Nick Rochford
@nickrochford.bsky.social
English. But Welsh. Irish. Scots. Londoner.
Books, football, cricket, beer, wine, moussaka. But not at one sitting. Necessarily.
CPFC ST Holder | DHFC | Dulwich cricket | Surrey cricket | Mediterranean fan, West Norwood dweller....
Books, football, cricket, beer, wine, moussaka. But not at one sitting. Necessarily.
CPFC ST Holder | DHFC | Dulwich cricket | Surrey cricket | Mediterranean fan, West Norwood dweller....
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Nick Rochford
@nickrochford.bsky.social
· Jan 22
Finally left X today, ranting into the ether. Appropriate I thought..no more
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The central delusion of Thatcherism is the idea politicians can destroy the postwar settlement and replace it with nothing, which in practice turns out to always be panicking governments shoring up the systems they vandalised fuck out of, using sticky tape and wood glue.
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The central delusion of Thatcherism is the idea politicians can destroy the postwar settlement and replace it with nothing, which in practice turns out to always be panicking governments shoring up the systems they vandalised fuck out of, using sticky tape and wood glue.
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The BBC budget "analysis" consists mostly of voxpops by people complaining bitterly about Labour taxing too much and roughly an equal amount of people complaining bitterly about Labour spending too little.
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The BBC budget "analysis" consists mostly of voxpops by people complaining bitterly about Labour taxing too much and roughly an equal amount of people complaining bitterly about Labour spending too little.
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
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Catch @onejen.bsky.social on #BBCWorldService on how her private trauma led her to expose the #phonehacking scandal alongside @bynickdavies.bsky.social & @arusbridger.bsky.social
#DontLetitBreakYouHoney @hachetteuk.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
#DontLetitBreakYouHoney @hachetteuk.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - Outlook, My private trauma was leaked to the press - so I fought back
Jenny helped expose a national scandal after her police testimony appeared in a newspaper
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Catch @onejen.bsky.social on #BBCWorldService on how her private trauma led her to expose the #phonehacking scandal alongside @bynickdavies.bsky.social & @arusbridger.bsky.social
#DontLetitBreakYouHoney @hachetteuk.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
#DontLetitBreakYouHoney @hachetteuk.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
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At some point Europe will need to realize that Russia is at war.
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
At some point Europe will need to realize that Russia is at war.
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This is how the Mail has covered a 70% fall in net migration.
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is how the Mail has covered a 70% fall in net migration.
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
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I fully appreciate this is quite an open ended question, but what the actual f**k is wrong with the Home Office? How devoid of the most basic humanity do you have to be to do this?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I fully appreciate this is quite an open ended question, but what the actual f**k is wrong with the Home Office? How devoid of the most basic humanity do you have to be to do this?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Why do so many prominent Brexiteers live in France? Nigel Lawson; Andrew Neil; and former Brexit Party & UKIP MEP David Coburn. Asked to account for himself in the Nathan Gill story it turns out he lives in a French chateau. The brazen hypocrisy of this lot is just staggering!
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Why do so many prominent Brexiteers live in France? Nigel Lawson; Andrew Neil; and former Brexit Party & UKIP MEP David Coburn. Asked to account for himself in the Nathan Gill story it turns out he lives in a French chateau. The brazen hypocrisy of this lot is just staggering!
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Yesterday’s budget should have been a springboard, not a ceiling. When we freeze people in place rather than helping them move forward, we’ve built a system that traps rather than lifts.
Time for a government to shift the focus from sustaining struggle to enabling real momentum.
Time for a government to shift the focus from sustaining struggle to enabling real momentum.
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Yesterday’s budget should have been a springboard, not a ceiling. When we freeze people in place rather than helping them move forward, we’ve built a system that traps rather than lifts.
Time for a government to shift the focus from sustaining struggle to enabling real momentum.
Time for a government to shift the focus from sustaining struggle to enabling real momentum.
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Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
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Very moving...
How Thatcher's privatisation of the water industry in the 1980s covered up the cause of a mass poisoning of people in North Cornwall with an aluminium chemical.
The Tories were scared the incident would prevent investment in the water companies.
Disgusting.
#privatisation #r4today
How Thatcher's privatisation of the water industry in the 1980s covered up the cause of a mass poisoning of people in North Cornwall with an aluminium chemical.
The Tories were scared the incident would prevent investment in the water companies.
Disgusting.
#privatisation #r4today
Poison Water - a documentary about the Camelford water poisoning incident is on BBC2 right now.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Poison Water
A mass poisoning of tap water in Cornwall leads to a desperate search for truth.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Very moving...
How Thatcher's privatisation of the water industry in the 1980s covered up the cause of a mass poisoning of people in North Cornwall with an aluminium chemical.
The Tories were scared the incident would prevent investment in the water companies.
Disgusting.
#privatisation #r4today
How Thatcher's privatisation of the water industry in the 1980s covered up the cause of a mass poisoning of people in North Cornwall with an aluminium chemical.
The Tories were scared the incident would prevent investment in the water companies.
Disgusting.
#privatisation #r4today
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New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
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every right-wing newspaper this morning:
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
every right-wing newspaper this morning:
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
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While making openly racist calls to ban "non-natives" such as Rishi Sunak or Priti Patel from office (UK-born citizens, Asian ethnicity) and expel Deputy Speaker Nus Ghani from Commons (birthplace), Lucy White is a colleague of Kwarteng at Gunster Strategies
www.gunsterstrategies.com/about/team/
www.gunsterstrategies.com/about/team/
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
While making openly racist calls to ban "non-natives" such as Rishi Sunak or Priti Patel from office (UK-born citizens, Asian ethnicity) and expel Deputy Speaker Nus Ghani from Commons (birthplace), Lucy White is a colleague of Kwarteng at Gunster Strategies
www.gunsterstrategies.com/about/team/
www.gunsterstrategies.com/about/team/
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Farage called "fundamentally dishonest" over racism allegation denials
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/fara...
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/fara...
Farage’s former classmate calls his racism denials "fundamentally dishonest"
"He is being fundamentally dishonest in everything that he says there."
leftfootforward.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Farage called "fundamentally dishonest" over racism allegation denials
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/fara...
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/fara...
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Moral Maze considers the Reith lectures and doesn't mention BBC "censorship".
Media Show considers the Reith lectures and can't tell us what was cut.
#BBCPM
Media Show considers the Reith lectures and can't tell us what was cut.
#BBCPM
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Moral Maze considers the Reith lectures and doesn't mention BBC "censorship".
Media Show considers the Reith lectures and can't tell us what was cut.
#BBCPM
Media Show considers the Reith lectures and can't tell us what was cut.
#BBCPM
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Again - all we're asking of the super rich is that they simply get richer at a slower rate. If they scream and cry and threaten to leave over that, then I'm afraid much harsher action is justified to redistribute wealth.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to introduce a wealth tax of 1% on assets of over £10m & 2% on assets over £1bn & if the super rich want to leave the UK because they are being taxed a tiny amount more then we should wave them goodbye
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Again - all we're asking of the super rich is that they simply get richer at a slower rate. If they scream and cry and threaten to leave over that, then I'm afraid much harsher action is justified to redistribute wealth.
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absolutely loving ed balls getting substitute teachered to fuck and back here lmao
@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to introduce a wealth tax of 1% on assets of over £10m & 2% on assets over £1bn & if the super rich want to leave the UK because they are being taxed a tiny amount more then we should wave them goodbye
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
absolutely loving ed balls getting substitute teachered to fuck and back here lmao
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Labour is so right wing it actively hates its own base of support, to go after a "working class" that they have imagined and never truly exsisted.
Obviously this government are wantonly reckless and idiotic and their treatment of universities, and see this as a disciplining of an out of touch elite.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Labour is so right wing it actively hates its own base of support, to go after a "working class" that they have imagined and never truly exsisted.
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So Jury trials predate the Normans and are part of common law, however David 'fecking' Lammy thinks he can do away with most of them, nothing in the manifesto about that - they are making this shit up as they go - WTF were they doing to prepare for Govt - feck all by the looks of it
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
So Jury trials predate the Normans and are part of common law, however David 'fecking' Lammy thinks he can do away with most of them, nothing in the manifesto about that - they are making this shit up as they go - WTF were they doing to prepare for Govt - feck all by the looks of it
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In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.
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Three more school contemporaries who claim to have witnessed Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage racism have rejected the Reform UK leader’s suggestion that it was “banter”, describing it as targeted, persistent and nasty.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Three more school contemporaries who claim to have witnessed Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage racism have rejected the Reform UK leader’s suggestion that it was “banter”, describing it as targeted, persistent and nasty.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...