Rachel
@dorsetrachel.bsky.social
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Rachel
@dorsetrachel.bsky.social
· Jan 31
Five years after we left, a new YouGov poll finds a grand total of 2% of voters think Brexit has had a very positive impact on the NHS.
“Less trade and more immigration”: imagine if they had plastered that on the side of a bus.
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Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?
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Maybe this White House exhibition will go on tour to Fifa HQ to celebrate Trump’s Fifa peace prize
Trump has just added this vindictive plaque below Obama’s White House portrait and it bears all the childish pettiness and chaotic capitalisation of his 4am Truth Social rants.
December 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Maybe this White House exhibition will go on tour to Fifa HQ to celebrate Trump’s Fifa peace prize
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It’s obvious that *before this week* Trump had never heard about Venezuela nationalizing its oil industry (in 1976!) but now it’s a casus belli in a shitshow that makes the 2002-03 run-up to invading Iraq look like a model of planning, preparation, and logic.
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It’s obvious that *before this week* Trump had never heard about Venezuela nationalizing its oil industry (in 1976!) but now it’s a casus belli in a shitshow that makes the 2002-03 run-up to invading Iraq look like a model of planning, preparation, and logic.
Would help a lot if I could find a Christmas card list from after 2017…
December 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Would help a lot if I could find a Christmas card list from after 2017…
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The enemy within
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The enemy within
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Imagine recognising you have a problem and electing to deal with that problem instead of dicking around tendentiously parsing subordinate clauses written by men in breeches.
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Imagine recognising you have a problem and electing to deal with that problem instead of dicking around tendentiously parsing subordinate clauses written by men in breeches.
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Spinach. 3 kilos cooked down = 3 tablespoons.
Red cabbage. A mere quarter will feed 12 people for a fortnight.
Potatoes. 5 kilos roasted won’t be enough for 4.
Vegetable maths.
Red cabbage. A mere quarter will feed 12 people for a fortnight.
Potatoes. 5 kilos roasted won’t be enough for 4.
Vegetable maths.
a purple and white swirl on a dark background .
Alt: a purple and white swirl of cabbage on a dark background .
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Spinach. 3 kilos cooked down = 3 tablespoons.
Red cabbage. A mere quarter will feed 12 people for a fortnight.
Potatoes. 5 kilos roasted won’t be enough for 4.
Vegetable maths.
Red cabbage. A mere quarter will feed 12 people for a fortnight.
Potatoes. 5 kilos roasted won’t be enough for 4.
Vegetable maths.
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Bottom line - Heath had non-negotiable red lines and was far braver than Starmer has ever been.
Heath fired Enoch Powell. Starmer would have said he had legitimate concerns. Not because he actually thought so, but because he would have been afraid of the media.
Thought for the day. Starmer increasingly resembles Heath: technocratic; poor at communications; buffeted by events, some of which were outside his control (Nixon and OPEC) but many of which (industrial, prices and incomes and industrial relations policies)weren’t.
December 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Bottom line - Heath had non-negotiable red lines and was far braver than Starmer has ever been.
Mr DR is a bit hard of hearing. When I commented out loud that Joanna Trollope (RIP) had died, he pricked up his ears and said ‘Donald Trump has died?’
Reader, I had to bring him down gently.
Reader, I had to bring him down gently.
December 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Mr DR is a bit hard of hearing. When I commented out loud that Joanna Trollope (RIP) had died, he pricked up his ears and said ‘Donald Trump has died?’
Reader, I had to bring him down gently.
Reader, I had to bring him down gently.
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Or, indeed, his success at taking on a radical right party whose support has more than doubled in his 15 months in charge and now leads in the polls.
Nearly every Take relating to this has been done except one, which is - why would the European leaders take advice from Starmer on how to beat the far right? Who among them envies his popularity or admires the sagacity of his advisors?
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Or, indeed, his success at taking on a radical right party whose support has more than doubled in his 15 months in charge and now leads in the polls.
Solar panels up and running! 🌞
December 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Solar panels up and running! 🌞
Every time I read about this I think what brilliant parents the Starmers must have been.
I admire this about the PM, from interview with @rachelsylvester.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Every time I read about this I think what brilliant parents the Starmers must have been.
So, Donny, can you think of any other group which suffered an ‘effacement civilisationnel’ because of immigration? Asking for a friend… @lemonde.fr
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So, Donny, can you think of any other group which suffered an ‘effacement civilisationnel’ because of immigration? Asking for a friend… @lemonde.fr
Word!
For "women" read "the patriarchal expectation that women do the Labour of creating & maintaining the family ties & social capital that hold communities together."
If it weren't for women, the greetings card industry would collapse to zero overnight.
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Word!
FEWER! FFS!
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
December 3, 2025 at 7:39 AM
FEWER! FFS!
Nothing ‘borderline’ about it.
The relentless targeting of prominent women at the head of the Labour Party by the MSM is borderline misogynistic.
December 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Nothing ‘borderline’ about it.
My Black Friday purchases: two discounted language courses from @citylit.bsky.social and some bargain Pilates classes.
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
My Black Friday purchases: two discounted language courses from @citylit.bsky.social and some bargain Pilates classes.
“I don’t see, I can’t see a rational reason to move inmates that have been compliant in an environment to a more restrictive environment,” Mohr said.
Because there is none: this is sadism.
Because there is none: this is sadism.
After Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row last year, the Trump administration is retaliating by sending them to the supermax. Prisoners are locked in cells smaller than a parking space 22-24 hours a day.
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
“I don’t see, I can’t see a rational reason to move inmates that have been compliant in an environment to a more restrictive environment,” Mohr said.
Because there is none: this is sadism.
Because there is none: this is sadism.
An article after my own heart.
November 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
An article after my own heart.
“Labour are hiking taxes to pay for welfare” says KB in response to the Budget.
What? Labour redistributing wealth? Blow me down with a feather.
#Budget2025 #BBCNews
What? Labour redistributing wealth? Blow me down with a feather.
#Budget2025 #BBCNews
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“Labour are hiking taxes to pay for welfare” says KB in response to the Budget.
What? Labour redistributing wealth? Blow me down with a feather.
#Budget2025 #BBCNews
What? Labour redistributing wealth? Blow me down with a feather.
#Budget2025 #BBCNews
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*It was used in 2023, when it was an unacceptable term.
*Twenty years ago, in 2005, it was an unacceptable term.
*Can we please stop re-establishing his already-established racism and his defence of racism?
*Twenty years ago, in 2005, it was an unacceptable term.
*Can we please stop re-establishing his already-established racism and his defence of racism?
Nigel Farage asked about Reform MS Laura Anne Jones (who the Senedd Commissioner found had used a racist term in a staff WhatsApp chat in August 2023 while discussing TikTok writing: “No chinky spies for me.”)
"Well, she used a word that colloquially, probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago."
"Well, she used a word that colloquially, probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago."
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
*It was used in 2023, when it was an unacceptable term.
*Twenty years ago, in 2005, it was an unacceptable term.
*Can we please stop re-establishing his already-established racism and his defence of racism?
*Twenty years ago, in 2005, it was an unacceptable term.
*Can we please stop re-establishing his already-established racism and his defence of racism?
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November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM