposed revisions to the guidance on "keeping children in education" are designed to erase trans children in England. But it's not a done deal - there is plenty we can do to oppose this.

Labour’s Section 28 is here – act now

In May 1988, the Conservative government introduced Section 28. This legal measure outlawed support for “homosexuality as a pretended family relationship” across Britain, especially in …

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d

Difficult to predict and anti-Reform voters may leave it late to choose between Green and Labour. But my guess is that Green will win.

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Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social · 1d

Some BSFA Award nominees for your consideration

Especially art and shorter pieces.

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d

It reads like that to me.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 1d

Gwyneth Jones (1952-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Sue Lanzon, 1985; R, Lionel Jeans, 1986
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d

'Admitting the Americans may come across as a little direct and urgent, he said this was only because the US was profoundly concerned by the fate of Europe, and knew their destinies were intertwined.' This is basically grooming.

Rubio tells Europe US wants renewed alliance – but on Trump’s terms

Secretary of state calls the US ‘a child of Europe’ and urges continent to back a new world order

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d

Any politician using the Cass Review to justify anything is dishonest, especially Bridget Phillipson.

It is un-peer-reviewed pseudoscience that has been, & will continue to be, discredited by multiple peer-reviewed publications all of which have more credibility than Cass.

These are listed here;

Peer-reviewed critiques of The Cass Review

(In chronological order of publication) Horton, C (2024) The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the UK’s approach to healthcare for trans childre...

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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 1d

In what universe are universities dominated by women? I worked in academia my whole life & experienced plenty of sexism but this level of misogyny is beyond: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments

Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely everything is going on this week and it becomes easy to lose track of the relentless grinding of the authoritarian British state amidst the noise. But they are pursuing a hardline anti-trans agenda. We need to keep fighting back. I have just donated to GLP. Please do so too.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

Hi everyone. As you know, I am our trans rights lead at Good Law Project. I have been working alongside a fantastic team on our challenge since May last year. But whilst what we have achieved is significant - there is still a lot further to go.

If you can, please donate and help us keep fighting.

Help us appeal the High Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

Help us appeal the High Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project

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Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social · 2d

Far right and anti-trans activism on UK campuses supported by Russian- and Hungarian-funded networks.

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Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil | Good Law Project

Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 2d

This sort of thing is also why Labour are unpopular: entrenching xenophobic Brexit Britain: 'The EU citizens’ campaign group The 3 million called for a low-cost, one-off travel authorisation similar to one in Canada in place of the £589 certificate currently available.'

Dual nationals to be denied entry to UK from 25 February unless they have British passport

New border controls require ‘certificate of entitlement’ to attach to second nationality passport that costs £589

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 2d

& here’s @thehubble101.bsky.social on GAY HUNTER
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Road to Glasgow 2024: Gay Hunter by J. Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) (Polygon 1989) – originally published in 1934.

Part of my series of posts on Scottish SFF in the run-up to this year’s WorldCon. (I should note that I’m going to continue the series after the Worldcon – ‘The Road from Glasgow 2024’!! – as there…

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 2d

Here’s @thehubble101.bsky.social on THREE GO BACK …
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Road to Glasgow 2024: Three Go Back by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Polygon 1995) – originally published in 1932 as Three Go Back by J. Leslie Mitchell.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 2d

Just thought of 2 books by James Leslie Mitchell, better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon: THREE GO BACK (an airship travels 25,000 years into the past) and GAY HUNTER (a young, female, American archaeologist & two ghastly English fascists are flung 20,000 years forward into a post-apocalyptic future)…

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scott lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 2d

James Leslie Mitchell was born today in 1901. If you've not been, get yourself to the Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre in Arbuthnott. It's a small community-run museum and café where you can view some fab Gibbon paraphernalia, have a gander at some books, and get a lovely homemade lunch.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 2d

I fought long & hard to keep the pun/claim of "the pee in [free] speech" in BAD LANGUAGE. I will defend it with my life.

As I go on to say: "This is what makes peeing, and insisting on our right to pee, such an effective and mischievous protest against dominance."

We rarely think of speech as being intrinsically embodied because EW dominance culture associates language-making with cerebrality, and it also hates bodies. Transphobes are not toilet police by accident: toilets, and particularly public toilets, are a reminder that we are needful bodies, and that we articulate ourselves from those bodies. The need to pee is associated with being in-fans and lying down, with having failed to enter into the EW discipline of being upright and uptight. The rights to equity of evacuation and equity of expression are bound up sociologically as well as biologically, recognising the pee in speech. In a very real sense, a lack of accessible, inclusive, safe and free toilets prevents equity of expression because it removes people - disabled people, trans people, poor people - from public life.

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 2d

And people wonder why this Government and Prime Minister are so unpopular? The outrageous, draconian, Fascist and clearly illegal decision to ban Palestine Action has been one reason (alongside Labour's support for the genocide in Gaza and the attack on right to protest in general).

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule

Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 3d

Sooooo not long left to vote for the BSFA, and that means not long left to read this excellent essay for free!

You should also check out Val Nolan’s and Abby Roberts’ essays at www.speculativeinsight.com/essays

And, like, all the other essays, while you’re at it.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 3d

There is no LGB without the T. We rise together and we fall together.

Part of my speech in Parliament for LGBTQ+ History Month:

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 4d

There were three political programmes on concurrently (for those of us in Cymru): Newsnight, Walescast and Peston. Objectively, Peston was probably the best and worth it for the John Curtice segment in which JC pointed out that it's not just left v right but culture wars which drive our politics.

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Briardene Books @briardenebooks.bsky.social · 4d

Hugo nominations are open; our eligible title this year is Paul Kincaid's Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction, for Best Related Work

3D render of Colourfields by Paul Kincaid, showing off the multicoloured cover by Tom Joyes

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 4d

Any time is a good time to subscribe to Speculative Insight - AUD30/year gets you an extra dozen essays, AND the 6-monthly ebooks with exclusive content!

It's just over USD21, and GBP15!

Subscribe now and get the Dec 2025 ebook as a bonus...

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Cover of Speculative Insight December 2025. It's mostly purple. There are several trees receding into the background, with a path leading between them. They look like they're standing on clouds.

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 4d

I'm currently reading this too and it's very good.

Kev McVeigh @kevmcv.bsky.social · 6d

I've written my first review in ages. Theodora Goss' thoughtful and thought provoking collection Letters From An Imaginary Country

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