Sally Richards
@sallyrichards4.bsky.social
Exploring spirituality and ageing, Russian language and art. Kindness and truth matter and so does social care reform.
The problem of our overcrowded prisons will never be resolved until we ask different questions. The majority of adults in our prisons were first criminalised as teenagers. So what about tackling the school to prison pipeline & thinking about how we break the cycle of reoffending?
The French navy described it as a “small-arms firing exercise” Which seems a bit rude about Chris Philp's biceps
The manifesto we’ve been waiting for. #VoteBinface
Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · last wk.Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
Are you aged between 16 and 25? Do you love reading? Could you read all the books on the Booker or International Booker Longlist and suggest which would be enjoyed by school pupils across the UK? If so, get in touch! #SchoolsLaureate
Important point. If people are not aware of a benefit, they don’t vote to defend it.
@bobhudson.bsky.social@bobhudson.bsky.social · 2w agoPeople hugely underestimate the extent to which they are beneficiaries of state support - and older people are the worst. Very good analysis by @peterkellner.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."
At last!
Anneliese Dodds MP@anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social · 3w agoI am so pleased that after many months of pushing, local residents will have a new Post Office in Headington! Here are the details: 📆 12th September at 1pm 📍 12 Windmill Road, Headington, OX3 7BX Fill in your views on the new facility here: www.postofficeviews.co.uk/national-con...
Farage Headlines Crypto-Backed Festival Amid His Own Crypto Scandal
Farage Headlines Crypto-Backed Festival Amid His Own Crypto Scandal
Nigel Farage is taking a break from the scandal about his ties to crypto investors by headlining a rightwing festival backed by crypto investors.
novaramedia.com
Very good that our MP @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social is advocating for action. Bit worried how much more dodgy money and crypto-currency will be pumped into UK politics over the summer. Hope the Representation of the People Bill will be strengthened during the delay.
Anneliese Dodds MP@anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social · 3w agoICYMI, consideration of the Representation of the People Bill has now been pushed back until after the summer. Until then, I’ll keep advocating for action to tackle the arms race in political funding. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️
Britain’s politics has changed, but our voting system hasn’t. I’m asking my MP to support an independent National Commission on Electoral Reform so we can build a voting system fit for modern Britain. Join me. action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/194914/...
Ask your MP to support electoral reform
It only takes 30 seconds
action.electoral-reform.org.uk
How do you resign from a job you weren't actually doing? Asking for a friend
My friend Helen has chosen such an important cause for her fundraiser. So many people are affected by this horrid condition. Please do support her effort too. www.justgiving.com/page/helen-b...
Helen's fundraiser for Parkinson’s UK
Help Helen barker raise money to support Parkinson’s UK
justgiving.com
Another damaged panel of John Hutton’s important glass art at @coventrycathedral.bsky.social - one was broken by a vandal a couple of years ago - this recent one affecting the Angel Gabriel was a rigging accident. Such a great building, such a shame to see.
A very good statement expressing how Oxford citizens are feeling. 🙏
Anneliese Dodds MP@anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy comment on the Oxford Union Society's behaviour - and our city's response to it 👇
Men who commit this kind of violence with this kind of rhetoric are not protecting women and girls; they are trying to legislate which men have the right to harm women and girls (and of course it's men like them and not those other men).
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 2mo ago“More than 700 women have been murdered in the UK since 2020, but we didn’t see those claiming that their actions are about ‘protecting women and girls’ riot over those, because the majority of perpetrators were white.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-violence...
Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage and the ‘Pure Cold Rage’ Used to Trigger a Racist Pogrom in Belfast Mainstream politicians have stood by as the global far-right campaigns for anti-migrant violence on our streets. Now we're suffering the consequences, argues Adam Bienkov
Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage and the ‘Pure Cold Rage’ Used to Trigger a Racist Pogrom in Belfast
Mainstream politicians have stood by as the global far-right campaigns for anti-migrant violence on our streets. Now we're suffering the consequences, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
Today June 10th is Age Without Limits Day. Plenty to think about here! www.agewithoutlimits.org
We need to change the way we think about ageing | Age without limits
The Age Without Limits campaign aims to change the way we all think about ageing and support a growing movement of people and organisations working to make society more age-inclusive.
agewithoutlimits.org
No one should be making profits from vulnerable children. Yet £1 out of every £5 paid to private providers of children’s social care is taken out in profit. Time to end this scam! Add your name now. weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-p...
End profit in children’s social care
£1 out of every £5 paid to private providers of children’s social care is taken out in profit.
weownit.org.uk
Russian economy and society have been reorganized around war. There are now powerful domestic incentives that make ending the war difficult and even dangerous for Russia’s president. Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social and myself in Foreign Affairs (open access)
The Inertia of Russia’s War
Why Putin can’t end the conflict.
foreignaffairs.com