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bobhudson.bsky.social
@bobhudson.bsky.social
@bobhudson.bsky.social

Visiting Professor in Public Policy, Sunderland University. Sunderland AFC loyalist. Inveterate Remainer. Durham City, UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/bob-hudson

Education 33%
Public Health 26%

Eminent sociologist, John Goldthorpe, shares some wisdom with the Social Mobility Commission… www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Social mobility is still viewed through a rightwing lens | Letters
Letters: John Goldthorpe questions the rationale of the Social Mobility Commission’s latest report, while Chrispher Tanner says that Labour’s focus should be on equality rather than upwards mobility
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Brexiteer who took his company overseas to avoid paying tax is telling us how to be more inventive? No thanks #r4today.

What did you do on Xmas day? Here’s what Trump did. He’s seriously deranged.

I’m afraid he does…no humour, no joy, no love, just awash with hate.

Dear God!

And to you and yours David.

Thanks for following - very best Xmas wishes from here in Durham City.

Reposted by James Connelly

‘Reform UK isn’t undermined by bad apples, it’s actively harvesting them’…more brilliant writing from @bearlypolitics.co.ukopen.substack.com/pub/iratusur...
Reform UK Doesn’t Just Have a Racism Problem - It Has a Racism Infrastructure
Why focusing on Farage’s past misses how racism is incentivised, normalised and repeatedly rewarded in the present
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Land of Free Speech bans people it disagrees with…hypocrisy without limits in Trump’s America… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators
State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation
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Winter Fuel Allowance, disability benefits, now this…why is policy-making so flawed in Number 10?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ministers raise inheritance tax threshold for farms after backlash
U-turn lifts limit from £1m to £2.5m after protests and warnings that family farms were at risk
www.theguardian.com

Top diva Cher has a little word with Trump’s Press Secretary - wonderful!

Wise words from Neil Kinnock here - worth ten minutes of your day.
open.substack.com/pub/alanrusb...
Neil Kinnock: Labour is ‘100 per cent wrong’ on Reform
The former Labour leader on his party’s ‘mortally stupid’ response to Nigel Farage, and what Rachel Reeves must do next
open.substack.com

There’s a spectre at the Xmas feast.

Reposted by Jonathan Hopkin

The damage wreaked by Thatcher is incalculable. Here’s one of the worst examples 👇

Today Venezuela. Tomorrow Greenland. Trump thinks he’s entitled to do whatever the hell he wants…
Trump says he’s appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as “special envoy” to Greenland.

Landry has previously expressed support for Trump’s plan to invade Greenland.

Underfunded, kicked into the long grass, a care market devoid of strategy and oversight. Social care is a forty year political failure. Shameful neglect.

Maybe not, but it would be good for the country and put him on the right side of history.
Trump says he’s appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as “special envoy” to Greenland.

Landry has previously expressed support for Trump’s plan to invade Greenland.

This bandwagon is gathering real momentum - and not before time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Streeting urges closer trading ties with Europe to grow UK economy
Health secretary’s comments push further than government’s position on EU in wide-ranging interview
www.theguardian.com

Can’t grumble at that - well played lads. Sitting 5th in the Premiership at Xmas 👏👏👏

Very good, whoever came up with this 👏👏👏

The EU Referendum was a maelstrom of misinformation. Why is it excluded from the review of foreign interference in our elections? As ever @bylinetimes.bsky.social asks the right questions… bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...
Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
Keir Starmer's decision to exclude Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in our elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com

How many ‘rotten apples’ does it take until we realise the entire barrel is the problem? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform candidate who told Lammy to ‘go home’ questioned other MPs’ loyalty to UK
Exclusive: Labour says Nigel Farage’s party should swiftly condemn Chris Parry after further comments emerge
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This verdict on Starmer by @iandunt.bsky.social rings true. He would, for example, be an excellent Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary…

There’s a character problem in Reform - from the top down.

Reform in Durham - a voter speaks (no, it’s not me).

An obscure (and short-lived) 60s nightclub in Sunderland. Still amazed at how they got these acts booked. Those were the days!