Josh Neicho
@joshneicho.bsky.social
🖋️ Comms and journalism, scribble-bibble mostly in the West Mids 🏭🌾, often in London 💂♂️. Grassroots politics, society, culture, media, history, walking, SMEs & social enterprise, global UK, cheap eats from Kingswinford-Kings Cross 🪢👑
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Philip Rivers is coming out of retirement at age 44 for a shot at playing for the Indianapolis Colts, who are struggling to make the playoffs. He last played in the NFL in 2021. n.pr/3KKpLVm
Philip Rivers' return to the NFL, by the numbers
Philip Rivers is coming out of retirement at age 44 for a shot at playing for the Indianapolis Colts, who are struggling to make the playoffs. He last played in the NFL in 2021.
n.pr
December 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Philip Rivers is coming out of retirement at age 44 for a shot at playing for the Indianapolis Colts, who are struggling to make the playoffs. He last played in the NFL in 2021. n.pr/3KKpLVm
A striking thing about today’s Godwin’s Law argument on the other place - frivolity of supposedly hale and hearty Right-wingers shouting in each other’s faces. Own it and have a good laugh at yourselves/worry about the Budget or immigration instead, as per
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A striking thing about today’s Godwin’s Law argument on the other place - frivolity of supposedly hale and hearty Right-wingers shouting in each other’s faces. Own it and have a good laugh at yourselves/worry about the Budget or immigration instead, as per
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didnt realise this
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
didnt realise this
It’s like the Enlightenment in reverse, ironically 👇
Grok claimed this account was a passenger, then claimed the source was a video posted by Paul Golding of Britain First
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It’s like the Enlightenment in reverse, ironically 👇
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
How did the misreporting happen in the first place? What steps will news editors and management at the Mail, Telegraph and Times - the last two expensively pay-walled operations - take to nip this kind of retailing of lies in the bud?
After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future
November 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
How did the misreporting happen in the first place? What steps will news editors and management at the Mail, Telegraph and Times - the last two expensively pay-walled operations - take to nip this kind of retailing of lies in the bud?
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After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future
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X won't be removing the dangerous defamatory fake clip which manipulates a clip about football to pretend I said something crass about grooming in Rotherham
October 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
X won't be removing the dangerous defamatory fake clip which manipulates a clip about football to pretend I said something crass about grooming in Rotherham
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New post just out:
"Never again?"
On how the radical right are trying to change our collective memory about World War Two as part of their assault on the postwar order.
And why that memory remains a critical defence against nationalism.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...
"Never again?"
On how the radical right are trying to change our collective memory about World War Two as part of their assault on the postwar order.
And why that memory remains a critical defence against nationalism.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...
Never again?
Memory entrepreneurship and the radical right’s assault on the postwar order
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
New post just out:
"Never again?"
On how the radical right are trying to change our collective memory about World War Two as part of their assault on the postwar order.
And why that memory remains a critical defence against nationalism.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...
"Never again?"
On how the radical right are trying to change our collective memory about World War Two as part of their assault on the postwar order.
And why that memory remains a critical defence against nationalism.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...
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Anyway both got more votes than either candidate in the 2024 Conservative Leadership election!
October 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Anyway both got more votes than either candidate in the 2024 Conservative Leadership election!
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I note in this piece that @sundersays.bsky.social and @robfordmancs.bsky.social seem to be doing more to oppose the Conservatives’ extremist new ILR policy than the entire political mainstream. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-k...
Katie Lam’s immigration panic is built on lies
As a Tory proposes the harshest migration policy since Idi Amin’s, data shows the public doesn't understand the numbers - thanks to politicians too venal or timid to tell the truth
www.thenewworld.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I note in this piece that @sundersays.bsky.social and @robfordmancs.bsky.social seem to be doing more to oppose the Conservatives’ extremist new ILR policy than the entire political mainstream. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-k...
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The UK is not the destination of choice for asylum seekers in Europe. It is behind Germany & France and is 17th, or 5th at a stretch, of 28
www.gov.uk/government/s...
www.gov.uk/government/s...
October 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The UK is not the destination of choice for asylum seekers in Europe. It is behind Germany & France and is 17th, or 5th at a stretch, of 28
www.gov.uk/government/s...
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Note the author of this piece is a former Daily Mail biz journalist/editor, a former Times business editor and former Sunday Telegraph editor 👇
Where are these publications today on the Nathan Gill story? And where are they on the new Tories’ blithe, thrusting xenophobia?
Where are these publications today on the Nathan Gill story? And where are they on the new Tories’ blithe, thrusting xenophobia?
Russia bought themselves a senior member of the Reform party to do their bidding. He’s been found guilty – why does no one seem to care?
✏️ Patience Wheatcroft
✏️ Patience Wheatcroft
Nathan Gill: a scandal with no outrage
Russia bought themselves a senior member of the Reform party to do their bidding. He’s been found guilty – why does no one seem to care?
www.thenewworld.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Note the author of this piece is a former Daily Mail biz journalist/editor, a former Times business editor and former Sunday Telegraph editor 👇
Where are these publications today on the Nathan Gill story? And where are they on the new Tories’ blithe, thrusting xenophobia?
Where are these publications today on the Nathan Gill story? And where are they on the new Tories’ blithe, thrusting xenophobia?
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Wrote about Katie Lam
In defence of the rules-based order
The last time I saw my cousin, the former Tory MP Danny Kruger, I found myself trying to ginger him up a bit. I said, which I thought then and thought now – and which I can’t think it is betraying a c...
www.spectator.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Wrote about Katie Lam
What is it going to cost in enforcement and policing to deliver net negative migration of legal migrants, Katie Lam? How much would you be prepared to spend?
Judging by the runaway success of the Rwanda Plan, how confident are you of achieving 200K negative net migration per year, every year?
Judging by the runaway success of the Rwanda Plan, how confident are you of achieving 200K negative net migration per year, every year?
Lam's proposal of "gross immigration cap around the 'tens of thousands' with her ILR plans would imply net negative migration of about 200k/year for legal migrants:
Net negative legal migration of well over a million across a parliament
To use 'tens of thousands' as a GROSS cap is soundbite bingo
Net negative legal migration of well over a million across a parliament
To use 'tens of thousands' as a GROSS cap is soundbite bingo
October 21, 2025 at 7:04 AM
What is it going to cost in enforcement and policing to deliver net negative migration of legal migrants, Katie Lam? How much would you be prepared to spend?
Judging by the runaway success of the Rwanda Plan, how confident are you of achieving 200K negative net migration per year, every year?
Judging by the runaway success of the Rwanda Plan, how confident are you of achieving 200K negative net migration per year, every year?
Surely the headline + the point for every non-Conservative politician to hammer home is the costs in enforcement and lost GDP of these mitherings. And challenge Lam + Jenrick on granular details of the economic benefits they will say will be achieved
TORIES’ £100 BILLION MIGRANT FOLLY
TORIES’ £100 BILLION MIGRANT FOLLY
Lam's proposal of "gross immigration cap around the 'tens of thousands' with her ILR plans would imply net negative migration of about 200k/year for legal migrants:
Net negative legal migration of well over a million across a parliament
To use 'tens of thousands' as a GROSS cap is soundbite bingo
Net negative legal migration of well over a million across a parliament
To use 'tens of thousands' as a GROSS cap is soundbite bingo
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Surely the headline + the point for every non-Conservative politician to hammer home is the costs in enforcement and lost GDP of these mitherings. And challenge Lam + Jenrick on granular details of the economic benefits they will say will be achieved
TORIES’ £100 BILLION MIGRANT FOLLY
TORIES’ £100 BILLION MIGRANT FOLLY
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All of which is to say, this has costs, for us in HE sure, but also for business, medicine, finance, tech, arts and entertainment, pharmaceuticals. The industries that this country is a world leader in. And if you cannot fathom why this uncertainty is a problem then you are not fit to govern.
October 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
All of which is to say, this has costs, for us in HE sure, but also for business, medicine, finance, tech, arts and entertainment, pharmaceuticals. The industries that this country is a world leader in. And if you cannot fathom why this uncertainty is a problem then you are not fit to govern.
Please god don’t make it a verb Sam
But what if it focus groups well amongst voters Labour can't win anyway?
October 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Please god don’t make it a verb Sam
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Fab conference on 19th-century museums coming up in Birmingham next month. Taking the focus away from the big names to think about the regions, the empire and the working classes. Hope to see you there!
Home | Reexhibiting the Museum
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October 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Fab conference on 19th-century museums coming up in Birmingham next month. Taking the focus away from the big names to think about the regions, the empire and the working classes. Hope to see you there!
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I've used this, and it's good. What Walsall now needs is a protected cycle lane on Mill Lane between the Arboretum and the McClean Way. That would mean a mostly carfree route from Birmingham to Chasewater Park and, ultimately, Lichfield.
Accessible path opens now linking Walsall Arboretum and Birmingham City Centre 😊
www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-countr...
www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-countr...
Accessible path opens now linking Walsall Arboretum and Birmingham City Centre
The works replaced dilapidated steps and footpath near Moat Bridge
www.birminghammail.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I've used this, and it's good. What Walsall now needs is a protected cycle lane on Mill Lane between the Arboretum and the McClean Way. That would mean a mostly carfree route from Birmingham to Chasewater Park and, ultimately, Lichfield.
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For many Brits who have made lives abroad, the mere possibility of this becoming UK government policy makes moving back a hugely risky prospect. Who’d want to invest time and effort settling back in Britain while threats of expulsion are dangled over the heads of non-British family members?
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
October 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
For many Brits who have made lives abroad, the mere possibility of this becoming UK government policy makes moving back a hugely risky prospect. Who’d want to invest time and effort settling back in Britain while threats of expulsion are dangled over the heads of non-British family members?
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This email from @rbgkew.bsky.social seem slightly ominous...
October 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This email from @rbgkew.bsky.social seem slightly ominous...
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New HIGNFY line-up
October 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
New HIGNFY line-up
What‘s the bigger gap in UK reporting? The deaths of 150,000 people in Sudan or Trump’s authoritarianism?
In the UK at least it is ridiculous that a huge news media industry can when it comes down to it only produce nuanced and more realistic reporting of trends in the US from a handful of journos like Dan Knowles and the FT team
October 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
What‘s the bigger gap in UK reporting? The deaths of 150,000 people in Sudan or Trump’s authoritarianism?
“The terms of our estate may not endure Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow”
October 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
“The terms of our estate may not endure Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow”