Doc Sarah Lonsdale
Mostly books, history & nature. Politics, 48%. Writer, Lecturer, History of journalism City University, London. New book, Wildly Different, about women and the wild is out in the wild!
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
Wrestling another one
- They knew enough at the time to make a better decision but didn't. The fact is that nobody in the Labour government hierarchy cared enough about the women and girls who were trafficked and raped. It's called #Patriarchy
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- At times like this, for all its faults, in the UK, we have to thank the BBC's founding principles...and also the Guardian's Scott Trust, which keeps the billionaires away.
- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleThis is the pattern. Purchase/Take Over a media source that has informed the public. Then dismantle them to the lowest form: 1. Twitter 2. Meta 3. Washington Post 4. CBS-60 Minutes/News 5. Public Broadcasting 6. Tik Tok We are up to our necks in state run media.
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- This sounds familiar...
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- The irony is that the Brits involved with Epstein...Andrew M-B, Mandelson and by infection, Starmer probably, will - rightly- lose jobs, status and position and at least one will go to prison. Meanwhile in the States...everyone seems to be surviving. #USJustice www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleI find it easy not to read the WaPo. Leaving me more time to read books. 🦉
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- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleHot Take 2: if this is Mandelson's position, there is no reason for him not to issue a statement to this effect. If he has not issued a statement to this effect, the BBC's "understanding" of his actual position may be inaccurate. Stop letting people play this game.
- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleWhat a story! "After the call, he passed out from exhaustion" - no shit! Give that lad a medal! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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- I'm a big fan of Nicola Chester, so I'm thrilled about joining her in conversation at the Shaftesbury Book Festival on 22 March. This is the first stop in my spring book tour to mark the paperback launch of both Wildly Different and Rebel Women Between the Wars... @manchesterup.bsky.social
- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleDefinitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
- It just gets worse and worse. Prosecute Mandelson and maybe more indictments will follow.
- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleIncredible scenes as we slide from January into February and realise that yet again it's Monday night (and it's 5pm) so it MUST be time for Episode 4 of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?' We are NOT making this up. IT REALLY IS THIS LIGHT 💡
- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleIt's #WorldWetlandsDay today! While considering what we can all do to protect these vulnerable ecosystems, we're sharing some botanical illustrations of marsh flowers from 'English Botany', a collaborative work between James Sowerby and Sir James Edward Smith.
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- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleA quick reminder of what #BigFebruary is about… Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring. This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.
- At least February is short. And then there's these little fellas.
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- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleSophie Gilbert in The Atlantic. “Melania shows off her custom-made inauguration gown, stark white with black ribbons overlaying it, a dress that now looks unavoidably like the redacted Epstein files.”
- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleStill thinking LLM are smart? "Last spring, security experts raised concerns that malign actors, including Russian propaganda networks, were churning out massive volumes of disinformation in an effort to seed AI models with lies, a process called “LLM grooming”. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- I was naive enough to scoff at the idea that there was a shady group of powerful, rich and corrupt men engaged in undermining legitimate democracies and living immoral, criminal and hedonistic lives far removed from the reality of most people. I was clearly wrong. I hate that such people exist.
- I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly www.ft.com/content/608a...
- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleCall for Papers: The Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2026 celebrates 100 years of The Women’s Library and a century of women’s history. Details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHN2026 #CFP Image LSE Flickr: Meeting of WSPU leaders, c.1906.
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- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleThe arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
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- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleA truly unacceptable assault on the First Amendment.
- So they're arresting journalists now. Straight out of the Goebbels playbook.
- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleIncredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleBIG SCOOP @heatmap.news: The Trump administration is now going after renewable energy projects on both public and private lands by indefinitely delaying water permits … on grounds that the projects might have bad “aesthetics” Yes, they’re hurting renewable energy projects by calling them ugly
- Reposted by Doc Sarah Lonsdale“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
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- I don't understand why, having seen the scenes in Minneapolis, anyone in the UK would vote for that kind of cruelty and chaos. Trump's ICE should spell the end of Reform here.
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- At least all the Tory Bond villains are now in the same party. Reform is the UK version of Trump's Board of Peace* www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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- Big thank you to whoever it was here (sorry, I don't remember), who recommended Elizabeth Taylor's A View of the Harbour. It's such a delight, witty and perceptive, and a marvellous antidote to the last novel I read which was devastating and brilliant in a totally different way. 1/3
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- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleThis week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape. Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason. But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇 jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
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- Morning! 7.33 am, 24/1, facing west
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- I've given up being outraged every day by Trump. Instead I'm delighting in the tiny flora that cling to moss-covered boulders
- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdaleNeguse: "This is theater. Republicans are trying to rewrite history. That's what this is ... it's an outrage that Republicans now sit here and have the audacity to try to rewrite history in front of the officers who sacrificed everything to protect them."
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- Meanwhile Ukraine is struggling to survive amidst freezing temperatures and power blackouts while the world plays court to the mad king
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- This will go down as one of the great speeches of the Trump-crisis era. He's comfortable with big ideas and with speaking truth unto power. I wish someone like Carney was leading the UK. Starmer is fundamentally decent but too afraid to inhabit the role of leader in these difficult times.
- When art imitates life
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- Just finished Juice by Tim Winton, and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a hard, heartbreaking read set in a hot, climate-changed world several generations hence. We're making life for our future humankind so hard. Winton's writing is superb, and at the end, there's the thinnest sliver of hope...
- Trump is uniquely awful. Europe now needs to stop appeasing that insatiable ego. Equally US Republicans really need to stand up now. They are all complicit in letting this hell hound off the leash
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- Reposted by Doc Sarah LonsdalePew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
