Rachel Mann
@revrachelmann.bsky.social
Priest. Poet. Writer. Broadcaster. Trans. Tired. Disabled. Autistic. (Private Passions: Military History, Austen, Golden Age Detective Fiction) T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted 2024
Archdeacon of Salford & Bolton
16 books. www.rachelmann.co.uk
Archdeacon of Salford & Bolton
16 books. www.rachelmann.co.uk
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i bet she tells people she doesn’t ski
February 16, 2026 at 9:11 PM
i bet she tells people she doesn’t ski
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The Lord, the most mighty God, has spoken ♦
and called the world from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Out of Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth; ♦
our God comes and will not keep silence.
Consuming fire goes out before him ♦
and a mighty tempest stirs about him.
⚓️✝️ #EveningPrayer
and called the world from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Out of Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth; ♦
our God comes and will not keep silence.
Consuming fire goes out before him ♦
and a mighty tempest stirs about him.
⚓️✝️ #EveningPrayer
February 17, 2026 at 6:37 PM
The Lord, the most mighty God, has spoken ♦
and called the world from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Out of Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth; ♦
our God comes and will not keep silence.
Consuming fire goes out before him ♦
and a mighty tempest stirs about him.
⚓️✝️ #EveningPrayer
and called the world from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Out of Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth; ♦
our God comes and will not keep silence.
Consuming fire goes out before him ♦
and a mighty tempest stirs about him.
⚓️✝️ #EveningPrayer
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Whatever we might feel about the Labour Government, heaven protect us from this motley crew of has-beens, incompetents, & self-serving ideologues—as well as the assorted bigots & disgruntled malcontents looming behind them
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK names Robert Jenrick as pick for chancellor
Leader Nigel Farage says Reform is
www.bbc.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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Splendid stuff!
Dear friends, here's a BIG GEORGIAN TREAT for you on Sunday night!
I'll be talking to historian Anthony Delaney about his wonderful book QUEER GEORGIANS, A HIDDEN HISTORY OF LOVERS, LAWBREAKERS AND HOMEMAKERS.
It's totally free, just subscribe via my link to join us 🙏
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I'll be talking to historian Anthony Delaney about his wonderful book QUEER GEORGIANS, A HIDDEN HISTORY OF LOVERS, LAWBREAKERS AND HOMEMAKERS.
It's totally free, just subscribe via my link to join us 🙏
lucyworsley.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Splendid stuff!
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Goodwin is employing a straight-up Holocaust denier.
February 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Goodwin is employing a straight-up Holocaust denier.
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Another blow for the ascientific disaster that is the Cass Review: "It is profoundly misguided to cast health care based on low-certainty evidence as bad care or as care driven by ideology, and low-certainty evidence as bad science."
Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown
The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.
www.motherjones.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Another blow for the ascientific disaster that is the Cass Review: "It is profoundly misguided to cast health care based on low-certainty evidence as bad care or as care driven by ideology, and low-certainty evidence as bad science."
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Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.111.
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.111.
February 17, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.111.
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.111.
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Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.110.
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.110.
February 16, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.110.
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.110.
Anyone else watched ‘How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’? I find it a curious show … by turns laugh out loud funny, awkward and strange. Not quite sure it blends and yet I’m hooked.
February 15, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Anyone else watched ‘How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’? I find it a curious show … by turns laugh out loud funny, awkward and strange. Not quite sure it blends and yet I’m hooked.
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So deeply unfair. She did nothing wrong at all, was the victim of a vicious, grifting, bigoted bully. And she's the one who has been forced out of public service.
February 15, 2026 at 12:20 PM
So deeply unfair. She did nothing wrong at all, was the victim of a vicious, grifting, bigoted bully. And she's the one who has been forced out of public service.
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She has been driven out of her workplace by an organised campaign of hate. If this had been down to race, what they call sex, or religion there would be outrage.
But because she's trans it's all "she's got what she deserves".
Don't tell me this is anything other than an attack on the trans folks
But because she's trans it's all "she's got what she deserves".
Don't tell me this is anything other than an attack on the trans folks
February 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
She has been driven out of her workplace by an organised campaign of hate. If this had been down to race, what they call sex, or religion there would be outrage.
But because she's trans it's all "she's got what she deserves".
Don't tell me this is anything other than an attack on the trans folks
But because she's trans it's all "she's got what she deserves".
Don't tell me this is anything other than an attack on the trans folks
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Susan Smith: “I hope anywhere that employs Dr Upton in future is aware of the risks they run with someone who clearly thrives on creating trouble.”
It is just hate with these people.
It is just hate with these people.
February 15, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Susan Smith: “I hope anywhere that employs Dr Upton in future is aware of the risks they run with someone who clearly thrives on creating trouble.”
It is just hate with these people.
It is just hate with these people.
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"In Jesus Christ lies a call to discover one’s deepest and most flourishing life: to become who you are. Wicked offers its own lively echo of that deep and holy vocation"
@revrachelmann.bsky.social finds unexpected resonances in the musical Wicked
#wickedmusical #Lent
@revrachelmann.bsky.social finds unexpected resonances in the musical Wicked
#wickedmusical #Lent
Faith: Wicked — a moral myth for these times
I SOMETIMES wonder whether my brain is wired up correctly. Where most people treat Lent as a season for sober and sensible self-examination, a preparation for the joy of Easter, my first thought is: “Which movie shall I watch?” Indeed, since I enj...
www.churchtimes.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 9:57 AM
"In Jesus Christ lies a call to discover one’s deepest and most flourishing life: to become who you are. Wicked offers its own lively echo of that deep and holy vocation"
@revrachelmann.bsky.social finds unexpected resonances in the musical Wicked
#wickedmusical #Lent
@revrachelmann.bsky.social finds unexpected resonances in the musical Wicked
#wickedmusical #Lent
Quick update on Sea King project. Tremendous kit. Just waiting for some paint to do the passenger chairs before adding seat belts.
February 15, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Quick update on Sea King project. Tremendous kit. Just waiting for some paint to do the passenger chairs before adding seat belts.
February 15, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Quick update on Sea King project. Tremendous kit. Just waiting for some paint to do the passenger chairs before adding seat belts.
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Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.109.
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.109.
February 15, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.109.
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.109.
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'A real-life Rosie the Riveter'. An unnamed woman working on a Vultee A-31 Vengeance dive bomber, Nashville, Tennessee. February 1943. Photographer: Alfred T Palmer. Source: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...
February 15, 2026 at 6:54 AM
'A real-life Rosie the Riveter'. An unnamed woman working on a Vultee A-31 Vengeance dive bomber, Nashville, Tennessee. February 1943. Photographer: Alfred T Palmer. Source: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...
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“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend”
February 14, 2026 at 6:29 PM
“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend”
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At least 12 WI groups are closing or considering closure after the organisation barred transgender women from membership.
Members say more groups are likely to close, and that the federation’s decision has opened up a toxic, traditionalist culture that will deter younger women from joining.
Members say more groups are likely to close, and that the federation’s decision has opened up a toxic, traditionalist culture that will deter younger women from joining.
‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban
Members warn NFWI decision has opened up toxic culture that deters younger women from joining
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:53 PM
At least 12 WI groups are closing or considering closure after the organisation barred transgender women from membership.
Members say more groups are likely to close, and that the federation’s decision has opened up a toxic, traditionalist culture that will deter younger women from joining.
Members say more groups are likely to close, and that the federation’s decision has opened up a toxic, traditionalist culture that will deter younger women from joining.
This is, quite simply, superb …
It is rare for something shot in Manchester to feel absolutely Hooklandian, but Small Prophets is a rare thing - an esoteric TV comedy that grows the heart. Mackenzie Crook is a genius. Small Prophets is television treasure.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKL...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKL...
Small Prophets | Official Trailer - BBC
YouTube video by BBC Trailers
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February 14, 2026 at 10:56 AM
This is, quite simply, superb …
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t has been a hard week. In truth, it has been a hard few years. For many trans+ people, the noise, the headlines, the debates and the hostility can feel relentless.
So this Valentine’s, we wanted to do something simple.
So we've launched our 'Letters of love to the trans community'...
So this Valentine’s, we wanted to do something simple.
So we've launched our 'Letters of love to the trans community'...
February 14, 2026 at 10:04 AM
t has been a hard week. In truth, it has been a hard few years. For many trans+ people, the noise, the headlines, the debates and the hostility can feel relentless.
So this Valentine’s, we wanted to do something simple.
So we've launched our 'Letters of love to the trans community'...
So this Valentine’s, we wanted to do something simple.
So we've launched our 'Letters of love to the trans community'...
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🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GB News or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect the BBC, not let its enemies tear it down: 38d.gs/bbc_o_eaio
Sign the petition: save our BBC: don't let the likes of Trump and his UK cronies meddle with our public broadcaster
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GBNews or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect...
38d.gs
February 14, 2026 at 10:21 AM
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GB News or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect the BBC, not let its enemies tear it down: 38d.gs/bbc_o_eaio
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The researchers found that there was no evidence "to justify blanket bans" and called for policies to "remain dynamic, guided by evolving evidence and ethical imperatives"
February 14, 2026 at 10:24 AM
The researchers found that there was no evidence "to justify blanket bans" and called for policies to "remain dynamic, guided by evolving evidence and ethical imperatives"
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February 13, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.108.
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.108.
February 14, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.108.
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.108.