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
Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
Author of eight books on radical Britain 1600-1900
Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
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It's the cowardice that did it for me too. I voted Labour 18 months ago hoping to end the performative cruelty and now I'm living in a far right hellscape of grotty flags on every lamppost and the BBC on the brink of collapse. The lack of leadership is utterly unforgivable.
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It's the cowardice that did it for me too. I voted Labour 18 months ago hoping to end the performative cruelty and now I'm living in a far right hellscape of grotty flags on every lamppost and the BBC on the brink of collapse. The lack of leadership is utterly unforgivable.
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Do you hear that….yes that’s thousands more running to the Greens and/or ripping up their Labour membership.
Now do you hear the silence…that’s no Reform voters going the other way.
Incomprehensible, reprehensible and political cowardice.
Now do you hear the silence…that’s no Reform voters going the other way.
Incomprehensible, reprehensible and political cowardice.
Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Do you hear that….yes that’s thousands more running to the Greens and/or ripping up their Labour membership.
Now do you hear the silence…that’s no Reform voters going the other way.
Incomprehensible, reprehensible and political cowardice.
Now do you hear the silence…that’s no Reform voters going the other way.
Incomprehensible, reprehensible and political cowardice.
There a few things more annoying than the mock-humble Facebook sentence ' we have just done a thing'.
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
There a few things more annoying than the mock-humble Facebook sentence ' we have just done a thing'.
I have now gone from the Labour Party. I have always hated the expression, but I am really 'politically homeless.
The Greens are an amalgam of Middle class nimbies and Corbynistas
The Lib Dems may have forgotten 2010-15, but I haven't.
Perhaps political parties are not the answer, and never were?
The Greens are an amalgam of Middle class nimbies and Corbynistas
The Lib Dems may have forgotten 2010-15, but I haven't.
Perhaps political parties are not the answer, and never were?
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I have now gone from the Labour Party. I have always hated the expression, but I am really 'politically homeless.
The Greens are an amalgam of Middle class nimbies and Corbynistas
The Lib Dems may have forgotten 2010-15, but I haven't.
Perhaps political parties are not the answer, and never were?
The Greens are an amalgam of Middle class nimbies and Corbynistas
The Lib Dems may have forgotten 2010-15, but I haven't.
Perhaps political parties are not the answer, and never were?
I know it doesn't really matter to anybody except me, but I need to leave the Labour Party if the immigration rules are changed as is predicted.
I am an active member, and cannot campaign on these illiberal policies.
Also, they concede the argument to the racists and bigots.
I am an active member, and cannot campaign on these illiberal policies.
Also, they concede the argument to the racists and bigots.
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I know it doesn't really matter to anybody except me, but I need to leave the Labour Party if the immigration rules are changed as is predicted.
I am an active member, and cannot campaign on these illiberal policies.
Also, they concede the argument to the racists and bigots.
I am an active member, and cannot campaign on these illiberal policies.
Also, they concede the argument to the racists and bigots.
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This place is full of Lib Dems who want to memory-hole 2010-15.
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This place is full of Lib Dems who want to memory-hole 2010-15.
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I honestly hope this is the last ever Budget. Going forward just announce changes as and when needed like everything else. We don’t need it all saved up. The world has changed. The media has become feral. No one can be trusted.
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I honestly hope this is the last ever Budget. Going forward just announce changes as and when needed like everything else. We don’t need it all saved up. The world has changed. The media has become feral. No one can be trusted.
Tiny?
Harborough Town: The tiny English market town attracting Spanish football fans trib.al/Ka1Fp74
The tiny English market town attracting Spanish football fans
Here's how a club in Leicestershire became a real life Football Manager project
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November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Tiny?
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I don't need a poppy, Flag or 'royal' for me to respect those that gave everything in past wars.
We are the only European country that obsessively looks back to past wars and we were not occupied.
Can we please look to the future a bit more.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
We are the only European country that obsessively looks back to past wars and we were not occupied.
Can we please look to the future a bit more.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Prince George joins the King and Princess of Wales at Festival of Remembrance
The event took place at the Royal Albert Hall
www.independent.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I don't need a poppy, Flag or 'royal' for me to respect those that gave everything in past wars.
We are the only European country that obsessively looks back to past wars and we were not occupied.
Can we please look to the future a bit more.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
We are the only European country that obsessively looks back to past wars and we were not occupied.
Can we please look to the future a bit more.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Possum looked into the mirror and scared itself.
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Possum looked into the mirror and scared itself.
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For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.
November 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.
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This investigation from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social is absolutely staggering. It is very common in Sheffield (I live in this bit) to have a leasehold, often with hundreds of years left on and pennies in ground rent. This is extortion pure and simple. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This investigation from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social is absolutely staggering. It is very common in Sheffield (I live in this bit) to have a leasehold, often with hundreds of years left on and pennies in ground rent. This is extortion pure and simple. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
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Surely the way to deal with people like Matt Goodwin is to declare them not British.And when they say that actually they were born here just tell them that sorry it takes more than a piece of paper.
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Surely the way to deal with people like Matt Goodwin is to declare them not British.And when they say that actually they were born here just tell them that sorry it takes more than a piece of paper.
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🙏 Big big thank you to everyone who bought a copy of my book about WW2 London Blitz ambulance driver and diarist June Spencer. This morning I sent all the revenue from sales in Sept and Oct to medical charities working in Gaza and Ukraine
November 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🙏 Big big thank you to everyone who bought a copy of my book about WW2 London Blitz ambulance driver and diarist June Spencer. This morning I sent all the revenue from sales in Sept and Oct to medical charities working in Gaza and Ukraine
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Translated from the Express: "Our remaining readers must be given special treatment in the budget, while all non-OAP welfare should be cut."
October 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Translated from the Express: "Our remaining readers must be given special treatment in the budget, while all non-OAP welfare should be cut."
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#OnThisDay in London riotous history, 1795: king George III attacked by angry crowds protesting war against France and poverty, and demanding political reform
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Today in London riotous history, 1795: king George III attacked by angry crowds.
As related in our previous post, the reforming London Corresponding Society (LCS) held a rally in Copenhagen Fields, Islington, on October 26, 1795, called to protest against the widespread hunger …
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October 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
#OnThisDay in London riotous history, 1795: king George III attacked by angry crowds protesting war against France and poverty, and demanding political reform
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This is my feeling too.
I'll never be able to vote for a party that doesn't want the UK in NATO and I'm not alone. By a long way.
The Greens have work to do.
I love what I'm hearing but this is a non negotiable for me and millions like me.
The Greens have work to do.
I love what I'm hearing but this is a non negotiable for me and millions like me.
October 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is my feeling too.
One of the first things I remembered.59 years ago
October 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
One of the first things I remembered.59 years ago
211 years ago
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Killed by beer – the Meux brewery flood of 1814
At about 5.30 pm on Monday October 17th 1814, a clerk inspected the huge vat of Porter- a strong black beer- at Meux’s Brewery, near the Tottenham Court Road in London. A large iron hoop supporting…
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October 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
211 years ago
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The Cabernet in the coal mine.
October 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The Cabernet in the coal mine.
My new local
Pub Research Trip - A wander around Market Harborough, Friday 17.10.
All welcome, meeting in the Cherry Tree around 1200.
All welcome, meeting in the Cherry Tree around 1200.
October 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My new local
Margaret Thatcher is *not* 100 today.
October 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Margaret Thatcher is *not* 100 today.
Dead people cannot be congratulated on their birthday.
Does that make me a bad person?
Does that make me a bad person?
October 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Dead people cannot be congratulated on their birthday.
Does that make me a bad person?
Does that make me a bad person?
If you are happy with these British citizens displaying their flag ( its not the wrong way round- hold on there, keyboard pedants-its meant to be viewed from outside) then I agree with you.
If you like flags normally but can't be doing with this, then you a bigot or racist.
If you like flags normally but can't be doing with this, then you a bigot or racist.
October 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If you are happy with these British citizens displaying their flag ( its not the wrong way round- hold on there, keyboard pedants-its meant to be viewed from outside) then I agree with you.
If you like flags normally but can't be doing with this, then you a bigot or racist.
If you like flags normally but can't be doing with this, then you a bigot or racist.
I voted for Lucy Powell in the end. Starmer needs to feel less rather than more comfortable.
October 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I voted for Lucy Powell in the end. Starmer needs to feel less rather than more comfortable.