JamesHobson

JamesHobson

@jameshobson.bsky.social

History, politics, animal welfare and vegetarianism. Liverpool FC and the European Union. Author of eight books on radical Britain 1600-1900 Little Bowden, Market Harborough.

873 Followers 1,652 Following 801 Posts Joined Oct 2023
2 days ago

I remember, a loooong time ago, our German A Level when we did weekly translations and Mr Skeens our teacher introduced us to the German verb for 'totter'

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2 days ago

This is the future Reform UK (and increasingly the Tories) are trying to kill off.

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2 days ago

Animals on banknotes. Red letterboxes. Easter eggs. Tiny weeny diminished happy places in which to vent spleen. A country that, not so long ago, identified itself with far more consequential things. A patriotism of the gaps. Cultural shrinkflation.

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3 days ago

Amen to that

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3 days ago

Kemi is about fourteen years old, isn't she?
#pmqs

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6 days ago
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6 days ago
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James Granger was also a famous animal rights activist.

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1 week ago

Iran have qualifed for the World Cup.What happens there?

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2 weeks ago

Right. Did Starmer condemn Iran for striking back, or did I miss a nuanced geopolitical point?

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2 weeks ago

The irony is Reform's leader literally cosplays as a man of the people with his pint and fag but faced with a genuine working class politician they lose their shit

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2 weeks ago
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

'A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator', by the Norwegian Consumer Council

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2 weeks ago

You'd think Reform would be delighted that a white, working class plumber got elected and they beat the metropolitan elite university lecturer.

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2 weeks ago

The Farage accusation of cheating is corrosive, MAGA like, and reminds me a bit of the Corbynites who said that the postal votes were fiddled in the 2019 GE

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2 weeks ago

🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.

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2 weeks ago
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Attention (rightly) is on the Greens, Labour and Reform, but it's a mark of how bad things are for the Conservatives that we're not even talking about their *706* votes.

Contrast the notional result in 2019 (before the current seat existed) or Andrew Gwynne's old Denton seat.

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In which people CHOOSE TO VOTE for a female plumber representing a party with broadly liberal values and an unelected life peer declares it to be the end of liberal democracy.

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2 weeks ago

Am I the only one who thinks the constant 'extra plumber in the House of Commons to sort out toilet leaks' is unfunny and part of the reason that we need more working people in parliament?

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2 weeks ago
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Put your own name in.
This one is actually true.

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2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago

Look guys, Allister Heath won't see all your vicious mean spirited generated headlines that you've made but he will if you email them to him at allister.heath@telegraph.co.uk

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2 weeks ago

The Your Party website has a odd soviet- type red and beige blocky design with details of upcoming events from October 2025

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2 weeks ago

Yes he has. He is about to start work, apparently.

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2 weeks ago

Far left politics is a hobby for the disgruntled.

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2 weeks ago

'I am delighted that members have voted for a mass, socialist party that takes the fight to Starmer and Farage. Now, the real work begins'

The number of times Corbyn has announced he is *just about* to start work beggars belief.

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2 weeks ago

"The Biggest Creep In Politics" is a bold accusation coming from the ex-wife of Michael fucking Gove.

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2 weeks ago

You never hear much about Momentum these days, do you?
And no, I am not complaining.

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2 weeks ago

Kindle, obvs

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2 weeks ago
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No less than 4 of my books on Amazon UK for 99p each

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