Julia Macfarlane
@juliamacfarlane.bsky.social
BBC Journalist, formerly ABC News, exiled Scot and Twitter refugee
New Labour deputy leader Lucy Powell is MP for Manchester Central and former Leader of the House of Commons. She was sacked from her Commons leadership role in a reshuffle that followed Angela Rayner's resignation.
October 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
New Labour deputy leader Lucy Powell is MP for Manchester Central and former Leader of the House of Commons. She was sacked from her Commons leadership role in a reshuffle that followed Angela Rayner's resignation.
We’re expecting the new Deputy Labour Leader to be announced imminently - live here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
October 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We’re expecting the new Deputy Labour Leader to be announced imminently - live here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
How I sleep at night knowing I put all my savings into yarn and vintage handbags instead of the stock market
March 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
How I sleep at night knowing I put all my savings into yarn and vintage handbags instead of the stock market
Just some of the protesters’ posters in Vermont, where JD Vance went skiing over the weekend:
March 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Just some of the protesters’ posters in Vermont, where JD Vance went skiing over the weekend:
Some more unprecedented headlines
March 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Some more unprecedented headlines
Graham Hancock, currently sipping a margarita somewhere thinking “I told you all so”
February 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Graham Hancock, currently sipping a margarita somewhere thinking “I told you all so”
Pope Francis appears to smack down JD Vance’s theological claims in a letter to US bishops, criticising mass deportations across America and schooling the VP’s use of the Latin phrase ‘ordo amoris’ saying “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests” www.vatican.va/content/fran...
February 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Pope Francis appears to smack down JD Vance’s theological claims in a letter to US bishops, criticising mass deportations across America and schooling the VP’s use of the Latin phrase ‘ordo amoris’ saying “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests” www.vatican.va/content/fran...
My husband is very excited about the latest Times cartoon because he’s been calling him “Elongated Muskrat” for over a year now and it’s finally caught on
February 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
My husband is very excited about the latest Times cartoon because he’s been calling him “Elongated Muskrat” for over a year now and it’s finally caught on
Huge tractors in central London - farmers protesting changes to inheritance tax.
From April 2026, inherited agricultural assets £1m+ will be liable to 20% tax - half the usual IHT.
Many farmers argue while they are asset rich - eg land, livestock - they are cash poor and they would have to sell up
From April 2026, inherited agricultural assets £1m+ will be liable to 20% tax - half the usual IHT.
Many farmers argue while they are asset rich - eg land, livestock - they are cash poor and they would have to sell up
February 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Huge tractors in central London - farmers protesting changes to inheritance tax.
From April 2026, inherited agricultural assets £1m+ will be liable to 20% tax - half the usual IHT.
Many farmers argue while they are asset rich - eg land, livestock - they are cash poor and they would have to sell up
From April 2026, inherited agricultural assets £1m+ will be liable to 20% tax - half the usual IHT.
Many farmers argue while they are asset rich - eg land, livestock - they are cash poor and they would have to sell up
One might expect this cover to NOT go down well with President Trump…
February 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
One might expect this cover to NOT go down well with President Trump…
First day back at the BBC today, and glad to see some things haven’t changed…
February 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
First day back at the BBC today, and glad to see some things haven’t changed…
One week into Onyx Storm:
January 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
One week into Onyx Storm:
SERVICE UPDATE: any newsreaders pronouncing it Storm “Eye-oh-win” are to be immediately deported to the tower of Cirith Ungol
January 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
SERVICE UPDATE: any newsreaders pronouncing it Storm “Eye-oh-win” are to be immediately deported to the tower of Cirith Ungol
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for Defense secretary and former Fox News host, pays tribute to his wife and seven children in opening statement - he looks down to his notes as he reads out their names, stumbles, and says “sorry, there’s a lot of them”
January 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for Defense secretary and former Fox News host, pays tribute to his wife and seven children in opening statement - he looks down to his notes as he reads out their names, stumbles, and says “sorry, there’s a lot of them”
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
I’m dead.
I’m dead.
January 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
I’m dead.
I’m dead.
Time and again I read scenarios around the famous Jabal Qasyun in my Arabic textbooks, one of Damascus’s most beautiful landmarks, in 2012 as war was raging. My language exercises were frozen in a lost time of lightness and freedom. Lovely to see this in NYT today: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/w...
January 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Time and again I read scenarios around the famous Jabal Qasyun in my Arabic textbooks, one of Damascus’s most beautiful landmarks, in 2012 as war was raging. My language exercises were frozen in a lost time of lightness and freedom. Lovely to see this in NYT today: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/w...
Listening to the Today programme without Mishal Husain presenting it anymore
December 18, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Listening to the Today programme without Mishal Husain presenting it anymore
An update from on the ground in Gaza by my brave friend who I am proud to know, UN lawyer Philippa Greer
November 17, 2024 at 8:17 AM
An update from on the ground in Gaza by my brave friend who I am proud to know, UN lawyer Philippa Greer
Maybe I was being too generous
November 15, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Maybe I was being too generous
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE THE SECRETARY OF STATE?
November 13, 2024 at 4:35 PM
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE THE SECRETARY OF STATE?
Give me strength 😖
November 13, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Give me strength 😖
Good morning Bluesky from a gorgeous Oxfordshire autumnal morning 🍁🍂
November 13, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Good morning Bluesky from a gorgeous Oxfordshire autumnal morning 🍁🍂
Some good news: the @pressfreedom.bsky.social announced a journalist from Togo has been freed from unjust detention after advocating for his release. Apollinaire, the publishing director of La Dépêche, was unjustly detained after his publication questioned the findings of a high profile murder trial
November 12, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Some good news: the @pressfreedom.bsky.social announced a journalist from Togo has been freed from unjust detention after advocating for his release. Apollinaire, the publishing director of La Dépêche, was unjustly detained after his publication questioned the findings of a high profile murder trial
When you fire all your engineers because you don’t think you need them:
July 1, 2023 at 2:43 PM
When you fire all your engineers because you don’t think you need them: