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Hywel Da

@hjd.bsky.social
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Former producer/reporter at BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera. Shortlisted for the Emerging Author Dagger by the Crime Writers’ Association. Represented by Tom Cull at Cull & Co Literary Agency. Interests: politics, writing, travel, London, rugby and cricket.

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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 14h
Saw them last week - the last gig of their farewell tour. Great fun and quite emotional too! (Think they might do a few festivals in future, so not the very last chance to see them)
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026
Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They tried the “more deregulation=higher growth“ plan for well over a decade. IT DIDN’T WORK! A prime example: Grenfeld. Relaxing regulations leading not just to a hideous tragedy but massive costs.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
very much liked - and admired - by anyone who worked with her at the BBC, I remember. Very smart but also fun; very rare with presenters.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lovely - and informative - explanation of the Man City Scandal.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
UK (London) non-driver here; weekly supermarket shop, with them delivering to the front door. Topped up with milk/bread etc as needed in local shops. Before delivery was as common we used to lug shopping back on the bus in a big rucksack!
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Late to this episode but amused, as a follower of the sport, to hear you use the phrase, “it’s not cricket” in the latest MJ - though the sport’s ethics, like those of the White House, have taken a battering recently!
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ever wondered why your local Boots looks so shabby nowadays?
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today before Senate.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Except Iran, apparently.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And fatter! Also notoriously badly-dressed, despite spending lots of money on his clothes.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pedo pendant?
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Johnny Nice Painter @ Eurosky! @johnnynicepainter.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Buy some RNLI Christmas cards or I will come round to your house and paint your living room and YOU DO NOT WANT THAT shop.rnli.org/products/chr...
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Christmas Carol Christmas Cards, Pack of 8
Wish someone a merry Christmas with these RNLI-themed cards, featuring a cheerful carolling scene outside a lifeboat station - and help support the lifesavers.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We are now in a society where flash mobs can turn up anywhere and police will simply stand back. Misinformation is enough to fuel it. At some point people will start using social media to dox people or organisations. It's a huge civil order threat that government and police aren't taking seriously.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Congratulations. Jesus, those are three ugly trophies!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
MPs call for emergency legislation for public control of Thames Water, let govt restore it and resell. Hedge funds want to takeover TW, want exemption from penalties for breaking laws. Neither will do. Profit motive is the cause of the crisis. Need public ownership.
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MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds
Efra committee calls for emergency legislation enabling government to take public control of the company
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Genuine evil has been unleashed in England.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is crazy talk! Needs at least two more series!
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You'd think the fact that the son of the President of the "party of family values" 2nd marriage is to the daughter of Epstein's banker and it was funded by a Rusisan oligarch involved in the mass kidnap of Ukrainian kids during a KGB agent's illegal war Would be bigger news..
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's a rare policy that would be welcomed by both business and trade unions - and at the same time would *improve* the UK's fiscal position. Dropping these proposals - for which there is no economic, moral or political case - would be one. www.ft.com/content/8a00...
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Unions demand softening of UK immigration reforms
Proposals will ‘punish’ low-paid migrants doing essential work in public services and create a new staffing crisis in social care, says motion passed at TUC
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RV 🇸🇩 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 @rave74.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@harryeccles.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Absolutely staggering! Aside from the obvious dangers of being hand-in-glove with Russian oligarch, do these corrupt wretches not pay for anything? Grifting the cost of your own wedding!
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This seem such an obvious thing to do, so why won’t Labour do it?
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Seems to come earlier every year…
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Annual General Meeting
Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 12/09/2026
Reform has already enjoyed several years of support from a loss-making TV channel whose main function seems to be to give money and favourable coverage to its MPs. The government has done nothing about this. It's probably a more effective way of spending millions than Farage will manage.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/09/2026
🌐 In an ever changing global economic order - Britain should align itself with Europe, prioritise the EU, and rejoin. 🇬🇧🇪🇺 UK membership of the EU would make both the EU and UK much stronger in a multipolar world. We both have no time to waste.
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Brics 2026: Trump shadow looms large over Delhi summit as Modi hosts Putin and Xi
As Brics leaders meet in Delhi, divisions within the bloc make a united response to Washington unlikely.
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Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Charles (king) could do something useful for once and do a high profile visit to the RNLI right this minute
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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This does suggest Britain is a) very good at integration b) actively attracts the world's smart and ambitious people who want to get on and do well for themselves Both of these are very good, competitive qualities to have and should be celebrated.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
But isn’t that rather the point? The Lib Dems don’t get half the amount of coverage that Reform does. This, along with senior BBC news executives having come from GB News, means lots of people don’t trust BBC coverage anymore.
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Channeling my anger into something constructive, I've just donated to the RNLI and would encourage you to do likewise if you can. Link here: rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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David Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
No arrests. When environmentalists block roads to protest about climate change, they are prosecuted and jailed. When masked fascists do it to promote race hate, they are allowed to go home without a fuss. How about that for two-tier policing?
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Jesus. I thought anyone blocking roads was a terrorist, no?
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Superb headline; love the podcasts too. Keep up the great work - a London listener.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And you can hear some of the Vaughan-Thomas's reporting of the raid (along with a slightly weird 3D rendering of it) here: www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
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1943 Berlin Blitz in 360˚
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from a bombing raid over Berlin, 1943
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Often considered, but Pope Paul II feared schism between potato crisp and corn snack fanatics if Holy Cheezy Wotsits were introduced.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Completely absurd waste of time and resources, that could be used to actually fight terrorism…
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Not Spain, at 10.4?
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If Serbia insists on burying Maladić with state honours, that is its sovereign prerogative. However such a move would be entirely inconsistent with being a candidate for EU membership, and the accession process should be formally suspended as a result.
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Here's the trade unions, somehow believing they can outspend billionaires. It's not just moronic, it's actively dangerous. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
To defend a fellow democracy from a corrupt dictatorship that kidnaps children en mass and murders civilians without compunction.
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yeah but we could be more ambitious - The Netherlands, only bigger and more tolerant, maybe? Looking to the US is a mistake - what’s the best bits of Europe we could adopt?
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Just what I was going to write!
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It’s really not the same. I’m lucky, I live in London, but if you live somewhere with a decent cinema, I’d recommend a weekly treat. Some films you’ll hate but you’ll find stuff you never thought you’d enjoy. My fave this year is a Nigerian ghost story that'll never be promoted on streaming...
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Hywel Da @hjd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
God, world rugby needed that result! Needed to get rid of the patina of SA invincibility. Now for the almost equally needed Welsh resurrence....
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026
A former director of BBC News speaks:
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Politics UK @dailycorruption.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The off-shore tax evading British press have been harassing people for decades… Jason Arday, Meghan Markle, Tulisa, Caroline Flack, Diana All while poisoning our daily public discourse with 💩 to serve their billionaire mates with impunity. Something needs to change. Leveson 2 now !!!
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