Reposted by Phil HillSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh... 22696195
Reposted by Phil HillI have opinions. @eurobubba.com · 27/09/2026He performed a vasectomy on a friend of mine. 141
Phil Hill @highburyphil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@actualnames.bsky.social Doctor of Urology ... Richard Chopp 66314
Reposted by Phil HillMackemFox @mackemfox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If not already.... well worth a follow! This is a superb read! 2229
Phil Hill @highburyphil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Hope you cover this on Newswatch. 000
Reposted by Phil HillJohn Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Good piece. On the Telegraph/Times being misled about Reform/Verbatim paying for the poll. If someone came up to me and said I've got a poll and I'd like it to form the basis of some research, my first question would be 'why' and my second would be 'who paid for it'. 285
Phil Hill @highburyphil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026@actualnames.bsky.social You've probably already had this, but in case you haven't ... 1214
Reposted by Phil HillAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A reminder that the "generosity" he refers to here follows Nigel Farage announcing Crypto tax policies that would net them both hundreds of millions of pounds in additional profits 70956356
Reposted by Phil HillDr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The lesson being: if you view all first- and second-generation children as the problem, it's still a problem if they do better or worse. The educational version of 'immigrants are taking all the jobs and living on welfare'. 131
Reposted by Phil HillDanielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026But this is the actual snobbery! Telling kids that where they grow up should dictate their education, opportunities AND adult life destination is the worst kind of “stay in your place” anti-aspirationalism. 37121
Reposted by Phil HillAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 14/09/2026continually maddening that people blame "the water companies" for hosepipe bans when "the water companies" have been begging to build new reservoirs but a few retired QCs in Oxfordshire have used the entire weight of the british planning system to prevent it www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comThames Water redraws mega-reservoir plan amid local oppositionA new public consultation has opened on the 150bn-litre above-ground White Horse project in Abingdon, Oxfordshire 35385108
Reposted by Phil HillJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026What Sam said. Meanwhile, in Denmark, migrants' kids lag 20/30/40 points behind on average -and there are still people here who think *we* should copy *them* on immigration/integration. 12451140
Reposted by Phil Hillbeaubodor.bsky.social @beaubodor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Spontaneous departure of spontaneous protestors from Dover Priory Train Station, marching to catch a spontaneous train arrival. Kent Online www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/l... 102794280
Reposted by Phil Hillflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A particularly extreme example here of “The lads only see what they want to see”. If they want to see e.g. a black academic who they think is proof of the Tyranny Of Woke Conspiring Against Whiteness, up it goes on all channels. If they don’t want to know, it may as well have happened on Ganymede. 320055
Reposted by Phil HillSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/09/2026bsky.app/profile/sund... 062
Reposted by Phil HillHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 31/08/2026Conservative policy: - Demand criminals get long sentences - Don't build prisons to house them - Oppose early release of prisoners - Cut prisons budgets so that fewer people are rehabilitated 👍 42744182
Reposted by Phil HillDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026As good as anything I've read in a long time on this moment in politics, society and the economy. These three paragraphs in particular starting to do something with which I've been struggling, finding the policy prescriptions for the moment. 109139
Reposted by Phil HillRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 16/08/2026You can demand a return to "Christian values", or you can attack empathy as "suicidal". You cannot do both. 22748159
Reposted by Phil HillCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi. 33687332865
Reposted by Phil Hillthe pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Another thing to note is that the journos have had slightly less than 24 hours of being shouted at on social media and they cannot cope, but they expect members of the public to cope with weeks of attacks via TV and newspaper 13633186
Reposted by Phil HillStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026It’s just depressing. Further education has been cut to ribbons. Higher education is in crisis. Labour turns its eyes to the bit of the education system which is turning out the highest literacy rates in the western world and goes “that’s the bit that needs to change” 30710198
Reposted by Phil HillMatt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 08/08/2026Another superb thread by Emma. As ever, a clear and comprehensive demolition of a right wing scare story 416736
Reposted by Phil HillSteve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Said it before and I'll say it again, one of the best things the BBC does is the archive account on YouTube. Today's offering: Man Alive follows the managers of Arsenal and Bradford Park Avenue in 1969. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX6Y...youtube.com1969: The Life of a Football Manager | Man Alive | BBC ArchiveYouTube video by BBC Archive 2124
Reposted by Phil HillBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’ 241129389
Reposted by Phil HillMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...brokenbottleboy.substack.comLiddle to be celebratedAn honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. 62713255
Phil Hill @highburyphil.bsky.social · 03/08/2026@shayan86.bsky.social Is it true - as claimed by Chris Philps - that the waves in the Channel this summer have been higher than usual? 000
Reposted by Phil HillMunicipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Nine houses built for the Catholic St Servatius Housing Association in 1918 on Volksplein, Maastricht, designed by J.H.H. van Groenendael. 0203
Reposted by Phil HillPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Crumbling infrastructure & lack of water jeopardising govt plans for new homes. Privatisation of England's water prioritised shareholder returns. No new reservoirs, desalination plants, or national grid of water. Companies don't do national planning. Yet govts intoxicated with privatisationtheguardian.com‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at riskCouncil leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes 31444217
Reposted by Phil HillA London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Last Sunday's new post - Exploring the view from the Garden at 120 at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas... 031
Reposted by Phil HillA London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 19/04/2026In today’s new post on Barbican Wanderings I have added updates to the scale model of the Barbican. More at alondoninheritance.com 192
Reposted by Phil HillSpitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Read my feature about Maureen Rose of Taylors Buttons & Belts at The World of Interiors online. www.worldofinteriors.com/story/taylor...worldofinteriors.comThe fastener show: Taylors Buttons and Belts is as Dickensian as a shop can beLocated in Dickens's childhood home, the century-old Taylors needs crowdfunding to stay afloat 0118
Reposted by Phil HillSpitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · 28/11/2025At this moment of the year, when the temperature drops and the dusk closes in, I get a longing to go walking through Walter Thornbury’s London: spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/27/a... 0248
Reposted by Phil HillSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Here are 3 persistent skews + flaws in BBC framing, as just predicted this morning, leaving public misinformed about a v salient issue of boats - Report the visible optics - Miss the context & trends - Misattribute causes (weather! What were last 10 days weather) 1821276
Reposted by Phil HillJo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026A fine example of why the BBC should not publish vox-pops (“‘Bus fare cut is no good for those who drive’ says Durham man” is literally the headline here) without challenge or context. Buses, famously the preserve of the managerial classes. 63959226
Reposted by Phil HillDavid Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 22/07/2026We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies. 71542601
Reposted by Phil HillAsh @queerash.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Elaine in this article "can't remember the last time she used her oven" but also spends £200 a month on petrol (so driving probably ~50 miles a day?) (she's also a professional old person; she was on Good Morning Britain last year, and then also at the Nov budget, and the year before lmao)bbc.co.uk'I can't afford to turn the oven on': 7.4m households struggling to buy essentialsAs Andy Burnham promises “breathing space” for households, millions are unable to buy items such as clothing, heating and food. 66534158
Reposted by Phil HillJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The BBC and other broadcasters have swallowed the right's small boat invasion narrative hook, line and sinker. They have no interest in reporting a fall in crossings - especially as the weather cannot be blamed. Normal service will be resumed if numbers start rising again. 8347131
Reposted by Phil HillWilliam Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Most sense I have seen on Bluesky today about AI.ippr.orgThe legitimacy trap | IPPRIn many ways, the public want more government: to shape a fairer, more dynamic economy and protect ordinary people from the consequences of a turbulent wor 032
Reposted by Phil HillJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This is so, so bad. She’s taken the very narrow point that domestic drilling may result in oil and gas with a slightly lower carbon footprint than some imports and extrapolated it out to make sweeping claims about UK emissions increasing that are entirely false. So deeply unserious. 16454178
Reposted by Phil HillA London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 15/07/2026London Docklands – A 1976 Strategic Plan. How the docklands could have developed explored in my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-histo... 0165
Reposted by Phil HillSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/07/20261 in 6 people are aware that net migration fell from peak levels when it will be the lowest this century in 2026 This suggests broadcasters are doing a bad job at reporting one of the big issues of the time Serious newspapers could choose to try too (or not) www.britishfuture.org/britain-thin...britishfuture.orgBritain thinks net migration is rising — when it has actually fallen by more than three-quarters - British FutureFindings from British Future’s annual Immigration Attitudes Tracker reveal the extent of public misperceptions on net migration. 1226
Reposted by Phil Hillthepig993 @thepig993.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Scrap "affordable housing" requirements and build more council housing. I expect you'd get more in the private sector too! 185
Reposted by Phil HillSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I think it would surprise the Matt Goodwin of 2022, not just of the Goodwin of 2014, that he now opposes (would ban ?) refugee participation in public life. He used to see ethnic minority leadership as a good sign of integration & showing Britain had progressed more on race than progressives thought 1217838
Reposted by Phil HillLizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The differences between the responses to this article on Bluesky and X would fuel a dissertation on social media and information silos 512136
Reposted by Phil HillJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Amusingly, Tom's +£130bn is broadly comparable to @rcolvile.bsky.social's entirely absurd, error-ridden *minus* £234 bn (subsequently withdrawn but recycled by Farage). But when I corrected and recalculated @rcolvile.bsky.social's numbers, I got +£125bn! (3/4) bsky.app/profile/jdpo... 1295
Reposted by Phil HillAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/06/2026People struggling to pay bills are cheering on the president and his allies become richer at their expense. All because he claims to hate the same people they do. Culture war is powerful, and awful. 2525118996
