Val Hudson

Brexit impact will be negative for foreseeable future, Bank chief warns Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, said that Brexit’s impact on growth would hurt but that the economy would somewhat adapt to the shock in time

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But what about “ethnic change”? Yes, the proportion of Islington’s population who are (like me) white British has dropped from perhaps 85% to about 40%. This change is indeed visible. For West, it is “far beyond what any group would find tolerable.” What he doesn’t and can’t say is why exactly I’m supposed to find it intolerable. Why should I, or my neighbours, be more concerned about what race or ethnicity the kids are at the local school than the quality or financing of local services, or whether the council is successfully balancing the need for more housing with the interests of long-standing residents?

I wrote about Robert Jenrick's embrace of blood and soil nationalism for @bylinetimes.bsky.social

"The British right is adopting an increasingly extreme form of ethnic identity politics, while failing to explain what the rest of us are supposed to be worried about"

bylinetimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

Cutting more public services no doubt, it’s like the Reform Council in Durham who find services already cut to the bone, These populist?politicians have no idea about how democracy works

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

A Better Britain - Reboot Britain : Rejoin EU I propose a nationwide series of town hall type events and a campaign combining some speakers and experts with the crucial element of actually listening to the lived experience of those who would norm...

We need a national conversation about a better Britain. I began in Somerset, but it needs to spread.

See brexitrage.com/a-better-bri...

Brexit is Farage's achilles' heel. We must move the Overton Window back into place. See our YouTube film on the matter.

#Brexit #FarageRiots #RejoinEU

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

🚨Governor Newsom said, no more masks. “What are you afraid of?” California legislators have written a bill, it has been passed, and signed.
👏🏻More👏🏻Of👏🏻This!

I’m with Kinnock. Does anyone remember small boats bring a crisis before Brexit?

Me and Helen Mirren: Life after 80 Professor Bob Hudson reflects on becoming an octogenarian - an article that is of relevance to anyone who is older today than they were yesterday!

Me and Helen Mirren: Life after 80
open.substack.com/pub/eyesande... from @bobhudson.bsky.social A great weekend read

Couldn’t agree more Let’s hope the UK government follows her lead

I think Musk's comments to a rally of 100k people are the highest profile advocacy of political violence in the UK since the end of the Northern Ireland conflict. Does anybody have a counter-example?

"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."

Eyes & Ears North East | Brian Aitken | Substack Eyes & Ears is a curated round-up of what's been happening in the North East in the past seven days and was a popular part of The QT, an online news magazine for the North East of England. Click to re...

Eyes & Ears North East
eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com?utm_campaign...
An interesting and informative read

Just imagine if we tried to interfere in American politics like Musk does in UK politics

This man RFK Jr is the biggest threat to public health in my lifetime
Please you good Americans who know this , continue to show how dangerous he is

RFK Jr and Democrats spar in tense hearing about chaos at federal health agencies and vaccines – live updates

Ocado: Ditch the plastic bag In 2024, single-use plastic bag sales in England rose for the first time since the carrier bag levy was introduced in 2015 - a 7% increase, reaching 437 million bags. Shockingly, Ocado alone was respo...

Ocado handed out 221 million plastic bags last year! 😱 Sign the petition and tell them to ditch single-use bags for good. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/oc...

The perpetrator of this horrendous act should be behind bars

Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns.

They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings.

That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.

Stand with #Ukraine🇺🇦

This Trump me me me rhetoric is beyond disgusting Zelenskyy is wise to keep his cool but he must be so p****d off

That’s good

Morecambe fans' relief as club sale to Panjab Warriors completed

Morecambe FC fans' relief as club sale finalised. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well said

Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

The thing that drives me mad about the health spending debate is it totally *why* budgets are rising everywhere.

It's a *good thing* that health spending takes up an ever larger proportion of GDP. It's what we should *want* to spend money on!

"We are the party of fiscal responsibility" says Mel Stride, whose party famously triggered a bond market meltdown which crashed the UK economy and plunged the pound to its lowest ever level against the dollar

Nigel Farage's maths skills were questioned after newly release figures on diversity, equality and inclusion programmes suggest the Reform UK leader's costings don't add up

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You may be interested to know our Deputy Council Leader is prone to putting out very racist social media posts on the other platform. When a resident complained she was told he doesn’t use a Councillor handle so he can basically do whatever he likes!

I’ll keep an eye on my Council County Durham

Your message worked @kimmcguinness.bsky.social

Aw thank you Peter he’s there with the family so there’ll be some sore heads in London tonight