@norahmary.bsky.social
Retired tax specialist. Interested in politics,travel and history.
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There was certainly something recently which monopolised all public debate and paralysed all policy initiative in the UK for the better part of a decade, and I dont think it was trans rights.
"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.
I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related
I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related
October 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
There was certainly something recently which monopolised all public debate and paralysed all policy initiative in the UK for the better part of a decade, and I dont think it was trans rights.
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‘I was there. I kept the receipts. I remember how normalized the sexual exploitation of teenage girls and even tweens by adult men was, how it showed up in movies, in the tales of rock stars and “baby groupies”’
Powerful piece from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Powerful piece from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
‘I was there. I kept the receipts. I remember how normalized the sexual exploitation of teenage girls and even tweens by adult men was, how it showed up in movies, in the tales of rock stars and “baby groupies”’
Powerful piece from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Powerful piece from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...
September 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...
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This government needs to grow a spine, a stomach, and a sense of moral purpose right now. Yes, I know that is vanishingly unlikely.
I wrote about this the other day, but I do think it's underappreciated how the lack of interest in government for arguing for a world we might want to live has allowed some of the worst of us to creep in.
sat on a train near some drunk white bloke who, one assumes, was out on the march today and he spent ages physically threatening a black guy but also, for some reason, telling him he was going to rape him? but anyway everything feels great in Britain right now
September 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This government needs to grow a spine, a stomach, and a sense of moral purpose right now. Yes, I know that is vanishingly unlikely.
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FT mag piece from me: Spent a long time looking into the Britannia hotel chain, beneficiaries of a vast amount of taxpayer money via the asylum system
on.ft.com/47HEE46
on.ft.com/47HEE46
The crumbling seaside palaces at the centre of Britain’s asylum crisis
[FREE TO READ] How one hotelier built an empire from beloved community assets — and a government struggling to cope with a surge in migration
on.ft.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
FT mag piece from me: Spent a long time looking into the Britannia hotel chain, beneficiaries of a vast amount of taxpayer money via the asylum system
on.ft.com/47HEE46
on.ft.com/47HEE46
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Labour should be aggressively attacking this kind of dangerous anti-science conspiracism
Labour MP for East Thanet Polly Billington MP has accused the Reform UK leader in Kent of 'endangering lives' by questioning the safety of vaccinations - following the bonkers claims at conference about vaccines causing cancer among royals (1/x)
September 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Labour should be aggressively attacking this kind of dangerous anti-science conspiracism
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In all of this talk of deportation I always want to ask:
Then what?
You’ve scooped up nurses, doctors, teaching assistants, security guards, field labourers. Husbands. Wives. You’ve packed them off to camp.
Now what? Who next?
Then what?
You’ve scooped up nurses, doctors, teaching assistants, security guards, field labourers. Husbands. Wives. You’ve packed them off to camp.
Now what? Who next?
The fucking Times. Sieved. Illegitimate. Is this supposed to be who we are now? Because this can entirely fuck off back to 1939.
The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps.
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
archive.ph/78dcP
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
archive.ph/78dcP
August 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
In all of this talk of deportation I always want to ask:
Then what?
You’ve scooped up nurses, doctors, teaching assistants, security guards, field labourers. Husbands. Wives. You’ve packed them off to camp.
Now what? Who next?
Then what?
You’ve scooped up nurses, doctors, teaching assistants, security guards, field labourers. Husbands. Wives. You’ve packed them off to camp.
Now what? Who next?
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i dno, maybe time to let it go
July 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
i dno, maybe time to let it go
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It takes courage to say this in public. Some still convinced Brexit's not been done properly.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Yes many now see they've been lied to by Nige The Grifter & Co. about the benefits of leaving but they still vote Reform so ...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Yes many now see they've been lied to by Nige The Grifter & Co. about the benefits of leaving but they still vote Reform so ...
May 20, 2025 at 6:53 AM
It takes courage to say this in public. Some still convinced Brexit's not been done properly.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Yes many now see they've been lied to by Nige The Grifter & Co. about the benefits of leaving but they still vote Reform so ...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Yes many now see they've been lied to by Nige The Grifter & Co. about the benefits of leaving but they still vote Reform so ...
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everyone's said pretty much all there is to be said on the 'island of strangers'/'incalculable damage' stuff, so just sharing this by a migrant care worker on how it feels to hear yourself discussed like this while looking after people's loved ones www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Opinion: Migrant workers prop up the UK’s social care system. Now…
Labour’s crackdown will break a promise made to workers like me – and leave the system in disrepair
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
everyone's said pretty much all there is to be said on the 'island of strangers'/'incalculable damage' stuff, so just sharing this by a migrant care worker on how it feels to hear yourself discussed like this while looking after people's loved ones www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration
May 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration
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owning a small business in 2025…
April 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
owning a small business in 2025…
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This breaks down how tariffs work in a really useful way—how the increased costs cascade, for starters, but also how uncertainty and animosity puts grit in the wheels.
Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company
IG 3sixteen
IG 3sixteen
April 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This breaks down how tariffs work in a really useful way—how the increased costs cascade, for starters, but also how uncertainty and animosity puts grit in the wheels.
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The only available pro-Trump response to this—and one I expect we will start to see very soon on Fox and elsewhere—is to go full ad hominem on small business owners: "Maybe they're not so good at business if they can't adapt / What kind of person sells board games?" etc
My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.
April 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The only available pro-Trump response to this—and one I expect we will start to see very soon on Fox and elsewhere—is to go full ad hominem on small business owners: "Maybe they're not so good at business if they can't adapt / What kind of person sells board games?" etc
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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
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Sadly there was no way of realising this until now
March 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Sadly there was no way of realising this until now
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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The Rotting of the Conservative Mind: the Tory party bends the knee to Donald Trump.
A disgrace and one for which they deserve to be judged. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...
A disgrace and one for which they deserve to be judged. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...
The Rotting of the Conservative Mind
Britain's Tories bend the knee to Donald Trump and disgrace themselves
open.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Rotting of the Conservative Mind: the Tory party bends the knee to Donald Trump.
A disgrace and one for which they deserve to be judged. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...
A disgrace and one for which they deserve to be judged. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...
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The irony of the 'anti' globalists is now being openly globalist. Though every non batshit person knew Maga was a global movement.
February 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The irony of the 'anti' globalists is now being openly globalist. Though every non batshit person knew Maga was a global movement.
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You guys have fucked up so bad you made Quebec patriotic
Saw this video and had to share.
This was at the Bell Centre, never heard it so loud, this is Canadian unity 🇨🇦
#CanadianUnity
This was at the Bell Centre, never heard it so loud, this is Canadian unity 🇨🇦
#CanadianUnity
February 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
You guys have fucked up so bad you made Quebec patriotic
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Something that isn't remarked on enough is the way that quite a lot of the praise for the Trump-like crushing of equalities programmes is based on pure, old-fashioned snobbery.
January 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Something that isn't remarked on enough is the way that quite a lot of the praise for the Trump-like crushing of equalities programmes is based on pure, old-fashioned snobbery.
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I think if my last two jobs were Director of Comms at the IEA and Telegraph columnist, I wouldn't be so sniffy about "well-paid sinecures."
Something that isn't remarked on enough is the way that quite a lot of the praise for the Trump-like crushing of equalities programmes is based on pure, old-fashioned snobbery.
January 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I think if my last two jobs were Director of Comms at the IEA and Telegraph columnist, I wouldn't be so sniffy about "well-paid sinecures."
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“Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone.”
- Sophie Scholl (1921 - 1943)
- Sophie Scholl (1921 - 1943)
January 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone.”
- Sophie Scholl (1921 - 1943)
- Sophie Scholl (1921 - 1943)
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🔥 Asked by Nick Timothy which flags the Home Office planned to fly from its buildings, Diana Johnson told him: "We have advised that there should be no change from the arrangements in place under the previous government, whatever they may have been."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
Exclusive: How One Labour Minister Is 'Smashing' Tory Attempts To Revive The Culture Wars
Diana Johnson has repeatedly slapped down Conservative MPs.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
January 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🔥 Asked by Nick Timothy which flags the Home Office planned to fly from its buildings, Diana Johnson told him: "We have advised that there should be no change from the arrangements in place under the previous government, whatever they may have been."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...