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Lucy Bailey
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Producer on BBC World Service radio's Newshour. Background / interest in science, politics & law esp. international / human rights. NUJ (union) rep. Jazz / garden / nature / food enthusiast now living in Tunbridge Wells. [email protected]
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We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.

Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths
The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times

*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*

Receipts in thread.
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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In case you missed this it, we published our in-depth summary of COP30 yesterday
🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨

It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…

–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more

Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast

www.carbonbrief.org/...
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Geologic Core Sample

xkcd.com/3171/
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Well-written essay from Anand Giridharadas, showing how power and influence corrupt completely, regardless of party or affiliation.

Gift article below:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Insurers AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots and to retreat from coverage of AI risk as multibillion-dollar claims mount

www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, has passed away. She was 111. In recent years, her and other survivors have advocated for making the site a protected landmark to honor the community.

https://capitalbnews.org/black-wall-street-national-monument/
Inside the Battle to Preserve ‘Black Wall Street’
Establishing the Tulsa neighborhood as a protected landmark would honor a community that was lost to a racist massacre, advocates say.
capitalbnews.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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As expected, overnight, they dropped fossil fuels from the drafts AGAIN.

You can't make this discussion happen last minute during COP30 just to look good (or in hopes that it will lead to a map that lets developing country oil producers drill for longer).

You have to want to focus on it!
Let's be clear: there's not roadmap YET approved at COP30 for the end of fossil fuels.

What many countries are supporting is the INITIATIVE to set the roadmap. Because it was not originally part of the COP30 agenda - a big gap in the agenda that Brazil only last week decided should be addressed.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
@adelesulcas.bsky.social Hi Adele I am trying to contact you to ask you on the programme today to talk about UPFs - I'm a producer on BBC World Service radio's Newshour. Can you email me at [email protected]?
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Doctors dancing with giant lungs at #COP30.

What more do you need?

Of course, there is a point: the Amazon, the very lungs of the world, hang in the balance as negotiators discuss the future of climate and health.

@cape-acme.bsky.social

apnews.com/video/doctor...
Doctors dance at COP30 to demand a fossil fuel phase-out
A group of Canadian doctors danced to hip-hop at the U.N. climate talks in Brazil, calling for a global phase-out of fossil fuels.
apnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
New Slovenian law treats entire Romany minority ‘as a security threat’

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
New Slovenian law treats entire Romany minority ‘as a security threat’
Parliament approves law giving police powers to raid and surveil homes in what are demarcated as security risk areas
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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The Trump regime’s cuts to NIH grants disrupted more than 380 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants. The cuts disproportionately impacted trials on infectious diseases and minority communities.
Trump slashed spending on clinical trials. The toll is starting to become clear.
Grants for 383 clinical trials were terminated and the funding disruptions affected more than 74,000 trial participants, according to new research.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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In a win for polluters, the Trump regime proposed a rule to limit the EPA’s authority to regulate pollution in wetlands and waterways. This would strip federal protections from 55 million acres of wetlands (85% of all wetlands nationwide!), threatening lots of people's drinking water.
E.P.A. Rule Would Drastically Curb Protections for Wetlands
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Every single media lawyer I have spoken with this weeks agree that the BBC is doing exactly the right thing in admitting a mistake without admitting liability.
What serious lawyer would ever advise issuing an apology while there’s an imminent legal threat? How did the BBC not have lines and briefing ready?

Is it even capable of fighting a case when some near its top seem not to want it to win?
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Orbán’s claims of Trump summit triumph mask growing doubts over his grip on power
Orbán’s claims of Trump summit triumph mask growing doubts over his grip on power
Embattled Hungarian leader says he won an indefinite reprieve from sanctions on oil and gas from Russia, but the US has since disputed this
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Wigan charity The Brick fought food poverty by running a food bank for almost a decade, but changed to a new model after the pandemic.
The important reason why we stopped running our food bank
www.bigissue.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM