Rachel Mann
@revrachelmann.bsky.social
Priest. Poet. Writer. Broadcaster. Trans. Tired. Disabled. Autistic. (Private Passions: Military History, Austen, Golden Age Detective Fiction) T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted 2024
Archdeacon of Salford & Bolton
15 Books. www.rachelmann.co.uk
Archdeacon of Salford & Bolton
15 Books. www.rachelmann.co.uk
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Mr Bingley from 1995 P&P is now an English teacher and deputy head at a state school in North London. Who knew?
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Mr Bingley from 1995 P&P is now an English teacher and deputy head at a state school in North London. Who knew?
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They missed a trick not calling them Ouroboreos.
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
They missed a trick not calling them Ouroboreos.
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Every time I listen to Hamilton I feel he has been more vindicated.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Every time I listen to Hamilton I feel he has been more vindicated.
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Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
A solutions will be revealed at 11 PM (UK time) today. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here's grid No.15. Easy 1 today as it's Friday.
A solutions will be revealed at 11 PM (UK time) today. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here's grid No.15. Easy 1 today as it's Friday.
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
A solutions will be revealed at 11 PM (UK time) today. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here's grid No.15. Easy 1 today as it's Friday.
A solutions will be revealed at 11 PM (UK time) today. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here's grid No.15. Easy 1 today as it's Friday.
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This week is #TransAwarenessWeek.
Trans people have the same right to freedom, joy, safety, and healthcare as everyone else. But in the UK and across the world, their rights are under attack.
We need to stand up to transphobia and guarantee everyone’s dignity.
Trans people have the same right to freedom, joy, safety, and healthcare as everyone else. But in the UK and across the world, their rights are under attack.
We need to stand up to transphobia and guarantee everyone’s dignity.
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This week is #TransAwarenessWeek.
Trans people have the same right to freedom, joy, safety, and healthcare as everyone else. But in the UK and across the world, their rights are under attack.
We need to stand up to transphobia and guarantee everyone’s dignity.
Trans people have the same right to freedom, joy, safety, and healthcare as everyone else. But in the UK and across the world, their rights are under attack.
We need to stand up to transphobia and guarantee everyone’s dignity.
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We're preparing to instal a heat pump in the spring. If the below happens, it will cost us £7k extra - possibly beyond our means.
This will kill the heat pump market.
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: chancellor plans to fund energy efficiency levies via warm homes plan as part of drive to lower energy bills
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We're preparing to instal a heat pump in the spring. If the below happens, it will cost us £7k extra - possibly beyond our means.
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JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD
YouTube video by JAGGL113
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This … all of this and the thread beneath …
International-level athletes are, not to put too fine a word on it, genetic freaks. They, M & F, cis & trans, are much more like one another than they are like the rest of us slobs. But only certain facets of that freakery, the ones which don’t accord with gender stereotypes, are to be punished.
"Cis women having male levels of testosterone" is another big giveaway about what this is. What is a "male" level of testosterone and how can a cis female have it naturally occurring in their cis female body if its specific to men? Is there a male level of height?
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This … all of this and the thread beneath …
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The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.14.
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.14.
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.14.
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.14.
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“the Commission is sceptical that Convention rights provide a useful framework, or tool, by which the Court may resolve the contentious issues in this case.”
The HRA and ECHR have been the framework for all our law since 1998!
You can’t just turn around and say “it doesn’t apply in this case.”
The HRA and ECHR have been the framework for all our law since 1998!
You can’t just turn around and say “it doesn’t apply in this case.”
Probably worth noting here that in the Supreme Court submission, the EHRC decided not to bother taking the Human Rights Act into account 🤯
www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/defaul...
www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/defaul...
![(4) The Human Rights Act 1998
47. The Commission’s proposed interpretation of the various relevant provisions of the EqA is advanced without reference to the Human Rights Act 1998 (“HRA”). That is for three reasons. First, even assuming that it were applicable, it is not necessary to resort to the principle of interpretation in s. 3 HRA, in order to justify the conclusion that the second definition is the one adopted in the EqA. Second, in areas of difficulty of interpretation, notably ss. 17 and 18 EqA, even assuming that it were applicable, s. 3 HRA would not compel the unsatisfactory conclusion that “woman” should have different meanings across the EqA. Third, and in any event, the Commission is sceptical that Convention rights provide a useful framework, or tool, by which the Court may resolve the contentious issues in this case. There are, after all, two competing strands of rights at issue: the rights of trans people, as recognised, for example, in Goodwin; and the rights of women to be protected from violence by men (eg Luca v Moldova (2024) 79 EHRR 2, §50) and from having to share certain spaces with trans women and men, thereby creating embarrassment, shame and potentially an increased risk of violence (see FDJ v Secretary of State for Justice [2021] EWHC 1746 (Admin), [2021] 1 WLR 5265, §§76-78, 98 and 100 [EF.1196]). It is for Parliament to decide, against the background of the HRA, how these competing strands of rights should be reconciled.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cusxj5mn22tulo2annoirqwx/bafkreihzxa6xpk6pbz3ehifwg7fkctbbdlvtjjy6m74v7uzcllhb4srcli@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
“the Commission is sceptical that Convention rights provide a useful framework, or tool, by which the Court may resolve the contentious issues in this case.”
The HRA and ECHR have been the framework for all our law since 1998!
You can’t just turn around and say “it doesn’t apply in this case.”
The HRA and ECHR have been the framework for all our law since 1998!
You can’t just turn around and say “it doesn’t apply in this case.”
I’m calling this one basically done … 1/48 Airfix Lysander… one of my favourite ever planes. Airfix have created a terrific kit. Highly recommended. Any errors are entirely my own. #HistScaleModels
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I’m calling this one basically done … 1/48 Airfix Lysander… one of my favourite ever planes. Airfix have created a terrific kit. Highly recommended. Any errors are entirely my own. #HistScaleModels
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Nice one, Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Nice one, Zadie Smith.
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These are some quite heartbreaking stories and, as Holly Greenberry-Pullen comments in the piece, really illustrates the perverse absurdity of deeming trans teens to young to even get blockers but being fine with intersex kids getting horrifically drastic full-on bodily surgery as *toddlers*.
‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children
What should be done about the small proportion of babies born with genitals that are neither typically male nor typically female? Many of those affected believe parents and doctors are often too quick...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
These are some quite heartbreaking stories and, as Holly Greenberry-Pullen comments in the piece, really illustrates the perverse absurdity of deeming trans teens to young to even get blockers but being fine with intersex kids getting horrifically drastic full-on bodily surgery as *toddlers*.
As you might expect, Miss World is not really my thing, but this is wonderful not only because of the #DeathMetal performance but because it will be driving a certain weird essentialist fringe into ‘she must be a man’ mouth-frothing panics …
Miss Chile just won Miss World. Her talent performance during the competition was not what you might have expected... #DeathMetal
youtu.be/FwbZrdSGlmE?...
youtu.be/FwbZrdSGlmE?...
Ignacia Fernández sorprende en Miss Mundo Chile 2025 con voz gutural de death metal
YouTube video by Agencia Periodismo Investigativo
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
As you might expect, Miss World is not really my thing, but this is wonderful not only because of the #DeathMetal performance but because it will be driving a certain weird essentialist fringe into ‘she must be a man’ mouth-frothing panics …
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Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.13.
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.13.
November 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Welcome to the Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 words are hidden in the grid. Each day a new wall. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun!
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.13.
There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES!
Here is grid No.13.
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"On another occasion, a BBC executive forbade me from writing for the New Statesman, imploring me to ask The Spectator instead, saying that would be perfectly fine."
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"On another occasion, a BBC executive forbade me from writing for the New Statesman, imploring me to ask The Spectator instead, saying that would be perfectly fine."
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
One of the joys of @alanallport.bsky.social ‘s Advance Britannia is its clarity about the savagery and ruthlessness at the heart of the Empire. Excellent stuff.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
One of the joys of @alanallport.bsky.social ‘s Advance Britannia is its clarity about the savagery and ruthlessness at the heart of the Empire. Excellent stuff.
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👇As is so often the case, historically remarkable women get left out of the story. Which distorts the story.
No women ever commented on, or took part in, Nuremberg then? No women ever discussed or thought about the problem of Nazi evil and its banality? No Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, no Janet Flanner, no Hannah Arendt? Just an all-boys affair for an all boys evil.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe’s Göring v Rami Malek’s psychiatrist in swish yet glib courtroom showdown
Crowe and Malek are hugely watchable but this ultimately fails to deliver an authentic version of events
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
👇As is so often the case, historically remarkable women get left out of the story. Which distorts the story.
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the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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This is superb & makes me more & more convinced that this is a Coup at the BBC by the illiberal populist far-right & these 3 hugely respected ex-BBC journalists of unimpeachable standards, Maitlis, @jonsopel1.bsky.social & @lewisgoodall.com know of what they speak! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Inside the BBC: What really went on
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 10/11/2025 · 35m
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This is superb & makes me more & more convinced that this is a Coup at the BBC by the illiberal populist far-right & these 3 hugely respected ex-BBC journalists of unimpeachable standards, Maitlis, @jonsopel1.bsky.social & @lewisgoodall.com know of what they speak! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
What a terrific review… I hope it will encourage friends, both trans and non-trans, to get hold of a copy my collection (you can borrow it from a poetry library too!)
I'm still reading Eleanor Among The Saints, and a) @revrachelmann.bsky.social I would like to be half a good a poet as you,
b) this collection has some lines in that have made me cackle
c) this collection will break your heart and,
d) #TDOR the poem is SAVAGE & painfully poignant & grief filled
b) this collection has some lines in that have made me cackle
c) this collection will break your heart and,
d) #TDOR the poem is SAVAGE & painfully poignant & grief filled
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
What a terrific review… I hope it will encourage friends, both trans and non-trans, to get hold of a copy my collection (you can borrow it from a poetry library too!)