Sarah Richards
@sarahrichards.bsky.social
“World is crazier and more of it than we think…”
Heck and heavens.
These days, inevitably, more heck.
Heck and heavens.
These days, inevitably, more heck.
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Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.
He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors
He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.
He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors
He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors
This little timeline, from Monday to Wednesday this week, tells us all we need to know about Chris Mason: simply contradict yourself without contrition when the truth has found you out.
3 days, 3 screenshots from BBC News….
3 days, 3 screenshots from BBC News….
December 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This little timeline, from Monday to Wednesday this week, tells us all we need to know about Chris Mason: simply contradict yourself without contrition when the truth has found you out.
3 days, 3 screenshots from BBC News….
3 days, 3 screenshots from BBC News….
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Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
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Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
Any qualification of the word ‘responsible’, even one as strong and traditionally damning as ‘morally’, is these days seen by the culpable as an open back door of escape from the House of Justice.
Putin 'morally responsible' for Dawn Sturgess' death
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Putin 'morally responsible' for 'unsurvivable' Novichok poisoning of Dawn Sturgess, inquiry finds
An inquiry into Ms Sturgess' death in 2018 came after an attempt to poison a ex-Russian double agent living in Salisbury.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Any qualification of the word ‘responsible’, even one as strong and traditionally damning as ‘morally’, is these days seen by the culpable as an open back door of escape from the House of Justice.
What Fiona Hill also has to say about the UK and the self-destructive consequences of Londoncentrism - while exasperation and striking ideas for change (and hope) keep multiplying, unrecognised, elsewhere - is at least as important. Would love to hear her talk to @herdyshepherd.bsky.social!
Fiona Hill: Russian expert on why Putin knows exactly how to get Trump on side
Fiona Hill: Russian expert on why Putin knows exactly how to get Trump on side
Fiona Hill: Russian expert on why Putin knows exactly how to get Trump on side
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
What Fiona Hill also has to say about the UK and the self-destructive consequences of Londoncentrism - while exasperation and striking ideas for change (and hope) keep multiplying, unrecognised, elsewhere - is at least as important. Would love to hear her talk to @herdyshepherd.bsky.social!
Is this really *our* BBC’s objective truth today from Moscow?
isn’t it time for the patent mischief-making in Putin’s eyes (in every video stream and shot) to count for something in our national news?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
isn’t it time for the patent mischief-making in Putin’s eyes (in every video stream and shot) to count for something in our national news?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kremlin signals no breakthrough after Ukraine talks with US
Kremlin officials describe the five hours of talks as
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Is this really *our* BBC’s objective truth today from Moscow?
isn’t it time for the patent mischief-making in Putin’s eyes (in every video stream and shot) to count for something in our national news?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
isn’t it time for the patent mischief-making in Putin’s eyes (in every video stream and shot) to count for something in our national news?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“Putin’s Happiness”, Chapter 27.
Mason's misinformation was the top news item for two days. Not a bulletin went by on national TV or Radio in which he didn't put in a shift. Today he is NOWHERE to be found, of course.
The correction was given 25 seconds, at the end of News at 6, "in other news", just before an item about Santas.
The correction was given 25 seconds, at the end of News at 6, "in other news", just before an item about Santas.
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“Putin’s Happiness”, Chapter 27.
In very precise language….
in my judgement, Chris Mason misled the country
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
In very precise language….
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3 2 1. The countdown to Kemi Badenoch demanding the resignation of David Miles.
David Miles (of the OBR) at the Treasury Select Committee: Reeves’ speech was not inconsistent with the OBR’s assessment.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
3 2 1. The countdown to Kemi Badenoch demanding the resignation of David Miles.
Also so studded with rich and satisfying ingredients - like a delectable Advent cake - it deserves to be consumed very slowly, one daily paragraph slice at a time.
In the week of Tom Stoppard’s passing, it’s a fitting tribute to the dramatic arts, full of references that the stupidest man in UK politics (he lost at thumb war to Lee Anderson) will fail to understand. Beautifully written
🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Also so studded with rich and satisfying ingredients - like a delectable Advent cake - it deserves to be consumed very slowly, one daily paragraph slice at a time.
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
Chastening to consider all the evidence, with an even better light, yet again.
🔴 Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev Must Be Investigated in a New Public Inquiry into Russian Influence
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin’s inner circle…
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin’s inner circle…
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev Must Be Investigated in a New Public Inquiry into Russian Influence
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, linking the Reform UK Party leader's closest aide to the Kremlin, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
bylinetimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Chastening to consider all the evidence, with an even better light, yet again.
A beautiful, riveting thread.
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
December 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
A beautiful, riveting thread.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Like @tomdolphin.bsky.social (BMA), I don’t have an informative graph but I wonder how Nick Robinson’s own pay - presiding over a shrinking audience - has behaved since 2015 - particularly since it was then (unlike doctors’) already in such abundantly fine fettle:
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/fame-f...
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/fame-f...
Access Restricted
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Like @tomdolphin.bsky.social (BMA), I don’t have an informative graph but I wonder how Nick Robinson’s own pay - presiding over a shrinking audience - has behaved since 2015 - particularly since it was then (unlike doctors’) already in such abundantly fine fettle:
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/fame-f...
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/fame-f...
Budgets, deals, treaties, truth…
They’re all essentially party political for our ravenous media - and especially for the BBC
This was six months ago:
They’re all essentially party political for our ravenous media - and especially for the BBC
This was six months ago:
I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Budgets, deals, treaties, truth…
They’re all essentially party political for our ravenous media - and especially for the BBC
This was six months ago:
They’re all essentially party political for our ravenous media - and especially for the BBC
This was six months ago:
The chasm between Chris Mason’s and Faisal Islam’s Budget coverage (between fatuous brouhaha and serious engagement with fiscal and, yes, political reality) is, sadly, nothing new. The BBC has all the talent it needs but always seems to keep it under Reform-appealing wraps.
(Yep, I’m a #FaisalFan.)
(Yep, I’m a #FaisalFan.)
Putting party politics ahead of genuine assessment is a horrible innovation. Elsewhere in the BBC there are some stunning examples of the latter. This, for example, is great. New information, compellingly delivered, with supremely helpful contextual analysis:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The US factory that lays bare the contradiction in Trump's policy
An exclusive look inside the closely guarded factory the president wants to become a foundation stone for a US golden age.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The chasm between Chris Mason’s and Faisal Islam’s Budget coverage (between fatuous brouhaha and serious engagement with fiscal and, yes, political reality) is, sadly, nothing new. The BBC has all the talent it needs but always seems to keep it under Reform-appealing wraps.
(Yep, I’m a #FaisalFan.)
(Yep, I’m a #FaisalFan.)
Rather than indulging Chris Mason’s excitable juggling with real and imagined lies from all corners of the political circus, it’s a relief to read Faisal Islam for a plausible version of the truth.
The BBC should give him far, far more headroom for pieces like this:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The BBC should give him far, far more headroom for pieces like this:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Rather than indulging Chris Mason’s excitable juggling with real and imagined lies from all corners of the political circus, it’s a relief to read Faisal Islam for a plausible version of the truth.
The BBC should give him far, far more headroom for pieces like this:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The BBC should give him far, far more headroom for pieces like this:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chris Mason seems to think of himself as a sort of Witkoffian envoy on behalf of, presumably, a Trump-like electorate with simplistic demands, no interest in detail, and an insatiable appetite for the supply of head-turning ‘truths’ to shout about.
No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Chris Mason seems to think of himself as a sort of Witkoffian envoy on behalf of, presumably, a Trump-like electorate with simplistic demands, no interest in detail, and an insatiable appetite for the supply of head-turning ‘truths’ to shout about.
Is everyone screaming “lies” about the Reeves announcement of worsening productivity simply very, very worried about the damage talk about it might do to their own core political mission: to make all immigration history?
Reeves should call them out: “Low net migration could kill our economy.”
Reeves should call them out: “Low net migration could kill our economy.”
Budget 2025: This is how you lose the world iandunt.substack.com/p/budget-202...
December 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Is everyone screaming “lies” about the Reeves announcement of worsening productivity simply very, very worried about the damage talk about it might do to their own core political mission: to make all immigration history?
Reeves should call them out: “Low net migration could kill our economy.”
Reeves should call them out: “Low net migration could kill our economy.”
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
The truth about the UK that Labour‘s opponents would simply love to be lies. Transforming the infrastructure of a nation…
Across regulated industries there has been a step change in the past 16 months. Solar farms left as proposals for years were signed off in weeks. We haven’t completed a new reservoir in 30 years despite the population growing by 10m. This government’s signed off 9
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The truth about the UK that Labour‘s opponents would simply love to be lies. Transforming the infrastructure of a nation…
Proven liars calling Rachel Reeves a fibber is Trumpian projection at its most audacious, and ludicrous.
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Proven liars calling Rachel Reeves a fibber is Trumpian projection at its most audacious, and ludicrous.
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I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.