Joff Hopkins
@joffhopkins.com
Higher Education data-botherer. Fan of maps. Was once an award-winning radio broadcaster (I suppose I still am...?)
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absolutely rotten stuff. horrible. fuck off
September 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
absolutely rotten stuff. horrible. fuck off
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Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
September 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
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make YOUR difference!
August 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
make YOUR difference!
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The Taylor Swift podcast story today meant I could get our Taylor Swift correspondent to file her first story. She’s in the audio version of the Podnews newsletter today (hit “listen”). podnews.net/update/new-h...
New Heights gets Taylor Swift as guest
It's her first interview since 2023 - and the unveiling of a new album
podnews.net
August 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The Taylor Swift podcast story today meant I could get our Taylor Swift correspondent to file her first story. She’s in the audio version of the Podnews newsletter today (hit “listen”). podnews.net/update/new-h...
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This is the entire story. Someone saw a fire engine. In Bracknell.
August 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is the entire story. Someone saw a fire engine. In Bracknell.
What a near-fortnight of Interrailing looks like. Excludes almost all tram, bus and metro journeys as they're not usually covered by the rail pass.
(Holidaying by train was an awful lot of fun. If you have the opportunity I'd recommend trying it!)
#trains #holiday #europe @interraileu.bsky.social
(Holidaying by train was an awful lot of fun. If you have the opportunity I'd recommend trying it!)
#trains #holiday #europe @interraileu.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
What a near-fortnight of Interrailing looks like. Excludes almost all tram, bus and metro journeys as they're not usually covered by the rail pass.
(Holidaying by train was an awful lot of fun. If you have the opportunity I'd recommend trying it!)
#trains #holiday #europe @interraileu.bsky.social
(Holidaying by train was an awful lot of fun. If you have the opportunity I'd recommend trying it!)
#trains #holiday #europe @interraileu.bsky.social
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OZZY OSBOURNE IS GONE AND RUPERT MURDOCH IS STILL HERE ARE YOU KIDDING ME
July 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
OZZY OSBOURNE IS GONE AND RUPERT MURDOCH IS STILL HERE ARE YOU KIDDING ME
Woken from a nightmare where I ordered a flat white, and what I was given was an iced flat white.
July 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Woken from a nightmare where I ordered a flat white, and what I was given was an iced flat white.
📊 Whether you went up, down, or you're missing CAH3 disciplines from your static data set: happy National Student Survey release day! #NSS #HigherEducation #DataAnalytics
July 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📊 Whether you went up, down, or you're missing CAH3 disciplines from your static data set: happy National Student Survey release day! #NSS #HigherEducation #DataAnalytics
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You’re watching BBC News x
July 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
You’re watching BBC News x
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Reform UK's Darren Grimes tells constituents he can't hold surgeries with them because he's been advised by the police not to do so for "security reasons".
The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/03/r...
The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/03/r...
Reform's Darren Grimes Accused of Lying After Police Deny Telling Him Not to Hold Council Surgeries for 'Security' Reasons
EXCLUSIVE: Local police have rejected the Reform UK deputy council leader's claim that they advised him not to meet his constituents
bylinetimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Reform UK's Darren Grimes tells constituents he can't hold surgeries with them because he's been advised by the police not to do so for "security reasons".
The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/03/r...
The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/03/r...
To the secondary schools who have pupils on off-site trips today, and have made them wear full uniform (shirt, blazer, tie, trousers):
Shame on you.
It's 33C today. Put your twisted ideas of appearance aside and let them be comfortable, and safe.
Shame on you.
It's 33C today. Put your twisted ideas of appearance aside and let them be comfortable, and safe.
July 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
To the secondary schools who have pupils on off-site trips today, and have made them wear full uniform (shirt, blazer, tie, trousers):
Shame on you.
It's 33C today. Put your twisted ideas of appearance aside and let them be comfortable, and safe.
Shame on you.
It's 33C today. Put your twisted ideas of appearance aside and let them be comfortable, and safe.
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Me to the birds singing outside my window at 4am
June 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Me to the birds singing outside my window at 4am
Things that my bus is hotter than:
- the oven used to bake my pizza about 45min ago
- the hot water in Fenwick Colchester's gents toilet (top floor)
- the surface of the sun
- the oven used to bake my pizza about 45min ago
- the hot water in Fenwick Colchester's gents toilet (top floor)
- the surface of the sun
June 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Things that my bus is hotter than:
- the oven used to bake my pizza about 45min ago
- the hot water in Fenwick Colchester's gents toilet (top floor)
- the surface of the sun
- the oven used to bake my pizza about 45min ago
- the hot water in Fenwick Colchester's gents toilet (top floor)
- the surface of the sun
Eurostar seats booked for the summer! Maybe I'll get a selfie with @eurostarjustin.bsky.social or @tmblakeeurostar.bsky.social?
Now to double check the timetables for the other gazillion trains!
#interrail #interrailing
Now to double check the timetables for the other gazillion trains!
#interrail #interrailing
June 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Eurostar seats booked for the summer! Maybe I'll get a selfie with @eurostarjustin.bsky.social or @tmblakeeurostar.bsky.social?
Now to double check the timetables for the other gazillion trains!
#interrail #interrailing
Now to double check the timetables for the other gazillion trains!
#interrail #interrailing
Disapoofed
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
June 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Disapoofed
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I’m going to make my children read this
You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
June 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I’m going to make my children read this
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150% TARIFFS ON ALL MEETINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL
May 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
150% TARIFFS ON ALL MEETINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL
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Remember this one. In five years, or ten, or twenty. When we're a weird, dirty, backward nation that still sets fire to stuff, and places like China and India start to ask us why.
May 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Remember this one. In five years, or ten, or twenty. When we're a weird, dirty, backward nation that still sets fire to stuff, and places like China and India start to ask us why.
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The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
Another record year for the Green Party 👏
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales
Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales
Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
May 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
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Can u imagine this amount of coverage about the economic costs of Brexit?
Sigh.
Sigh.
April 3, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Can u imagine this amount of coverage about the economic costs of Brexit?
Sigh.
Sigh.
This week's film was "Black Bag".
I enjoyed it. Good fun. Did what it needed to do in 90 minutes.
I enjoyed it. Good fun. Did what it needed to do in 90 minutes.
March 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This week's film was "Black Bag".
I enjoyed it. Good fun. Did what it needed to do in 90 minutes.
I enjoyed it. Good fun. Did what it needed to do in 90 minutes.
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A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
March 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
I feel like I am the only person in my timeline who is not watching #TheTraitors.
I do, however, have two guinea pigs squeaking loudly at me, a coffee in hand, and a teenage son about to join me on the sofa for an episode of The X Files - so I'm still winning.
I do, however, have two guinea pigs squeaking loudly at me, a coffee in hand, and a teenage son about to join me on the sofa for an episode of The X Files - so I'm still winning.
January 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I feel like I am the only person in my timeline who is not watching #TheTraitors.
I do, however, have two guinea pigs squeaking loudly at me, a coffee in hand, and a teenage son about to join me on the sofa for an episode of The X Files - so I'm still winning.
I do, however, have two guinea pigs squeaking loudly at me, a coffee in hand, and a teenage son about to join me on the sofa for an episode of The X Files - so I'm still winning.
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I love this Private Eye section as it genuinely does encapsulate the biases and framing of the British press
January 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I love this Private Eye section as it genuinely does encapsulate the biases and framing of the British press