Jeff Humm
@jeffhumm.bsky.social
Retired TEFL teacher, translator, teaching assistant.
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Hamas ✅
Hezbollah ✅
Zarah Sultana ❌
Hezbollah ✅
Zarah Sultana ❌
Jeremy Corbyn declines to call Zarah Sultana a friend as Your Party holds first conference
Jeremy Corbyn declines to call Zarah Sultana a friend as Your Party holds first conference
Jeremy Corbyn has declined to say his Your Party co-founder Zarah Sultana is a friend as supporters of the new grouping gather in Liverpool.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Hamas ✅
Hezbollah ✅
Zarah Sultana ❌
Hezbollah ✅
Zarah Sultana ❌
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Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
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PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Net migration drop ‘step in the right direction’ – Starmer
Net migration peaked at a record 944,000 in the year to March 2023 but has fallen sharply since then.
www.standard.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Literally!! The right wing papers Hate You Anyway!! Why not give them something to Really Hate You For, and know - at least - people will thank you in ten years time???
Serious howls of outrage in the media this morning at what is a relatively modest Budget from Labour that does nothing more than fiddle around the margins.
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Literally!! The right wing papers Hate You Anyway!! Why not give them something to Really Hate You For, and know - at least - people will thank you in ten years time???
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My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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And to think the Trump adminstration calls decorated veteran and astronaut Mark Kelly a traitor when Witkoff is saying this sort of shit.
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
And to think the Trump adminstration calls decorated veteran and astronaut Mark Kelly a traitor when Witkoff is saying this sort of shit.
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The birding highlight of the year so far was recording Dartford Warbler on our land. To mark this auspicious occasion I painted a musical icon …. Which Bryn the Welsh Terrier always sings along with
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The birding highlight of the year so far was recording Dartford Warbler on our land. To mark this auspicious occasion I painted a musical icon …. Which Bryn the Welsh Terrier always sings along with
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I remain opposed to a third runway at Heathrow because of the severe impact it would have on noise, pollution and climate targets.
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Britain: funding care for the elderly by taxing houses based on what they were worth in 1991, for reasons no one can now remember.
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Britain: funding care for the elderly by taxing houses based on what they were worth in 1991, for reasons no one can now remember.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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I've said since Trump picked on Mahmoud Khalil that he was picking his political martyrs poorly.
But this one...
But this one...
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I've said since Trump picked on Mahmoud Khalil that he was picking his political martyrs poorly.
But this one...
But this one...
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"Are these the ramblings of an old nostalgist, a paean to BBC Four itself, or a robust defence of good culture for all, à la Richard Hoggart or some such well-intentioned figure of yesteryear? The answer is yes to all"
Our @benfinlay74.bsky.social on Four👇
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Our @benfinlay74.bsky.social on Four👇
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Let us now praise: BBC Four
BEN FINLAY celebrates the BBC that used to be.
thelionandunicorn.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"Are these the ramblings of an old nostalgist, a paean to BBC Four itself, or a robust defence of good culture for all, à la Richard Hoggart or some such well-intentioned figure of yesteryear? The answer is yes to all"
Our @benfinlay74.bsky.social on Four👇
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Our @benfinlay74.bsky.social on Four👇
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The Polish prime minister reacts
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The Polish prime minister reacts
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🚨ALL OUT 13 DECEMBER 🚨
Stand up for migrants’ rights at the national demo in Shabana Mahmood’s constituency of Ladywood, Birmingham.
Resist the Mahmood reforms & the UK’s racist border regime.
#WeAreHereToStay
Stand up for migrants’ rights at the national demo in Shabana Mahmood’s constituency of Ladywood, Birmingham.
Resist the Mahmood reforms & the UK’s racist border regime.
#WeAreHereToStay
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🚨ALL OUT 13 DECEMBER 🚨
Stand up for migrants’ rights at the national demo in Shabana Mahmood’s constituency of Ladywood, Birmingham.
Resist the Mahmood reforms & the UK’s racist border regime.
#WeAreHereToStay
Stand up for migrants’ rights at the national demo in Shabana Mahmood’s constituency of Ladywood, Birmingham.
Resist the Mahmood reforms & the UK’s racist border regime.
#WeAreHereToStay
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This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).
Lucy White advocates a ban on "non-natives" from office, citing Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel.
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).
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Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
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Trump is conspiring with Putin to sell out Ukraine – and the security of the whole of Europe along with it.
The Prime Minister must convene the Coalition of the Willing to stop this betrayal in its tracks.
The Prime Minister must convene the Coalition of the Willing to stop this betrayal in its tracks.
New: I can confirm hasty US-Russia proposal being pushed to Ukrainians via Dmitriev-Witkoff to Umerov. It would amount to Ukraine’s capitulation, with people familiar saying it’s Kremlin’s maximalist demands.
-Ukraine army cut 1/2
-Give up certain weapons
-Give up Donbas
-Zelensky displeased
More tk
-Ukraine army cut 1/2
-Give up certain weapons
-Give up Donbas
-Zelensky displeased
More tk
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Trump is conspiring with Putin to sell out Ukraine – and the security of the whole of Europe along with it.
The Prime Minister must convene the Coalition of the Willing to stop this betrayal in its tracks.
The Prime Minister must convene the Coalition of the Willing to stop this betrayal in its tracks.
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U Boats flying swastikas used to sink your ships, which many at the time regarded as potentially divisive.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
U Boats flying swastikas used to sink your ships, which many at the time regarded as potentially divisive.
Treat carers with contempt, harm the social care sector, keep banging the Reform drum, and make a Labour catastrophe in May more likely / worse.
Bravo Starmer / Mahmood!
@perayahmet.bsky.social
@bambosmp.bsky.social
Bravo Starmer / Mahmood!
@perayahmet.bsky.social
@bambosmp.bsky.social
Home Secretary's huge "screw you!" to existing carers.
Imagine being told you're so worthless you'll have to wait 15 years for settlement. And then having to turn straight back around and help old people with a smile on your face.
Labour have managed to find a way to make me despise them more. 👏
Imagine being told you're so worthless you'll have to wait 15 years for settlement. And then having to turn straight back around and help old people with a smile on your face.
Labour have managed to find a way to make me despise them more. 👏
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Treat carers with contempt, harm the social care sector, keep banging the Reform drum, and make a Labour catastrophe in May more likely / worse.
Bravo Starmer / Mahmood!
@perayahmet.bsky.social
@bambosmp.bsky.social
Bravo Starmer / Mahmood!
@perayahmet.bsky.social
@bambosmp.bsky.social
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"The presence of Soviet spooks in remarkable numbers is the most eyebrow raising aspect of the Isokon story. There are seven confirmed agents between 1934 and 1947, with twenty-five suspected sub-agents in residence or closely connected."
thelionandunicorn.com/2025/11/19/i...
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Isokon: The brave new flats of Hampstead
ALAN TYLER visits the Hampstead home of modernists, artists and spies.
thelionandunicorn.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"The presence of Soviet spooks in remarkable numbers is the most eyebrow raising aspect of the Isokon story. There are seven confirmed agents between 1934 and 1947, with twenty-five suspected sub-agents in residence or closely connected."
thelionandunicorn.com/2025/11/19/i...
thelionandunicorn.com/2025/11/19/i...
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Donald Trump is gunning for the BBC, and Farage is cheering him on. Want to know why? Follow the money…
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Donald Trump is gunning for the BBC, and Farage is cheering him on. Want to know why? Follow the money…
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One small(!) point. The way the debate has been engaged in over the last decade, asylum seekers have been conflated with illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants conflated with legal immigrants, and immigrants conflated with all ethnic minorities, you can’t attack one group without attacking all.
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
One small(!) point. The way the debate has been engaged in over the last decade, asylum seekers have been conflated with illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants conflated with legal immigrants, and immigrants conflated with all ethnic minorities, you can’t attack one group without attacking all.
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#ChurchillsSpaniards
“We have the duty to tell the story of these soldiers & preserve their memory...this book isn’t only about Spanish fighters (against fascism), but...a part of the tradition, history & culture of the British army.” Out in paperback! #ContinuingtheFight
“We have the duty to tell the story of these soldiers & preserve their memory...this book isn’t only about Spanish fighters (against fascism), but...a part of the tradition, history & culture of the British army.” Out in paperback! #ContinuingtheFight
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
#ChurchillsSpaniards
“We have the duty to tell the story of these soldiers & preserve their memory...this book isn’t only about Spanish fighters (against fascism), but...a part of the tradition, history & culture of the British army.” Out in paperback! #ContinuingtheFight
“We have the duty to tell the story of these soldiers & preserve their memory...this book isn’t only about Spanish fighters (against fascism), but...a part of the tradition, history & culture of the British army.” Out in paperback! #ContinuingtheFight