Rachel Cunliffe
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social
Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
I wrote a personal piece last week about anti-semitism in Britain in the last two years and how it felt to be Jewish. It was repromoted today, on the anniversary of October 7, five days after an attack on a British synagogue in which two Jews were killed.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I wrote a personal piece last week about anti-semitism in Britain in the last two years and how it felt to be Jewish. It was repromoted today, on the anniversary of October 7, five days after an attack on a British synagogue in which two Jews were killed.
This is the immediate reply.
This is the immediate reply.
I wrote a personal piece last week about anti-semitism in Britain in the last two years and how it felt to be Jewish. It was repromoted today, on the anniversary of October 7, five days after an attack on a British subogohir where two Jews were killed.
This is the immediate reply.
This is the immediate reply.
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I wrote a personal piece last week about anti-semitism in Britain in the last two years and how it felt to be Jewish. It was repromoted today, on the anniversary of October 7, five days after an attack on a British subogohir where two Jews were killed.
This is the immediate reply.
This is the immediate reply.
Kemi Badenoch says her favourite author is Terry Pratchett. One wonders what draws her to the Discworld. The Vimes Boots theory of inequality? The celebration of diversity in Ankh Morpork? The lesson that those who claim to have the answers are not to be trusted?
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October 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Kemi Badenoch says her favourite author is Terry Pratchett. One wonders what draws her to the Discworld. The Vimes Boots theory of inequality? The celebration of diversity in Ankh Morpork? The lesson that those who claim to have the answers are not to be trusted?
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Dispatch from Manchester: cargo cults and effigies of Margaret Thatcher
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October 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Dispatch from Manchester: cargo cults and effigies of Margaret Thatcher
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Spotted: Robert Jenrick being trailed by a herd of paparazzi-like camera crews out his event, down a flight of stairs, through a corridor and across a courtyard while deflecting questions on whether he wants to be the next Tory leader
October 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Spotted: Robert Jenrick being trailed by a herd of paparazzi-like camera crews out his event, down a flight of stairs, through a corridor and across a courtyard while deflecting questions on whether he wants to be the next Tory leader
On the train back from Liverpool, sleep-deprived and with yet another conference cold, so please enjoy this screenshot of the cat photobombing my attempt to FaceTime my husband after three days away
October 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
On the train back from Liverpool, sleep-deprived and with yet another conference cold, so please enjoy this screenshot of the cat photobombing my attempt to FaceTime my husband after three days away
Conference isn’t conference without a spot of al fresco podcasting
September 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Conference isn’t conference without a spot of al fresco podcasting
All party conferences should take place by the sea
September 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
All party conferences should take place by the sea
Future Foreign Secretary
September 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Future Foreign Secretary
Wait, who summoned all the neurotic tortoiseshell cats called Clio after the muse of history?!
September 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Wait, who summoned all the neurotic tortoiseshell cats called Clio after the muse of history?!
I is sorry I eated your shoe. wos hungry. foods plz?
September 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I is sorry I eated your shoe. wos hungry. foods plz?
I mean, seriously
September 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I mean, seriously
It just tried to come in again. You need a name, little creature
September 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It just tried to come in again. You need a name, little creature
Double rainbow alert!
September 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Double rainbow alert!
Dispatch from the cat-sitter: intruder alert!
August 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Dispatch from the cat-sitter: intruder alert!
No, cat. You cannot go out
August 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
No, cat. You cannot go out
Well, if you insist
August 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Well, if you insist
For a taster, here’s one of the lines I sadly had to leave out for the sake of word count…
August 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
For a taster, here’s one of the lines I sadly had to leave out for the sake of word count…
There's a lot else I could say. It would make an incredible book for someone - not me - to write one day.
Instead, here is my grandmother's apartment block, where her mother still lived in 1942, before she was transported to the Riga camp and killed.
And my sister and I visiting it 83 years later
Instead, here is my grandmother's apartment block, where her mother still lived in 1942, before she was transported to the Riga camp and killed.
And my sister and I visiting it 83 years later
August 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
There's a lot else I could say. It would make an incredible book for someone - not me - to write one day.
Instead, here is my grandmother's apartment block, where her mother still lived in 1942, before she was transported to the Riga camp and killed.
And my sister and I visiting it 83 years later
Instead, here is my grandmother's apartment block, where her mother still lived in 1942, before she was transported to the Riga camp and killed.
And my sister and I visiting it 83 years later
Perfectly reasonable
July 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Perfectly reasonable
Someone has discovered the Euros.
Lionesses are big cats, yes?
Lionesses are big cats, yes?
July 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Someone has discovered the Euros.
Lionesses are big cats, yes?
Lionesses are big cats, yes?