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.
The internet, and social media in particular, has made words true weapons - giving ‘hearsay’ the currency of truth in a way that makes any corroboration, or hard fact/expert witness contradiction, entirely superfluous. While euphemism/the veil is the public Trojan horse that lets the real damage in.
December 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The internet, and social media in particular, has made words true weapons - giving ‘hearsay’ the currency of truth in a way that makes any corroboration, or hard fact/expert witness contradiction, entirely superfluous. While euphemism/the veil is the public Trojan horse that lets the real damage in.
Are Streeting’s attitudes to mental illness and diagnosis partly shaped by a keen personal sensitivity to the fact the WHO only declassified homosexuality as a mental illness as recently as 1990?
Distress (not divergence) is often the only disease worth naming/caring about - with society to blame.
Distress (not divergence) is often the only disease worth naming/caring about - with society to blame.
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Are Streeting’s attitudes to mental illness and diagnosis partly shaped by a keen personal sensitivity to the fact the WHO only declassified homosexuality as a mental illness as recently as 1990?
Distress (not divergence) is often the only disease worth naming/caring about - with society to blame.
Distress (not divergence) is often the only disease worth naming/caring about - with society to blame.
The truth is he’s scoured every BBC listing since 1972 and failed to find a single sitcom or entertainment that made jokes about the Holocaust. That’s the real story for
goosestepping, gas chamber-buffoonery Nige-watchers.
goosestepping, gas chamber-buffoonery Nige-watchers.
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The truth is he’s scoured every BBC listing since 1972 and failed to find a single sitcom or entertainment that made jokes about the Holocaust. That’s the real story for
goosestepping, gas chamber-buffoonery Nige-watchers.
goosestepping, gas chamber-buffoonery Nige-watchers.
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 damage Brexit caused - not just to the economy, trade, democracy, sensible policy making, and the truth - but also to the basic currency of political argument. This prescient exchange is from April 2019 (May’s PM, the incomparable @faisalislam.bsky.social was still at Sky):
x.com/mrdavemacleo...
x.com/mrdavemacleo...
dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 on X: ""Why did you just shout treason? How is that helpful?" @faisalislam challenges a Ukipper on their use of inflammatory language 👏 https://t.co/khd2lMERJ7" / X
"Why did you just shout treason? How is that helpful?" @faisalislam challenges a Ukipper on their use of inflammatory language 👏 https://t.co/khd2lMERJ7
x.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The damage Brexit caused - not just to the economy, trade, democracy, sensible policy making, and the truth - but also to the basic currency of political argument. This prescient exchange is from April 2019 (May’s PM, the incomparable @faisalislam.bsky.social was still at Sky):
x.com/mrdavemacleo...
x.com/mrdavemacleo...
The right offers a confected, nonsensical solution to a host of genuine problems. We need to get to better answers, not deny the questions exist - which, for too long, has seemed the strategy.
Fiona Hill is incredibly good on this (listen especially to the end):
bsky.app/profile/the-...
Fiona Hill is incredibly good on this (listen especially to the end):
bsky.app/profile/the-...
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 1:01 PM
The right offers a confected, nonsensical solution to a host of genuine problems. We need to get to better answers, not deny the questions exist - which, for too long, has seemed the strategy.
Fiona Hill is incredibly good on this (listen especially to the end):
bsky.app/profile/the-...
Fiona Hill is incredibly good on this (listen especially to the end):
bsky.app/profile/the-...
He’s very keen to describe trial by jury as a “freedom” (multiple times just now on #bbcpm) which I’m sure is exactly what it feels like for backlog prisoners currently locked up - sometimes for years, ‘innocent until proved guilty’ - on remand.
December 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
He’s very keen to describe trial by jury as a “freedom” (multiple times just now on #bbcpm) which I’m sure is exactly what it feels like for backlog prisoners currently locked up - sometimes for years, ‘innocent until proved guilty’ - on remand.
A failure to understand the fundamentals of anything for which you will have ultimate responsibility has apparently become a compulsory qualification for all Ministerial roles in government.
I’m now struggling to find an exception.
I’m now struggling to find an exception.
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A failure to understand the fundamentals of anything for which you will have ultimate responsibility has apparently become a compulsory qualification for all Ministerial roles in government.
I’m now struggling to find an exception.
I’m now struggling to find an exception.
It may or may not be relevant, but Stoppard himself did not have a university education…
Cc @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
Cc @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
It may or may not be relevant, but Stoppard himself did not have a university education…
Cc @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
Cc @herdyshepherd.bsky.social