‘Pete Hegseth is a very dangerous person with the arsenal of the US government at his disposal’ - utterly terrifying and depraved…
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
@bobhudson.bsky.social
Visiting Professor in Public Policy, Sunderland University. Sunderland AFC loyalist. Inveterate Remainer. Durham City, UK. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/bob-hudson
‘Pete Hegseth is a very dangerous person with the arsenal of the US government at his disposal’ - utterly terrifying and depraved…
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Why can’t people see him for the self-serving huckster he is? He doesn’t even hide it! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
09.03.2026 15:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Still haven’t got over this…
09.03.2026 07:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Timely message from @roylilley1.bsky.social to Louise Casey: legislation to fix social care has been on the statute book for over a decade… myemail.constantcontact.com/Grass.html?s...
09.03.2026 07:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So…the victim of an abusive relationship is the one to blame?
09.03.2026 07:15 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
‘It’s time for a British Declaration of Independence’ - hard-hitting analysis here by Simon Tisdall…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s like trying to calm down the tantrum toddler - humiliating task.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Don’t want to talk about it 😡
08.03.2026 15:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1If this ‘special relationship’ was a marriage, and the UK was the wife, we’d all be screaming ‘Leave him, he’s abusing you’’… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
08.03.2026 12:30 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Why oh why hasn’t a Labour government put a stop to this?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
In what sane world do we hitch our wagon to this insane huckster? news.sky.com/story/donald...
08.03.2026 08:47 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0State of this vulgarian! Looks like he’s stopping off en route to a baseball game.
08.03.2026 07:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Starmer is on the right side of public opinion here. What exactly do we get out of this ‘special relationship’?
08.03.2026 07:22 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0If there’s one person who should be keeping his silence over joining in with American adventurism…😡
08.03.2026 07:16 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Farage, while boasting of his patriotism, whispers poison into Trump’s ear. This👇is the result. Our very own Lord Haw-Haw.
08.03.2026 07:14 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Remind me again of the ‘sunlit uplands’ of Brexit… www.theguardian.com/business/202...
07.03.2026 12:56 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Heady days at New College, was there myself at the time.
07.03.2026 07:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0More Lord Haw-Haw than Winston Churchill isn’t he? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
07.03.2026 07:52 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1‘Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to earth’ - they’re as mad as the mullahs aren’t they? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
06.03.2026 16:30 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Just a reminder not to believe a word you read in the Telegraph…
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m....
It's bone-chilling the way Trump, Hesgeth et al are behaving like school kids playing a video game. They are devoid of decency, empathy, intelligence and humanity.
06.03.2026 10:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Clocks go forward at the end of the month then go back to the 1950s if Farage ever becomes PM.
06.03.2026 07:05 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We should be grateful that Starmer is doing what he can to keep us at arms length from Trump’s trigger happy neocons.
06.03.2026 07:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0While you were sleeping - Labour convincingly retrieves a council seat it previously lost to Reform here in Durham.
06.03.2026 06:53 — 👍 58 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 2Let’s at least be thankful it’s PM Starmer - not Farage or Badenoch. For all his faults he’s not a total Trump lackey. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
05.03.2026 17:52 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to @paulcallaghan.bsky.social on being awarded Freedom of the City of Sunderland. Honestly can’t think of anyone more deserving 👏👏👏
www.sunderlandecho.com/news/people/...
NE ‘newspaper’ spreading panic and looking for clicks…
05.03.2026 09:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Baffling how that woman is still regarded as some sort of saviour.
05.03.2026 08:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Absolutely.
05.03.2026 08:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Listening to Louise Casey on #r4today describing adult social care policy and provision as ‘horrendous’…Yes we knew. What to do? She says she’s ‘trying to work it out’…Her report is due in 2028!
05.03.2026 07:57 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0