Rosemary Frazer
@rosemaryfrazer.bsky.social
Disability Equality Consultant + Trainer. Politics/History nerd. Wheelchair and chocolate user. First Belfast, now London. Tomorrow...the stars
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A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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I can't imagine a job i'd like to do less. Managing an organisation held to a ludicrous standard by roaring idiots on a daily basis, while the main mediums it uses are all in decline and it's starved of resources.
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I can't imagine a job i'd like to do less. Managing an organisation held to a ludicrous standard by roaring idiots on a daily basis, while the main mediums it uses are all in decline and it's starved of resources.
This is a question I've been asking a lot of the BBC political coverage in recent months. I love the BBC and would pay the licence fee for Radio 4 alone, but I do appreciate balance and fairness too please.
For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is a question I've been asking a lot of the BBC political coverage in recent months. I love the BBC and would pay the licence fee for Radio 4 alone, but I do appreciate balance and fairness too please.
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6. Pick candidates who look like they actually want to run for public office.
The lessons of Mamdani’s victory for progressives:
1. Tell compelling stories
2. Identify clear enemies
3. Create policies that address voters’ problems
4. Mix modern online campaigning with face to face conversations
5. Mobilise
1. Tell compelling stories
2. Identify clear enemies
3. Create policies that address voters’ problems
4. Mix modern online campaigning with face to face conversations
5. Mobilise
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
6. Pick candidates who look like they actually want to run for public office.
Day off tomorrow and so I'm staying up late watching the election results come in from the US. What else would I be doing? So far, so good.
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Day off tomorrow and so I'm staying up late watching the election results come in from the US. What else would I be doing? So far, so good.
Day off and apartment to myself and Otis is playing loud and long. Life is wonderful right now. (Ts and Cs suggest this may change but I'm enjoying the moment.)
November 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Day off and apartment to myself and Otis is playing loud and long. Life is wonderful right now. (Ts and Cs suggest this may change but I'm enjoying the moment.)
We have to find ways of countering this racist shit.
We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We have to find ways of countering this racist shit.
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For this is Thriller, Thriller Evening, and no person ventures forth to rescue you from the monstrous creature about to pounce upon thee
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For this is Thriller, Thriller Evening, and no person ventures forth to rescue you from the monstrous creature about to pounce upon thee
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October 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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For this is Thriller, Thriller Evening, and no person ventures forth to rescue you from the monstrous creature about to pounce upon thee
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For this is Thriller, Thriller Evening, and no person ventures forth to rescue you from the monstrous creature about to pounce upon thee
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This won't be popular but popularity is never some I've sought. I can't help feeling good when listening to a Carpenter's song. I'm too young to have known them in their prime but their songs are just lovely. There. I've said it.
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This won't be popular but popularity is never some I've sought. I can't help feeling good when listening to a Carpenter's song. I'm too young to have known them in their prime but their songs are just lovely. There. I've said it.
So offended by this suggestion. These cars were ruled dangerous in certain weather conditions, they are not suitable for a family (disabled people do have families), and they reinforce the suffocating and ignorant stigma which destroys the life chances of disabled people.
This from X is a striking example of what I argue in today’s column. Reform and the Tories are out here gleefully saying disabled people on Motability should be forced to drive a 3-wheeler, like a scarlet letter. The stigma is not an accident - it’s the design.
October 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
So offended by this suggestion. These cars were ruled dangerous in certain weather conditions, they are not suitable for a family (disabled people do have families), and they reinforce the suffocating and ignorant stigma which destroys the life chances of disabled people.
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This from X is a striking example of what I argue in today’s column. Reform and the Tories are out here gleefully saying disabled people on Motability should be forced to drive a 3-wheeler, like a scarlet letter. The stigma is not an accident - it’s the design.
October 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This from X is a striking example of what I argue in today’s column. Reform and the Tories are out here gleefully saying disabled people on Motability should be forced to drive a 3-wheeler, like a scarlet letter. The stigma is not an accident - it’s the design.
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Reform are into Day Three of Racismsplaining. It's harder than it looks.
thecritic.co.uk/easy...
thecritic.co.uk/easy...
October 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Reform are into Day Three of Racismsplaining. It's harder than it looks.
thecritic.co.uk/easy...
thecritic.co.uk/easy...
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Over 5% of the Reform councillors elected in May have now either resigned or been fired.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Five Reform UK councillors booted out of party in Kent
It comes after a damaging video leak of the Kent County Council leader shouting and swearing.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Over 5% of the Reform councillors elected in May have now either resigned or been fired.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New post just out:
"Never again?"
On how the radical right are trying to change our collective memory about World War Two as part of their assault on the postwar order.
And why that memory remains a critical defence against nationalism.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...
"Never again?"
On how the radical right are trying to change our collective memory about World War Two as part of their assault on the postwar order.
And why that memory remains a critical defence against nationalism.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...
Never again?
Memory entrepreneurship and the radical right’s assault on the postwar order
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
New post just out:
"Never again?"
On how the radical right are trying to change our collective memory about World War Two as part of their assault on the postwar order.
And why that memory remains a critical defence against nationalism.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...
"Never again?"
On how the radical right are trying to change our collective memory about World War Two as part of their assault on the postwar order.
And why that memory remains a critical defence against nationalism.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...
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Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners."
In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.
Maybe Beth is on a diet.
In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.
Maybe Beth is on a diet.
October 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners."
In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.
Maybe Beth is on a diet.
In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.
Maybe Beth is on a diet.
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I was looking at Reform's policy again the other day. They're proposing a £60k salary for people on ILR keeping their visa. Which means pretty much every nurse on ILR would be a risk. It's insane.
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I was looking at Reform's policy again the other day. They're proposing a £60k salary for people on ILR keeping their visa. Which means pretty much every nurse on ILR would be a risk. It's insane.
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The old Saudi brand was “austere theocracy,” but the new one is “fun, fun, fun, but still with beheading.” - brilliant piece with so many laugh out loud moments:
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The old Saudi brand was “austere theocracy,” but the new one is “fun, fun, fun, but still with beheading.” - brilliant piece with so many laugh out loud moments:
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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.
October 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.
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Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
So pleased I sent my nomination through just in time.
he won the nobel peace prize for keeping a cowcat away from his sister, try again next year everybody else
October 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
So pleased I sent my nomination through just in time.
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Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
October 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
Oh dear! If I was so inclined I might feel sorry for them.
This isn’t a picture of Mel Stride and the shadow chancellor being misidentified on ConHome feels quite indicative of where the Tories are at.
Not sure I would have gone with headline - unless I actually wanted people to laugh out loud....
October 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Oh dear! If I was so inclined I might feel sorry for them.
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The Board of Deputies’ response to the Israeli government inviting Tommy Robinson to visit
October 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The Board of Deputies’ response to the Israeli government inviting Tommy Robinson to visit
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Remember, kids, say no to drugs.
October 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Remember, kids, say no to drugs.
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You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
October 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.