Val Hudson
@valhud.bsky.social
Feminist, international socialist very pro EU. Worked hard to get the Tories out and hope for a fairer society & electoral system. Patient advocate for people with severe lung disorders . Labour Party member #SAFC family
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📣 🌹 GOOD NEWS! Your weekly round up of the difference a Labour government is making - this week is a BUDGET SPECIAL
Delivering in Government: your weekly round up of good news Labour stories: BUDGET SPECIAL – LabourList
What a week. The Budget brought no shortage of announcements to talk about, including some truly Labour decisions from the Chancellor. Here are the seven…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
📣 🌹 GOOD NEWS! Your weekly round up of the difference a Labour government is making - this week is a BUDGET SPECIAL
Agree 100%Peter. All so wrong Goodness knows what people like Alf Dobbs think about it all
I genuinely despair at the state of the Labour government.
The proposed asylum seeker policy is totally alien to the party's internationalist values and the wishes of the membership.
The proposed asylum seeker policy is totally alien to the party's internationalist values and the wishes of the membership.
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Agree 100%Peter. All so wrong Goodness knows what people like Alf Dobbs think about it all
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Keir Starmer + Shabana Mahmood propose that reintroducing Priti Patel's 2022 asylum reforms (with small tweaks) can significantly deter Channel Crossings
2022-24 shows temporary status won't deliver control re "pull factors"
Having controlled routes at scale + closing unauthorised routes could
2022-24 shows temporary status won't deliver control re "pull factors"
Having controlled routes at scale + closing unauthorised routes could
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Keir Starmer + Shabana Mahmood propose that reintroducing Priti Patel's 2022 asylum reforms (with small tweaks) can significantly deter Channel Crossings
2022-24 shows temporary status won't deliver control re "pull factors"
Having controlled routes at scale + closing unauthorised routes could
2022-24 shows temporary status won't deliver control re "pull factors"
Having controlled routes at scale + closing unauthorised routes could
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“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them".
How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them".
How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
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The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
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I see that Mahmood, McSweeney and Glasman (who admires Steve Bannon) are continuing to merry go round of cruelty depicted on our current front page
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I see that Mahmood, McSweeney and Glasman (who admires Steve Bannon) are continuing to merry go round of cruelty depicted on our current front page
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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...
"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...
October 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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...
"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
Shortly after accusing all other political party leaders of believing in "the magic money tree", Kemi Badenoch announces her plan to completely scrap stamp duty, without any word on how she plans to pay for it
October 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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
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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...
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
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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...
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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
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
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...
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September 21, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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
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
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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
September 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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
I’m with Kinnock. Does anyone remember small boats bring a crisis before Brexit?
That would make things a lot easier. Britain is not doing better since Brexit. It was a Farage created disaster.
👏👏 Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has told Sir Keir Starmer it is “time to look at rejoining” the EU to ease the country’s economic woes and get a grip on small boat crisis.
Kinnock, led Labour 1983 to 1992, said UK could no longer afford the “huge self-inflicted losses” created by leaving EU
Kinnock, led Labour 1983 to 1992, said UK could no longer afford the “huge self-inflicted losses” created by leaving EU
September 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I’m with Kinnock. Does anyone remember small boats bring a crisis before Brexit?
Me and Helen Mirren: Life after 80
open.substack.com/pub/eyesande... from @bobhudson.bsky.social A great weekend read
open.substack.com/pub/eyesande... from @bobhudson.bsky.social A great weekend read
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!
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September 21, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Me and Helen Mirren: Life after 80
open.substack.com/pub/eyesande... from @bobhudson.bsky.social A great weekend read
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
An actually vaguely sensible intervention from French government minister on #r4today
Rejects idea that UK’s a “soft touch” for migrants - finally a bit of honesty
Calls 1-in-1-out deal symbolic, which is very much what it is
& reminds us this issue is not a priority in FR politics right now
Rejects idea that UK’s a “soft touch” for migrants - finally a bit of honesty
Calls 1-in-1-out deal symbolic, which is very much what it is
& reminds us this issue is not a priority in FR politics right now
September 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Couldn’t agree more Let’s hope the UK government follows her lead
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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."
"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."
September 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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."
"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."
Eyes & Ears North East
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An interesting and informative read
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An interesting and informative read
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...
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September 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Eyes & Ears North East
eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com?utm_campaign...
An interesting and informative read
eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com?utm_campaign...
An interesting and informative read
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
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
September 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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
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 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...
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...
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August 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
A family say their lives have been ruined after a video of a black man and his brother playing in the park with his white granddaughters was shared by Tommy Robinson and weaponised by the far right.
Olajuwon Ayeni, a musician from Redcar, North Yorkshire, has been racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile in the week since the family video was stolen from the TikTok account of his wife, Natalie, who he married five years ago, and shared by extremists online. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The perpetrator of this horrendous act should be behind bars
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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.
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.
August 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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.
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
August 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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
August 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This Trump me me me rhetoric is beyond disgusting Zelenskyy is wise to keep his cool but he must be so p****d off