Tracey Briggs
@traceybriggs1.bsky.social
Happy long time dyslexic actor👵🏻 love being part of brilliant stories ❤️ brilliant writers. ❤️ Dancing singing and campaigning. Known for Calendar Girls #DavidPughLtd, BBC Archers. Spotlight: https://app.spotlight.com/6215-7869-5146
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Tracey Briggs
@traceybriggs1.bsky.social
· Nov 14
BBC Midlands Poem film
4 minutes © Tracey Briggs 2024 Filmed and edited by Sherrie Edgar Location: Mockingbird Cinema, Birmingham Campaign for Regional Broadcasting Midlands Story…
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On the day that BBC Doctors ends on our screens. I'm sharing a poem I wrote about the way the BBC has treated Birmingham and the Midlands region.
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Farage bitterly disappointed not one of his Constituents bothered to fly to Dubai & pay over £4,500 to attend the Surgery he held for #Clacton residents in the F1 Paddock this weekend
“I don’t know why I bother working so hard for them as their MP” I imagine him saying in between sips of Moët 😉
“I don’t know why I bother working so hard for them as their MP” I imagine him saying in between sips of Moët 😉
December 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Farage bitterly disappointed not one of his Constituents bothered to fly to Dubai & pay over £4,500 to attend the Surgery he held for #Clacton residents in the F1 Paddock this weekend
“I don’t know why I bother working so hard for them as their MP” I imagine him saying in between sips of Moët 😉
“I don’t know why I bother working so hard for them as their MP” I imagine him saying in between sips of Moët 😉
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Still growing, but much more slowly than before. Note the massive impact of Trump's re-election.
Do keep dragging your friends out of the seventh circle of X and onto this platform.
Do keep dragging your friends out of the seventh circle of X and onto this platform.
December 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Still growing, but much more slowly than before. Note the massive impact of Trump's re-election.
Do keep dragging your friends out of the seventh circle of X and onto this platform.
Do keep dragging your friends out of the seventh circle of X and onto this platform.
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This story more than any other disgusts me.
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This story more than any other disgusts me.
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
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BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff
Exclusive: Plans to offset increase in minimum ‘fair pay’ set by Living Wage Foundation will affect 5,400 employees
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
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After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Don't let Birmingham lose over 800 essential affordable homes!
Please support this crowdfunding campaign. Every donation and share brings the campaign closer to saving these homes.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-ou...
Please support this crowdfunding campaign. Every donation and share brings the campaign closer to saving these homes.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-ou...
December 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Don't let Birmingham lose over 800 essential affordable homes!
Please support this crowdfunding campaign. Every donation and share brings the campaign closer to saving these homes.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-ou...
Please support this crowdfunding campaign. Every donation and share brings the campaign closer to saving these homes.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-ou...
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🚨 BREAKING: Farage facing police reports for falsifying election expenses.
A whistleblower from inside his campaign says he overspent by £9,000 incl
• Undeclared campaign HQ
• Armoured Land Rover counted as national spending
• Missing receipts/misreported costs
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
A whistleblower from inside his campaign says he overspent by £9,000 incl
• Undeclared campaign HQ
• Armoured Land Rover counted as national spending
• Missing receipts/misreported costs
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Farage 'reported to police over claim of election fraud in Clacton'
Nigel Farage has been reported to the police over claims of falsified election expenses, it has emerged.
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Farage facing police reports for falsifying election expenses.
A whistleblower from inside his campaign says he overspent by £9,000 incl
• Undeclared campaign HQ
• Armoured Land Rover counted as national spending
• Missing receipts/misreported costs
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
A whistleblower from inside his campaign says he overspent by £9,000 incl
• Undeclared campaign HQ
• Armoured Land Rover counted as national spending
• Missing receipts/misreported costs
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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'The CPS has named Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe, saying they followed the script provided to Nathan Gill... when giving interviews to... a pro-Russian TV channel in March 2019."
How many apples have to be rotten before you discard the barrel?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How many apples have to be rotten before you discard the barrel?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
'The CPS has named Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe, saying they followed the script provided to Nathan Gill... when giving interviews to... a pro-Russian TV channel in March 2019."
How many apples have to be rotten before you discard the barrel?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How many apples have to be rotten before you discard the barrel?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Putin's Brexit has Ukrainian blood all over it.
Since we released this @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social documentary two years ago, more information has come to light that Boris Johnson went to this meeting to discuss a 'backchannel' to Putin with Alexander Lebedev, who was working for the Kremlin in Crimea at the time
youtu.be/QkZzN3XHEPY?...
youtu.be/QkZzN3XHEPY?...
Boris Johnson's KGB Links EXPOSED - John Sweeney FULL Documentary
YouTube video by Byline TV
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Putin's Brexit has Ukrainian blood all over it.
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This Is the one that really struck home to me. A 17 tear old bullying a 9 year old. Indicates a deeply troubling personality www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This Is the one that really struck home to me. A 17 tear old bullying a 9 year old. Indicates a deeply troubling personality www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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We mustn’t give up on the Russian stuff though.
In terms of our national security, that’s potentially much more serious, if the links we suspect can be proved.
And substantially more damaging - especially if it results in legal proceedings.
In terms of our national security, that’s potentially much more serious, if the links we suspect can be proved.
And substantially more damaging - especially if it results in legal proceedings.
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We mustn’t give up on the Russian stuff though.
In terms of our national security, that’s potentially much more serious, if the links we suspect can be proved.
And substantially more damaging - especially if it results in legal proceedings.
In terms of our national security, that’s potentially much more serious, if the links we suspect can be proved.
And substantially more damaging - especially if it results in legal proceedings.
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I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so.
This is very long overdue.
This is very long overdue.
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so.
This is very long overdue.
This is very long overdue.
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Awesome big day out with @londongreenparty.bsky.social in Penge and Peckham with teams knocking so many doors.
Massive energy from new and long-time members and huge thanks to the people behind the scenes who organised data, clipboards, badges and leaflets to make the day work well. #HopeisHere
Massive energy from new and long-time members and huge thanks to the people behind the scenes who organised data, clipboards, badges and leaflets to make the day work well. #HopeisHere
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Awesome big day out with @londongreenparty.bsky.social in Penge and Peckham with teams knocking so many doors.
Massive energy from new and long-time members and huge thanks to the people behind the scenes who organised data, clipboards, badges and leaflets to make the day work well. #HopeisHere
Massive energy from new and long-time members and huge thanks to the people behind the scenes who organised data, clipboards, badges and leaflets to make the day work well. #HopeisHere
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🎉 Our crowdfunder is close to a quarter of a million pounds from thousands of donors.
💚 For a party that will lower bills, tax billionaires, fund the NHS, defend migrant workers and tackle the climate crisis!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
💚 For a party that will lower bills, tax billionaires, fund the NHS, defend migrant workers and tackle the climate crisis!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, we hit our £100,000 target. We're upping our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🎉 Our crowdfunder is close to a quarter of a million pounds from thousands of donors.
💚 For a party that will lower bills, tax billionaires, fund the NHS, defend migrant workers and tackle the climate crisis!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
💚 For a party that will lower bills, tax billionaires, fund the NHS, defend migrant workers and tackle the climate crisis!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers.
Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers.
Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
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Public services (health, water, electricity, roads, public transport) are just that. Services. They should not be profit making and should not be there to make a profit for companies.
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Public services (health, water, electricity, roads, public transport) are just that. Services. They should not be profit making and should not be there to make a profit for companies.
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Bill increases of nearly a third for millions of ordinary people have helped Thames Water's profits soar to over £400 million. Foreign hedge fund lenders want more power to pollute our waters and raise our bills. Privatised water is a scam. Let's bring it back into public hands.
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Bill increases of nearly a third for millions of ordinary people have helped Thames Water's profits soar to over £400 million. Foreign hedge fund lenders want more power to pollute our waters and raise our bills. Privatised water is a scam. Let's bring it back into public hands.
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In case it wasn't already obvious why Farage and his party are spreading misinformation about the climate crisis and trying to blame the most vulnerable for the problems caused by inequality - they've just received a record donation from a jet fuel multimillionaire!
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
In case it wasn't already obvious why Farage and his party are spreading misinformation about the climate crisis and trying to blame the most vulnerable for the problems caused by inequality - they've just received a record donation from a jet fuel multimillionaire!
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Never mind if Starmer's war on British nature obliterates in danger bird species - at least we have the street names to remember them by
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Streets named after birds in Britain on rise as species’ populations plummet
RSPB says growing trend for honouring species that are in decline is not matched by action on conservation
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Never mind if Starmer's war on British nature obliterates in danger bird species - at least we have the street names to remember them by
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"An ambitious scheme to restore England’s nature over coming decades has been undermined after the government inserted a clause allowing it to terminate contracts with only a year’s notice"
Th Starmer government's assualt on British nature continues unabated
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Th Starmer government's assualt on British nature continues unabated
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nature recovery plan in England hit by clause allowing contracts to end with a year’s notice
Conservationists say changes, coupled with underfunding, will curb take-up and leave less land protected for nature
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"An ambitious scheme to restore England’s nature over coming decades has been undermined after the government inserted a clause allowing it to terminate contracts with only a year’s notice"
Th Starmer government's assualt on British nature continues unabated
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Th Starmer government's assualt on British nature continues unabated
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This Spanish City has been car-free for more than 20 years. Air pollution is down by 61%, no traffic deaths since 2009: buff.ly/2D3Ghwd
We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #carfree #phaseoutfossilfuels
We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #carfree #phaseoutfossilfuels
December 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This Spanish City has been car-free for more than 20 years. Air pollution is down by 61%, no traffic deaths since 2009: buff.ly/2D3Ghwd
We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #carfree #phaseoutfossilfuels
We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #carfree #phaseoutfossilfuels
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Last year saw a record amount of post-Brexit Irish passport applications in the UK last year, with almost a quarter of a million people living in the UK applying. It's clear that the public want freedom of movement - it's time for the Government to take action.
December 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Last year saw a record amount of post-Brexit Irish passport applications in the UK last year, with almost a quarter of a million people living in the UK applying. It's clear that the public want freedom of movement - it's time for the Government to take action.