JamesHobson
@jameshobson.bsky.social
History, politics, animal welfare and vegetarianism. Liverpool FC and the European Union.
Author of eight books on radical Britain 1600-1900
Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
Author of eight books on radical Britain 1600-1900
Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The readers are loving @jonathanhealey.bsky.social’s piece on clocks and capitalism for FT Wealth on.ft.com/49Nq3Fi
How time became money: clocks, capitalism and wealth
We invented clocks to measure our days — but they ended up measuring us
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November 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The readers are loving @jonathanhealey.bsky.social’s piece on clocks and capitalism for FT Wealth on.ft.com/49Nq3Fi
I don't know if avoiding Trumpy Webb, Weedy Tory boy Chris Mason and Young Conservative Nick Robinson is the ultimate answer, but it works for me.
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I don't know if avoiding Trumpy Webb, Weedy Tory boy Chris Mason and Young Conservative Nick Robinson is the ultimate answer, but it works for me.
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In a nod to the Woodcraft folk, the socialist boy scouts, and the fact that left wing politics is more of a pre-occupation than a desire to govern for the better, I propose the new Corbyn/Sultana vehicle should be called 'Hobbycraft'
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In a nod to the Woodcraft folk, the socialist boy scouts, and the fact that left wing politics is more of a pre-occupation than a desire to govern for the better, I propose the new Corbyn/Sultana vehicle should be called 'Hobbycraft'
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This is British media in action ...
They celebrate their scraping of the barrel.
They celebrate their scraping of the barrel.
‘It’s a disgrace’ — Rachel Reeves’s uncle gives budget verdict ⬇️
‘It’s a disgrace’ — Rachel Reeves’s uncle gives budget verdict
‘It’s a disgrace’ — Rachel Reeves’s uncle gives budget verdict
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November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This is British media in action ...
They celebrate their scraping of the barrel.
They celebrate their scraping of the barrel.
There are loads of people, many of them property rich and fulminating on Facebook, who actively get pleasure from people suffering through poverty.
Where would they be without house price inflation and triple lock pensions.
Where would they be without house price inflation and triple lock pensions.
November 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
There are loads of people, many of them property rich and fulminating on Facebook, who actively get pleasure from people suffering through poverty.
Where would they be without house price inflation and triple lock pensions.
Where would they be without house price inflation and triple lock pensions.
Agree. Why can't Labour see this?
Taxing mansions? Yep I agree
Encouraging investment? Yep I agree
Raising living and minimum wages? Yep I agree
Lifting 2 child benefit? Yep, I agree.
Well done on lots of fronts. Now sort out the out-Faraging Farage when discussing immigration.
Encouraging investment? Yep I agree
Raising living and minimum wages? Yep I agree
Lifting 2 child benefit? Yep, I agree.
Well done on lots of fronts. Now sort out the out-Faraging Farage when discussing immigration.
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Agree. Why can't Labour see this?
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
BBC reporters are hugely enjoying themselves.
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
BBC reporters are hugely enjoying themselves.
I have changed my mind. He would spin away.
Despite all the budget leaks, Hugh Dalton will not be spinning in his grave today, because he was cremated.
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I have changed my mind. He would spin away.
Despite all the budget leaks, Hugh Dalton will not be spinning in his grave today, because he was cremated.
November 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Despite all the budget leaks, Hugh Dalton will not be spinning in his grave today, because he was cremated.
Anybody out there who wrote for Fonthill publishers and has yet to be paid royalties? I am clearly not the only one
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November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Anybody out there who wrote for Fonthill publishers and has yet to be paid royalties? I am clearly not the only one
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Having been mistakenly included on an electoral roll, Manchester shopkeeper Lily Maxwell voted in a by-election on this day 1867, more than 50 years before (some) women were enfranchised by the Representation of the People Act. Suffragists seized on it as a test case.
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Having been mistakenly included on an electoral roll, Manchester shopkeeper Lily Maxwell voted in a by-election on this day 1867, more than 50 years before (some) women were enfranchised by the Representation of the People Act. Suffragists seized on it as a test case.
East Midlands Local News is utter crap. An singer has her laptop stolen; Peter Shilton stopped problem gambling a decade ago; the ego-ridden weatherman has views on mushrooms; AND a a long propaganda push for no gambling taxes.
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
East Midlands Local News is utter crap. An singer has her laptop stolen; Peter Shilton stopped problem gambling a decade ago; the ego-ridden weatherman has views on mushrooms; AND a a long propaganda push for no gambling taxes.
Email from Labour asking me to reconsider my exit
If I don't re-join, FARAGE will eat me up!
Its the cosying up to the bigots and racists that made me leave in the first place.
If I don't re-join, FARAGE will eat me up!
Its the cosying up to the bigots and racists that made me leave in the first place.
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Email from Labour asking me to reconsider my exit
If I don't re-join, FARAGE will eat me up!
Its the cosying up to the bigots and racists that made me leave in the first place.
If I don't re-join, FARAGE will eat me up!
Its the cosying up to the bigots and racists that made me leave in the first place.
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Well done to #r4today on following up on the Covid inquiry and the jailing of Nathan Gill and not letting these important issues go. Oh hang on I've just woken up and find instead the headlines include stuff about the 30th anniversary of 'Toy Story' instead.
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Well done to #r4today on following up on the Covid inquiry and the jailing of Nathan Gill and not letting these important issues go. Oh hang on I've just woken up and find instead the headlines include stuff about the 30th anniversary of 'Toy Story' instead.
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I wonder if anyone in our national press will ever write that Reform have had a nightmare week?
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I wonder if anyone in our national press will ever write that Reform have had a nightmare week?
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Whilst Nathan Gill had to be paid to speak for Russia, we shouldnt forget that plenty of UKIPers were willing to parrot pro Russian lines for free.
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Whilst Nathan Gill had to be paid to speak for Russia, we shouldnt forget that plenty of UKIPers were willing to parrot pro Russian lines for free.
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When Justin Webb and Emma Barnett present #r4today and read out bits from the UK press how come that the BBC don't disclose that both are paid columnists for the Murdoch Times?
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
When Justin Webb and Emma Barnett present #r4today and read out bits from the UK press how come that the BBC don't disclose that both are paid columnists for the Murdoch Times?
I didn't walk around the damp streets of Broadstairs on a cold November morning, canvassing on my own, so that a Labour Home Secretary could offer preferential terms to the rich.
Feeling a bit of an idiot
Feeling a bit of an idiot
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I didn't walk around the damp streets of Broadstairs on a cold November morning, canvassing on my own, so that a Labour Home Secretary could offer preferential terms to the rich.
Feeling a bit of an idiot
Feeling a bit of an idiot
Not Being A Member Of The Labour Party is working for me quite well.
There's nothing more soothing than giving up hope.
There's nothing more soothing than giving up hope.
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Not Being A Member Of The Labour Party is working for me quite well.
There's nothing more soothing than giving up hope.
There's nothing more soothing than giving up hope.
I am putting this out there- has anybody had trouble getting their royalties from #Fonthill publishers?
They owe me for the 18 months before their takeover by @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
P and S say it is their responsibility, but they are not answering
They owe me for the 18 months before their takeover by @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
P and S say it is their responsibility, but they are not answering
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I am putting this out there- has anybody had trouble getting their royalties from #Fonthill publishers?
They owe me for the 18 months before their takeover by @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
P and S say it is their responsibility, but they are not answering
They owe me for the 18 months before their takeover by @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
P and S say it is their responsibility, but they are not answering
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My hatred of Corbynism was that it was a purely aesthetic political project and I'm starting to realise that Starmerism is also basically that, just with a much less attractive aesthetic.
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My hatred of Corbynism was that it was a purely aesthetic political project and I'm starting to realise that Starmerism is also basically that, just with a much less attractive aesthetic.