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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Might we, in light of the letter from US ambassador Bill White, now assume that US imposition of economic sanctions on countries (Cuba, Iran, Russia, etc), having proven so successful, is now being rolled out as standard US global policy to embrace all other sectors including higher education?

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

For the sake of my sanity I finally closed my 'X' account yesterday. It's taken me a while. Giving up smoking was easier. But then smoking was a lesser threat to my health than 'X'. The use of 'X' in rating films & in signalling illiteracy should have been a warning sign.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Another gem from my favourite BlueSky denizen, the wickedly brilliant Mannie Quinn.

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Roy Casagranda, whose work I have long admired, is undoubtedly right here. The Ukraine war now seems to me to look more like a replay of the West's 1979 strategy of dragging Russia/USSR into a never-ending war that will wreck its economy & ensure its long-term defeat. www.youtube.com/shorts/Fgs7B...

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Putin’s Strategic Trap

YouTube video by Dr. Roy Casagranda

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The new video from Yonit and myself. On reflection, I could have done a better edit, as we were a little rush to publish at the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrlE...

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Jamila

YouTube video by Poems by Maryam

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I think it was probably in 2003, around the time of the Iraq War protests, that I first saw David Rovics play, alongside Attila The Stockbroker, at the Boom Boom Club in Sutton. One of the most gifted lyricists, and most hard-hitting protest singers, I've ever heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG7W...

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New song: "From Auschwitz to Gaza"

YouTube video by David Rovics

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I'm joining the Nicole Jenes fan club -- this is razor-sharp satire on a par with the very best of the much missed TWTWTW. www.youtube.com/shorts/FOCuS...

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BREAKING NEWS what can I do? 7 billion people said #alleyesondeck

YouTube video by Nicole Jenes Entertainment

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Trouble-making in London again yesterday, second time in a week. But all in a good cause.

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Sometimes AI LLMs can be profoundly stupid.

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

An eloquent and very powerful statement. Take note!

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

My video of Saturday's National Demonstration | Freedom for Palestine march, based on the powerful speech by Owen Jones. youtu.be/74IwhOSnwK4

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National Demonstration | Freedom for Palestine, 15 February 2025

YouTube video by Chris Hutchison

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Twitter has, since becoming X-rated, become a disturbingly sinister and deeply troubling place.

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Artificial Intelligence today was made manifest as artificial blinkin' ignorance when YouTube deemed that, in uploading a new video, I'd published copyrighted material titled 'Dead Minds Wear Tie' by a Dr Zilch. Nope, the short segment was a bona fide recording of WWII air raid sirens. Oh dear ...

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Comparisons with Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Genghis Khan, & Ming the Merciless are of course strongly discouraged. Starmer & Lammy can be relied upon to find a way to spin it.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The Western media will never be forgiven for their role in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/the-wester...

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The Western media: drenched in Palestinian blood

You are more likely to read the truth about Israel's crimes in an Israeli newspaper than you are in a Western media outlet.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Genocides can happen with gas chambers. Or machetes. Or they can be carried out with 2,000lb bombs and aid blockades. Genocides rarely look the same. But they're all designed to arrive at the same endpoint: the elimination of a people. My latest on Gaza: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

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Another expert report finds Israel is committing genocide. The West yawns

Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all agreed. But the Gaza genocide is now just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

This afternoon, while out shopping with Alex (who's staying with us through to the New Year), I was extolling the beauty of Victorian industrial architecture. He is now excited at the prospect of visiting Crossness Pumping Station. The nerdy things we do ...

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This afternoon we cremated my mother This evening I spent a wonderful time at the wake with nonagenarian friends and neighbours who knew and loved her. They know I‘m an anarchist and they love me too.

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Rediscovering old pics. Left, the time I (tall guy, back, left) was invited to a presentation to Nobel laureate in chemistry Ilya Priogone by the Groupement Ampere. Right, with founder of Ubuntu Linux Mark Shuttleworth & SA History Project's June Bam. I'm realising I got about a bit in those days.

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Why am I (and presumably most of you too) getting lots of 'follows' from 'OnlyFans' bimbos? I doubt it's for my razor-sharp wit, scintillating banter, and stunning good looks. Am I just getting too old for this nonsense, or what? Blocked.

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The Faragistas appear to have done a 180° spin from their once narrowly nationalist "take back control" to a globalist "hand over control to overseas oligarchs". www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/musk-co...

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Musk could sidestep overseas donation laws by donating to Farage through UK branch of X

Elon Musk could sidestep overseas donation laws by donating to Nigel Farage and the Reform UK Party through the UK branch of X.

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Nothing new about selling degrees. As an external MSc examiner I was appalled to see students assessed by multiple-choice questions & group assessment, allowing a student with almost no English to graduate; as a PhD examiner I resisted pressure to pass a doctoral candidate below even GCSE standard.

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm sure we can all now agree that the UK has forfeited the moral right to lecture us on the repressive state apparatuses of Russia, China, & North Korea. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

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Swansea mother ‘traumatised’ by arrest under Terrorism Act

Emma Kamio describes ‘abuse’ of act after daughter’s alleged involvement in action against Israeli arms company

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I composed this nearly 60 years ago, in 1965. I now find my musical skills so rusty that I can no longer play it--and it's not even that difficult. That's very frustrating, as my mother had requested it at her funeral ... and that's just 8 days from now. Damn!

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

With the imminent change of US presidency, this feels a good moment to re-run this delight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn-h...

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"DEBATE NIGHT 2020!" — A Bad Lip Reading of the First Presidential Debate of 2020

YouTube video by Bad Lip Reading

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Heartening to see Western nations falling over each other to support Syria's right to self-defence against al Qaeda (now Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham) terrorists seeking to overthrow the government. Oh, we're not sending arms & military advisers to Syria? Oh, OK then ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Rr...

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Syria: Aleppo Captured by Designated Terror Group, Liberals Cheer

YouTube video by BadEmpanada Live

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Is it only when perpetrated by the Taliban or by ISIS that such wanton destruction of history and culture heritage counts as 'bad'.

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Pyotr Leshchenko, possibly the closest Russia ever had to the magnificent Al Bowlly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhm2...

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Old Russian Tango: Pyotr Leshchenko - Ne Uhodi (Don't Go Away) 1930

YouTube video by 240252

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Lammy's pronouncement seems patently to be somewhat premature, though I'm given to understand that the Israelis are working diligently day and night to remedy that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=slgT...

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‘There Are No Journalists in Gaza’- London Protestors React to David Lammy Claim on Gaza Journalists

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

We need more people speaking out like this.

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Choosing music for my mother's funeral next week. Had she been here with me now for us to have discussed the playlist for the funeral service, I know she would have chosen to dance into the next world. And, by heck, she always danced a damn fine tango. www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Za...

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La Cumparsita arranged for solo guitar

YouTube video by Declan Zapala

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

When Israelis themselves tell you that they're committing genocide, believe them.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 28/11/2024

Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich youtu.be/SA8T29zWNCw?...

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Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I listened to a lot of gnaoua music back in the 1980s, loved it, built a fine CD collection. But I discovered this guy only around 4 or 5 years ago--how could I not have found him earlier? Damn he's good! www.youtube.com/watch?v=02sR...

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Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa - Live @Festival Mawazine - Rabat 2015 (Medley - Full Version)

YouTube video by Aziz Sahmaoui

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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

#WolffBites: Billionaire "broligarchs" need strong gov't power to protect their outlandish wealth. Demagogues need broligarchs to take power. When they find each other, their marriage is called fascism. www.theframelab.org/why-broligar...

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Why 'Broligarchs' like Elon Musk need Trump

Crypto, pro-natalism and the destruction of the nation-state loom large as Trump takes office with backing from tech billionaires

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Chris Stuart Hutchison @cshrichmond.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I've finally taken out a subscription to Means TV, "the world's first worker-owned, anti-capitalist streaming service". Yes, I know that most of the vids here are also viewable for free on YouTube, but why support Google when you can directly support the content creators? means.tv/pages/what-i...

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