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Robert Hoskins

@hoski67.bsky.social
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WW2 Geek, Weegie, Former Lecturer,❤️Family, Friends, Peaty Malts, Celtic🍀 Labour🌹 UK, Loathe Scottish Nationalism - a toxic ideology, Broadstairsphile.

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Jessica Goetia Brooking @transskinmedia.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Neil Lovatt @neillovatt.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Week26 on the #SubPollSeries and I think we can confirm that we are looking at the Reform vote in Scotland on the way back down. Labour have taken back 2nd place in Scotland as they and the SNP have benefitted from the collapse of the Tories and fall of Reform. The media are missing this change.
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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Farage has largely captured the electorate receptive to right-populism, and has correctly calculated that the fertile ground for further expansion of the Reform vote is left-populism. He's seeking to bridge two populist agendas driven by the same underlying anger.
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Nigel Farage: Reform UK want to make it easier for people to have children
Reform leader backs lifting the two-child benefit cap and introducing more generous tax breaks for married people.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Farage claimed in his speech today that he would raise £65 *billion* by cutting climate policies, DEI schemes, and ‘Quangos’. He’s not running a serious operation and every political journalist in the country has a public duty to shout that from the rooftops
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
❗️Apparently, Ukraine will receive Taurus missiles. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz Merz said that Germany, France, Great Britain and the United States have lifted range restrictions on military supplies to Ukraine - Kyiv can attack positions throughout Russia with long-range weapons.
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Neil Lovatt @neillovatt.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
rwbblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/tuni... Why the #SubPollSeries is as good as any Scotland wide poll.
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Tuning into Scotland’s Voice with Sub-Polls
Sub-samples from polls have been misunderstood for years. Afterall what credibility can anyone lend to a 100-person Scottish subsample from ...
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
❗️🇩🇪German intelligence agency classifies far-right Alternative for Germany party as extremist — Reuters Germany's domestic intelligence agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist organization that threatens democracy,
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Robert Hoskins @hoski67.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2025
And there it is. Trump comes out in favor of codifying Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and blames Zelenskyy for Putin’s aggression.
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is boasting on the front page of The Wall Street Journal that, “Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea. There’s nothing to talk about here.” This statement is very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of President Barack Hussein Obama, and is not even a point of discussion. Nobody is asking Zelenskyy to recognize Crimea as Russian Territory but, if he wants Crimea, why didn’t they fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired? The area also houses, for many years before “the Obama handover,” major Russian submarine bases. It’s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy’s that makes it so difficult to settle this War. He has nothing to boast about! The situation for Ukraine is dire — He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country. I have nothing to do with Russia, but have much to do with wanting to save, on average, five thousand Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, who are dying for no reason whatsoever. The statement made by Zelenskyy today will do nothing but prolong the “killing field,” and nobody wants that! We are very close to a Deal, but the man with “no cards to play” should now, finally, GET IT DONE. I look forward to being able to help Ukraine, and Russia, get out of this Complete and Total MESS
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Kyiv Insider @kyivinsider.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
One of Russia's largest arms depots has left the building. kyivinsider.com/russian-ammo...
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Russian Ammo Depot Close to Moscow up in Flames
Ammo depot in Vladimir Oblast Russian ammo depot near Barsovo, Vladimir region, is detonating following reports on social media that that the road to Kirzhach from the direction of Moscow has been blo...
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Neil Lovatt @neillovatt.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Ive been working overnight on the paper "The relationship between birth cohort and secessionism in Scotland." www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/is-scottish-... The one that was splashed across the National overnight. There are a few problems with the analysis, which I can go into later. BUT..
centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk
Is Scottish independence inevitable? The relationship between birth cohort and secessionism in Scotland.
At the heart of the debate over the relationship between age and support for Scotland seceding from the United Kingdom is a key question: do Scots become less likely to support secession as they age, ...
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Sam Taylor @staylorish.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Some good points in here. One thing I would add: the upper echelons of the SNP are filled with people whose political opinions were formed when they were teenagers, and have remained fixed ever since. They assume that everyone else is like that too, which is a grave error.
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Neil Lovatt @neillovatt.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Well now. Having looked further at the FON sub polling for Scotland against the full #SubPollSeries I was able to update the data for the latest UK FON poll thus giving a perfect timing alignment. It shows an 11% bias for indy supporting parties. A huge exaggeration in Others and Greens.
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Neil Lovatt @neillovatt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Latest data on births in Scotland (to Feb this year) shows us continuing to decline badly. We are recording the lowest number of births in Scotland since records began and it's getting worse. But don't worry because no one wants to talk about it, so it's all good.
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Robert Hoskins @hoski67.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Latest article up on Labour Hame www.labourhame.com/is-independe...
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Is independence inevitable?
Robert Hoskins of Glasgow South CLP examines recent polling and widespread claims about the demographic inevitability of Scottish independence. He is unconvinced. One could be forgiven for thinking…
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Neil Lovatt @neillovatt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
OK you lovely people it's #SubPollSeries for Week 15. With Reform flat and the SNP and Labour both falling backwards it's the Liberal Democrats (remember them) that seem to be benefitting. This is leading to another tightening of the race for second place. Indyref voting is flat, flat, flat.
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Neil Lovatt @neillovatt.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
What, what, what? You want the updated #SubPollSeries for Week 13? Well look no further! The data helps show the fall from peak Reform (so far) and the SNP falling back again with the Tories, Greens and Labour benefitting.
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Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 31/03/2025
🚨BREAKING: All elected officials found guilty in the Rassemblement National embezzlement trial, including Marine Le Pen, have been sentenced to ineligibility in political life.
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
❗️ The 🇪🇺EU has no plans to lift sanctions on 🇷🇺Russia or allow its reconnection to SWIFT.
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Neil Lovatt @neillovatt.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Week 12 of the #SubPollSeries sees the further fall of Reform from their high point in week 10. The rarity of normal Scottish polling means that few haven noticed this peak and are instead talking about the rise of reform. However the reality is somewhat more nuanced.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Kind of shocking that most of the media in the US - and the UK - don’t seem to have spotted what is going on, or at least aren’t taking it seriously.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"Our nuclear deterrent is self-sufficient, French from start to finish. Ever since 64 it has helped keep Europe safe and peaceful. However, after Merz's historic call, I have decided to open up discussion on using it to protect our allies throughout Europe." — Macron. #StandWithUkraine #EuropeanArmy
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
For the umpteenth time: No way should our allies share their intelligence with us. No fucking way. Trump can’t be trusted with our allies’ intelligence. He’s not on their side. He’s on Putin’s side. www.mediaite.com/tv/cia-direc...
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CIA Director Reveals U.S. Has Cut Off Intelligence Support to Ukraine After Trump-Zelensky Clash
Ratcliffe revealed Trump halted intelligence support as part of his decision to withhold military aid to Ukraine following last week’s Oval Office confrontation.
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
❗️We are currently producing about a third of the weapons we need, our goal is at least 50 percent, - 🇺🇦Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmyhal
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
❗️🇫🇷French President Emmanuel Macron said he was ready to start discussing a “nuclear deterrent” for 🇪🇺Europe, speculating that France could use its arsenal of nuclear weapons to protect other European countries from 🇷🇺Russia.
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Robert Hoskins @hoski67.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Bezos has just trashed the legacy of Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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wolf2319.bsky.social @wolf2319.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
#wakeup
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Robert Hoskins @hoski67.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
There you have it. The new political divide Out - Nationalisation v Privatisation In - Deporting Immigrants v Unrestricted immigration Freedom of Speech v Trans ideology - Cancel culture Drill baby drill v Working toward Net Zero
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The billionaire who did the Nazi salute has now attended a German far-right rally and urged Germans to stop feeling guilty about their Nazi past, and then jetted off to Italy where he argued for racial purity. And yet somehow our newspapers are still calling him controversial rather than dangerous.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
What insane times we are living in.
reuters.com
EU military chief says it would make sense to put European troops in Greenland, Welt reports
The top European Union military official, Robert Brieger, said it would make sense to station troops from EU countries in Greenland, according to an interview with Germany's Welt am Sonntag published on Saturday, as U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed interest in acquiring the Danish territory.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
So how’s it going so far?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2025
"The rise of Nazi Germany, where industrialists and financiers made a pact with the devil, is similar to what Russian oligarchs did in 2000 with Putin ... But Musk is symptomatic of something. Look at the way Zuckerberg made this perverse transformation. Businessmen are adjusting to appease Trump."
publicnotice.co
"A pact with the devil"
David de Jong on oligarchs getting in bed with fascists.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Sun: "some said he had made a stiff-armed Roman-style salute" Telegraph: "a hand gesture that some critics have likened to a fascist salute" Daily Mail: "an 'awkward hand gesture' that some have likened to a Nazi salute" Times: "commenters on social media suggested it looked like a fascist salute"
Elon Musk making a Nazi salute to Trump supporters
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The reporting around this is no accident. In the best traditions of the right wing press they have exploited people's ignorance of things like bond markets simply to score political points against a Labour government that they don't like. They'll keep doing things like this.
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Robert Hoskins @hoski67.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Woof from Lottie our Micro Miniature Australian Labradoodle who has just had a puppy cut
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
❗️The 🇪🇺European Union has transferred the first tranche of €3 billion to 🇺🇦Ukraine for frozen 🇷🇺Russian assets — Prime Minister of Ukraine Shmyhal
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Robert Hoskins @hoski67.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
An Aberration of Australian Labradoodles
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit her job Because she refused to obey in advance Pity that Jeff Bezos-owner of the paper Is too busy worrying about making another billion And doesn’t have One Whit Of the courage displayed by Ms Telnaes DON’T BEND THE KNEE
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Robert Hoskins @hoski67.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
achive.is then www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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Robert Hoskins @hoski67.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
@anno1540.bsky.social @noelreports.com @wartranslated.bsky.social @warinthefuture.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social Interested in your opinion on this ... x.com/Telegraph/st...
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Robert Hoskins @hoski67.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Satire is always the first casualty of authoritarian Nationalism.
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Robert Hoskins @hoski67.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
‪@antongerashchenko.bsky.social‬ Anton you need to read this . x.com/Telegraph/st...
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𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗜𝗧 🌹 @graemefromit.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Bored/Upset/Intrigued by Musk's, Robinson's & The Conservatives narrative on the Grooming Gangs? Here's information that they WON'T be shared to their followers, Q-Anon or Russian linked misinformation accounts… 1/8
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Robert Hoskins @hoski67.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
@rspb.bsky.social Now that's what I call a charm of Goldfinches
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
In South Korea, 10 days after attempting a coup d'état, president Yoon Suk Yeol is impeached. In the US, 4 years after doing the same, Trump is re-elected. The president agreed to “step aside” after parliament voted to remove him, more than 200,000 showed up to make sure he didn't challenge it.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
THIS is how it’s done, folks.
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