Andrew Hobbs
@drewhobbs.bsky.social
Historian of the provincial press,looking at how 19C local papers and 20C county magazines express our sense of place. Despairing socialist. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=20iBowIAAAAJ
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This is such an incredible piece, with soooo many amazing links and so much info that I didn’t even know (e.g. Pinochet being involved in drug-running!): prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
prospect.org
January 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
This is such an incredible piece, with soooo many amazing links and so much info that I didn’t even know (e.g. Pinochet being involved in drug-running!): prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
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Revenue generated by subscribers fully funded journalism at the Irish Times for the first time last year www.linkedin.com/pulse/2025-w...
January 5, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Revenue generated by subscribers fully funded journalism at the Irish Times for the first time last year www.linkedin.com/pulse/2025-w...
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Nobody could have predicted this.
January 4, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Nobody could have predicted this.
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Knostrop Cut, Leeds, Sunday Night https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-atkinson-grimshaw/knostrop-cut-leeds-sunday-night-1893
January 1, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Knostrop Cut, Leeds, Sunday Night https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-atkinson-grimshaw/knostrop-cut-leeds-sunday-night-1893
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January 3, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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When you're waiting for a focus group to show you what to think...
BBC News - Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law
The PM told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that he won't
www.bbc.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 2:58 AM
When you're waiting for a focus group to show you what to think...
BBC News - Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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ONE month ago: Trump pardons former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced to 45 years last year for helping move tons of cocaine into the U.S.
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Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has been released from prison after President Trump pardoned his cocaine trafficking conviction.
www.foxnews.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:52 AM
ONE month ago: Trump pardons former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced to 45 years last year for helping move tons of cocaine into the U.S.
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The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion.
This is the aftermath in one area
This is the aftermath in one area
January 4, 2026 at 3:56 AM
The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion.
This is the aftermath in one area
This is the aftermath in one area
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Happy Birthday to Bernard Sumner, singer, songwriter, record producer and founding member of the bands Joy Division and New Order, born on this day in 1956, Broughton, Lancashire
📸 Sophie Bramly
#punkrock #postpunk #bernardsumner #joydivision #neworder #history #otd
📸 Sophie Bramly
#punkrock #postpunk #bernardsumner #joydivision #neworder #history #otd
January 4, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Happy Birthday to Bernard Sumner, singer, songwriter, record producer and founding member of the bands Joy Division and New Order, born on this day in 1956, Broughton, Lancashire
📸 Sophie Bramly
#punkrock #postpunk #bernardsumner #joydivision #neworder #history #otd
📸 Sophie Bramly
#punkrock #postpunk #bernardsumner #joydivision #neworder #history #otd
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#OTD in 1901, CLR James was born, a Trinidadian historian and Trotskyist activist whose
writings shaped the fundamentals of Pan-Africanism, and bridged a new connection between
Marxism and Black politics, inspired by his time spent in the Lancashire town of Nelson.
writings shaped the fundamentals of Pan-Africanism, and bridged a new connection between
Marxism and Black politics, inspired by his time spent in the Lancashire town of Nelson.
January 4, 2026 at 8:01 AM
#OTD in 1901, CLR James was born, a Trinidadian historian and Trotskyist activist whose
writings shaped the fundamentals of Pan-Africanism, and bridged a new connection between
Marxism and Black politics, inspired by his time spent in the Lancashire town of Nelson.
writings shaped the fundamentals of Pan-Africanism, and bridged a new connection between
Marxism and Black politics, inspired by his time spent in the Lancashire town of Nelson.
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Latest from me in The Guardian: about how Farage, Jenrick etc won't be beaten until their delusional version of the UK's past is exposed. And why this should happen in the culture (a la Rock Against Racism) rather than through, say, Keir Starmer speeches www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In 2026, remember this: Britain is much better than it was in so many ways. Don’t swallow the right’s lies | John Harris
Populists rewrite the history of this nation because they were complicit in much of its ugliness. The progressive fightback must start now, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Latest from me in The Guardian: about how Farage, Jenrick etc won't be beaten until their delusional version of the UK's past is exposed. And why this should happen in the culture (a la Rock Against Racism) rather than through, say, Keir Starmer speeches www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When #Venezuela’s President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM
www.gregpalast.com/when-venezue...
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When Venezuela's President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM
It was 2002 when Delcy Rodriguez, sworn in today as President of Venezuela, came to my apartment in London well after midnight to tell me, a BBC television reporter, that the US was planning to kidnap...
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January 4, 2026 at 12:56 AM
When #Venezuela’s President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM
www.gregpalast.com/when-venezue...
www.gregpalast.com/when-venezue...
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It’s a great time to be alive if you’re a piece of shit who hates consequences
January 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
It’s a great time to be alive if you’re a piece of shit who hates consequences
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NYC! Join us for an archival workshop and discussion on the topic of 1970s "counter professional" networks, activism and publishing hosted at Interference Archive: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...
December 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
NYC! Join us for an archival workshop and discussion on the topic of 1970s "counter professional" networks, activism and publishing hosted at Interference Archive: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...
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2/ ~old jk is best jk~
January 3, 2026 at 10:12 AM
2/ ~old jk is best jk~
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"Welcome to Decline" -- still one of my favourite graphs from last year. In the late 1970s, Britain's economic fate very clearly split in two. How much you blame Thatcher will depend on your politics, but her leadership is useful to understand the timing. tomforth.co.uk/welcometodec...
January 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM
"Welcome to Decline" -- still one of my favourite graphs from last year. In the late 1970s, Britain's economic fate very clearly split in two. How much you blame Thatcher will depend on your politics, but her leadership is useful to understand the timing. tomforth.co.uk/welcometodec...
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Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
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Fish At Pretty Good Place In Its Life Right Now https://theonion.com/fish-at-pretty-good-place-in-its-life-right-now-1819573188/
January 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Fish At Pretty Good Place In Its Life Right Now https://theonion.com/fish-at-pretty-good-place-in-its-life-right-now-1819573188/
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This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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So thrilled to be holding Kris Bluemel's absolutely exquisite Enchanted Wood and to be sharing it at MLA in Toronto next week!
December 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
So thrilled to be holding Kris Bluemel's absolutely exquisite Enchanted Wood and to be sharing it at MLA in Toronto next week!
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British citizens and UK-based folks: please consider signing and sharing this petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
#RefugeesWelcome
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
#RefugeesWelcome
Petition: Keep the 5-Year ILR route for refugees. Do not extend it to 10 or 20 years
We call on the UK Government to preserve the current 5-year route (ILR) for refugees and people with humanitarian protection.
petition.parliament.uk
December 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
British citizens and UK-based folks: please consider signing and sharing this petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
#RefugeesWelcome
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
#RefugeesWelcome
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Yesterday, Reuters unveiled a report in which they discovered that Israel re-purposed armored personnel carriers into truck bombs, loading them with up to 3 tons of explosives and then using them to destroy residential buildings in Gaza.
How Israel’s multi-ton truck bombs ripped through Gaza City
In the weeks before the ceasefire, Israel deployed a new weapon: Armoured Personnel Carriers repurposed as explosive-laden bombs.
www.reuters.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Yesterday, Reuters unveiled a report in which they discovered that Israel re-purposed armored personnel carriers into truck bombs, loading them with up to 3 tons of explosives and then using them to destroy residential buildings in Gaza.
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New end of the year update to At the Circulating Library: just passed 26,000 titles (third of the way through English Catalogue volume 4), plus hundreds of new author biographies. Enjoy!
December 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
New end of the year update to At the Circulating Library: just passed 26,000 titles (third of the way through English Catalogue volume 4), plus hundreds of new author biographies. Enjoy!
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The British are so far behind the curve.
There must be atonement for the crime of enslavement for reconciliation between victimised peoples and the beneficiaries of enrichment. It is a necessary precondition for mending the mind of a common humanity.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
There must be atonement for the crime of enslavement for reconciliation between victimised peoples and the beneficiaries of enrichment. It is a necessary precondition for mending the mind of a common humanity.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
In 2025 reparations became central to UK ties with the Caribbean and Africa – so how do we move forward? | Kenneth Mohammed
This year was a pivotal one, in which the issue of restorative justice began to frame the UK’s post-imperial relationship with the global south
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The British are so far behind the curve.
There must be atonement for the crime of enslavement for reconciliation between victimised peoples and the beneficiaries of enrichment. It is a necessary precondition for mending the mind of a common humanity.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
There must be atonement for the crime of enslavement for reconciliation between victimised peoples and the beneficiaries of enrichment. It is a necessary precondition for mending the mind of a common humanity.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...