Susannah Hickling
@susannahmh.bsky.social
Freelance journalist writing mostly on health and lifestyle. Also PR. Passionate European, long-time Francophile, fluent French speaker, opinionated Somerset girl. [email protected]
The thing I miss the most about X, now a hate-infused shell of itself, are the hugely entertaining people I found there who have now left. Hoping to find them here, one account at a time…
January 16, 2026 at 9:27 AM
The thing I miss the most about X, now a hate-infused shell of itself, are the hugely entertaining people I found there who have now left. Hoping to find them here, one account at a time…
Yep, will start it when I’ve picked myself up off the floor!
January 16, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Yep, will start it when I’ve picked myself up off the floor!
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Excellent and empoweringe educacioun will nevir be "efficient" yn the waye that a businesse doth stryve to be "efficient." It ys the heighte of knavery to use one standarde to measure everye human activitye. Businesses are ther to make profits. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.
January 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Excellent and empoweringe educacioun will nevir be "efficient" yn the waye that a businesse doth stryve to be "efficient." It ys the heighte of knavery to use one standarde to measure everye human activitye. Businesses are ther to make profits. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.
I’m hope so, because I haven’t written my book yet!
January 14, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I’m hope so, because I haven’t written my book yet!
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When the interior ministry declares its militia to be above the law in terms that equate dissent with treason there really isn’t any question of whether or not we are looking at an authoritarian regime.
January 14, 2026 at 4:05 PM
When the interior ministry declares its militia to be above the law in terms that equate dissent with treason there really isn’t any question of whether or not we are looking at an authoritarian regime.
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Keir Starmer: "They showed me their new prototype, the IKEA Shadow Cabinet.
"The trouble is, nobody wants to buy it.
"Every time you lose a nut, it defects to Reform."
"The trouble is, nobody wants to buy it.
"Every time you lose a nut, it defects to Reform."
January 14, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Keir Starmer: "They showed me their new prototype, the IKEA Shadow Cabinet.
"The trouble is, nobody wants to buy it.
"Every time you lose a nut, it defects to Reform."
"The trouble is, nobody wants to buy it.
"Every time you lose a nut, it defects to Reform."
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An outstanding book!
February 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
An outstanding book!
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On Holocaust Memorial Day, also remember Bridgwater's historic role in the fight against Fascism. www.vernonbartlett.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
On Holocaust Memorial Day, also remember Bridgwater's historic role in the fight against Fascism. www.vernonbartlett.co.uk
I saw one recently in the U.K. (actually, it was on a telly programme) and thought the same thing.
January 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I saw one recently in the U.K. (actually, it was on a telly programme) and thought the same thing.
It’ll give you another week to shed any extra festive pounds before you get back behind the plough!
January 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It’ll give you another week to shed any extra festive pounds before you get back behind the plough!
Should it not be next Monday, as today is Epiphany?
January 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Should it not be next Monday, as today is Epiphany?
But… do we still speak in Shakespearean English? No! Our language hath evolved, by my troth!
December 31, 2024 at 12:51 PM
But… do we still speak in Shakespearean English? No! Our language hath evolved, by my troth!
I am that grammar police officer!
December 31, 2024 at 12:48 PM
I am that grammar police officer!
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This tickled me.
By Ellie Black for the New Yorker.
By Ellie Black for the New Yorker.
December 22, 2024 at 6:44 PM
This tickled me.
By Ellie Black for the New Yorker.
By Ellie Black for the New Yorker.
Very groovy lighting!
December 23, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Very groovy lighting!
Gotten? Have you moved to America?!😱
December 23, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Gotten? Have you moved to America?!😱
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Word of the day is ‘quafftide’ (16th century): the season for drinking. Also a pithy way of declaring that it’s time to relax.
Works for hydropots (water drinkers) just as well.
Works for hydropots (water drinkers) just as well.
December 6, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Word of the day is ‘quafftide’ (16th century): the season for drinking. Also a pithy way of declaring that it’s time to relax.
Works for hydropots (water drinkers) just as well.
Works for hydropots (water drinkers) just as well.
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Interview with Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyer who explains how he has handled this horrific case and why she took the brave decision to waive her anonymity and allow the ghastly videos her husband made to be shown in open court. Warning: this story is relentlessly grim.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyer: ‘This level of depravity? I have never seen anything like it’
Stéphane Babonneau had to watch thousands of videos of Gisèle Pelicot being raped, before disclosing their horror to her. He explains how she found the courage to cope – and to change the world for ot...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:39 AM
Interview with Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyer who explains how he has handled this horrific case and why she took the brave decision to waive her anonymity and allow the ghastly videos her husband made to be shown in open court. Warning: this story is relentlessly grim.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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She was clearly manipulated.
November 30, 2024 at 8:43 AM
She was clearly manipulated.
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The liars, of course, have all moved on to new cons & deceptions. The fishing industry can't. A vaguely honest media would be holding Farage & the rest to account for this instead of promoting a meaningless petition...
www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
Fishermen left feeling 'betrayed' by Brexit
'Brexit was sold to our fishermen as a golden opportunity, yet the truth is that many fishermen have experienced the complete opposite'
www.plymouthherald.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 9:07 AM
The liars, of course, have all moved on to new cons & deceptions. The fishing industry can't. A vaguely honest media would be holding Farage & the rest to account for this instead of promoting a meaningless petition...
www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
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Somerset reflections.
November 27, 2024 at 7:50 AM
Somerset reflections.
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Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
November 24, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).