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.
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A reminder that Steve Bannon is sitting on 15 hours of interviews with Epstein.
www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...
www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...
Steve Bannon is all over the newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails, raising questions about the 15 hours of interviews he has promised to release
Newly released emails to and from the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein include correspondence with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, expanding on previous reporting that Bannon had up to 15 hours...
www.mediamatters.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A reminder that Steve Bannon is sitting on 15 hours of interviews with Epstein.
www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...
www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...
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🎥 Political editor @jamesrball.com breaks down The New World's exclusive that Michael Prescott - author of the dossier into the BBC - himself doctored Trump quotes in the report. It's an extraordinary revelation that calls into question Prescott’s journalistic judgement
Read now 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws
Read now 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🎥 Political editor @jamesrball.com breaks down The New World's exclusive that Michael Prescott - author of the dossier into the BBC - himself doctored Trump quotes in the report. It's an extraordinary revelation that calls into question Prescott’s journalistic judgement
Read now 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws
Read now 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws
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Gordon Brown used to meet his fiscal rules by making the lines fatter on a chart. True story. Maybe Rachel should try that...
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Gordon Brown used to meet his fiscal rules by making the lines fatter on a chart. True story. Maybe Rachel should try that...
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People have tried to say that the Green surge is just on social media.
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Wincheap (Canterbury) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 39.1% (+24.1)
🔶 LDM: 24.1% (-12.2)
➡️ RFM: 16.3% (New)
🌹 LAB: 12.8% (-25.5)
🌳 CON: 7.7% (-2.6)
Green GAIN from Liberal Democrat.
Changes w/ 2023.
🌍 GRN: 39.1% (+24.1)
🔶 LDM: 24.1% (-12.2)
➡️ RFM: 16.3% (New)
🌹 LAB: 12.8% (-25.5)
🌳 CON: 7.7% (-2.6)
Green GAIN from Liberal Democrat.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
People have tried to say that the Green surge is just on social media.
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members.
Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections.
Huge congratulations to the Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Patriotic Millionaires bring tax-the-rich campaign to Newcastle ahead of Autumn Budget
Patriotic Millionaires with the message "Tax us the super-rich"
northeastbylines.co.uk/business/eco...
Patriotic Millionaires with the message "Tax us the super-rich"
northeastbylines.co.uk/business/eco...
Patriotic Millionaires bring tax-the-rich campaign to Newcastle ahead of Autumn Budget
Patriotic Millionaires with the message "Tax us the super-rich"
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Patriotic Millionaires bring tax-the-rich campaign to Newcastle ahead of Autumn Budget
Patriotic Millionaires with the message "Tax us the super-rich"
northeastbylines.co.uk/business/eco...
Patriotic Millionaires with the message "Tax us the super-rich"
northeastbylines.co.uk/business/eco...
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Not so much a Hokey Cokey, more Reeves and the markets locked in a lethal tango, led spellbound by an OBR accordion:
🔺NEW: Rachel Reeves given £10bn extra headroom ahead of income tax climbdown
The fiscal watchdog said the hole in public finances was now closer to £20bn, prompting chancellor’s market-spooking U-turn
The fiscal watchdog said the hole in public finances was now closer to £20bn, prompting chancellor’s market-spooking U-turn
Reeves given £10bn extra headroom ahead of income tax climbdown
Rachel Reeves given £10bn extra headroom ahead of income tax climbdown
www.thetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Not so much a Hokey Cokey, more Reeves and the markets locked in a lethal tango, led spellbound by an OBR accordion:
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“Riveting…This nonfiction thriller is chilling, but stirring.” THE TRAITORS CIRCLE is one of Amazon’s Books of the Month
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
“Riveting…This nonfiction thriller is chilling, but stirring.” THE TRAITORS CIRCLE is one of Amazon’s Books of the Month
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When No 10 gets into a bunker it’s hard to get out. If you dig in (Thatcher) and refuse to make changes of policy and staff amidst dire polls, your colleagues turn against you. Major came out fighting and called and won a leadership contest in 1995 but lost the 1997 election.
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
When No 10 gets into a bunker it’s hard to get out. If you dig in (Thatcher) and refuse to make changes of policy and staff amidst dire polls, your colleagues turn against you. Major came out fighting and called and won a leadership contest in 1995 but lost the 1997 election.
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EXCLUSIVE 🚨 A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
✏️ @jamesrball.com
✏️ @jamesrball.com
Exclusive: the error at the heart of Trump’s BBC attack
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
EXCLUSIVE 🚨 A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
✏️ @jamesrball.com
✏️ @jamesrball.com
Even in the face of brutal, eye-catching, clickbait competition elsewhere in the news, it’s scandalous this story will, these days, never make the headlines.
”Leading cardiologists at both hospitals were paid consultants for the device’s manufacturer…”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
”Leading cardiologists at both hospitals were paid consultants for the device’s manufacturer…”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hospitals knew a heart device led to more patients' deaths - but they kept using it
Almost half of patients given a heart pump, after the NHS had raised concerns about it, died soon after.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Even in the face of brutal, eye-catching, clickbait competition elsewhere in the news, it’s scandalous this story will, these days, never make the headlines.
”Leading cardiologists at both hospitals were paid consultants for the device’s manufacturer…”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
”Leading cardiologists at both hospitals were paid consultants for the device’s manufacturer…”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I rather fancy Trump launching a lawsuit against the BBC - if only to see what argument he uses to explain himself:
lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I rather fancy Trump launching a lawsuit against the BBC - if only to see what argument he uses to explain himself:
lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
If you’ve got long, very long, idle minutes to spare, the full speech is worth a second look.
Trump accuses the BBC of butchery and fraud in their representation of it. If your ask me, they rather sanitised it:
www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...
Trump accuses the BBC of butchery and fraud in their representation of it. If your ask me, they rather sanitised it:
www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...
November 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
If you’ve got long, very long, idle minutes to spare, the full speech is worth a second look.
Trump accuses the BBC of butchery and fraud in their representation of it. If your ask me, they rather sanitised it:
www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...
Trump accuses the BBC of butchery and fraud in their representation of it. If your ask me, they rather sanitised it:
www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...
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Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."
Excellent stuff from Rory Stewart. One thing’s evident: Michael Gove has clearly spent not a single hour contemplating this extraordinary account (from a Jewish Israeli filmmaker) of what happened in Palestine:
(Yep. On BBC iPlayer for over 2 years…. ) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
(Yep. On BBC iPlayer for over 2 years…. ) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Excellent stuff from Rory Stewart. One thing’s evident: Michael Gove has clearly spent not a single hour contemplating this extraordinary account (from a Jewish Israeli filmmaker) of what happened in Palestine:
(Yep. On BBC iPlayer for over 2 years…. ) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
(Yep. On BBC iPlayer for over 2 years…. ) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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This really is worth reading.
How the author of the leaked memo, Michael Prescott, working for Hanover that earns $$$ lobbying for American tech, was ushered into oversight of OfCom selection by Johnson and into a key position of power on the BBC by Robbie Gibbs.
How the author of the leaked memo, Michael Prescott, working for Hanover that earns $$$ lobbying for American tech, was ushered into oversight of OfCom selection by Johnson and into a key position of power on the BBC by Robbie Gibbs.
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This really is worth reading.
How the author of the leaked memo, Michael Prescott, working for Hanover that earns $$$ lobbying for American tech, was ushered into oversight of OfCom selection by Johnson and into a key position of power on the BBC by Robbie Gibbs.
How the author of the leaked memo, Michael Prescott, working for Hanover that earns $$$ lobbying for American tech, was ushered into oversight of OfCom selection by Johnson and into a key position of power on the BBC by Robbie Gibbs.
This Amol Rajan interview with Bellingcat’s @eliothiggins.bsky.social is superb. Especially on the “hollowing” of democracy.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Higgins (from around 27’05”) : “Politics really becomes about managing those technocratic rules that define what the market does…
1/
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Higgins (from around 27’05”) : “Politics really becomes about managing those technocratic rules that define what the market does…
1/
Radical with Amol Rajan - Fake News: How We Can Save Ourselves From Disinformation (Eliot Higgins) - BBC Sounds
Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins on hunting Russian spies and the crisis of democracy.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This Amol Rajan interview with Bellingcat’s @eliothiggins.bsky.social is superb. Especially on the “hollowing” of democracy.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Higgins (from around 27’05”) : “Politics really becomes about managing those technocratic rules that define what the market does…
1/
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Higgins (from around 27’05”) : “Politics really becomes about managing those technocratic rules that define what the market does…
1/
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”.