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Laura
@laurajerramp.bsky.social
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Equality, Disability Rights, Early Years Education, Long Covid, Social Care, Art and Humour. Views my own.
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loreandordure.com
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)

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Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
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December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social
Peak Geminids Meteor shower this past Saturday night captured over Stonehenge.

Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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gerryhassan.bsky.social
How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion.
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
December 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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snellarthur.bsky.social
MI6 Chief gives speech. Speech may contain words that are interesting. But because MI6 Chief is a woman @telegraph.co.uk prints an article about her appearance, with no mention of the speech’s content.
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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jimmusilpainter.bsky.social Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 1d
Doors are open for a limited time!

I’ll show you how to paint stunning landscapes just like this through easy to follow step-by-step videos.

Join me in the Landscape Painting Studio to learn my unique process.
December 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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oliver48.bsky.social
"These are British citizens, whose lives the British government values less than the wanted war criminals in the Israeli regime, who are committing genocide in Gaza and now also the West Bank as we speak"
Their crime? Opposing genocide, in line with international law."
via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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codepink.bsky.social
"This week, Declassified UK released a new documentary with major revelations of the extensive role of British surveillance operation over Gaza", write Alfie Howis & Nuvpreet Kalra.

Watch the documentary now: buff.ly/tYDytbT
December 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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kathrynstinton.bsky.social
'It revealed that rough sleeping had hit a post-pandemic high. The 9,574 people counted as sleeping rough across England over the course of July 2025 represent an increase of 94% since July 2021, Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) analysis found'
December 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
ahem
December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
@fletchjack.bsky.social from the BMA explains they've been trying to get round the table with Wes Streeting for several months but Streeting didn't even bother replying to their letter

Now we're in Dec with a Flu epidemic & Streeting is accusing resident doctors of endangering patients
December 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
laurajerramp.bsky.social
This is so shortsighted!

Public spending should be considered as a whole. Stopping operations to save money will cost us all much more money in the long run!

& they have the audacity to complain about number of people on benefits! It’s ludicrous & the consequences heart breaking.
December 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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christo-walton.bsky.social
Labour proving yet again that they cannot be trusted to tell the truth & are not on the side of the most vulnerable in society. Very sad.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-mis...
Minister misleads MPs as mystery deepens over new £2 billion cuts to disability benefits
The disability minister has refused to apologise after misleading MPs about concerns over nearly £2 billion in new cuts to disability benefits. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has added …
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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drstevetaylor.bsky.social
NHS data reveal 'collapse' in GP jobs in England

Availability of GP jobs remains far below the level seen in 2022/23

Plus continued lies by ⁦‪Labour‬⁩ about 2600 new GPs in ARRS highlighted with just over 1100 FTE in post but other GP jobs gone!
December 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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thegmcconnachie.bsky.social
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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adrianfarrellat.bsky.social Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.bsky.social · 6d
0.000026% "interference" from ECHR on deportations!

WTF is Starmer playing at legitimising Farage?
December 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Stephen Flynn criticises Nigel Farage from attacking children who speak more than one language #BBCQT

"A man who aspires to be PM of these isle would pick a fight with school kids, would hold school kids up as an object to beat, absolutely repulses me and it should repulse all of you as well"
December 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
laurajerramp.bsky.social
£3 billion investment in SEND placements announced? 🤔 👀

‘more on this next week once there are proper details. But so far, it looks like they’re hoping to create a lot more places, with less funding per head than the last government invested—while also canning a lot of planned special schools.’
spcialndsjungle.bsky.social Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 4d
NEW POST: The 1% club: @captaink77.bsky.social's analysis of Tribunal stats shows LAs won almost none of 25k SEND appeals in 2025, at an indefensible cost of over £200m. Plus, a shocking announcement from the DfE shows the truth of the “national SEND conversation” www.specialneedsjungle.com/l...
Image shows the infographics and a screen grab of the quote
December 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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somethingchronic.bsky.social
Good job it’s not being used in the UK then! Oh no, wait…
rikefranke.bsky.social Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 5d
Super interesting reporting on Palantir‘s efforts to be used in Swiss governmental services and the military. They decided against it, because they worried Palantir was giving information to CIA and NSA and feared a loss of national sovereignty.

www.republik.ch/2025/12/08/w...
December 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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julialaite.bsky.social
When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
lucynoakes1.bsky.social lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social · 5d
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Latest monthly visa application figures are out.

Skilled workers? Still dropping.
Health & care workers? Still dropping.

Slow clap.
December 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 9
‘Evening Snow’
Artist: SR Badmin
A view over a rural scene dotted with winter trees, as the early winter evening casts a grey sky orange yellow, illuminating hard frozen ploughed fields
December 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
"The ECHR was created in the wake of World War 2. Those creating it knew the dangers of extreme ideology better than anyone...To claim it is “outdated” is to ignore the reasons why it was created in the first place, the protections it provides."

Starmer is ignoring why the ECHR was created.
migrantvoice.bsky.social Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · 6d
Today is #InternationalHumanRightsDay, and also the day when UK and EU leaders discuss weaken the rights of people fleeing war and persecution.
If the European Convention on Human Rights is to be reformed, it must be to strengthen it, not undermine it.
Read our statement for #Humanrightsday here 👇
Today marks International Human Rights Day. Only last month the European Convention on Human Rights marked its 75th anniversary. Against the backdrop of this however we are seeing a concerted attack on human rights. We see countries, including the UK, calling for the ECHR to be “reformed” to ensure that migrants, especially those seeking safety having fled war and persecution, have their rights reduced, or ignored entirely. The argument put forward for this is that the rights of some need to be reduced in order to forestall the rise of the far right. We must remember, reducing rights for some reduces rights for everyone. The ECHR was created in the wake of World War 2. Those creating it knew the dangers of extreme ideology better than anyone. They saw the need to protect refugees, and how people must be protected at all costs from having their rights removed. To claim it is “outdated” is to ignore the reasons why it was created in the first place, the protections it provides. If we are to “review” in light of our current times then that must be to strengthen those protections, not weaken them. The very basis of human rights is they must apply equally to all. Those who wrote the ECHR knew first-hand the harm which is caused by saying that some groups deserve fewer protections than others. Our current politicians must not undermine those protections now.
December 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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waronwant.bsky.social
UK arms imported by Israel have doubled in 2025.

The UK is complicit in Israel’s genocide and apartheid of the Palestinian people.

Keep reading for 4⃣ more things you need to know.🧵
December 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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jamesrball.com
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
A flow chart shows 17.4 million leave voters in 2016, vs 16.1m remain. In 2025, 5 million of those people have died, and 3 million new voters have come of age. The result (plus some people changing their mind) is 19.8 million voters now back rejoin, versus just 11.7 million wanting to stay out.
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM