Tom Hickmore
@tomhickmore.bsky.social
I'm a lot of things, but at the moment I'm just a bloke waffling.
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This is Trump America. Fuck the pedophile president and fuck all the white supremacists who support the loathsome piece of shit. 😳👇
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is Trump America. Fuck the pedophile president and fuck all the white supremacists who support the loathsome piece of shit. 😳👇
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Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.
October 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.
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A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
Takes nerdery to transcendent levels.
When writing “I Am The Walrus”, Lennon was first inspired by hearing a police siren! 🚨 🚓
Listen to Episode 171: “Hey Jude” by The Beatles (available on Spotify, Apple and other platforms)
Listen to Episode 171: “Hey Jude” by The Beatles (available on Spotify, Apple and other platforms)
June 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Takes nerdery to transcendent levels.
Blimey, just watching a 20 year-old episode of Antiques Roadshow and it’s slow intensity is mesmerising. I still watch it, but they’ve jazzed it up to the point of distraction.
May 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Blimey, just watching a 20 year-old episode of Antiques Roadshow and it’s slow intensity is mesmerising. I still watch it, but they’ve jazzed it up to the point of distraction.
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Trump administration considers suspending habeas corpus.
This would deny people the legal right to challenge one’s detention.
Arbitrary detention of opponents would be normalised.
No different from dictatorships.
Rule of law? Respect for human rights?
This would deny people the legal right to challenge one’s detention.
Arbitrary detention of opponents would be normalised.
No different from dictatorships.
Rule of law? Respect for human rights?
Trump administration considering suspending habeas corpus
The White House is
www.bbc.co.uk
May 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Trump administration considers suspending habeas corpus.
This would deny people the legal right to challenge one’s detention.
Arbitrary detention of opponents would be normalised.
No different from dictatorships.
Rule of law? Respect for human rights?
This would deny people the legal right to challenge one’s detention.
Arbitrary detention of opponents would be normalised.
No different from dictatorships.
Rule of law? Respect for human rights?
Just got back from visiting family in #Denmark. All I can say is it makes the UK look like the small-minded, underfunded crummy place it is. We do need to return to the 1960’s insofar as we need to return to proper Keynesianism.
May 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Just got back from visiting family in #Denmark. All I can say is it makes the UK look like the small-minded, underfunded crummy place it is. We do need to return to the 1960’s insofar as we need to return to proper Keynesianism.
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
April 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Devastating analysis of Reeves’ policies from someone who can add up.
Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement either doesn’t add up, or it reveals a deeply dangerous economic policy, and it may do both.
youtu.be/kdtKbjtIp4s?...
youtu.be/kdtKbjtIp4s?...
Rachel Reeves’ figures in the Spring Statement don‘t stack up – and are very scary
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
March 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Devastating analysis of Reeves’ policies from someone who can add up.
Years ago I did a kind of collage on one of my walls. Here’s a detail. I always thought she was the most preposterous character.
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Years ago I did a kind of collage on one of my walls. Here’s a detail. I always thought she was the most preposterous character.
There’s no “flippin” or “blimey” in the world of autocorrect. I’m feeling awfully authentic darling.
March 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
There’s no “flippin” or “blimey” in the world of autocorrect. I’m feeling awfully authentic darling.
Hey @andrewhickey.500songs.com , thank you for your latest, very touching, magnum opus. A bit personal as I used to hang out with Billy Hinsche. On new years 1984 I asked him how the holiday period had been. That was when I realised he was in the Beach Boys. ❤️ 💔
March 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Hey @andrewhickey.500songs.com , thank you for your latest, very touching, magnum opus. A bit personal as I used to hang out with Billy Hinsche. On new years 1984 I asked him how the holiday period had been. That was when I realised he was in the Beach Boys. ❤️ 💔
Golly gumdrops the story of Huddie William Ledbetter “Leadbelly” as told across several episodes of his podcast by Andrew Hickey is gut wrenching and amazing. It’d make a great movie. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Song 177: “Never Learn Not to Love” by the Beach Boys, Part 4: “Sometimes I Have A Great Notion”
Podcast Episode · A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs · 22/03/2025 · 1 sec
podcasts.apple.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Golly gumdrops the story of Huddie William Ledbetter “Leadbelly” as told across several episodes of his podcast by Andrew Hickey is gut wrenching and amazing. It’d make a great movie. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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If you read one book in the next 12 months, it should be "The Deficit Myth" by @stephaniekelton.bsky.social (or any other book on Modern Monetary Theory). I promise it will uproot your ideas of how national economies and currencies work.
see also:
findingmoneyfilm.com
see also:
findingmoneyfilm.com
Finding the Money – There's another side to the national debt.Finding the Money – There's another side to the national debt.
findingmoneyfilm.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If you read one book in the next 12 months, it should be "The Deficit Myth" by @stephaniekelton.bsky.social (or any other book on Modern Monetary Theory). I promise it will uproot your ideas of how national economies and currencies work.
see also:
findingmoneyfilm.com
see also:
findingmoneyfilm.com
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UK ministers are claiming ill health is over-medicalised in the UK. It isn’t. It’s under-politicised instead. It’s neoliberalism that is making us ill, but they refuse to recognise that fact.
youtu.be/MIdpSs5HlaU?...
youtu.be/MIdpSs5HlaU?...
Our politics is making us ill It’s time ministers realised that
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
March 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
UK ministers are claiming ill health is over-medicalised in the UK. It isn’t. It’s under-politicised instead. It’s neoliberalism that is making us ill, but they refuse to recognise that fact.
youtu.be/MIdpSs5HlaU?...
youtu.be/MIdpSs5HlaU?...
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Every week, I speak to people in my constituency struggling with mental health.
Many are worried about feeding their kids, paying the rent or losing benefits.
Britain's mental health crisis is the result of political choices. This government is choosing to push more people into despair.
Many are worried about feeding their kids, paying the rent or losing benefits.
Britain's mental health crisis is the result of political choices. This government is choosing to push more people into despair.
March 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Every week, I speak to people in my constituency struggling with mental health.
Many are worried about feeding their kids, paying the rent or losing benefits.
Britain's mental health crisis is the result of political choices. This government is choosing to push more people into despair.
Many are worried about feeding their kids, paying the rent or losing benefits.
Britain's mental health crisis is the result of political choices. This government is choosing to push more people into despair.
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Been talking to some Tesla people and watching vids where that community is starting to quietly mutter that maybe Elon should leave the company... Quite a turn around from people who would have defended him to the end only a year ago.
Stock prices are short term. Brand damage isn't.
Stock prices are short term. Brand damage isn't.
March 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Been talking to some Tesla people and watching vids where that community is starting to quietly mutter that maybe Elon should leave the company... Quite a turn around from people who would have defended him to the end only a year ago.
Stock prices are short term. Brand damage isn't.
Stock prices are short term. Brand damage isn't.
One of the reasons electricity is so expensive in the UK is because the national grid was privatised and has one of the highest profit margins of any business. Nationalise it and reverse the hideous Tory legacy.
March 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
One of the reasons electricity is so expensive in the UK is because the national grid was privatised and has one of the highest profit margins of any business. Nationalise it and reverse the hideous Tory legacy.
Spotted this morning. Love it.
March 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Spotted this morning. Love it.
Here’s a nice, pithy #MMT criticism of the (misguided) economic orthodoxy.
1. "If I was the source of all UK pounds, when I give you a five pound note, I can also give you another one at any time, without having to wait for you to gave back the original one. However, according to neoliberal economic orthodox ,
March 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Here’s a nice, pithy #MMT criticism of the (misguided) economic orthodoxy.
I think I’m getting the Greenland thing. If Trump allows Putin to eat Ukraine and China to eat Taiwan he hopes they’ll support him eating Greenland and Canada.
February 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I think I’m getting the Greenland thing. If Trump allows Putin to eat Ukraine and China to eat Taiwan he hopes they’ll support him eating Greenland and Canada.
Please help. It’s important that anyone vaguely left or just a truth seeker complain about BBC Radio 4’s doc Indebted: The Story Behind National Debt. It's all neoclassical BS with no acknowledgement of alternative economic perspectives. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
www.bbc.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Please help. It’s important that anyone vaguely left or just a truth seeker complain about BBC Radio 4’s doc Indebted: The Story Behind National Debt. It's all neoclassical BS with no acknowledgement of alternative economic perspectives. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
Just complained to BBC about bias in their Radio 4 doc Indebted: The Story Behind National Debt. It's all neoclassical BS with no acknowledgement of alternative economic perspectives. Please let's get a pile-on #MMT comrades. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
https://bbc.co.uk/contact/compla…
February 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Just complained to BBC about bias in their Radio 4 doc Indebted: The Story Behind National Debt. It's all neoclassical BS with no acknowledgement of alternative economic perspectives. Please let's get a pile-on #MMT comrades. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...