Hugh Jackson
@hugeaction.bsky.social
'Idiot of twitter', occasional Turkish speaker. kidney Tx, love: fine beer & cheap wine; cycling; Scandinavia; urbanism + planning; old rally cars, books & silly jokes
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This is Keir Starmer’s moment to stand up for Britain and call on Trump to drop his ludicrous lawsuit against the BBC.
The Prime Minister has spent months cosying up to Trump. If he can’t stop him from attacking one of our most precious institutions, what was it all for?
The Prime Minister has spent months cosying up to Trump. If he can’t stop him from attacking one of our most precious institutions, what was it all for?
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This is Keir Starmer’s moment to stand up for Britain and call on Trump to drop his ludicrous lawsuit against the BBC.
The Prime Minister has spent months cosying up to Trump. If he can’t stop him from attacking one of our most precious institutions, what was it all for?
The Prime Minister has spent months cosying up to Trump. If he can’t stop him from attacking one of our most precious institutions, what was it all for?
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Funny that all Labour and Tories have achieved during years of pandering to the right is losing votes and boosting Farage and co — while the only parties pushing back, like the Lib Dems and Greens, are hitting record highs.
Any lessons to learn from that? 🤔
Any lessons to learn from that? 🤔
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Funny that all Labour and Tories have achieved during years of pandering to the right is losing votes and boosting Farage and co — while the only parties pushing back, like the Lib Dems and Greens, are hitting record highs.
Any lessons to learn from that? 🤔
Any lessons to learn from that? 🤔
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"It's not asylum seekers rampaging outside hotels, starting fires, it's the far-right
It's not asylum seekers trying to take my rights away, it's the far-right.
It's not asylum seekers racially abusing people on the streets, it's the far-right"
via Harry Eccles
It's not asylum seekers trying to take my rights away, it's the far-right.
It's not asylum seekers racially abusing people on the streets, it's the far-right"
via Harry Eccles
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"It's not asylum seekers rampaging outside hotels, starting fires, it's the far-right
It's not asylum seekers trying to take my rights away, it's the far-right.
It's not asylum seekers racially abusing people on the streets, it's the far-right"
via Harry Eccles
It's not asylum seekers trying to take my rights away, it's the far-right.
It's not asylum seekers racially abusing people on the streets, it's the far-right"
via Harry Eccles
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This is the Home Secretary's video about "why"
A government which had the principle of *defusing* the salience by getting a grip with control, while maintaining compassion, would not use the rhetorical devices here to stoke up the salience of the issue they hope to defuse
x.com/ShabanaMahmo...
A government which had the principle of *defusing* the salience by getting a grip with control, while maintaining compassion, would not use the rhetorical devices here to stoke up the salience of the issue they hope to defuse
x.com/ShabanaMahmo...
Shabana Mahmood MP on X: "On Monday, I will announce the most significant changes to our asylum system in modern times 👇 https://t.co/eXAVYdD4kD" / X
On Monday, I will announce the most significant changes to our asylum system in modern times 👇 https://t.co/eXAVYdD4kD
x.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This is the Home Secretary's video about "why"
A government which had the principle of *defusing* the salience by getting a grip with control, while maintaining compassion, would not use the rhetorical devices here to stoke up the salience of the issue they hope to defuse
x.com/ShabanaMahmo...
A government which had the principle of *defusing* the salience by getting a grip with control, while maintaining compassion, would not use the rhetorical devices here to stoke up the salience of the issue they hope to defuse
x.com/ShabanaMahmo...
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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So many social media patriots! Delighting in the hope that the president of a foreign nation might destroy a British institution that is envied around the world! 🇬🇧
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
So many social media patriots! Delighting in the hope that the president of a foreign nation might destroy a British institution that is envied around the world! 🇬🇧
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Important time. This was a few weeks after the Skripal attack when May called out Putin, and Johnson went scuttling off without his security detail to meet Putin confidante* Alexander Lebedev in Umbria and plotted with Temerko to topple May
* by then he was aiding Putin’s puppet regime in Crimea
* by then he was aiding Putin’s puppet regime in Crimea
Just as he was advising Epstein, Bannon was advising Johnson on how to topple May “Today we are going to see if Boris Johnson tries to overthrow the British government. He’s going to give a speech in the Commons.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...
Video reveals Steve Bannon links to Boris Johnson
Far-right activist claimed he helped with Boris Johnson’s resignation speech as foreign secretary
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Important time. This was a few weeks after the Skripal attack when May called out Putin, and Johnson went scuttling off without his security detail to meet Putin confidante* Alexander Lebedev in Umbria and plotted with Temerko to topple May
* by then he was aiding Putin’s puppet regime in Crimea
* by then he was aiding Putin’s puppet regime in Crimea
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It's never illegal to claim asylum.
November 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It's never illegal to claim asylum.
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And again, this proposed policy is *specifically* about refugees. It's not about failed asylum seekers. It's not about economic migrants. It's about refugees.
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
And again, this proposed policy is *specifically* about refugees. It's not about failed asylum seekers. It's not about economic migrants. It's about refugees.
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Even this pr*ck…. 🙄
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Even this pr*ck…. 🙄
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EXCL:
Final decision on restoring the Palace of Westminster will be delayed until 2030s
MPs were expected to vote by the end of 2025 on a way forward for fixing the crumbling parliament, but that now won't happen
Story w/@danbloom1.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/fina...
Final decision on restoring the Palace of Westminster will be delayed until 2030s
MPs were expected to vote by the end of 2025 on a way forward for fixing the crumbling parliament, but that now won't happen
Story w/@danbloom1.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/fina...
Final decision on fate of crumbling UK parliament delayed to 2030s
It’s a fire-hazard that’s prone to tumbling masonry — but fear of a public backlash is again delaying repairs to the world famous building.
www.politico.eu
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
EXCL:
Final decision on restoring the Palace of Westminster will be delayed until 2030s
MPs were expected to vote by the end of 2025 on a way forward for fixing the crumbling parliament, but that now won't happen
Story w/@danbloom1.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/fina...
Final decision on restoring the Palace of Westminster will be delayed until 2030s
MPs were expected to vote by the end of 2025 on a way forward for fixing the crumbling parliament, but that now won't happen
Story w/@danbloom1.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/fina...
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Good politics requires a healthy public sphere, in which at least the most egregiously bad ideas and bad actors are subject to sufficient scrutiny that they are weeded out. Which is what we don’t have. Instead, we have a system which often selects for rather than against charlatans and incompetents.
Chris Dillow explains our incompetent political culture
When the centenary of Margaret Thatcher's birth was marked last month, the consensus view on Bluesky was that she had made everything in Bri...
liberalengland.blogspot.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Good politics requires a healthy public sphere, in which at least the most egregiously bad ideas and bad actors are subject to sufficient scrutiny that they are weeded out. Which is what we don’t have. Instead, we have a system which often selects for rather than against charlatans and incompetents.
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What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".
November 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".
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Trying to imagine what this policy would have meant for my grandfather and his friends, facing the constant uncertainty of when and whether they would have been deported, after fighting to save this country from the Nazis
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Trying to imagine what this policy would have meant for my grandfather and his friends, facing the constant uncertainty of when and whether they would have been deported, after fighting to save this country from the Nazis
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Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
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A fantastic opportunity to join Shropshire Council at a pivotal time in an key role!
Are you someone ready to turn plans into action?
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A fantastic opportunity to join Shropshire Council at a pivotal time in an key role!
Are you someone ready to turn plans into action?
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November 15, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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SERVICE DIRECTOR - PLACEMAKING
A fantastic opportunity to join Shropshire Council at a pivotal time in an key role!
Are you someone ready to turn plans into action?
careers.shropshire.gov.uk/vacancy/serv...
SERVICE DIRECTOR - PLACEMAKING
A fantastic opportunity to join Shropshire Council at a pivotal time in an key role!
Are you someone ready to turn plans into action?
careers.shropshire.gov.uk/vacancy/serv...
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If that is the assumption, from what does it arise? Their status as refugee? The fact of their having arrived from elsewhere?
November 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If that is the assumption, from what does it arise? Their status as refugee? The fact of their having arrived from elsewhere?
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Is the assumption that their continued presence in the UK is necessarily harmful?
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Is the assumption that their continued presence in the UK is necessarily harmful?
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If we accept someone is a genuine refugee and they build a life here, perhaps have children born here, what is the advantage to us of expelling them once we’ve persuaded ourselves that their country of origin is safe?
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
If we accept someone is a genuine refugee and they build a life here, perhaps have children born here, what is the advantage to us of expelling them once we’ve persuaded ourselves that their country of origin is safe?
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Sickening. I speculate that the calculation is that this encourages refugees to try their luck in another country, so we shift the 'burden' elsewhere; and it feeds into the Reform stereotype that there is no such thing as a 'real refugee'.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Sickening. I speculate that the calculation is that this encourages refugees to try their luck in another country, so we shift the 'burden' elsewhere; and it feeds into the Reform stereotype that there is no such thing as a 'real refugee'.
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George Holliday, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, 1970s, photo by Graham Smith.
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
George Holliday, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, 1970s, photo by Graham Smith.
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Full-on, unapologetic racism, not dog whistle but bloody foghorn, is now mainstream on the right.
November 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Full-on, unapologetic racism, not dog whistle but bloody foghorn, is now mainstream on the right.