Jack Hosier 🏳️‍🌈
despol.bsky.social
Jack Hosier 🏳️‍🌈
@despol.bsky.social
A bit of this, a bit of that, but most of all, let’s keep things just that little bit kinder here.

Left-leaning politics.

London.
“Give me one kiss in apple blossom
Give me one wish and I'd be wassailing.”

Oh England My Lionheart by Kate Bush. #r4today
January 24, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Nigel Farage: "I don't do computers”.
January 21, 2026 at 1:09 PM
So Farage wants us to believe the Tories are queuing up to join Reform UK. Yet today, another dodgy character has joined. If so many Tories want to join, why does he keep taking the people he does?
January 18, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Bobby J, you’re right. We’re not laughing. We’re pissing ourselves laughing at you, Robert Jenrick.
January 16, 2026 at 11:30 AM
The guy from Leon sounded convincing but a quick look at its menu shows that it’s still selling a lot of ultra processed food. #r4today
January 16, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Jenrick is a bargain-basement Farage: all the populism, none of the charisma. He got lucky with his stop-a-fare-evader video, less so with his Birmingham comments. If he joins Reform UK, it’s probably his best shot at leadership, because Farage never stays the course.
January 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Not only should Craig Guildford resign, he should not benefit from his retire-and-rejoin pension manoeuvre: he retired for 31 days in 2024, then returned to the same job to stop his pension being reduced. #c4news
January 14, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Truly shocking comments from Tory Shadow Science minister Julia Lopez.
January 12, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Young Americans is an interesting choice to mark the anniversary of David Bowie’s untimely death. #r4today
January 10, 2026 at 7:05 AM
I asked chatGPT if they would like to be a guest editor for the Today programme. #r4today
December 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
What Dyson says sounds very impressive, but why can’t he produce a vacuum cleaner that doesn’t topple over? #r4today
December 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Who knew that Lush is a British brand. Everything about it suggests USA. And the smell pervading from their stores…

CEO sounds excellent.

#r4today
December 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
‘He doesn’t have the baubles.’ Really? #PMQ’s
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Almost every paper today shows restraint in how it treats the Bondi atrocity. The Daily Mail alone plasters a lurid sex-confession banner above ‘terror at a Jewish festival’. When tragedy becomes just another backdrop for titillation, something has gone badly wrong.
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Esther Rantzen helped save countless lives through Childline and decades of campaigning. The bitter irony is that as she faces terminal cancer, she has no legal control over how her own life ends. If anyone has earned dignity and choice, it is her. #r4today
December 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Grey-Thompson has no right to block the bill. She is there to scrutinise. Nothing more. #r4today
December 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This is insufferable.

Remember when we used to look forward to the World Cup?
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I only wish the World Cup draw was longer…
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Effectively, by sending a letter to Rachel Reeves, the OBR has turned this into a political issue. The OBR is supposed to be non-political. It is very clear what could have motivated them to act in this way, and what they have done is shift attention away from their mistake on Wednesday. #bbcLauraK
November 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Our economy needs more people, so those who are against lifting the two-child benefit cap must therefore, by definition, be pro-immigration…

Because they are, aren’t they? #bbcLauraK
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Calling the Tories a bunch of liars is very different from individual insults that border on misogyny. #bbclaurak
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Kemi Badenoch seems to be riding a wave right now — purely achieved by being nasty.
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Laura Kuenssberg doesn’t want to know about investment.
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
It’s a total humiliation for Kemi Badenoch that MPs are leaving as she speaks, made worse by the fact that the Deputy Speaker’s intervention has drawn everyone’s attention to it. #budget2026
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Huge cock-up by OBR releasing their assessment of the Budget early - before Rachel Reeves has delivered her Budget. #Budget2026
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM