Tomghut
@tomghut.bsky.social
Town planner living on Merseyside
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There you go.
Parliament will now consider debate on calls for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
Parliament will now consider debate on calls for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There you go.
Parliament will now consider debate on calls for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
Parliament will now consider debate on calls for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
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They really don't want to share any interior shots but when they do, you just know that unspeakable acts have been committed within... www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in 75 Camden Mews, Camden, London, NW1 9BY, NW1 for £925,000. Marketed by Auction House London, Hampstead
www.rightmove.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
They really don't want to share any interior shots but when they do, you just know that unspeakable acts have been committed within... www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
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Qanon believers, you are in for a hell of a plot twist.
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Qanon believers, you are in for a hell of a plot twist.
The High Court has confirmed that an injunction is an inappropriate means of planning enforcement against asylum hotels because it is a remedy of last resort, reserved for breaches where normal procedures would be ineffective.
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2025...
#Epping #BellHotel
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2025...
#Epping #BellHotel
Epping Forest District Council v Somani Hotels Limited -
Find Case Law
- The National Archives
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The High Court has confirmed that an injunction is an inappropriate means of planning enforcement against asylum hotels because it is a remedy of last resort, reserved for breaches where normal procedures would be ineffective.
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2025...
#Epping #BellHotel
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2025...
#Epping #BellHotel
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We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
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@andrewrawnsley.bsky.social correctly highlighting why Tories repelled by Reform probably won’t vote for a tribute act. If they vote tactically, who they choose will decide the result of the next General Election.
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
The Conservatives must reclaim competence – and stop imit...
Years of blunders have wrecked the Tory brand. Mimicking Nigel Farage won’t rebuild it – owning their failures might
observer.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
@andrewrawnsley.bsky.social correctly highlighting why Tories repelled by Reform probably won’t vote for a tribute act. If they vote tactically, who they choose will decide the result of the next General Election.
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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It's quite wrong to suggest Robert Jenrick is a racist. Racists believe in something. My SKETCH.
Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting the…
thecritic.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It's quite wrong to suggest Robert Jenrick is a racist. Racists believe in something. My SKETCH.
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In case you thought I was exaggerating, here is the "debate" on Kimmel from Newsnight.
David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach.
British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!
David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach.
British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!
September 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
In case you thought I was exaggerating, here is the "debate" on Kimmel from Newsnight.
David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach.
British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!
David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach.
British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!
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You will NEVER guess who the 'leading barrister' who referred Lord Justice Bean to the JCIO is
August 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
You will NEVER guess who the 'leading barrister' who referred Lord Justice Bean to the JCIO is
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I have just signed an executive order directing Radiohead to hurry up and release another record
August 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I have just signed an executive order directing Radiohead to hurry up and release another record
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I just don't understand how anyone in government is looking at turning PA into a literal Cause Celebre and thinking "yep, that's been effective, we nailed that"
Keir Starmer's spokesman asked about author Sally Rooney's plans to donate her royalties to Palestine Action, says that supporting the group is a terrorist offence and "obviously the police will implement the law"
August 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I just don't understand how anyone in government is looking at turning PA into a literal Cause Celebre and thinking "yep, that's been effective, we nailed that"
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Baroness Mone lied she had no connection to a PPE supplier. Her lawyers threatened the Guardian.
The lawyers just tried to use the courts to block a Scottish Legal Complaints Commission investigation of their actions.
They failed. Investigation continues.
www.bailii.org/scot/cases/S...
The lawyers just tried to use the courts to block a Scottish Legal Complaints Commission investigation of their actions.
They failed. Investigation continues.
www.bailii.org/scot/cases/S...
Levy & McRae Solicitors LLP against the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (Court of Session) [2025] CSIH 23 (12 August 2025)
www.bailii.org
August 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Baroness Mone lied she had no connection to a PPE supplier. Her lawyers threatened the Guardian.
The lawyers just tried to use the courts to block a Scottish Legal Complaints Commission investigation of their actions.
They failed. Investigation continues.
www.bailii.org/scot/cases/S...
The lawyers just tried to use the courts to block a Scottish Legal Complaints Commission investigation of their actions.
They failed. Investigation continues.
www.bailii.org/scot/cases/S...
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This was already a problem before the slop era. So now we are properly fucked.
Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands
All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers
www.datacenterdynamics.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
This was already a problem before the slop era. So now we are properly fucked.
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"A series of protests, usually/most often few dozen people, but sometimes a fee hundred, and on one or two occasion as large as X [eg: fifteen hundred/two thousand]" would be an accurate generalisation in the form given in this BBC report's attempt to contextualise, but getting its estimates wrong
BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests
Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.
"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people
"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet
Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.
"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people
"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet
August 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"A series of protests, usually/most often few dozen people, but sometimes a fee hundred, and on one or two occasion as large as X [eg: fifteen hundred/two thousand]" would be an accurate generalisation in the form given in this BBC report's attempt to contextualise, but getting its estimates wrong
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About a sixth of the public endorse very extreme views on making legal/settled migrants leave & then follow up on the specifics. (This overlaps with the 8% who say they support violence in protests & liked the riots, so it should be challenged, not indulged)
August 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
About a sixth of the public endorse very extreme views on making legal/settled migrants leave & then follow up on the specifics. (This overlaps with the 8% who say they support violence in protests & liked the riots, so it should be challenged, not indulged)
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New post:
"Why are young women increasingly left-wing?"
There's been a lot of focus on young men + the right but less on this much bigger political shift amongst young women.
Why is it happening? How could it change politics?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...
"Why are young women increasingly left-wing?"
There's been a lot of focus on young men + the right but less on this much bigger political shift amongst young women.
Why is it happening? How could it change politics?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...
Why are young women increasingly left-wing?
And how it could change politics
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
New post:
"Why are young women increasingly left-wing?"
There's been a lot of focus on young men + the right but less on this much bigger political shift amongst young women.
Why is it happening? How could it change politics?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...
"Why are young women increasingly left-wing?"
There's been a lot of focus on young men + the right but less on this much bigger political shift amongst young women.
Why is it happening? How could it change politics?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...
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So many questions left unanswered in the Shapps interview
1) No satisfactory answer on ISC involvement. It wasn't the courts who decided, it was ministers. Hundreds of officials were across Whitehall were aware of the leak. This would have been Parliament's only means of scrutiny.
1) No satisfactory answer on ISC involvement. It wasn't the courts who decided, it was ministers. Hundreds of officials were across Whitehall were aware of the leak. This would have been Parliament's only means of scrutiny.
July 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
So many questions left unanswered in the Shapps interview
1) No satisfactory answer on ISC involvement. It wasn't the courts who decided, it was ministers. Hundreds of officials were across Whitehall were aware of the leak. This would have been Parliament's only means of scrutiny.
1) No satisfactory answer on ISC involvement. It wasn't the courts who decided, it was ministers. Hundreds of officials were across Whitehall were aware of the leak. This would have been Parliament's only means of scrutiny.
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BEFORE and AFTER. You are not going to believe me this time…but I swear…I absolutely swear this is the same fucking street.
June 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
BEFORE and AFTER. You are not going to believe me this time…but I swear…I absolutely swear this is the same fucking street.
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Quite. The right is always setting the ability to speak English well as a test of integration and these children pass with flying colours.
If you read down this Mail article long enough, you get to this grudging admission:
"76% of pupils at Kobi Nazrul are meeting 'expected standards' in reading, writing and maths.
That compares with a local average of 71 per cent and an average of 61 per cent in England."
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archive.ph/wip/lmv8G
"76% of pupils at Kobi Nazrul are meeting 'expected standards' in reading, writing and maths.
That compares with a local average of 71 per cent and an average of 61 per cent in England."
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archive.ph/wip/lmv8G
June 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Quite. The right is always setting the ability to speak English well as a test of integration and these children pass with flying colours.
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Have written about Starmer's speech- his best moment yet as PM. He implicitly identified what sits at the heart of this story: the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk.
It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
Starmer's best moment as PM
And the Powellisation of conservative thought
open.substack.com
January 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Have written about Starmer's speech- his best moment yet as PM. He implicitly identified what sits at the heart of this story: the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk.
It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
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Thanks to the Republican Congress, and a tsunami of lies from Musk and others, the only US agency dedicated to tracking and exposing Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world ceases to exist
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
US agency focused on foreign disinformation shuts down
A leading US government agency that tracks foreign disinformation has terminated its operations, the State Department said Tuesday, after Congress failed to extend its funding following years of Repub...
www.france24.com
December 26, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Thanks to the Republican Congress, and a tsunami of lies from Musk and others, the only US agency dedicated to tracking and exposing Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world ceases to exist
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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I’ve been reluctant to start a Substack, because I like being commissioned, I like being edited, and I especially like to be paid.
But I couldn’t face hawking this one around to weary editors, for reasons that you may understand if you read it.
rostaylor240051.substack.com/p/and-then-p...
But I couldn’t face hawking this one around to weary editors, for reasons that you may understand if you read it.
rostaylor240051.substack.com/p/and-then-p...
November 24, 2024 at 7:59 AM
I’ve been reluctant to start a Substack, because I like being commissioned, I like being edited, and I especially like to be paid.
But I couldn’t face hawking this one around to weary editors, for reasons that you may understand if you read it.
rostaylor240051.substack.com/p/and-then-p...
But I couldn’t face hawking this one around to weary editors, for reasons that you may understand if you read it.
rostaylor240051.substack.com/p/and-then-p...
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Oslos reduction in car modal share in just 9 years is massive.
Have any other cities achieved anything similar?
Have any other cities achieved anything similar?
Oslo is presenting the results of its cycling strategy 2015-2025. Modal share:
🚲📈 6% to 9%
🚗📉 35% to 26%
🚲📈 6% to 9%
🚗📉 35% to 26%
November 11, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Oslos reduction in car modal share in just 9 years is massive.
Have any other cities achieved anything similar?
Have any other cities achieved anything similar?
The conspiracy is turning out to be precisely the opposite of those promoted by the nutters. The doctors were onto her because there was no other rational explanation for the pattern of events www.bbc.com/news/article...
Lucy Letby: Doctor told to make apology after 'murderer' claim
The doctor denies knowing who Lucy Letby was until he was asked to apologise to her seven months later.
www.bbc.com
October 8, 2024 at 5:01 PM
The conspiracy is turning out to be precisely the opposite of those promoted by the nutters. The doctors were onto her because there was no other rational explanation for the pattern of events www.bbc.com/news/article...
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"the platform [X] has become more divisive and ... one where algorithms suppress credible content, make it harder to avoid harmful trends and posts receive diminishing visibility and interaction." H/T @andytattersall.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
If ‘academic X’ is sinking, where are research organisations going?
For research communications professionals and academics, X can feel a little like being the band on the Titanic, defiantly playing on as the once great ship slides under the water. As a number of a…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 1, 2024 at 9:24 AM
"the platform [X] has become more divisive and ... one where algorithms suppress credible content, make it harder to avoid harmful trends and posts receive diminishing visibility and interaction." H/T @andytattersall.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...