Sarah Richards
@sarahrichards.bsky.social
“World is crazier and more of it than we think…”
Heck and heavens.
These days, inevitably, more heck.
Heck and heavens.
These days, inevitably, more heck.
Ideas for Rachel Reeves…
TRUMP: The ones who stayed, I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus
INGRAHAM: Where's that money coming from?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'll get it from someplace.
INGRAHAM: Where's that money coming from?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'll get it from someplace.
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Ideas for Rachel Reeves…
See Goebbels on propaganda, #3.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
See Goebbels on propaganda, #3.
Not all conspiracy theories are equal.
Some conspiracies are real - and especially dangerous.
When it comes to media enemies - bad actors can either buy or bankrupt them.
Both are dead ends for the truth.
Some conspiracies are real - and especially dangerous.
When it comes to media enemies - bad actors can either buy or bankrupt them.
Both are dead ends for the truth.
Trump is interfering in the BBC at the highest level and ITV is being sold off to USA, this is co-ordinated and a new cold war.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Not all conspiracy theories are equal.
Some conspiracies are real - and especially dangerous.
When it comes to media enemies - bad actors can either buy or bankrupt them.
Both are dead ends for the truth.
Some conspiracies are real - and especially dangerous.
When it comes to media enemies - bad actors can either buy or bankrupt them.
Both are dead ends for the truth.
Anyone reading the full transcript of Trump’s January 6th speech will be left in no doubt about his intentions - the Panorama edit (clumsy though it was) gave an accurate picture of what he wanted from his audience:
Early on, they were already chanting “Fight for Trump”.
www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...
Early on, they were already chanting “Fight for Trump”.
www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Anyone reading the full transcript of Trump’s January 6th speech will be left in no doubt about his intentions - the Panorama edit (clumsy though it was) gave an accurate picture of what he wanted from his audience:
Early on, they were already chanting “Fight for Trump”.
www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...
Early on, they were already chanting “Fight for Trump”.
www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...
Here’s a (cheap) BBC marketing campaign/fightback begging to be launched:
We’re one of the US-based BBC users. No paywall, well-researched articles, and more/better international news. The BBC app is great, people
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 2:51 PM
Here’s a (cheap) BBC marketing campaign/fightback begging to be launched:
#BBCBias latest.
Gibbist BBC journalist, Sarah Montague, leads with a senior Tory commenting on asylum, a serving military officer who believes human rights are going too far, and is featuring the ludicrous Arthur Laffer and his discredited theory. #wato
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#BBCBias latest.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Panorama edit did at least remind us which of Trump’s words were still ringing in the ears of the crowd when they marched on the Capitol: the words they heard last. Not “walking” but “fight like hell”.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The Panorama edit did at least remind us which of Trump’s words were still ringing in the ears of the crowd when they marched on the Capitol: the words they heard last. Not “walking” but “fight like hell”.
Superb piece which might give you vertigo to read - or at least a sense of dizzying dismay.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Superb piece which might give you vertigo to read - or at least a sense of dizzying dismay.
Telegraphing misleading nonsense and whipping up outrage for years…
🔴 The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Telegraphing misleading nonsense and whipping up outrage for years…
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It seems a tad ironic, given all the accusations of BBC bias flying around, that one person who hasn't resign is Robbie Gibb. Lest we forget... Emily Maitlis described him as an "active Conservative Party agent" within the BBC.
Nick Robinson on X...
x.com/bbcnickrobin...
Nick Robinson on X...
x.com/bbcnickrobin...
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It seems a tad ironic, given all the accusations of BBC bias flying around, that one person who hasn't resign is Robbie Gibb. Lest we forget... Emily Maitlis described him as an "active Conservative Party agent" within the BBC.
Nick Robinson on X...
x.com/bbcnickrobin...
Nick Robinson on X...
x.com/bbcnickrobin...
The BBC’s biased and misleading edit of Trump’s January 6th speech was so egregious that there were evidently “no complaints” when the programme was first broadcast last year…
(Last para👇from Nick Robinson)
(Last para👇from Nick Robinson)
Who’d have guessed it? The main BBC board member resisting a simple apology and reinforcing the right wing attack on the BBC from within, was a Tory government appointee and founder of GB TV. If you want impartiality, Gibb has to go. Nick Robinson on X:
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The BBC’s biased and misleading edit of Trump’s January 6th speech was so egregious that there were evidently “no complaints” when the programme was first broadcast last year…
(Last para👇from Nick Robinson)
(Last para👇from Nick Robinson)
A bias in favour of the truth can lead, fatally, to taking liars and madmen seriously.
Inside and outside the BBC, we should all be rereading Milan Kundera. And not just for laughter, forgetting and kitsch…
Inside and outside the BBC, we should all be rereading Milan Kundera. And not just for laughter, forgetting and kitsch…
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A bias in favour of the truth can lead, fatally, to taking liars and madmen seriously.
Inside and outside the BBC, we should all be rereading Milan Kundera. And not just for laughter, forgetting and kitsch…
Inside and outside the BBC, we should all be rereading Milan Kundera. And not just for laughter, forgetting and kitsch…
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The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something?
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
The BBC was right about the Capitol riots. In a sane world, Trump would be in jail
The US President faced impeachment over the violence, and in a world where Republicans had more courage, he would have been found guilty
inews.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something?
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
Reposted by Sarah Richards
The Department for Business and Trade’s own figures show that the UK imported £80m in Russian goods in the year to June 2025, an increase of 21% on previous year. Nearly half – £36m – came from spending on Russian aircraft parts.
Exclusive: Officials are urgently trying to establish whether a £36m purchase of Russian aircraft breached the UK's sanctions regime
The government only discovered it had happened after being alerted by @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The government only discovered it had happened after being alerted by @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Anger as £38m is spent on plane imports from Russia | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The Department for Business and Trade’s own figures show that the UK imported £80m in Russian goods in the year to June 2025, an increase of 21% on previous year. Nearly half – £36m – came from spending on Russian aircraft parts.
In former times, a protest suggesting FIFA ought to bar a genocidal nation* would be seen as proof that British values were in fine fettle.
*”Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says” www.bbc.com/news/article...
*”Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says” www.bbc.com/news/article...
Police have been asked to investigate after slogans appeared near Villa Park before the Birmingham team’s Europa League match against Maccabi Tel Aviv
‘Antisemitic placards’ outside Aston Villa stadium before Maccabi match
www.thetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
In former times, a protest suggesting FIFA ought to bar a genocidal nation* would be seen as proof that British values were in fine fettle.
*”Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says” www.bbc.com/news/article...
*”Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says” www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I'm obliged for the nod.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I'm obliged for the nod.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
Bravo, Nick Robinson.
Time for jeer-leader Boris Johnson to get his come-uppance, and for the anti-BBC vendetta to be called out for what it is.
Time for jeer-leader Boris Johnson to get his come-uppance, and for the anti-BBC vendetta to be called out for what it is.
Nick Robinson Blasts Boris Johnson Amid BBC Anti-Trump Bias Row
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nick-r...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nick-r...
Nick Robinson Blasts Boris Johnson Amid BBC Anti-Trump Bias Row
The veteran broadcaster hit back at the former prime minister in a lengthy post on X.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Bravo, Nick Robinson.
Time for jeer-leader Boris Johnson to get his come-uppance, and for the anti-BBC vendetta to be called out for what it is.
Time for jeer-leader Boris Johnson to get his come-uppance, and for the anti-BBC vendetta to be called out for what it is.
Heck. Saving the habitable world has now morphed into flag-waving patriotic duty and a miraculous money-making opportunity…
Cop THAT!
Cop THAT!
This is everything wrong with Starmer in one social media post. COP is about protecting the planet from becoming uninhabitable. It needs a coordinated international effort, yet Starmer is playing the nationalism and economic growth card, which is the opposite of what is needed on multiple levels.
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Heck. Saving the habitable world has now morphed into flag-waving patriotic duty and a miraculous money-making opportunity…
Cop THAT!
Cop THAT!
Reposted by Sarah Richards
You think it'd be in Zia Yusuf and Reform's interests to be a lot more convincing than this...
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
You think it'd be in Zia Yusuf and Reform's interests to be a lot more convincing than this...
At least one law-abiding British citizen - Olivia Colman - may be on a US studios’s blacklist...
Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
www.worldofreel.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
At least one law-abiding British citizen - Olivia Colman - may be on a US studios’s blacklist...
“If we can embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves…”
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“If we can embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves…”
Reposted by Sarah Richards
This really the cracking of speeches: a banger.
Worth reading in full.
Worth reading in full.
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This really the cracking of speeches: a banger.
Worth reading in full.
Worth reading in full.
Reposted by Sarah Richards
We each carry around six million variations in our DNA.
Henry Scowcroft explores how scientists like @gregfindlay.bsky.social and @carovinuesa.bsky.social are helping unravel the effects of these variants, where even a small change can have a big impact on our lives.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
Henry Scowcroft explores how scientists like @gregfindlay.bsky.social and @carovinuesa.bsky.social are helping unravel the effects of these variants, where even a small change can have a big impact on our lives.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
Variants: the typos turning loss into hope
Across the 3 billion ‘letters’ of our DNA, we each carry around 6 million variations. Researchers are unravelling their effects on our lives.
www.crick.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
We each carry around six million variations in our DNA.
Henry Scowcroft explores how scientists like @gregfindlay.bsky.social and @carovinuesa.bsky.social are helping unravel the effects of these variants, where even a small change can have a big impact on our lives.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
Henry Scowcroft explores how scientists like @gregfindlay.bsky.social and @carovinuesa.bsky.social are helping unravel the effects of these variants, where even a small change can have a big impact on our lives.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-10...