Rachel
@dorsetrachel.bsky.social
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Rachel
@dorsetrachel.bsky.social
· Jan 31
Five years after we left, a new YouGov poll finds a grand total of 2% of voters think Brexit has had a very positive impact on the NHS.
“Less trade and more immigration”: imagine if they had plastered that on the side of a bus.
You are not your voter.
You are not your user.
You are not your client.
You are not your user.
You are not your client.
Chaminda is close but not quite. The dullest ones are those who can’t differentiate between demographic voting patterns and their own personal ones.
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
You are not your voter.
You are not your user.
You are not your client.
You are not your user.
You are not your client.
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Devastating to hear about Rachel Cooke, a generational talent whose writing was often an inspiration, especially her political interviews. So much more she could have written.
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Devastating to hear about Rachel Cooke, a generational talent whose writing was often an inspiration, especially her political interviews. So much more she could have written.
I have no doubt at all that they would have found something to complain about.
@dorsetrachel.bsky.social Can you imagine how old police twitter would have reacted to the abolishing of Police and Crime Commissioner?!
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I have no doubt at all that they would have found something to complain about.
Gonna be a lone voice crying in the wilderness here, but the idea behind PCCs was a good one: a golden thread linking the police with the agencies supporting people at risk of and risk of committing crime. Unfortunately it turned into an election for Suoercop and it was all downhill from then on.
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Gonna be a lone voice crying in the wilderness here, but the idea behind PCCs was a good one: a golden thread linking the police with the agencies supporting people at risk of and risk of committing crime. Unfortunately it turned into an election for Suoercop and it was all downhill from then on.
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It really says something about where British politics is at that the person blowing the whistle on the fact that the BBC thing is a political stitch up is David Yelland - astonishing that, even in a situation like this, the critical voices also come from the right.
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
It really says something about where British politics is at that the person blowing the whistle on the fact that the BBC thing is a political stitch up is David Yelland - astonishing that, even in a situation like this, the critical voices also come from the right.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Clive Lewis an unsurprising embarrassment on #newsnight.
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Clive Lewis an unsurprising embarrassment on #newsnight.
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I see your worthy "why are you still on X" posts and sorry but we've gone way beyond that, no such incendiary publication would be allowed in printed form so why are we still thinking this should be allowed online?
November 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I see your worthy "why are you still on X" posts and sorry but we've gone way beyond that, no such incendiary publication would be allowed in printed form so why are we still thinking this should be allowed online?
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Finally, someone talking about the fuel poverty that matters
November 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Finally, someone talking about the fuel poverty that matters
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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It's like people who pay financial advisers to find any way to game any scheme going, who then think all benefit claimants are milking one of the most byzantine bureaucratic systems in the country.
Accusation, admission.
Accusation, admission.
October 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It's like people who pay financial advisers to find any way to game any scheme going, who then think all benefit claimants are milking one of the most byzantine bureaucratic systems in the country.
Accusation, admission.
Accusation, admission.
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Recommended thread: "Why create a social system where the working class is all-native while the managerial class is cosmopolitan?"
I have half an hour before my next interview so I'm going to sketch out what I find an important problem with the fashionable division of immigrants into "net contributors" and "net recipients" of government spending. 1/10
The argument of Lam, Philp and Badenoch would be "tell the net contributors they can stay & tell the others we are v sad to kick them out"
Maybe they would have retreated just on pragmatic reciprocity, though Lam is willing to forget about that in what she says here about her mass expulsion plans
Maybe they would have retreated just on pragmatic reciprocity, though Lam is willing to forget about that in what she says here about her mass expulsion plans
October 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Recommended thread: "Why create a social system where the working class is all-native while the managerial class is cosmopolitan?"
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(And do this while you’re at it … because it reduces unfairness between workers and pensioners, yes, but also because gradually moving towards a de facto one-main-rate National Insurance system would make our system more rational generally.)
October 24, 2025 at 5:58 AM
(And do this while you’re at it … because it reduces unfairness between workers and pensioners, yes, but also because gradually moving towards a de facto one-main-rate National Insurance system would make our system more rational generally.)
Switch the names and this is the UK too.
Still this: "I disliked Biden because [thing Trump did], and I missed Trump because [thing Biden did]. I voted for Trump again because I wanted [thing Harris promised], But I really hope that Trump doesn't [core Trump campaign promise]."
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Switch the names and this is the UK too.
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I’ve heard a straight white man Englishman refer to himself as “the majority”
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I’ve heard a straight white man Englishman refer to himself as “the majority”
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This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.
The claim that "civil war is inevitable in the UK" is better understood as an expression of the author's desire to see blood spilt on British streets.
October 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.
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Please note that, due to matters beyond our control, our drop-in service at Weymouth Library will be closed tomorrow. We are sorry for any inconvenience.
October 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Please note that, due to matters beyond our control, our drop-in service at Weymouth Library will be closed tomorrow. We are sorry for any inconvenience.
Nothing but haiku, then.
Rankin writing for
Readers who are no longer
Willing (or able).
Rankin writing for
Readers who are no longer
Willing (or able).
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Nothing but haiku, then.
Rankin writing for
Readers who are no longer
Willing (or able).
Rankin writing for
Readers who are no longer
Willing (or able).
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“Is the racist who was racist racist? We ask some racists”
Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black & Asian people a racist or realist? How many migrants would the Tories expel? & should the UK be selling fighter jets to Türkiye?
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October 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“Is the racist who was racist racist? We ask some racists”
And not before time.
Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
October 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
And not before time.
Call it by its name.
Just mad to me that in broadcast reporting on the uk’s stagnant growth it’s causes are presented as a mystery as if the insane amount of extra bureaucracy we’ve imposed on importers and exporters had no impact on our productivity.
Good to see Reeves at least begin to address it.
Good to see Reeves at least begin to address it.
October 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Call it by its name.
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The secret assumption of the liberal feminist bargain—that women would enter the public sphere and become full citizens & fiscally independent adults—is that men would necessarily have to compensate for women’s decreased time in the home by increasing their own share of domestic work. They didn’t.
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The secret assumption of the liberal feminist bargain—that women would enter the public sphere and become full citizens & fiscally independent adults—is that men would necessarily have to compensate for women’s decreased time in the home by increasing their own share of domestic work. They didn’t.