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.
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….
And It was all so clearly going very wrong much earlier:
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
And It was all so clearly going very wrong much earlier:
The lack of nuance in the arguments (and calls) for prostate cancer screening, from both sufferers and the needlessly scared, really warrants correction from media commentators….
Reducing complexity to tabloid binaryism can seriously damage a nation’s health.
www.icr.ac.uk/research-and...
Reducing complexity to tabloid binaryism can seriously damage a nation’s health.
www.icr.ac.uk/research-and...
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The lack of nuance in the arguments (and calls) for prostate cancer screening, from both sufferers and the needlessly scared, really warrants correction from media commentators….
Reducing complexity to tabloid binaryism can seriously damage a nation’s health.
www.icr.ac.uk/research-and...
Reducing complexity to tabloid binaryism can seriously damage a nation’s health.
www.icr.ac.uk/research-and...
Only a particular frame of democratic mind concentrates on the future plight of less than a quarter of British tax payers, leaving the other 75% either behind or entirely out of the discussion.
An income of £1,000 a week is unimaginable for most people.
An income of £1,000 a week is unimaginable for most people.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Only a particular frame of democratic mind concentrates on the future plight of less than a quarter of British tax payers, leaving the other 75% either behind or entirely out of the discussion.
An income of £1,000 a week is unimaginable for most people.
An income of £1,000 a week is unimaginable for most people.
Well, well, Nigel Farage. You were evidently famous for it.
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Well, well, Nigel Farage. You were evidently famous for it.
I can never see or hear the word “bowels” without thinking of Spike Milligan’s ‘Maveric’:
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I can never see or hear the word “bowels” without thinking of Spike Milligan’s ‘Maveric’:
Great, and blood-chilling, piece on the day Ukraine is trapped in a Putin-mastersminded pincer.
Gill-gotten gains are the very least of it.
Gill-gotten gains are the very least of it.
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Great, and blood-chilling, piece on the day Ukraine is trapped in a Putin-mastersminded pincer.
Gill-gotten gains are the very least of it.
Gill-gotten gains are the very least of it.
Some of the reporting seems to hint at a wider circle of justice’s emissaries preparing to feed on his many, & disparate, allies (eg Police deploying counter-terrorism powers, to prevent him leaving the country & to seize his phone, has since had a Robinsonian, albeit unsuccessful, echo).
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Some of the reporting seems to hint at a wider circle of justice’s emissaries preparing to feed on his many, & disparate, allies (eg Police deploying counter-terrorism powers, to prevent him leaving the country & to seize his phone, has since had a Robinsonian, albeit unsuccessful, echo).
Not to mention what happens to someone’s “earning“ potential on their path to settled (aka ‘privileged’) status if they become, en route, the victim of life-changing injury, illness, redundancy, or outright ostracism/persecution at the hands of emboldened racists.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Not to mention what happens to someone’s “earning“ potential on their path to settled (aka ‘privileged’) status if they become, en route, the victim of life-changing injury, illness, redundancy, or outright ostracism/persecution at the hands of emboldened racists.
Ah, Auden, turning gobsmacked in his grave:
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ah, Auden, turning gobsmacked in his grave:
And perhaps to reread W H Auden’s “Refugee Blues”…
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
And perhaps to reread W H Auden’s “Refugee Blues”…
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Presumably when people who have “left” (in fact, now living on savings) eventually return because their solvency expires, there’ll be another jump in immigration. Lovely.
November 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Presumably when people who have “left” (in fact, now living on savings) eventually return because their solvency expires, there’ll be another jump in immigration. Lovely.
Epstein’s arrest and case were handled by the FBI’s Public Corruption Unit - are all cases of alleged sex trafficking by private individuals handled this way…?
www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...
www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...
November 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Epstein’s arrest and case were handled by the FBI’s Public Corruption Unit - are all cases of alleged sex trafficking by private individuals handled this way…?
www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...
www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...
See Goebbels on propaganda, #3.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
See Goebbels on propaganda, #3.
The crowd, whipped up by weeks of Trump tweeting “steal!”, fed the speaker. And emboldened him. “Fight” was already in their minds. He simply made it a rallying cry.
#CrowdPleaser
(On Jan 6th before Trump even said they’d “walk down to the Capitol”. Full transcript: www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...)
#CrowdPleaser
(On Jan 6th before Trump even said they’d “walk down to the Capitol”. Full transcript: www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...)
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The crowd, whipped up by weeks of Trump tweeting “steal!”, fed the speaker. And emboldened him. “Fight” was already in their minds. He simply made it a rallying cry.
#CrowdPleaser
(On Jan 6th before Trump even said they’d “walk down to the Capitol”. Full transcript: www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...)
#CrowdPleaser
(On Jan 6th before Trump even said they’d “walk down to the Capitol”. Full transcript: www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...)
Anyone reading the full transcript of Trump’s January 6th speech will be left in no doubt about his intentions - the Panorama edit (clumsy though it was) gave an accurate picture of what he wanted from his audience:
Early on, they were already chanting “Fight for Trump”.
www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...
Early on, they were already chanting “Fight for Trump”.
www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Anyone reading the full transcript of Trump’s January 6th speech will be left in no doubt about his intentions - the Panorama edit (clumsy though it was) gave an accurate picture of what he wanted from his audience:
Early on, they were already chanting “Fight for Trump”.
www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...
Early on, they were already chanting “Fight for Trump”.
www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...
I wish we‘d all read Milan Kundera again, before the whole world turns to totalitarian kitsch….
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I wish we‘d all read Milan Kundera again, before the whole world turns to totalitarian kitsch….
A bias in favour of the truth can lead, fatally, to taking liars and madmen seriously.
Inside and outside the BBC, we should all be rereading Milan Kundera. And not just for laughter, forgetting and kitsch…
Inside and outside the BBC, we should all be rereading Milan Kundera. And not just for laughter, forgetting and kitsch…
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A bias in favour of the truth can lead, fatally, to taking liars and madmen seriously.
Inside and outside the BBC, we should all be rereading Milan Kundera. And not just for laughter, forgetting and kitsch…
Inside and outside the BBC, we should all be rereading Milan Kundera. And not just for laughter, forgetting and kitsch…
Meanwhile, how long before the desperate and their allies “notice” that the quickest path to genuine state support appears to be by unleashing a devastating national emergency (and, for some reason, that life-threatening climate change currently doesn’t count…)?
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Meanwhile, how long before the desperate and their allies “notice” that the quickest path to genuine state support appears to be by unleashing a devastating national emergency (and, for some reason, that life-threatening climate change currently doesn’t count…)?
If Covid readily unlocked government treasure, why not other desperate, long-standing, needs like poverty, homelessness, neglect, injustice, loss of hope…? It then got even worse - when we learned the greedy, often at the expense of the needy, took so many of the spoils: inews.co.uk/news/politic...
November 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If Covid readily unlocked government treasure, why not other desperate, long-standing, needs like poverty, homelessness, neglect, injustice, loss of hope…? It then got even worse - when we learned the greedy, often at the expense of the needy, took so many of the spoils: inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Chris Mason is raising countless eyebrows himself these days. He‘s become inexplicably slow on the uptake when it comes to real political news. Happily, he has excellent colleagues who reliably notice things, and can keep us posted:
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Chris Mason is raising countless eyebrows himself these days. He‘s become inexplicably slow on the uptake when it comes to real political news. Happily, he has excellent colleagues who reliably notice things, and can keep us posted:
Important to include the fact Reeves herself is a great fan of Landlord licences - or was, ten days ago:
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Important to include the fact Reeves herself is a great fan of Landlord licences - or was, ten days ago: