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How do we get this the Pulitzer Prize, and the people of Minneapolis nominated for the Nobel peace prize? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
What Is Your Emergency?
Podcast Episode · This American Life · 01/02/2026 · 57m
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February 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
@roberthutton.co.uk Just finished Cockleshell Heros. Not a war film of the first rank. Stiffest upper lip award should go to the soundtrack, which was bombastic and intrusive, even in the quieter sections.
January 12, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Shows I saw in 2026. 1. Revenge: After The Levoyah. Absolute hoot about a Jewish plot to kidnap Corbyn. Great performances from the two players. 4.5/5.
January 2, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Amazing walk through north London.
December 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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This sums it up rather well.
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It’s very good- strong recommend.
Death by Lightning, Netflix 4-parter on the assassination of James Garfield, reviewed by @helenlewis.bsky.social helenlewis.substack.com/p/the-bluest...
December 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
@steverichards.bsky.social @greenmirandahere.bsky.social You should read this- it’s the clearest account I’ve seen of the Government’s growth strategy. If only the Chancellor/PM had said this!
That is a lot of tweets. If you got this far you deserve a prize. Reasonable people will debate this growth strategy. But claiming there isn’t one is lazy nonsense. Higher growth matters because rising living standards are the goal, and higher investment is a key tool.
December 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
On incompetence
Much of our political culture is fundamentally incompetent.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
@steverichards.bsky.social @greenmirandahere.bsky.social guys much as I love ONNAO that conversation about Andrew let him off far too lightly. The issue is not has he been convicted, it’s, do the known facts disqualify him from the RF. His friendship with Epstein after his conviction was known; 1/2
November 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Nigel Farage's party unveiled a woman who had called for hotels with asylum seekers to be burned down as their favourite political prisoner. Perhaps the news outlets could quiz him on his feelings of responsibility for stoking violence?
September 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
100 times this.
Reform is not some unstoppable political force.

It spent the weekend calling Lucy Connolly a "political prisoner", cheering a guy who opposes Covid vaccines & dismissing climate change.

Labour should spray these clips across the web.

Make Reform fight on this ground. It is eminently beatable.
Reform call Connolly "Britain's favourite political prisoner"

Soft on crime, soft on racism

We don't have political prisoners.

The woman who posted "“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care” is not a national treasure, ouside their conference.
September 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
@lbc this presenter is seriously out of her depth.
August 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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A government spokesman told the BBC, "Farage? Cunt's a nonce. You've only got to look at him."
August 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Oh you absolutely useless wankers
August 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
@roberthutton.co.uk hey Rob, I’ve had a great idea for an episode: you should cover Conspiracy, the Branagh/Tuchi movie about the Wannasee Conference, no action, but an absorbing account of the origins of the “final solution.”
August 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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"This time I know our side will win" delivered with such utter confidence before armies had even set foot in Stalingrad is just an incredible thing to see
July 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Taking Aunt Maud to the airport this morning. She's dolled up to meet the Moroccan waiter she's been sending money to for the last year.
June 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
@roberthutton.co.uk hey! Very excited for Das Boot. Who is going to be your guest?
June 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Selected walks I did in 2025. Wendover to Tring. Wonderful. explore.osmaps.com/route/250719...
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June 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
@steverichards.bsky.social @iainmartin1.bsky.social Oh look. High electricity prices are not the result of net zero.
What's keeping UK electricity prices so high?

Answer in a chart…

www.carbonbrief.org/...
May 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Sad but true.
There's a line connecting Hunt's NI cuts and the electoral system for mayoral races and the BBC management and the EHRC. The Starmer/McSweeney theory of politics just isn't interested in naming, let alone undoing, Tory institutional capture
April 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin
January 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
@steverichards.bsky.social Trump is Wilberforce, now Musk is Da Vinci!
Tim Montgomerie, "I think Elon Musk is a brilliant man"

"The Da Vinci of our age in many ways"

"Look at Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter"

"You can't tweet 20 times in an hour on different subjects and know what you're talking about all the time"
January 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM