JamesHobson
@jameshobson.bsky.social
History, politics, animal welfare and vegetarianism. Liverpool FC and the European Union.
Author of eight books on radical Britain 1600-1900
Labour Party Member, just about.
Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
Author of eight books on radical Britain 1600-1900
Labour Party Member, just about.
Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
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I don't need a poppy, Flag or 'royal' for me to respect those that gave everything in past wars.
We are the only European country that obsessively looks back to past wars and we were not occupied.
Can we please look to the future a bit more.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
We are the only European country that obsessively looks back to past wars and we were not occupied.
Can we please look to the future a bit more.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Prince George joins the King and Princess of Wales at Festival of Remembrance
The event took place at the Royal Albert Hall
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November 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I don't need a poppy, Flag or 'royal' for me to respect those that gave everything in past wars.
We are the only European country that obsessively looks back to past wars and we were not occupied.
Can we please look to the future a bit more.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
We are the only European country that obsessively looks back to past wars and we were not occupied.
Can we please look to the future a bit more.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Possum looked into the mirror and scared itself.
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Possum looked into the mirror and scared itself.
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For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.
November 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.
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This investigation from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social is absolutely staggering. It is very common in Sheffield (I live in this bit) to have a leasehold, often with hundreds of years left on and pennies in ground rent. This is extortion pure and simple. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
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November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This investigation from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social is absolutely staggering. It is very common in Sheffield (I live in this bit) to have a leasehold, often with hundreds of years left on and pennies in ground rent. This is extortion pure and simple. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
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Surely the way to deal with people like Matt Goodwin is to declare them not British.And when they say that actually they were born here just tell them that sorry it takes more than a piece of paper.
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Surely the way to deal with people like Matt Goodwin is to declare them not British.And when they say that actually they were born here just tell them that sorry it takes more than a piece of paper.
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🙏 Big big thank you to everyone who bought a copy of my book about WW2 London Blitz ambulance driver and diarist June Spencer. This morning I sent all the revenue from sales in Sept and Oct to medical charities working in Gaza and Ukraine
November 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🙏 Big big thank you to everyone who bought a copy of my book about WW2 London Blitz ambulance driver and diarist June Spencer. This morning I sent all the revenue from sales in Sept and Oct to medical charities working in Gaza and Ukraine
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Translated from the Express: "Our remaining readers must be given special treatment in the budget, while all non-OAP welfare should be cut."
October 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Translated from the Express: "Our remaining readers must be given special treatment in the budget, while all non-OAP welfare should be cut."
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#OnThisDay in London riotous history, 1795: king George III attacked by angry crowds protesting war against France and poverty, and demanding political reform
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Today in London riotous history, 1795: king George III attacked by angry crowds.
As related in our previous post, the reforming London Corresponding Society (LCS) held a rally in Copenhagen Fields, Islington, on October 26, 1795, called to protest against the widespread hunger …
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October 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
#OnThisDay in London riotous history, 1795: king George III attacked by angry crowds protesting war against France and poverty, and demanding political reform
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This is my feeling too.
I'll never be able to vote for a party that doesn't want the UK in NATO and I'm not alone. By a long way.
The Greens have work to do.
I love what I'm hearing but this is a non negotiable for me and millions like me.
The Greens have work to do.
I love what I'm hearing but this is a non negotiable for me and millions like me.
October 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is my feeling too.
One of the first things I remembered.59 years ago
October 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
One of the first things I remembered.59 years ago
211 years ago
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Killed by beer – the Meux brewery flood of 1814
At about 5.30 pm on Monday October 17th 1814, a clerk inspected the huge vat of Porter- a strong black beer- at Meux’s Brewery, near the Tottenham Court Road in London. A large iron hoop supporting…
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October 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
211 years ago
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The Cabernet in the coal mine.
October 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The Cabernet in the coal mine.
My new local
Pub Research Trip - A wander around Market Harborough, Friday 17.10.
All welcome, meeting in the Cherry Tree around 1200.
All welcome, meeting in the Cherry Tree around 1200.
October 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My new local
Margaret Thatcher is *not* 100 today.
October 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Margaret Thatcher is *not* 100 today.
Dead people cannot be congratulated on their birthday.
Does that make me a bad person?
Does that make me a bad person?
October 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Dead people cannot be congratulated on their birthday.
Does that make me a bad person?
Does that make me a bad person?
If you are happy with these British citizens displaying their flag ( its not the wrong way round- hold on there, keyboard pedants-its meant to be viewed from outside) then I agree with you.
If you like flags normally but can't be doing with this, then you a bigot or racist.
If you like flags normally but can't be doing with this, then you a bigot or racist.
October 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If you are happy with these British citizens displaying their flag ( its not the wrong way round- hold on there, keyboard pedants-its meant to be viewed from outside) then I agree with you.
If you like flags normally but can't be doing with this, then you a bigot or racist.
If you like flags normally but can't be doing with this, then you a bigot or racist.
I voted for Lucy Powell in the end. Starmer needs to feel less rather than more comfortable.
October 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I voted for Lucy Powell in the end. Starmer needs to feel less rather than more comfortable.
What's going wrong with Lewis Goodall?
October 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
What's going wrong with Lewis Goodall?
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Badenoch’s speech is nothing but handouts for people who have plenty.
They haven’t reflected on defeat at all.
Same old Tories.
They haven’t reflected on defeat at all.
Same old Tories.
October 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Badenoch’s speech is nothing but handouts for people who have plenty.
They haven’t reflected on defeat at all.
Same old Tories.
They haven’t reflected on defeat at all.
Same old Tories.
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They told the public that “wasteful bureaucrats” were the problem, that “efficiency” was the cure, and that Farage-style common sense would restore pride and solvency. They sold a dream of managerial populism, ruthless, dynamic, patriotic, and now face the dull reality.. Read More 👇
Refuk in Kent County Council: Shop Window of Delusion
Local Refuk
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October 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
They told the public that “wasteful bureaucrats” were the problem, that “efficiency” was the cure, and that Farage-style common sense would restore pride and solvency. They sold a dream of managerial populism, ruthless, dynamic, patriotic, and now face the dull reality.. Read More 👇
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I don't think Robert Jenrick realises that the people clapping along to him when he talks about Handsworth would clap along if he said the same about Stamford Hill. I'd hope that would give him pause for thought.
October 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I don't think Robert Jenrick realises that the people clapping along to him when he talks about Handsworth would clap along if he said the same about Stamford Hill. I'd hope that would give him pause for thought.
Just like Kent.. a county I am moving from next week to... Leicestershire
Reform council leader: Whatever they charge, it will be a hundred times to the benefit of the authority.
Liberal England replies: That gurgling sound you can hear is public money disappearing down the drain.
Liberal England replies: That gurgling sound you can hear is public money disappearing down the drain.
Reform In Leicestershire still think they can find millions of pounds of wasteful council spending
Around the country, councils run by Reform UK are beginning to come to terms with the fact that there is little wasteful spending left to cu...
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October 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Just like Kent.. a county I am moving from next week to... Leicestershire
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It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
It doesn't matter what Mel Stride says
I canvassed the streets of Ramsgate and Broadstairs for a year before the election in order to say this with confidence.
I canvassed the streets of Ramsgate and Broadstairs for a year before the election in order to say this with confidence.
October 6, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It doesn't matter what Mel Stride says
I canvassed the streets of Ramsgate and Broadstairs for a year before the election in order to say this with confidence.
I canvassed the streets of Ramsgate and Broadstairs for a year before the election in order to say this with confidence.
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Much as one despises their current emanation, this is a true thought.
~ The Tories Are Not Okay - And We Urgently Need Them to Be ~
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-tories-are-not-okay-and-we-urgently
~ The Tories Are Not Okay - And We Urgently Need Them to Be ~
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-tories-are-not-okay-and-we-urgently
The Tories Are Not Okay - And We Urgently Need Them to Be
The Conservatives' Spectacular Collapse Into Grievance and Grandstanding Isn't Just Their Problem - It's Ours Too, Whether We Vote For Them Or Not
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Much as one despises their current emanation, this is a true thought.
~ The Tories Are Not Okay - And We Urgently Need Them to Be ~
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-tories-are-not-okay-and-we-urgently
~ The Tories Are Not Okay - And We Urgently Need Them to Be ~
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-tories-are-not-okay-and-we-urgently