BabelBrunning
@ribblebabel.bsky.social
Antifascist, Librarian, European, Environmentalist, & as Woke as a Wokey thing. Dr of an argumentative persuasion who knows how to use an Oxford comma, rather than the useful, life-saving kind. Trying not to be so sweary but it's effing difficult. 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺🌈🏳️⚧️🖤💚💙
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Quite. Just look at who Robbie Gibb actually is, for one. When Nick Robinson and David Yelland can see it's a coup, it's a coup.
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Quite. Just look at who Robbie Gibb actually is, for one. When Nick Robinson and David Yelland can see it's a coup, it's a coup.
Mea culpa, Farage? Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed – UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed – UK politics live
Reform UK leader claims that burden of regulation is worse than before the referendum
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Mea culpa, Farage? Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed – UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
They have absolutely no interest in putting Britain first, only their own interests. Imagine them running the country. Then make sure they don't.
ICYMI: Selling off care homes? Is that really putting Britain first?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/05/lancashires-reform-run-council-plans-to-close-care-homes-to-save-4m-a-year
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/05/lancashires-reform-run-council-plans-to-close-care-homes-to-save-4m-a-year
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
They have absolutely no interest in putting Britain first, only their own interests. Imagine them running the country. Then make sure they don't.
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Majority of people not proud of post-Brexit Britain, new survey reveals
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Majority of people not proud of post-Brexit Britain, new survey reveals
Attitudes poll also suggests people increasingly believe UK is divided, that ‘culture wars’ exist and life was better in past
www.independent.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Majority of people not proud of post-Brexit Britain, new survey reveals
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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My book Ramping Up Rights aims to arm disabled people with our history and how we fought, so that we can still fight today. The gov and media want disabled people to feel isolated, because we are so strong when we come together - and that terrifies them.
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...
Ramping Up Rights | Hurst Publishers
A 100-year history of enraging injustices and inspiring campaigns: the fight for British disability rights isn’t over.
www.hurstpublishers.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
My book Ramping Up Rights aims to arm disabled people with our history and how we fought, so that we can still fight today. The gov and media want disabled people to feel isolated, because we are so strong when we come together - and that terrifies them.
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...
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The far right want you to believe that immigration causes an explosion of crime.
It's simply untrue.
Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.
It's simply untrue.
Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The far right want you to believe that immigration causes an explosion of crime.
It's simply untrue.
Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.
It's simply untrue.
Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.
And so it begins. And, let's be clear, these are good homes, and they are people's HOMES. Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
And so it begins. And, let's be clear, these are good homes, and they are people's HOMES. Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The human race has learned little from the last pandemic. Do we have a death wish?
"In fact, a second infection doubles the long-COVID risk for a child."
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
November 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The human race has learned little from the last pandemic. Do we have a death wish?
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Wake up @uklabour.bsky.social @uklabourparty.bsky.social: "Measures designed to tackle the cost of living, such as undoing the economic damage caused by Brexit through closer trading relations with the EU, will instead draw support from across the political spectrum"|TomBrufatto @bestforbritain.org
🚨 Saeema Syeda, of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), said the poll shows:
"It's a manufactured panic, pushed by some politicians and parts of the media to distract from what actually matters to people.
https://bit.ly/4oekHXR
"It's a manufactured panic, pushed by some politicians and parts of the media to distract from what actually matters to people.
https://bit.ly/4oekHXR
'Manufactured panic': Immigration not near top of most people's concerns, poll suggests
The cost of living, health, crime, and housing are much higher on people's lists of personal worries, a YouGov survey has suggested.
news.sky.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Wake up @uklabour.bsky.social @uklabourparty.bsky.social: "Measures designed to tackle the cost of living, such as undoing the economic damage caused by Brexit through closer trading relations with the EU, will instead draw support from across the political spectrum"|TomBrufatto @bestforbritain.org
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
W.T.F.
Latvia votes to exit treaty opposing violence against women
Latvia votes to exit treaty opposing violence against women – DW – 10/31/2025
The Istanbul Convention is a treaty of the Council of Europe that opposes violence against women. The ballot saw 56 Latvian lawmakers vote to withdraw from the treaty, while 32 want to remain. Two lawmakers abstained.
www.dw.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 AM
W.T.F.
This is a national disgrace. Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households
New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivation
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This is a national disgrace. Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Day 303 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Now that's magic!
Now that's magic!
October 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Day 303 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Now that's magic!
Now that's magic!
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Farage gets voted down on leaving the ECHR… for now.
Ed Davey quite rightly tears a strip off him.
But really, the corrupt leader of a racist party threatening to remove our protection from abuses of power by our own government, should be the biggest red flag going.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Ed Davey quite rightly tears a strip off him.
But really, the corrupt leader of a racist party threatening to remove our protection from abuses of power by our own government, should be the biggest red flag going.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging UK'
Nigel Farage's call for the UK to leave the European Convention for Human Rights (ECHR) was voted down by MPs, with Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey branding it "un-British"
www.mirror.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Farage gets voted down on leaving the ECHR… for now.
Ed Davey quite rightly tears a strip off him.
But really, the corrupt leader of a racist party threatening to remove our protection from abuses of power by our own government, should be the biggest red flag going.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Ed Davey quite rightly tears a strip off him.
But really, the corrupt leader of a racist party threatening to remove our protection from abuses of power by our own government, should be the biggest red flag going.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Slava Ukraine 💙🇺🇦💛 Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going
Born into an independent Ukraine, the lives of these young women changed for ever when Russia invaded their country, forcing them to shoulder huge burdens of responsibility
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Slava Ukraine 💙🇺🇦💛 Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Fully repealing the two-child limit is by far the best way to ensure fewer children are growing up in poverty.
Half measures have been mooted, but our modelling reveals that they would all still lead to an increase in child poverty by the end of the decade.
Learn more ⤵️ buff.ly/qVc9CWs
Half measures have been mooted, but our modelling reveals that they would all still lead to an increase in child poverty by the end of the decade.
Learn more ⤵️ buff.ly/qVc9CWs
October 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Fully repealing the two-child limit is by far the best way to ensure fewer children are growing up in poverty.
Half measures have been mooted, but our modelling reveals that they would all still lead to an increase in child poverty by the end of the decade.
Learn more ⤵️ buff.ly/qVc9CWs
Half measures have been mooted, but our modelling reveals that they would all still lead to an increase in child poverty by the end of the decade.
Learn more ⤵️ buff.ly/qVc9CWs
💚🖤🕷️ ‘White-knuckled wolf spider’ thought lost is rediscovered on Isle of Wight www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘White-knuckled wolf spider’ thought lost is rediscovered on Isle of Wight
Conservationists hail ‘remarkable’ rediscovery after 40 years, at nature reserve only accessible by boat
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
💚🖤🕷️ ‘White-knuckled wolf spider’ thought lost is rediscovered on Isle of Wight www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yep. Covid is still here and having a ball. 😷
This👇. Do everything you can to continue to protect yourself and others, especially those with weakened immune sustems. Get your vaccine booster. Wear a mask, especially in crowded indoor areas.
Dr Oz: “I think we all agree that Covid has passed”.
No we do not agree!
Anyone who thinks Covid has passed has no business in charge of public health.
It’s still here. It’s still killing and disabling.
Get your booster if you can. Wear a mask (ideally an N95) and clean the air!
No we do not agree!
Anyone who thinks Covid has passed has no business in charge of public health.
It’s still here. It’s still killing and disabling.
Get your booster if you can. Wear a mask (ideally an N95) and clean the air!
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Yep. Covid is still here and having a ball. 😷
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We forced the Charity Commission to investigate the climate change denying Global Warming Policy Foundation and the Liz Truss aligned Institute for Economic Affairs and now we've raised a complaint about the hate propagandising of the Policy Exchange Foundation. goodlaw.social/xixz
Policy Exchange’s transphobic campaigning breaches charity law | Good Law Project
Policy Exchange, a rightwing think-tank set up for the “non-partisan advancement of education of the public” has been flagrantly breaching its objects and charity law. We’ve made a formal complaint to...
goodlaw.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
We forced the Charity Commission to investigate the climate change denying Global Warming Policy Foundation and the Liz Truss aligned Institute for Economic Affairs and now we've raised a complaint about the hate propagandising of the Policy Exchange Foundation. goodlaw.social/xixz
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a policy programme that would be brutal, insane and undeliverable
I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
October 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
a policy programme that would be brutal, insane and undeliverable
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VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage: “The previously undisclosed document does not cite any evolving science. Rather, it relies on an order that President Donald Trump issued on his first day in office” www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage: “The previously undisclosed document does not cite any evolving science. Rather, it relies on an order that President Donald Trump issued on his first day in office” www.propublica.org/article/vete...
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“In its first formal review of UK trade policy since Brexit, the WTO found that UK trade performance had weakened since the 2008 financial crisis, with Brexit named among the chief causes of a marked slump in goods trade since 2018”
God, failure is tedious…
www.ft.com/content/8f4d...
God, failure is tedious…
www.ft.com/content/8f4d...
Trade’s contribution to UK GDP ‘stagnated’ since Brexit, warns WTO
Export of goods are languishing at 17% below pre-Covid levels
www.ft.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
“In its first formal review of UK trade policy since Brexit, the WTO found that UK trade performance had weakened since the 2008 financial crisis, with Brexit named among the chief causes of a marked slump in goods trade since 2018”
God, failure is tedious…
www.ft.com/content/8f4d...
God, failure is tedious…
www.ft.com/content/8f4d...
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We want to see a world where reading is a habitual part of the everyday life of all children 📚
So over the next five years, we'll be working hard to reach even more school-aged children, supporting teachers to build a love of reading.
Find out more:
https://bit.ly/4oj4XD2
So over the next five years, we'll be working hard to reach even more school-aged children, supporting teachers to build a love of reading.
Find out more:
https://bit.ly/4oj4XD2
October 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
We want to see a world where reading is a habitual part of the everyday life of all children 📚
So over the next five years, we'll be working hard to reach even more school-aged children, supporting teachers to build a love of reading.
Find out more:
https://bit.ly/4oj4XD2
So over the next five years, we'll be working hard to reach even more school-aged children, supporting teachers to build a love of reading.
Find out more:
https://bit.ly/4oj4XD2
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🚨Interview just before he met with the judge about excessive force. Now we know why she wants daily updates. 👀
October 30, 2025 at 4:48 AM
🚨Interview just before he met with the judge about excessive force. Now we know why she wants daily updates. 👀