Sarah Murphy
@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Welcome to my shiny new echo chamber… hoping here that I can keep it clean and tidy and ‘woke’.
IRL - lawyer (of the lefty, campaigning variety).
IRL - lawyer (of the lefty, campaigning variety).
Pinned
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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Reform Party UK sharing Pro-ICE posts on social media. They support seizing 5 year olds as bait, and the extra judicial murder of civilians.
January 26, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Reform Party UK sharing Pro-ICE posts on social media. They support seizing 5 year olds as bait, and the extra judicial murder of civilians.
The ICE murders in Minneapolis are a “glimpse of what happens when fear and loathing of migrants curdles into toxic tribalism, another grim warning for all those European voters flirting with the far-right and dark forces of nationalism.”
That’s Reform in the UK.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/418...
That’s Reform in the UK.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/418...
Trump’s ICE spreads mayhem and misery – and sounds a dark warning for Europe
This is another glimpse of what happens when fear and loathing of migrants curdles into toxic tribalism
liveapp.inews.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 7:22 AM
The ICE murders in Minneapolis are a “glimpse of what happens when fear and loathing of migrants curdles into toxic tribalism, another grim warning for all those European voters flirting with the far-right and dark forces of nationalism.”
That’s Reform in the UK.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/418...
That’s Reform in the UK.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/418...
Why TF would you ‘give Reform a go’?
Yes. They represent change. But not good change. Not the change people want.
This lot would torch everything we value and rely upon (NHS, public services, our rights, protections…)
in an absolute frenzy of corruption, prejudice and uselessness.
FFS. Please don’t.
Yes. They represent change. But not good change. Not the change people want.
This lot would torch everything we value and rely upon (NHS, public services, our rights, protections…)
in an absolute frenzy of corruption, prejudice and uselessness.
FFS. Please don’t.
Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance
January 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Why TF would you ‘give Reform a go’?
Yes. They represent change. But not good change. Not the change people want.
This lot would torch everything we value and rely upon (NHS, public services, our rights, protections…)
in an absolute frenzy of corruption, prejudice and uselessness.
FFS. Please don’t.
Yes. They represent change. But not good change. Not the change people want.
This lot would torch everything we value and rely upon (NHS, public services, our rights, protections…)
in an absolute frenzy of corruption, prejudice and uselessness.
FFS. Please don’t.
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The Trump regime's position seems to be that Republicans have the right to bear arms and everyone else has the right to get shot by them.
January 25, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The Trump regime's position seems to be that Republicans have the right to bear arms and everyone else has the right to get shot by them.
In which Jenrick, Trump and Farage all get a well-deserved verbal kicking for the daily damage they do to our sanity and our wellbeing.
A form of therapy in a mad and dangerous world.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
A form of therapy in a mad and dangerous world.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: Four hours is a long time in politics when the world is led by an emotionally disturbed gorilla
When I started writing this column, Trump was about to invade Greenland. By the time I’d finished, he wasn’t. Who knows what will be happening by the time you read it?
www.thenerve.news
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 PM
In which Jenrick, Trump and Farage all get a well-deserved verbal kicking for the daily damage they do to our sanity and our wellbeing.
A form of therapy in a mad and dangerous world.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
A form of therapy in a mad and dangerous world.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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absolute dickheads, just absolute unserious dickheads
Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells BBC London that Nigel Farage is planning to give London boroughs like Havering "independence" from Sadiq Khan and City Hall
January 25, 2026 at 10:35 AM
absolute dickheads, just absolute unserious dickheads
Farage pays for nothing himself. He rakes it in from media, crypto, gold bullion, X… Clacton isn’t worth his time.
He’s a rep for the US christofascist far right and is being paid to bring that shit over here.
It’s all a grift. A pisstake. A very sinister betrayal.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
He’s a rep for the US christofascist far right and is being paid to bring that shit over here.
It’s all a grift. A pisstake. A very sinister betrayal.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Nigel Farage racks up £151,000 in donor-funded flights to support Donald Trump
Most recently, Farage attended an event at Trump’s Mar A Lago resort celebrating US Military Veterans just months before Trump’s vile slur dismissing the sacrifice of British troops who served in Afgh...
www.mirror.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Farage pays for nothing himself. He rakes it in from media, crypto, gold bullion, X… Clacton isn’t worth his time.
He’s a rep for the US christofascist far right and is being paid to bring that shit over here.
It’s all a grift. A pisstake. A very sinister betrayal.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
He’s a rep for the US christofascist far right and is being paid to bring that shit over here.
It’s all a grift. A pisstake. A very sinister betrayal.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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ICE isn't law enforcement without training; ICE is white nationalism with guns.
January 24, 2026 at 6:25 PM
ICE isn't law enforcement without training; ICE is white nationalism with guns.
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that Farage and Badenoch want ICE-style action in the UK should be enough to end them
January 24, 2026 at 6:14 PM
that Farage and Badenoch want ICE-style action in the UK should be enough to end them
Not a statesman. Not strong. Not patriotic. Not principled.
Farage is a traitorous little shit who is too compromised and too desperate to please Trump, to serve the best interests of our country. He will only ever betray us because he has to see Brexit through to the bitter, broken end.
(iPaper)
Farage is a traitorous little shit who is too compromised and too desperate to please Trump, to serve the best interests of our country. He will only ever betray us because he has to see Brexit through to the bitter, broken end.
(iPaper)
January 24, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Not a statesman. Not strong. Not patriotic. Not principled.
Farage is a traitorous little shit who is too compromised and too desperate to please Trump, to serve the best interests of our country. He will only ever betray us because he has to see Brexit through to the bitter, broken end.
(iPaper)
Farage is a traitorous little shit who is too compromised and too desperate to please Trump, to serve the best interests of our country. He will only ever betray us because he has to see Brexit through to the bitter, broken end.
(iPaper)
Out of the Trump shitstorm comes opportunity. To join forces with Europe and Canada, “ditch Brexit delusions… and leave Farage marooned on the wrong side of public opinion, fanboy to the man who insulted Britain’s war dead.”
Yes please. The only sane response.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes please. The only sane response.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far? | Jonathan Freedland
The US president took his bullying doctrine to Davos and hit a wall of opposition. If this creates a new western alliance against him, all to the good, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Out of the Trump shitstorm comes opportunity. To join forces with Europe and Canada, “ditch Brexit delusions… and leave Farage marooned on the wrong side of public opinion, fanboy to the man who insulted Britain’s war dead.”
Yes please. The only sane response.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes please. The only sane response.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This strikes a painful chord. A memory of our own flag being taken down from the EU buildings.
An end to cooperation. So symbolic, isolating and shameful.
An end to cooperation. So symbolic, isolating and shameful.
January 23, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This strikes a painful chord. A memory of our own flag being taken down from the EU buildings.
An end to cooperation. So symbolic, isolating and shameful.
An end to cooperation. So symbolic, isolating and shameful.
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WHO removing Us Flag
January 23, 2026 at 9:45 PM
WHO removing Us Flag
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New Substack: The Moral Case Against Robert Jenrick. open.substack.com/pub/mbatangs...
The Moral Case Against Robert Jenrick
A sequel to Some Thoughts on the Jenrick Defection
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:07 AM
New Substack: The Moral Case Against Robert Jenrick. open.substack.com/pub/mbatangs...
What it really means to ‘take back control’ now we’ve thrown so much of it away in our Brexit idiocy…
“Dealing bilaterally with the US entails being crushed. Negotiating collectively, on the other hand, would restore clout and correct that costly imbalance”
www.ft.com/content/b9a2...
“Dealing bilaterally with the US entails being crushed. Negotiating collectively, on the other hand, would restore clout and correct that costly imbalance”
www.ft.com/content/b9a2...
January 23, 2026 at 5:47 PM
What it really means to ‘take back control’ now we’ve thrown so much of it away in our Brexit idiocy…
“Dealing bilaterally with the US entails being crushed. Negotiating collectively, on the other hand, would restore clout and correct that costly imbalance”
www.ft.com/content/b9a2...
“Dealing bilaterally with the US entails being crushed. Negotiating collectively, on the other hand, would restore clout and correct that costly imbalance”
www.ft.com/content/b9a2...
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Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen's note to Starmer after visiting Chequers yesterday.
January 23, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen's note to Starmer after visiting Chequers yesterday.
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“Take back control” and give it all to a deeply narcissistic, malignant, unreliable and corrupt American President who is dementedly destabilising the West and siding with Putin to do so.
Brexiters made utterly mad by their own abject failure.
Brexiters made utterly mad by their own abject failure.
January 23, 2026 at 8:03 AM
“Take back control” and give it all to a deeply narcissistic, malignant, unreliable and corrupt American President who is dementedly destabilising the West and siding with Putin to do so.
Brexiters made utterly mad by their own abject failure.
Brexiters made utterly mad by their own abject failure.
Interesting take from @privateeyenews.bsky.social on what may have first attracted Farage to the idea of recruiting Jenrick…
Because, let’s face it, it wasn’t his patriotism or his sparkling personality…
Because, let’s face it, it wasn’t his patriotism or his sparkling personality…
January 22, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Interesting take from @privateeyenews.bsky.social on what may have first attracted Farage to the idea of recruiting Jenrick…
Because, let’s face it, it wasn’t his patriotism or his sparkling personality…
Because, let’s face it, it wasn’t his patriotism or his sparkling personality…
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Starmer maybe rightly doesn’t take bait each time but he needs an outrider - a semi-licensed “off message” attack dog - to make Haw-Haw Farage pay for sucking up to the guy who denigrates British war dead.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Starmer maybe rightly doesn’t take bait each time but he needs an outrider - a semi-licensed “off message” attack dog - to make Haw-Haw Farage pay for sucking up to the guy who denigrates British war dead.
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Accurate
January 20, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Accurate
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So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How Badenoch’s meeting with Mike Johnson led to Trump’s Chagos deal rant
A brief encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in a public rebuff to the US president from Keir Starmer
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:58 AM
So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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And we're back. The moment the danger passes, people rush to pretend everything is alright again. It isn't and will not be.
DAVOS - GERMANY'S MERZ: DESPITE FRUSTRATION, ANGER OF RECENT MONTHS, LET US NOT BE TOO QUICK TO WRITE OFF THE TRANSATLANTIC PARTNERSHIP
January 22, 2026 at 8:58 AM
And we're back. The moment the danger passes, people rush to pretend everything is alright again. It isn't and will not be.
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‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Feverishly raking it in from media deals, gold bullion brand promotion, X and other dodgy work that has nothing to do with his MP duties. Farage is a pisstaking grifter who has made us all worse off so he can get richer. And that’s all he’ll ever do.
(Extract from Times and Libdem report on Brexit)
(Extract from Times and Libdem report on Brexit)
January 22, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Feverishly raking it in from media deals, gold bullion brand promotion, X and other dodgy work that has nothing to do with his MP duties. Farage is a pisstaking grifter who has made us all worse off so he can get richer. And that’s all he’ll ever do.
(Extract from Times and Libdem report on Brexit)
(Extract from Times and Libdem report on Brexit)