Ruth Callaghan
@ruthcallaghan.bsky.social
Australian who talks, writes & thinks (and sometimes gets paid for the privilege). Delighted by shiny things, travel, family and cryptic crosswords.
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It’s hard to believe you used to be considered a serious newspaper.
I find it hard to believe that I was actually a subscriber for years.
I find it hard to believe that I was actually a subscriber for years.
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It’s hard to believe you used to be considered a serious newspaper.
I find it hard to believe that I was actually a subscriber for years.
I find it hard to believe that I was actually a subscriber for years.
This headline might work better if it stripped him of the title.
Read the statement from Buckingham Palace stripping Prince Andrew of his titles
Read the statement from Buckingham Palace stripping Prince Andrew of his titles
Read the statement from Buckingham Palace stripping Prince Andrew of his titles
www.independent.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This headline might work better if it stripped him of the title.
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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Something that two years ago would have been a resigning issue for a frontbencher to say isn’t even the headline any more because - well, because those views are everywhere now apparently? I suppose. But they’re everywhere *within a very specific circle*
October 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Something that two years ago would have been a resigning issue for a frontbencher to say isn’t even the headline any more because - well, because those views are everywhere now apparently? I suppose. But they’re everywhere *within a very specific circle*
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'Yeah, let's make the whole of England look like Belfast's Shankill Road at the height of sectarian violence in the 1980s', said no one more than five minutes ago.
September 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
'Yeah, let's make the whole of England look like Belfast's Shankill Road at the height of sectarian violence in the 1980s', said no one more than five minutes ago.
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this was the worst thing about Trump 1.0, every week felt like a year
I cannot fucking believe people wanted to go back to this
I cannot fucking believe people wanted to go back to this
Tylenol causes autism and a broken escalator is a terrorist attack.
It is only Thursday.
It is only Thursday.
September 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
this was the worst thing about Trump 1.0, every week felt like a year
I cannot fucking believe people wanted to go back to this
I cannot fucking believe people wanted to go back to this
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Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson.
Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract
Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer.
What a carousel of cronyism
Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract
Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer.
What a carousel of cronyism
September 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson.
Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract
Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer.
What a carousel of cronyism
Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract
Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer.
What a carousel of cronyism
This is both depressing and spot on - particularly in light of the Shattered Britain report that’s just come out from @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
"The truly unnerving thing about the fall of Rome (yes, I’m going there again, sorry) was that most Romans probably didn’t notice it had happened."
Morning all!
Morning all!
The decline and fall of Great Britain
From the graffiti to the economy, a sense of terminal rot has set in.
www.newstatesman.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This is both depressing and spot on - particularly in light of the Shattered Britain report that’s just come out from @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
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🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two tiny humans (1 & 2?) are sitting in a red cart pulled by Mum. One is dressed like a crocheted woolly bunny, the other like a dragon. Their expressions benevolent as they survey their subjects, accepting all appreciative looks and adoration. (1)
Two tiny humans (1 & 2?) are sitting in a red cart pulled by Mum. One is dressed like a crocheted woolly bunny, the other like a dragon. Their expressions benevolent as they survey their subjects, accepting all appreciative looks and adoration. (1)
July 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two tiny humans (1 & 2?) are sitting in a red cart pulled by Mum. One is dressed like a crocheted woolly bunny, the other like a dragon. Their expressions benevolent as they survey their subjects, accepting all appreciative looks and adoration. (1)
Two tiny humans (1 & 2?) are sitting in a red cart pulled by Mum. One is dressed like a crocheted woolly bunny, the other like a dragon. Their expressions benevolent as they survey their subjects, accepting all appreciative looks and adoration. (1)
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crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
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Starting to think these folks aren’t the “free thinkers” they think they are
June 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Starting to think these folks aren’t the “free thinkers” they think they are
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The “millionaire exodus” to which the British press devoted at least 30 stories a day was a myth
The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"
bylinetimes.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The “millionaire exodus” to which the British press devoted at least 30 stories a day was a myth
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Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
June 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.
prospect.org
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
This is exactly what I needed today.
May 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This is exactly what I needed today.
Join us for a ripping new adventure, Five Hang About While George Raids The Filing Cabinet
This is going to be an absolute car crash, the Supreme Court verdict looks more absurd by the day
www.thetimes.com/article/86fb...
www.thetimes.com/article/86fb...
May 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Join us for a ripping new adventure, Five Hang About While George Raids The Filing Cabinet
People treat health apps with the same trust as their diaries or their GP and that trust is willingly abused by authorities. This is chilling.
Police could search homes and phones after #pregnancy loss - observer.co.uk/news/nationa... we didn't give #uklabour a huge majority in order for them to allow this...
Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer
New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs
observer.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
People treat health apps with the same trust as their diaries or their GP and that trust is willingly abused by authorities. This is chilling.
Are we absolutely certain he isn’t trying to raze the party to the ground? Trying to identify the strategy here.
Polling shows Keir Starmer losing 5 points overall from 28% approval to 23% approval. He is always toxically unpopular with Reform (2% approval, from 4%) but managed to shed 17 points among Labour 2024 voters
This follows May elections, polling on 2 days after Monday's Immigration White Paper 12.5
This follows May elections, polling on 2 days after Monday's Immigration White Paper 12.5
May 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Are we absolutely certain he isn’t trying to raze the party to the ground? Trying to identify the strategy here.
So many questions 😬
I haven't moved into my new house yet. And my wedding anniversary is not till October. Are you confusing me with Dorothy?
May 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
So many questions 😬
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Thanks to his tweet, today I learned about the bata scoir
May 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Thanks to his tweet, today I learned about the bata scoir
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you want to know one reason people are losing trust in the media? it’s the total inability to call things what they are
some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen”
the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety”
who are people going to take seriously?
some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen”
the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety”
who are people going to take seriously?
May 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
you want to know one reason people are losing trust in the media? it’s the total inability to call things what they are
some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen”
the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety”
who are people going to take seriously?
some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen”
the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety”
who are people going to take seriously?
It appears that Big Fashion wants women to wear ties this season and I, for one, am not having it.
May 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
It appears that Big Fashion wants women to wear ties this season and I, for one, am not having it.
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I’ve said many times that I am a better person for having read Discworld, and it’s true
if you’re going to base your morality off a book you could hardly do better than Pratchett
if you’re going to base your morality off a book you could hardly do better than Pratchett
It's fascinating to see from these pulled quotes, over and over again, how much of my worldview and social philosophy was guided (maybe even formed) by reading Pratchett in my 20s. He should be required reading. Especially the Vimes series.
May 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I’ve said many times that I am a better person for having read Discworld, and it’s true
if you’re going to base your morality off a book you could hardly do better than Pratchett
if you’re going to base your morality off a book you could hardly do better than Pratchett