Mike Hughes
mikeyhu.bsky.social
Mike Hughes
@mikeyhu.bsky.social
Software developer and doomscroller
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2025 Awards:

Racist of the year: Farage
Incompetents of the year: Reform run councils
Traitor: Nathan Gill, Reform
Grifter: Farage
Most ruinous policy of the year: Brexit (9th year running)

New Year’s resolution for 2026:

Not having these howling failure monkeys leading in the polls.
December 31, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Farage is speaking at Venue Cymru tonight.

Last revamped in 2018 with £1.8 million of EU development money and another £1 million in business development cash.

Original development also received significant EU funding.

Farage, by contrast, will give Llandudno nothing but hot air and lies.
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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March 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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I am getting seriously fucking annoyed with all this wall-to-wall Reform shit on the media now.
October 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package.

Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?

Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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"the hard data suggests that the largest of the UK’s very real problems are no more being caused by mass immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth"

on.ft.com/3IsyVVu

@timharford.ft.com with his facts and reasonableness
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration
It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there
on.ft.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Dear Reform voters,

These guys are laughing at you.
They promise to make your lives better… but they couldn’t give less of a shit. You’re their playthings. Their route to power. When they’ve got it, they’ll be done with you. And they’ll trash the place.
Get some self-respect.

The rest of the UK.
Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.
September 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.

Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
September 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Musk, Tommy Robinson - fascist Britain. A hellpit of violence and racism. They’re using our flag as their rallying cry. And X as their megaphone.
No more appeasement.
No more ‘legitimate concerns’ horseshit.
It’s beyond time to sanction Musk, regulate X and shut these fuckers down.

(Sunday Times)
September 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!
September 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I have never been so disappointed in a BBC piece. Breathless admiration is, as far as I knew, not the role of the BBC’s political editor when describing a party political conference. Description+detail yes, rigorous examination of the conference content, yes. This, absolutely no, in my opinion.
Chris Mason: Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before
The conference feels like that of a big party - but retains the insurgency vibe that the party is seeking to channel.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Things I care about Keir Starmer:

The nhs
Social care
A fairer society
The uber rich paying a bigger chunk of taxes
An agenda set by RW media
A disproportionate amount of air time given to Farage and Reform

Things I don’t care about:

Boats
Small boats
Boats
Small boats
Boats
Small boats
September 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Hinchley Wood, Claygate & Oxshott (Surrey) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 38.1% (-6.2)
🌳 CON: 31.0% (-16.0)
🙋 Ind: 15.2% (New)
➡️ RFM: 12.7% (+8.3)
🌍 GRN: 2.3% (New)
🌹 LAB: 0.7% (-3.6)

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ 2021.
August 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
August 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
How to be a man
The right story narrative about male attractiveness is grounded in Social Darwinism and free market economics. Can progressives tell a better story?
iandunt.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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There’s a concept in transport planning called “induced traffic”, which is essentially the evil twin of “if you build it, they will come”.

What cars did to your city, AI will do to your brain.
What cars did to your city, AI will do to your brain
Once again, I rage against the dying of the light. Also this week: some maps to show that England is not concreting the countryside; and the longest conveyor belt in the world.
jonn.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.
WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree
Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.
open.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Important & alarming investigation by @hopenothate.org.uk , showing Russian efforts to incite violence & far-right terrorist attacks in the UK (&, I suspect, in Europe & the US too). The gov’t needs to step up work on building societal resilience - & demonising migrants won’t help!
July 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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british fan chat
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Quite apart from the fact that 2 hours minus 2 minutes is not 58 minutes:

These people are fucking idiots. The point of reading, or any other form of intellectual enquiry, is that you don't always know what is interesting until you start looking. Acquiring knowledge is not an engineering problem.
These people are the enemy.
June 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The EHRC paper on the post-Supreme Court code of practice is not a real consultation exercise at all. It is a charade.

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
June 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM