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.
FEWER! FFS!
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
December 3, 2025 at 7:39 AM
FEWER! FFS!
Nothing ‘borderline’ about it.
The relentless targeting of prominent women at the head of the Labour Party by the MSM is borderline misogynistic.
December 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Nothing ‘borderline’ about it.
My Black Friday purchases: two discounted language courses from @citylit.bsky.social and some bargain Pilates classes.
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
My Black Friday purchases: two discounted language courses from @citylit.bsky.social and some bargain Pilates classes.
“I don’t see, I can’t see a rational reason to move inmates that have been compliant in an environment to a more restrictive environment,” Mohr said.
Because there is none: this is sadism.
Because there is none: this is sadism.
After Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row last year, the Trump administration is retaliating by sending them to the supermax. Prisoners are locked in cells smaller than a parking space 22-24 hours a day.
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
“I don’t see, I can’t see a rational reason to move inmates that have been compliant in an environment to a more restrictive environment,” Mohr said.
Because there is none: this is sadism.
Because there is none: this is sadism.
An article after my own heart.
November 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
An article after my own heart.
“Labour are hiking taxes to pay for welfare” says KB in response to the Budget.
What? Labour redistributing wealth? Blow me down with a feather.
#Budget2025 #BBCNews
What? Labour redistributing wealth? Blow me down with a feather.
#Budget2025 #BBCNews
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“Labour are hiking taxes to pay for welfare” says KB in response to the Budget.
What? Labour redistributing wealth? Blow me down with a feather.
#Budget2025 #BBCNews
What? Labour redistributing wealth? Blow me down with a feather.
#Budget2025 #BBCNews
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*It was used in 2023, when it was an unacceptable term.
*Twenty years ago, in 2005, it was an unacceptable term.
*Can we please stop re-establishing his already-established racism and his defence of racism?
*Twenty years ago, in 2005, it was an unacceptable term.
*Can we please stop re-establishing his already-established racism and his defence of racism?
Nigel Farage asked about Reform MS Laura Anne Jones (who the Senedd Commissioner found had used a racist term in a staff WhatsApp chat in August 2023 while discussing TikTok writing: “No chinky spies for me.”)
"Well, she used a word that colloquially, probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago."
"Well, she used a word that colloquially, probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago."
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
*It was used in 2023, when it was an unacceptable term.
*Twenty years ago, in 2005, it was an unacceptable term.
*Can we please stop re-establishing his already-established racism and his defence of racism?
*Twenty years ago, in 2005, it was an unacceptable term.
*Can we please stop re-establishing his already-established racism and his defence of racism?
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November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Making a playlist for a Significant Birthday and oh how many songs do I love?
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Making a playlist for a Significant Birthday and oh how many songs do I love?
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]
1
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.
3
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
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
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
7
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
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
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-
12
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.