Hugh Jackson
'Idiot of twitter', occasional Turkish speaker. kidney Tx, love: fine beer & cheap wine; cycling; Scandinavia; urbanism + planning; old rally cars, books & silly jokes
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- The apparent effortlessness of Dolly, Dusty, Whitney doing their thing is just amazing. #totp
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- Also #FarmingToday
- Total #TheArchers #Totp mashup with Sybil Ruscoe presenting.
- Total #TheArchers #Totp mashup with Sybil Ruscoe presenting.
- Brotherhood of Man look like they bought their costumes before they went on tour & lived off take-aways for a couple of months. #totp
- Didn't realize this was going to be an evergreen post #legsandco #totp
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- Reposted by Hugh JacksonThe only way Labour can win the next election is by governing well. That might not be enough, but it’s the bare minimum. The questions to be asking about any potential new PM are “what is their agenda and can they achieve it?” Not “do they currently poll well?” Or “can they handle a media round?”
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- Reposted by Hugh JacksonDo they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment? "Pull factors" on steroids. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonTrump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonInstead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed… …perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonI just reread a Ta-Nehisi Coates piece from 2018 where he addresses the claim that Trump is too incoherent to have an ideology and responds, no, he clearly has an ideology and it’s white nationalism. It’s only got clearer since then yet some people still insist otherwise
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonStumbled across this article from 2008. How times have changed – not just the policies but also the tenor of political discourse 😔 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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- Reposted by Hugh JacksonWeird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonWell, I would criticise Lord Mandelson, but two and a half years ago, a UK government official emailed me to tell me that I can't criticize government officials on social media, for a period going back five years. So. I have to wait a bit. (You think I'm kidding. The UK government told me that)
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonHow about Mandleson for the next celebrity Traitors? Put his training to his use
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonExactly. If Europe wanted to stop the terror, push Russia out of Ukraine and make sure Russia is pacified it could do so with a stroke of a pen. It is all about political will. The resources to win are available in abundance.
- Reposted by Hugh Jacksonrules for watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) - try to guess the age of everyone in screen - shout “78!” or similar - look cast up on IMDb - discover they are all younger than you are now
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonIf you’re saturated with Epstein news, get your ears around this fascinating deep dive into all things Arctic circle significance. 🎧👇
- To get beyond Trumpian nonsense about Greenland and talk about what is *really* going on with Arctic security it was my great pleasure to speak to Professor Klaus Dodds. Have a listen👇 podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/c...
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonI get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
- Reposted by Hugh Jacksonyou can literally travel to Mongolia, take a taxi from Ulaanbaatar to Choirin, find the last house in the outskirt, and ask Munkhbat who's about fifty or eighty, no one knows for sure, he spent his entire life drinking and throwing rocks at passing cars, he would say "Peter Mandelson? He's a c*nt."
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonA correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonI had a great time talking about Helen of Troy with Evan on BBC Radio 4’s PM just now, and if you want to hear more about the Odyssey, here’s my 28-minute version! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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- Reposted by Hugh JacksonA lot going on here and all ugly, but one thing I still can't get my head around is how any British government can do business with Thiel at this point.
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- Reposted by Hugh JacksonWhatever electoral calculation, a serious political error for anyone on the left to praise even elements of Galloway's vile party. It may oppose the genocide in Gaza, but it supports other genocides. It supports Russia's war on Ukraine. It is not antiracist or internationalist.
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- Reposted by Hugh JacksonMatt Goodwin walking into his first Manchester electoral event.
- Just because they can doesn't mean they....oh, of course they did (do).
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonI was told multiple times that this wasn't happening / isn't possible. And here we are.
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonReminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".
- “Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonThis kind of detail is many, many storeys below the presidential pay grade but it's Trump's comfort zone. He may not be able to explain his foreign policy coherently at Davos (or anywhere else) but he's all over the detail of the Kennedy Center's steel and marble.
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- Reposted by Hugh JacksonThe awfulness of Epstein risks overshadowing the fact that what Mandelson did would have been wrong whichever financier he was sending stuff to. thecritic.co.uk/pete...
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonThe prime minister, it seems, has just announced a Cabinet Office inquiry into the affair, but there's a danger that it will just be good chaps investigating other good chaps and end up being seen as a whitewash. So let's send for the men in big boots.
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonDefinitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
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- Reposted by Hugh Jacksonif there is a man i would trust to pursue a colleague who crossed him to the ends of the earth it is Gordon Brown, so this feels kind of fitting www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonWhy isn't this a major news story?
- Reposted by Hugh JacksonIt's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
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- Reposted by Hugh JacksonJeffrey Epstein paid $75,000 into accounts connected to Lord Mandelson, bank statements released by the US Department of Justice suggest Lord Mandelson said he had no record or recollection of receiving the £ & didn’t know whether the documents were authentic 👇
