Sarah Chapman
@sinurata.bsky.social
Loves: cats, politics, music, GOOD chocolate. Do not think that giving me chocolate kittens as a gift is in any way acceptable. especially if they are made of inferior chocolate. That's about it really.
It is, but 93% of the UK is not built on. 50% is farmed land. Only around 7% is actual houses....the reason we are so nature depleted is because of our horrible factory farming processes, grouse moors being shot clear of predators, etc etc.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It is, but 93% of the UK is not built on. 50% is farmed land. Only around 7% is actual houses....the reason we are so nature depleted is because of our horrible factory farming processes, grouse moors being shot clear of predators, etc etc.
Their sports coverage was really good.
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Their sports coverage was really good.
It's actually really good (largely!). I do get the concern around the natural environment, but the bill tries to address that.
November 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It's actually really good (largely!). I do get the concern around the natural environment, but the bill tries to address that.
echoing Powell is indicative - this was in fact as much a reference to the atomisation of society and the breakdown of communities, as a critique of immigration. These things are stated as facts when in actuality, the truth is far more nuanced.
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
echoing Powell is indicative - this was in fact as much a reference to the atomisation of society and the breakdown of communities, as a critique of immigration. These things are stated as facts when in actuality, the truth is far more nuanced.
I am someone who wants this Labour government to succeed. I am seriously unhappy with some of the things they have done and are doing. But I am just tired of the constant unfounded attacks on the government from the left as well as the right. Your reference to the "island of strangers" comment as
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I am someone who wants this Labour government to succeed. I am seriously unhappy with some of the things they have done and are doing. But I am just tired of the constant unfounded attacks on the government from the left as well as the right. Your reference to the "island of strangers" comment as
Yes, Milliband is holding the line well on this.
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Yes, Milliband is holding the line well on this.
Utter and complete nonsense. Don't you have ANY recollection what May did as Home Sec (the hostile environment) and as PM?
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Utter and complete nonsense. Don't you have ANY recollection what May did as Home Sec (the hostile environment) and as PM?
next election. As well as presiding over a recession. I lived through those years. I remember what it was like.
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
next election. As well as presiding over a recession. I lived through those years. I remember what it was like.
Major was fucking awful as PM. As well as the deliberately botched privatisation of British Rail, I remember him mostly for cutting half a billion from the affordable homes budget (I work in social housing so tend to notice those things) just so he could cut taxes in a doomed attempt to win the
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Major was fucking awful as PM. As well as the deliberately botched privatisation of British Rail, I remember him mostly for cutting half a billion from the affordable homes budget (I work in social housing so tend to notice those things) just so he could cut taxes in a doomed attempt to win the
Oh, come on. I stopped following Monbiot because I was just getting tired of seeing posts from him - from early on in the Parliament - just screaming hysterically about how the Labour government were the worst ever.
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Oh, come on. I stopped following Monbiot because I was just getting tired of seeing posts from him - from early on in the Parliament - just screaming hysterically about how the Labour government were the worst ever.
Absolutely. And tbh without the endless right wing media screaming disinformation about Net Zero, I bet support for it would be MUCH higher.
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Absolutely. And tbh without the endless right wing media screaming disinformation about Net Zero, I bet support for it would be MUCH higher.
I know someone who worked for him at the CPS and they thought he was a brilliant leader - specifically referred to how good he was at managing team morale. Of course CPS employees/civil servants are generally focussed on doing their jobs well and not frantically backstabbing like most MPs.
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I know someone who worked for him at the CPS and they thought he was a brilliant leader - specifically referred to how good he was at managing team morale. Of course CPS employees/civil servants are generally focussed on doing their jobs well and not frantically backstabbing like most MPs.
He is, still, an idiot. I've read plenty of posts form him that say something along those lines. Utterly hysterical denunciations of the government.
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
He is, still, an idiot. I've read plenty of posts form him that say something along those lines. Utterly hysterical denunciations of the government.
It gets very little publicity for the stuff it does do around culture - Starmer has talked quite a bit about things like music and creativity in schools, which are quite important.
November 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It gets very little publicity for the stuff it does do around culture - Starmer has talked quite a bit about things like music and creativity in schools, which are quite important.
I read Elizabeth Jane Howard's After Julius at around the same age and horrified a room full of adults by asking what a "cockteaser" was!
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I read Elizabeth Jane Howard's After Julius at around the same age and horrified a room full of adults by asking what a "cockteaser" was!
Child abuse has always taken place. It was endemic in care homes, orphanages, the church etc as well as in families. We just hear about it more now (and we actually believe children rather than ignoring or punishing them).
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Child abuse has always taken place. It was endemic in care homes, orphanages, the church etc as well as in families. We just hear about it more now (and we actually believe children rather than ignoring or punishing them).
It's a bit schizophrenic at its core, I always feel. But it is really important to remember that Blair's government took over a growing economy, this government has taken over a wrecked one.
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It's a bit schizophrenic at its core, I always feel. But it is really important to remember that Blair's government took over a growing economy, this government has taken over a wrecked one.
which has decimated our public sector, and Heath may look benign at this distance (he was certainly a more liberal Tory than we see today) but he oversaw internment without trial in Northern Ireland, attacked the trades unions and tried to deregulate the economy.
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
which has decimated our public sector, and Heath may look benign at this distance (he was certainly a more liberal Tory than we see today) but he oversaw internment without trial in Northern Ireland, attacked the trades unions and tried to deregulate the economy.
I think you really have no idea what the policies of any of those leaders were. Major seems to have rehabilitated himself now (largely because he is pro-EU) but under his government we saw British Rail privatised and the continuing defunding of public services. Cameron brought in austerity, FFS,
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I think you really have no idea what the policies of any of those leaders were. Major seems to have rehabilitated himself now (largely because he is pro-EU) but under his government we saw British Rail privatised and the continuing defunding of public services. Cameron brought in austerity, FFS,
Monbiot is a complete idiot these days, I'm afraid. Bernard Jenkin is very right wing so anyone to the left of Pinochet looks leftwing to him, but he is, oddly, not totally wrong here.
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Monbiot is a complete idiot these days, I'm afraid. Bernard Jenkin is very right wing so anyone to the left of Pinochet looks leftwing to him, but he is, oddly, not totally wrong here.
in public services.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
in public services.
a long way from Thatcher. They are unashamedly pro-union - the Employment Rights bill is genuinely good - and as someone who works in social housing, I am delighted to see so much money going to homes for social rent. I don't like Reeves very much but she is clearly someone who believes in investing
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
a long way from Thatcher. They are unashamedly pro-union - the Employment Rights bill is genuinely good - and as someone who works in social housing, I am delighted to see so much money going to homes for social rent. I don't like Reeves very much but she is clearly someone who believes in investing