Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Looks like she has a black lab and enjoys real ale #celebritytraitors 070
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“Help I've accidentally become too important at work and it is burning me out” #celebritytraitors 117326
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Richard E Grant’s strategy is amazing - Turn up and tell anyone “I want to be a traitor” - Become a Traitor and laugh like a Bond villain - Tell everyone you’re a Traitor #celebritytraitors 0160
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is meant as a promise But it reads like an imperative 17266
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m not sure I’m important enough to be donating money to this cause 2101
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Blair didn’t find the WMDs so had to settle for some guns 020
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Nine years ago today, I went out on a date 0230
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Stuck on a delayed flight and amused by the man behind me who is talking to a colleague about their boss’s potential new hire “He LOVES Mike Myers’ CV! He’s done everything in insurance. Yeah, yeah - Mike Myers has definitely got to be on the shortlist.” 210
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Crikey. Didn’t realise Piddington had that sort of economic heft. 131
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Church Appointments (Repeal of Discriminatory Provision) Bill is here Why does Burnham want the power? Why is it couched in such emotive language? There’s a valid, obvious reason why Catholics are barred from appointing CofE bishops. Clue is in the names. It’s not a great injustice. This is weird 241
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“This is the one thing we didn’t want to happen” 6597
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Went to a shop and was reminded of what my wage demands were when I was a thespian 0112
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Happy to report that the publishing event of the year has not disappointed 2699
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Listening to someone saying that FIFA’s money-grubbing has gone too far Then realising that - of all people - it’s Sam Allardyce That’s how bad it is 050
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The upside of being reshuffled in this morning’s Times Diary 060
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Every now and then I am inordinately fond of a pun With thanks to @joetwyman.bsky.social, @warmovietheatre.com , @roberthutton.co.uk and @duncanweldon.bsky.social 413826
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Film idea: an unlikely holiday romance between Harriet Harman and Jacob Rees-Mogg 130
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Ed Miliband has gone from being the government’s greenest minister to being its biggest gas guzzler 111
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Garry Sobers was a legend He was also inaptly named 37328
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026He’s been Labour leader for an hour, so the bookies are already taking bets on Andy Burnham’s replacement 142
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Word to wise. Wearing a jacket and navy t-shirt isn’t necessarily a route to the tap. 140
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Keir Starmer’s handed out the peerages Looks like the knighthoods won’t be far behind In tomorrow’s @thetimes.com diary 312
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The (I hope) definitive update on what Binface can wear in the Commons is in today’s @thetimes.com diary 95917
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I’m shocked - SHOCKED - to find that Andy Burnham was plotting a coup a year ago On the right, my Times Diary from last July 120
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026RIP Ann Widdecombe - there was something of the Saturday night about her 372
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026They don’t make politicians like John Major anymore From today’s @thetimes.com Diary 393
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Why the Revolutionary War didn’t matter #usa250 www.thetimes.com/article/576d... 001
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026How the Declaration of Independence came about #usa250 www.thetimes.com/article/7518... 001
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026“And yet these idiots think it’s magically an hour earlier” 031
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Michael Dobbs, author of House of Cards, has found a hidden door in the House of Lords 251
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Today’s daily dose of joy comes from Laurel and Hardy Have a good night 043
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Dinner at the Tower of London tonight Had this exchange with my wife 3308
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Big news this morning A “prototype” of Stonehenge has been found 3 miles from the historic site It shows that solar alignment had been achieved 500 years earlier than previously thought This profoundly changes our understanding of the henge itself 2168
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026The last thing you see before dying with a slightly fuller head of hair 000
