Hamish Macdonald
@hamishmac.bsky.social
Teacher (retired), historian, writer, dual British/French Nationality (resident in France), Arsenal FC fan, likes cricket, politically left of centre, loves cooking, gardening, music, creativity, seeks fun, listens to alternative points of view
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Trump acts like he is running a protection racket. What's going to be interesting is watching all those right wingers who have defended him argue that it is right that he attempts to strong arm UK et al into letting him occupy another NATO country.
January 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Trump acts like he is running a protection racket. What's going to be interesting is watching all those right wingers who have defended him argue that it is right that he attempts to strong arm UK et al into letting him occupy another NATO country.
Time surely for UK plus European leaders to stop sucking up to Trump and play him at his own game. For a while not specifying retaliation for the moment but making it clear he has crossed a line and signifiant response will follow.
January 17, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Time surely for UK plus European leaders to stop sucking up to Trump and play him at his own game. For a while not specifying retaliation for the moment but making it clear he has crossed a line and signifiant response will follow.
Farage’s face and body language during Jenrick press conference unusually tense (toothache or dental problem) suggesting not quite in control of the narrative that Jenrick is desperately spinning. Massive wake up call to Labour to get their media projection smart. Starmer on notice re May elections
January 15, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Farage’s face and body language during Jenrick press conference unusually tense (toothache or dental problem) suggesting not quite in control of the narrative that Jenrick is desperately spinning. Massive wake up call to Labour to get their media projection smart. Starmer on notice re May elections
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
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Hamish Macdonald
PS also have appreciated La Vallete’s gent’s pool
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One to share with TRIP supporters!
Hamish Macdonald
PS also have appreciated La Vallete’s gent’s pool
Jimmy Kimmel's Alternative Christmas Message (Channel 4 UK)
YouTube video by LateNighter
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December 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PqTP...
One to share with TRIP supporters!
Hamish Macdonald
PS also have appreciated La Vallete’s gent’s pool
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PqTP...
One to share with TRIP supporters!
Hamish Macdonald
PS also have appreciated La Vallete’s gent’s pool
@therestpolitics.bsky.social Starmer interview with Nick Robinson on the Radio 4 Today Programme this morning. Thought he handled Robinson‘s questions on behalf of the Tory and Reform parties and detractors well. He did not get riled and was articulate, well prepared, clear and prime ministerial.
October 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
@therestpolitics.bsky.social Starmer interview with Nick Robinson on the Radio 4 Today Programme this morning. Thought he handled Robinson‘s questions on behalf of the Tory and Reform parties and detractors well. He did not get riled and was articulate, well prepared, clear and prime ministerial.
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Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.
June 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Anthony Seldon trotted out on Sunday morning with Trevor Phillips as if a genuine academic objective historian rather than an ex-independent school headteacher with conservative bias. Ffs
June 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Anthony Seldon trotted out on Sunday morning with Trevor Phillips as if a genuine academic objective historian rather than an ex-independent school headteacher with conservative bias. Ffs
@channel4news.bsky.social Krishan Guru Murphy superb tonight ! Hat’s off for doggedly pursuing truth versus Israeli disinformation and fanatical lies regarding shooting Gazans desperately seeking aid distributed by UN.
June 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
@channel4news.bsky.social Krishan Guru Murphy superb tonight ! Hat’s off for doggedly pursuing truth versus Israeli disinformation and fanatical lies regarding shooting Gazans desperately seeking aid distributed by UN.
Laura K anointing Nigel Farage as future PM. What does this say about a). Her objective journalism and b). The BBC’s complicity in making respectable the populist extreme right agenda?
May 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Laura K anointing Nigel Farage as future PM. What does this say about a). Her objective journalism and b). The BBC’s complicity in making respectable the populist extreme right agenda?
Is Trump having his Liz Truss moment?😂
April 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Is Trump having his Liz Truss moment?😂
Trump cabinet meeting a nauseating spectacle of sycophancy with media being complicit in giving it airtime
March 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Trump cabinet meeting a nauseating spectacle of sycophancy with media being complicit in giving it airtime
Trump in full flight deranged mode this afternoon !
March 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Trump in full flight deranged mode this afternoon !
Where is the US opposition ? Senior statesmen? Obama, Bush, Biden, Harris, Romney, Who is going to speak up? Why the silence?
February 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Where is the US opposition ? Senior statesmen? Obama, Bush, Biden, Harris, Romney, Who is going to speak up? Why the silence?
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Privatised vs Public Water
England & Wales: Private firms = high bills, big dividends, underinvestment.
Scotland: Publicly owned = lower bills, reinvested profits, better performance.
Leakage? Less in Scotland. Sewage spills? Fewer. Public ownership works. 💧 #UKWater
England & Wales: Private firms = high bills, big dividends, underinvestment.
Scotland: Publicly owned = lower bills, reinvested profits, better performance.
Leakage? Less in Scotland. Sewage spills? Fewer. Public ownership works. 💧 #UKWater
January 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Privatised vs Public Water
England & Wales: Private firms = high bills, big dividends, underinvestment.
Scotland: Publicly owned = lower bills, reinvested profits, better performance.
Leakage? Less in Scotland. Sewage spills? Fewer. Public ownership works. 💧 #UKWater
England & Wales: Private firms = high bills, big dividends, underinvestment.
Scotland: Publicly owned = lower bills, reinvested profits, better performance.
Leakage? Less in Scotland. Sewage spills? Fewer. Public ownership works. 💧 #UKWater
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
A question from a TRIP plus member:
“Would Keir Starmer have more world influence and the courage to stand up to Trump if Britain were in the EU given he is one of the few European leaders of a government with a majority ?”
A question from a TRIP plus member:
“Would Keir Starmer have more world influence and the courage to stand up to Trump if Britain were in the EU given he is one of the few European leaders of a government with a majority ?”
January 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
A question from a TRIP plus member:
“Would Keir Starmer have more world influence and the courage to stand up to Trump if Britain were in the EU given he is one of the few European leaders of a government with a majority ?”
A question from a TRIP plus member:
“Would Keir Starmer have more world influence and the courage to stand up to Trump if Britain were in the EU given he is one of the few European leaders of a government with a majority ?”
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Spent the day talking to Europeans, and nobody can think of any precedent for what Musk just did to the US Congress. There is no businessman with that much power, the power to stop a routine spending bill, anywhere else in the democratic world.
December 19, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Spent the day talking to Europeans, and nobody can think of any precedent for what Musk just did to the US Congress. There is no businessman with that much power, the power to stop a routine spending bill, anywhere else in the democratic world.
Best Websites, centres, stores and ideas, please, for a North London small urban garden project Christmas gift set for 2-4 year olds. Can be for separate items (water features, plants, tools, wildlife feeders, tools). Must be accessible or good for deliveries or offer flexibility e.g vouchers
December 14, 2024 at 7:34 AM
Best Websites, centres, stores and ideas, please, for a North London small urban garden project Christmas gift set for 2-4 year olds. Can be for separate items (water features, plants, tools, wildlife feeders, tools). Must be accessible or good for deliveries or offer flexibility e.g vouchers
Is Putin having premonitions about his own fate following fall of al-Assad?
December 12, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Is Putin having premonitions about his own fate following fall of al-Assad?
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If that disgusting racist and grifting liar Nigel Farage shouldn't have been on Question Time even once, nevermind 38 times.
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Give this a Like, or better yet a RP.
December 5, 2024 at 8:26 PM
If that disgusting racist and grifting liar Nigel Farage shouldn't have been on Question Time even once, nevermind 38 times.
Give this a Like, or better yet a RP.
Give this a Like, or better yet a RP.
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Man of the people Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson on NHS workers etc
November 19, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Man of the people Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson on NHS workers etc
‘Clarkson tax protest’. A perfect riposte to the mainstream media onslaught on the removal of protection from inheritance tax from farmers. Hope the Labour media team add this to the script!
November 20, 2024 at 3:16 PM
‘Clarkson tax protest’. A perfect riposte to the mainstream media onslaught on the removal of protection from inheritance tax from farmers. Hope the Labour media team add this to the script!
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Clarkson: Your claim that I bought a farm to avoid taxes is false and irresponsible.
BBC: It’s your own claim.
Clarkson: What’s that got to do with anything?
BBC: It’s your own claim.
Clarkson: What’s that got to do with anything?
And THAT is exactly how people with a huge sense of entitlement regularly behave when they get caught out.
#JeremyClarkson
#JeremyClarkson
November 19, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Clarkson: Your claim that I bought a farm to avoid taxes is false and irresponsible.
BBC: It’s your own claim.
Clarkson: What’s that got to do with anything?
BBC: It’s your own claim.
Clarkson: What’s that got to do with anything?
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🔴Revealed: Trump Campaigns Received $45m from Tufton Street Donors
A transatlantic “web of dark money” ties UK think tank donors to Donald Trump and US Republicans
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/04/r...
A transatlantic “web of dark money” ties UK think tank donors to Donald Trump and US Republicans
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/04/r...
Revealed: Trump Campaigns Received $45m from Tufton Street Donors
A transatlantic “web of dark money” ties UK think tank donors to Donald Trump and US Republicans
bylinetimes.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:23 PM
🔴Revealed: Trump Campaigns Received $45m from Tufton Street Donors
A transatlantic “web of dark money” ties UK think tank donors to Donald Trump and US Republicans
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/04/r...
A transatlantic “web of dark money” ties UK think tank donors to Donald Trump and US Republicans
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/04/r...