Gavin Hinks
@mrgavhinks.bsky.social
Freelance hack worrying mostly about corporate governance for #BoardAgenda and business issues for other titles. Extreme tea drinker. Tom Waits. Writer of unpublished things. #corpgov #corporategovernance
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absolutely monday pilled. i’m toil-maxxing. going drudgery mode. stumblecore. hitting my slog goals.
December 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
absolutely monday pilled. i’m toil-maxxing. going drudgery mode. stumblecore. hitting my slog goals.
Just made the mistake of checking London theatre ticket prices and now need a lay down.
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Just made the mistake of checking London theatre ticket prices and now need a lay down.
When I put my Spotify Christmas playlist on my wife and daughter’s response is: “No! That makes us want to die.” Our musical tastes diverge at Christmas.
December 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
When I put my Spotify Christmas playlist on my wife and daughter’s response is: “No! That makes us want to die.” Our musical tastes diverge at Christmas.
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Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
Friday night in the pub I met a couple from elsewhere working five jobs between them to pay rent and bring up their 8 year-year old. I’d say they were giving, working people. And this is what they get from the Home Office.
December 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Friday night in the pub I met a couple from elsewhere working five jobs between them to pay rent and bring up their 8 year-year old. I’d say they were giving, working people. And this is what they get from the Home Office.
Watched Train to Busan again last night with 18. Comepletely forgotten how merciless it is on bankers and fund managers. The writers were clearly very pissed off with the financial services industry. youtu.be/UOTOjA0ngmk?...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Watched Train to Busan again last night with 18. Comepletely forgotten how merciless it is on bankers and fund managers. The writers were clearly very pissed off with the financial services industry. youtu.be/UOTOjA0ngmk?...
I see the new Dr Who spinoff rests entirely on a Guy Goma plot line.
December 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I see the new Dr Who spinoff rests entirely on a Guy Goma plot line.
I have never known the studio canal ident sting to be followed by an utterly crap film.
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I have never known the studio canal ident sting to be followed by an utterly crap film.
I won’t be going.
As Trump and Infantino work the red carpet, bragging about setting records for ticket prices.
(video below)
Lets break down what “record prices" really mean for football fans and host countries.
An important thread.
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(video below)
Lets break down what “record prices" really mean for football fans and host countries.
An important thread.
1/10
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I won’t be going.
What!?
160 years ago, the 13th Amendment was ratified, ending slavery. But that amendment came with a sinister loophole: a Slavery Clause that allowed for slavery “as punishment for crime.”
We need to pass @repnikema.bsky.social’s and my Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException once and for all!
We need to pass @repnikema.bsky.social’s and my Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException once and for all!
December 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
What!?
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It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.
You have to seriously wonder what kind of parenting Farage was subjected to.
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
You have to seriously wonder what kind of parenting Farage was subjected to.
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
Can’t help feeling that national football associations should just leave FIFA and start a brand new body.
December 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Can’t help feeling that national football associations should just leave FIFA and start a brand new body.
Life’s too short to learn how to play Magic the Gathering.
December 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Life’s too short to learn how to play Magic the Gathering.
Got to say, the FIFA peace prize looks like the dead rising out of the ground .
December 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Got to say, the FIFA peace prize looks like the dead rising out of the ground .
i just want a single day without utter insanity in my timeline.
Just in: A new US national security strategy is calling for 'cultivating resistance' in Europe, warning that the continent is subverting democracy, blocking peace in Ukraine and facing 'civilisational erasure' from high migration and falling birth rates. on.ft.com/3Y7XP0G
December 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
i just want a single day without utter insanity in my timeline.
“It is a grim, desperate Budget and a wasted opportunity, but every one of the roughly 4,000 choices in it was the Chancellor’s to take; she did not owe the BBC a full explanation on every point.” www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Rachel Reeves’ rage-bait Budget
The Chancellor’s set piece was a masterclass in political humiliation
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December 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“It is a grim, desperate Budget and a wasted opportunity, but every one of the roughly 4,000 choices in it was the Chancellor’s to take; she did not owe the BBC a full explanation on every point.” www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Quite proud of this: @zoekeating.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Quite proud of this: @zoekeating.com
Been rewatching s8 of Game of Thrones and can’t get over just how shambolic the defence of Winterfell is in ep 4. A troop of brownies could have organised things more effectively.
December 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Been rewatching s8 of Game of Thrones and can’t get over just how shambolic the defence of Winterfell is in ep 4. A troop of brownies could have organised things more effectively.
I have had cause to use and view YouTube quite a lot recently and the sheer volume of AI generated slop over there is astonishing.
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I have had cause to use and view YouTube quite a lot recently and the sheer volume of AI generated slop over there is astonishing.
Starmer and Reeves: “They are as one in claiming to deal with the world as it is, while their actions plead in vain for restoration of the world as it once was.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fear of facing the future has British politics stuck in the past | Rafael Behr
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves claim to be dealing with the world as it is, but seem to yearn for a world that has disappeared, says the Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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December 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Starmer and Reeves: “They are as one in claiming to deal with the world as it is, while their actions plead in vain for restoration of the world as it once was.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Just seen Ethan Hawk in Blue Moon so I’m calling an Oscar nomination right now. Brilliant performance. youtu.be/qo7gRHip0lI
BLUE MOON | Official Trailer (2025)
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November 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Just seen Ethan Hawk in Blue Moon so I’m calling an Oscar nomination right now. Brilliant performance. youtu.be/qo7gRHip0lI
I’ll tell you what’s unchristian: hacking into someone’s website and fiddling with it for your own political gain.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I’ll tell you what’s unchristian: hacking into someone’s website and fiddling with it for your own political gain.