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.
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
Strictly needs someone to steady the ship — a safe pair of hands, uncontroversial, used to Saturday nights… Gary Lineker’s time has come. #strictly
October 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
What is going on at #r4today? Crashing the pips and now the wrong inflation figures?
October 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Is this the first time the Weather has crashed the pips? #r4today ?
October 22, 2025 at 6:08 AM
French lose their crown jewels; perhaps Prince Andrew should lose his. #r4today
October 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Also worth noting that Prince Andrew isn’t actually losing his title. He remains Duke of York unless Parliament were to pass an Act to remove it — something that’s never happened in modern times. #R4Today
October 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The only person affected by losing his titles is Andrew, and those around him. As far as the general public is concerned, it will not make a jot of difference. How many people actually referred to him as ‘Duke’? Everyone calls him ‘Prince’ — and that, apparently, is what he will remain. #R4Today
October 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
When people talk about “low UK productivity”, what they really mean is “low productivity outside London”. If the rest of the country matched London’s levels, the UK economy would look very different. #R4Today
October 16, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Starmer is wiping the floor with Badenoch. #PMQs
October 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
September 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM