Becky Barnicoat
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Becky Barnicoat
@beckybarnicoat.bsky.social
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Cartoonist and writer for The New Yorker, The New Statesman, The Guardian and more. My debut graphic memoir Cry When the Baby Cries is out now.
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Well played, Merriam-Webster!
Well played.
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities
Oh, wow, thank you for this.
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On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
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The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)
It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to! 😭
Morgan McSweeney happened to him – but the fact that he's let that happen to him is damning. "Morgan TOLD me to make flags, patriotism, and far-right apologism my brand, Miss".
Farage's massive over-exposure relies on him not really getting on with anything else. The bind is that any serious politician couldn't do this much publicity without sorely neglecting their actual job. So the least serious one gets the votes. I know it's obvious, but it's v depressing.
My timeline is packed with the same clip of Farage questioning the safety of Paracetamol. It's just
so easy for him to spread his message, sow discord and be in the forefront of everybody's minds. We all lap it up.
Extremely relatable 900-year-old poem 🧡
One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
Whose eyes are the most evil? Or is it a draw?
How is that not terrorism but holding a palestine action placard is? We're living through the looking glass
Reassuring to see Keir Starmer posting on X about something entirely unrelated, the morning after Elon Musk incites violent insurrection in the UK. Love our PM, true patriot 🥰
Bonkers hearing a Labour minister put a positive spin on Elon Musk calling for the violent overthrowing of UK govt 🙃
So grateful for all your reporting on this, Martin. I still find people aren’t aware what’s going on, and that this is where an awful lot of public money disappears to.
Still waiting for a govt that will crack down on gross private wealth extraction from the public sector
The cost of a single place in a residential children’s care home in England has nearly doubled in five years to an average £318,000 a year, with private firms racking up huge profits as a result of market failure, according to the public spending watchdog.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Cost of place in children’s care homes in England hits almost £320,000 a year
Private firms’ profits soar, watchdog says, as prices nearly double in five years
www.theguardian.com
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The cost of a single place in a residential children’s care home in England has nearly doubled in five years to an average £318,000 a year, with private firms racking up huge profits as a result of market failure, according to the public spending watchdog.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Cost of place in children’s care homes in England hits almost £320,000 a year
Private firms’ profits soar, watchdog says, as prices nearly double in five years
www.theguardian.com
Labour’s charm offensive continues. Really building that sweet rapport with the public 🥰