Sarah Chalmers Page
@sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social
Inveterate generalist. Still European, whatever anyone says.
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The real political parties in UK are perhaps not the nominal ones.
Regardless of supposed affiliation of ministers, Treasury will always push for certain policies, MOD will always push for certain policies, etc. Each department has their agenda.
And the Home Office will always push for ID cards.
Regardless of supposed affiliation of ministers, Treasury will always push for certain policies, MOD will always push for certain policies, etc. Each department has their agenda.
And the Home Office will always push for ID cards.
September 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The real political parties in UK are perhaps not the nominal ones.
Regardless of supposed affiliation of ministers, Treasury will always push for certain policies, MOD will always push for certain policies, etc. Each department has their agenda.
And the Home Office will always push for ID cards.
Regardless of supposed affiliation of ministers, Treasury will always push for certain policies, MOD will always push for certain policies, etc. Each department has their agenda.
And the Home Office will always push for ID cards.
At some point I must have accidentally clicked on the advert for some trashy novel about werewolves with fated mates. Now roughly 1/3 of my social media adverts are for wretched werewolf romances with wretched nasty people- not interesting nasty, playground bully nasty. And stupid eugenics.
September 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
At some point I must have accidentally clicked on the advert for some trashy novel about werewolves with fated mates. Now roughly 1/3 of my social media adverts are for wretched werewolf romances with wretched nasty people- not interesting nasty, playground bully nasty. And stupid eugenics.
My son, puppies, and ahistorical discussions, a thread.
My son came to me with a YouTube theory - I try not to dismiss these because a) some of them are good, and b) I want him to keep bringing them to me so I can gently debunk the ones that want debunking. This one is interesting because...
My son came to me with a YouTube theory - I try not to dismiss these because a) some of them are good, and b) I want him to keep bringing them to me so I can gently debunk the ones that want debunking. This one is interesting because...
September 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
My son, puppies, and ahistorical discussions, a thread.
My son came to me with a YouTube theory - I try not to dismiss these because a) some of them are good, and b) I want him to keep bringing them to me so I can gently debunk the ones that want debunking. This one is interesting because...
My son came to me with a YouTube theory - I try not to dismiss these because a) some of them are good, and b) I want him to keep bringing them to me so I can gently debunk the ones that want debunking. This one is interesting because...
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Defend Our Juries: "Mass arrests of peaceful protesters will be acutely embarrassing" for Labour on Day 1 of conference.
Labour officials also rejected all 30 motions on Palestine - leading to anger from campaigners.
DOJ: Most Labour members oppose the ban and the TUC recently backed reversing it.
Labour officials also rejected all 30 motions on Palestine - leading to anger from campaigners.
DOJ: Most Labour members oppose the ban and the TUC recently backed reversing it.
September 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Defend Our Juries: "Mass arrests of peaceful protesters will be acutely embarrassing" for Labour on Day 1 of conference.
Labour officials also rejected all 30 motions on Palestine - leading to anger from campaigners.
DOJ: Most Labour members oppose the ban and the TUC recently backed reversing it.
Labour officials also rejected all 30 motions on Palestine - leading to anger from campaigners.
DOJ: Most Labour members oppose the ban and the TUC recently backed reversing it.
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It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity
September 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity
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It takes a long time to turn a shit, I mean ship.
Is this the start? 🤞
Is this the start? 🤞
I'm sorry WHAT is this?
Is Farage actually being held to account?
By FOUR front pages of UK newspapers?
re his paper-thin populism and solutionless policy?
Fuck me gently. Forgot what this actually looks like.
Maybe Sun & Telegraph will find their balls tomorrow?
Is Farage actually being held to account?
By FOUR front pages of UK newspapers?
re his paper-thin populism and solutionless policy?
Fuck me gently. Forgot what this actually looks like.
Maybe Sun & Telegraph will find their balls tomorrow?
September 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
It takes a long time to turn a shit, I mean ship.
Is this the start? 🤞
Is this the start? 🤞
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It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor
September 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor
Tonight I have been mostly learning about Medea, the earliest example I know of bombed at the box office then became a classic, in every sense of the term. Thank you to @nataliehaynes.bsky.social It was a brilliant night.
September 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Tonight I have been mostly learning about Medea, the earliest example I know of bombed at the box office then became a classic, in every sense of the term. Thank you to @nataliehaynes.bsky.social It was a brilliant night.
My son tells me he is having an "uprising" in school. The teachers are using AI generated posters.
He views this as unreasonable when there's a whole school full of kids who can draw posters.
So he's working with his friends to quietly make alternative posters and put them up...
He views this as unreasonable when there's a whole school full of kids who can draw posters.
So he's working with his friends to quietly make alternative posters and put them up...
September 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
My son tells me he is having an "uprising" in school. The teachers are using AI generated posters.
He views this as unreasonable when there's a whole school full of kids who can draw posters.
So he's working with his friends to quietly make alternative posters and put them up...
He views this as unreasonable when there's a whole school full of kids who can draw posters.
So he's working with his friends to quietly make alternative posters and put them up...
I saw a job advert today for a trainee @nationaltrust.org.uk Lichenologist and I want to know why no one told 17 year old me that lichenology was an option. I'm not retraining now, getting home for pick up would be a nightmare if work was half way up a mountain. But still.
September 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I saw a job advert today for a trainee @nationaltrust.org.uk Lichenologist and I want to know why no one told 17 year old me that lichenology was an option. I'm not retraining now, getting home for pick up would be a nightmare if work was half way up a mountain. But still.
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21st century Britain
where it's illegal to project an image on a wall
but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths
where it's illegal to project an image on a wall
but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths
September 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
21st century Britain
where it's illegal to project an image on a wall
but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths
where it's illegal to project an image on a wall
but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths
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I still have my 'Natural Law Party' Hoodie from 1995, when I got a A+ for an essay on Transcendental Meditation.
A Medway school is giving away a Reform football shirt as part of an essay writing contest on how the party has 'obliterated' the two-party system. They say this is all normal, and they do this for all parties.
Students, parents, and other politicians disagree.
Our exclusive story:
Students, parents, and other politicians disagree.
Our exclusive story:
Farage football shirt offered as essay prize in Medway school
Plus Medway MP gets promoted and hears from the worst people, news in brief, and more
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September 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I still have my 'Natural Law Party' Hoodie from 1995, when I got a A+ for an essay on Transcendental Meditation.
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This has affected me greatly having seen close up the vitriol coming from "Tommy"'s hate marchers on Saturday. The fear those poor NHS workers must have felt as their hospital was laid siege to by a rampaging mob must have been terrible. Meanwhile complacent ministers claim not to be disturbed.
September 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This has affected me greatly having seen close up the vitriol coming from "Tommy"'s hate marchers on Saturday. The fear those poor NHS workers must have felt as their hospital was laid siege to by a rampaging mob must have been terrible. Meanwhile complacent ministers claim not to be disturbed.
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Imagine having a message that speaks directly to people. Not sure why Starmer was never able to do this, but Polanski gets it.
September 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Imagine having a message that speaks directly to people. Not sure why Starmer was never able to do this, but Polanski gets it.
And a rare Covid memorial. It reminds us to think about both what we lost and what we learned. It's peaceful.
As far as I'm concerned we need one in every town centre and elected officials should have to lay a bunch of flowers at them before anyone gives them so much as an official lanyard.
As far as I'm concerned we need one in every town centre and elected officials should have to lay a bunch of flowers at them before anyone gives them so much as an official lanyard.
September 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
And a rare Covid memorial. It reminds us to think about both what we lost and what we learned. It's peaceful.
As far as I'm concerned we need one in every town centre and elected officials should have to lay a bunch of flowers at them before anyone gives them so much as an official lanyard.
As far as I'm concerned we need one in every town centre and elected officials should have to lay a bunch of flowers at them before anyone gives them so much as an official lanyard.
And Dumfries seems good at memorials to things that others forget. Exhibit A- a memorial to the Merchant Seamen who died in the world wars keeping our food and goods coming in. Britain has never stood genuinely alone. The convoys were unarmed and targeted and broke blockades.
September 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
And Dumfries seems good at memorials to things that others forget. Exhibit A- a memorial to the Merchant Seamen who died in the world wars keeping our food and goods coming in. Britain has never stood genuinely alone. The convoys were unarmed and targeted and broke blockades.
The words of the prophets are written on the walls of perfectly lovely bird hides in wildfowl trust reserves.
September 16, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The words of the prophets are written on the walls of perfectly lovely bird hides in wildfowl trust reserves.
You know, it's entirely possible to believe that there is no crime on earth where the just punishment is execution without trial at the same time as thinking that someone executed without trial was guilty of some thoroughly heinous things.
Two things can be true.
Two things can be true.
September 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
You know, it's entirely possible to believe that there is no crime on earth where the just punishment is execution without trial at the same time as thinking that someone executed without trial was guilty of some thoroughly heinous things.
Two things can be true.
Two things can be true.
I am taking a small amount of hope from Gary "maybe we could all speak out sometimes" Lineker's win at the National TV awards. Clearly a tiny glimmer, but given its a 100% public vote, a glimmer nevertheless.
September 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I am taking a small amount of hope from Gary "maybe we could all speak out sometimes" Lineker's win at the National TV awards. Clearly a tiny glimmer, but given its a 100% public vote, a glimmer nevertheless.
Scotland is flying the Palestinian flag outside its seat of government.
My Bsky and FB feeds, universally positive. Google news, story after story about how awful that is.
Quite telling.
And clearly a growing wedge between Westminster and its machine, and Holyrood.
My Bsky and FB feeds, universally positive. Google news, story after story about how awful that is.
Quite telling.
And clearly a growing wedge between Westminster and its machine, and Holyrood.
September 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Scotland is flying the Palestinian flag outside its seat of government.
My Bsky and FB feeds, universally positive. Google news, story after story about how awful that is.
Quite telling.
And clearly a growing wedge between Westminster and its machine, and Holyrood.
My Bsky and FB feeds, universally positive. Google news, story after story about how awful that is.
Quite telling.
And clearly a growing wedge between Westminster and its machine, and Holyrood.
Reading Together by @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social
I'm struck by this bit- about how even in accepting refugees people would rather see a thing to help than a whole person with a life and who might be able to help others... thread coming... I've put the transcript in the alt text
I'm struck by this bit- about how even in accepting refugees people would rather see a thing to help than a whole person with a life and who might be able to help others... thread coming... I've put the transcript in the alt text
September 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Reading Together by @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social
I'm struck by this bit- about how even in accepting refugees people would rather see a thing to help than a whole person with a life and who might be able to help others... thread coming... I've put the transcript in the alt text
I'm struck by this bit- about how even in accepting refugees people would rather see a thing to help than a whole person with a life and who might be able to help others... thread coming... I've put the transcript in the alt text
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- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
Someone on LinkedIn talking earnestly about living off grid on an island.
I'm trying not to be mean. But -
-are you sending your LinkedIn posts to a friend tied to the back of a messenger turtle or something?
I'm trying not to be mean. But -
-are you sending your LinkedIn posts to a friend tied to the back of a messenger turtle or something?
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Someone on LinkedIn talking earnestly about living off grid on an island.
I'm trying not to be mean. But -
-are you sending your LinkedIn posts to a friend tied to the back of a messenger turtle or something?
I'm trying not to be mean. But -
-are you sending your LinkedIn posts to a friend tied to the back of a messenger turtle or something?
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11 Jobs Nigel has earned at least £989,000 since the election - more than any other MP, and more than 10 times Farage’s annual MP salary of £93,904.
Probably made £1M in his first year, but his register of interests isn't up to date.
Sunak is nearest on £546K
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Probably made £1M in his first year, but his register of interests isn't up to date.
Sunak is nearest on £546K
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
The amount your MP earns from second jobs
Reform UK's Nigel Farage is top of the list
www.walesonline.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
11 Jobs Nigel has earned at least £989,000 since the election - more than any other MP, and more than 10 times Farage’s annual MP salary of £93,904.
Probably made £1M in his first year, but his register of interests isn't up to date.
Sunak is nearest on £546K
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Probably made £1M in his first year, but his register of interests isn't up to date.
Sunak is nearest on £546K
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
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Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack