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Chris Hewson

@chrishewson.bsky.social
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Head of Policy Engagement, University of Huddersfield; sociology PhD; advocate of knowledge exchange; co-chair Universities Policy Engagement Network; appreciator of reasonably priced fine wine; understander of the power of football to ruin your weekend.

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 2h
What a time to be alive
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 3h
Either way, it's a look
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 3h
Why... why is he dressed like Jimmy Savile?
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 3h
We're not looking at the master plan though, are we?
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 3h
This is wild, just assumed they'd gravitate closer to the NBA model, albeit obvs with more regular season games
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 3h
Malbis?
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 6h
Great, now leave them the hell alone
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 10h
Could they axe the Today programme too?
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 10h
Being pro spina bifida is quite the policy position.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 16h
Remember kids, due diligence is a good thing!
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Once again thinking back to how this is the entire thesis that David Graeber came up with for Bullshit Jobs, which should have really been subtitled "Administrators at the London School of Economics who really annoy me".
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Apropos of nothing, wasn't Anthony Giddens a big WWE fan?
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Good friends, laughter and a small glass of sherry every night”
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Bird Bomb
ALT: Bird Bomb
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
100%... You can't just tap it around and wait for organised but average teams to grow into the game. Exhibit B... Russell Martin's Leicester - who lost 2-1.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
All for this 'let bad teams have possession and shoot themselves in the foot tactic'. Pep-ball be damned!
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ah crap www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...?
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Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102
Landmark roles were in 50s classics directed by Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, before going on to play Superman’s adoptive mother in later life
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today was a good day
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I mean, that's technically good conservatism (sort of)
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An excellent analysis of a problem that isn't going to go away any time soon.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yikes!
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm sitting outside, coat and jumper-less, drinking a coffee... before 9am... in Huddersfield. It's 6th October.
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Bernie Sanders: Climate Change Is Real
ALT: Bernie Sanders: Climate Change Is Real
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Quietly moving tribute to Jeffrey Archer.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Silvio Berlusconi has some company, at last
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Forever alive in our hearts, etc, etc... Interestingly the first bungle actor was also in Doctor Who (voice of K9)
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another one down. Kym Mazelle and Vince Hilaire must be getting quite worried.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This post is more profound if you read it in Dick van Dyke's Mary Poppins accent.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is Braverman having a very slow motion breakdown?
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is it the wars?
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's a well known fact that viral tweets tend to be inconsequential and contain typos, which are in turn usually pointed out by inconsequential pedants. Thanks for playing 😂
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Looks like a young Harold Shipman
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 04/10/2026
The "zionism is racism" motion that has just passed on the Green Party's conference floor is truly gross, and deeply racist. The party's MPs deserve some credit for opposing it, though they should've done so more stridently and sooner. This is now a millstone around the party's necks. Deservedly.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Absolutely. The coalition they've formed over the last few years was never going to hold, but watching them accelerate towards disaster is quite something.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's fine, but setting it up with that dreadful article didn't exactly encourage me to watch
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🐓 19 ⚔️ 18. Closer than it has any right to be. My Rugby League boosterism will start again soon. Mainly involving complaints that the Huddersfield Giants no longer play in Huddersfield.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Zero chance the Knights hold on to this...
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Folks should also be aware that the NRL Grand Final is on now (half time - currently Knights 12, Roosters 6).
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This does of course not mean that the cake here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your fridge, has been devalued, etc, etc...
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A pound cake in everyones pocket!
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He mentions young women and Jewish people, groups renowned for above average baking. Perhaps there's some sort of baked goods economy that's going to underpin police engagement, rather than general taxation?
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hard to believe isn't it. Yet we must.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's one of those where I think the journalist left the quote 'as delivered' to elicit exactly this kind of response.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Alt-left Twitter c. 2018
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Obi-Wan Kenobi: Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy
ALT: Obi-Wan Kenobi: Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Or Rachael Swindon 🫥
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ha!
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Name I've Not Heard
ALT: Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Name I've Not Heard
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well... these are certainly words uttered by a human being.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm beginning to suspect some sort of bias within the mainstream media
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