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Philip Hogarth

@jampacker.bsky.social
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Ex-Twitter. Once FCDO, now happily retired. Dual Brit/French, & I'm quite happy to be both or just one of them according to circumstances! Geordie born & bred, so there is only NUFC. Otherwise, foreign & current affairs as well as general political stuff

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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 3h
Isn't this the very same person who went as far as having published in a book a claim that David Cameron had a blow job off a dead pig?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 3h
For a long time I have heard rumours that you strangle kittens for fun and worship Satan. I have never believed it and still don’t. Am I doing this right?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/10/2026
👀 "Nearly 10 years ago, Nigel Farage told LBC he would leave the country if Brexit were not a stunning success. For reasons that no one can quite fathom, he is still here."
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Welcome to the new Reform roadshow. Same as the last but more desperate | John Crace
Nige is not rattled that the UK likes its new PM. Or that Reform is second in the polls. Oh no. Because Nige believes in
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Got me beat!
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely. The triple lock was a foolish policy in the first place; one not yet removed because of the silly slant you put on it.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I cannot say to you truthfully that where we are is good enough. Brexit has done more harm than good. We need to restore a higher level of growth and prosperity for Britain." Britain needs EU membership - only then will we have the growth that our country needs.
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Haven't seen anything along those lines.
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've read somewherr because it had sunk so far into the sand it couldn't be lifted/dragged out at the time so was just left.
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
God forbid. The mere thought sends provokes a need to puke.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Danny Tommo - Tiny Tears edition
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25/09/2026
This is what Reform UK do when they're in charge.
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Depends if you're an MCFC supporter or not. But on the whole, probably yes. It's taken an age to get this far due to MCFC prevarication and Premier League dithering. The devil will be in the detail and the sanctions yet to be announced.
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is this good?
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🎶 We travel far and wide, We've been to ... 🎶 Well done Crispin Mason-Jones and the local NE football clubs who have supported him. #NUFC BBC News - Newcastle United fan kitting out Zambian footballers - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Newcastle United fan kitting out Zambian footballers
Mfuwe Mags are chasing promotion in the familiar black-and-white stripes of Newcastle United.
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I don't fucking think so"
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's not just people hoyin' beer, though. It's bad enough already bobbing up and down like a yo-yo because of late-comers, early half- and full-time leavers and those who can't hold their drink forever needing to pee without adding to that with those desperate for more juice and chips.
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BBC News - Northumberland Line extension plans could be submitted next year - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Good. But the best part of 14 years to build something like a 3 to 4 mile railway line?
bbc.co.uk
Northumberland Line extension plans could be submitted next year
A council leader hopes plans for Woodhorn and Newbiggin stations could be submitted by next autumn.
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And yet it's Israel and Israelis who are being badly treated in the sporting arena? All power to the Irish if they refuse to play them.
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Three #NUFC lads starting plus one off the bench for #Eng v Col -18 tonight. One scored. Positive sign for the future.
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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
London: a city of extremes with some of the most expensive properties in the world, while one in five Londoners live in poverty. But what do Londoners think of extreme wealth and how it affects their lives?
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Black Shorts happily running into a rat trap? I bet instigator S Y-L stays well away; while Tommo of 'no fixed abode' considers how he squares that with Companies House and HMRC .
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So they're now talking about attacking the system of policing and law. Arrest these f*ckers. Stop bowing down to them and dancing around them.
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David Sandahl @dsandahl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"And Trump sits their making moo eyes like a lovestruck teenager"
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz358bs
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Ronan D. Donnellan @ro-di-dendron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now we know. Nothing but respect for Gary Bennett, who has been a tireless antiracism campaigner. And is an infinitely better person than all Reform councillors in the country put together #SAFC #NUFC www.sunderlandecho.com/news/people/...
sunderlandecho.com
Huge step backwards: Gary Bennett on Reform withdrawal of anti-racism charity support
“I think it’s an important charity, not just for the city of Sunderland, but the whole country”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LOL -- Fox News cuts away from Vance's speech and a host says, "we will bring you back to this rally if he starts to make news"
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We've come a long way from a free, broken bit of tree bark that cleans teeth to touting an expensive bit of broken plastic that doesn't.
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think other shareholders at West Ham have blocked her buying any???
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made.
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is this the same bloke who was done for attempted kidnapping at knife-point?
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.
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Tony @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#NigelFraud
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
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John Auchter @jauchter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
cartoon for @michiganpublic.bsky.social #9/11 #Allies
Political Cartoon: What Happened to My Friends and Allies?
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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l'Équipe - Flux d’actualité @lequipe-actu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Interdit d'afficher son sponsor en Turquie, l'AS Rome va porter un maillot appelant aux dons pour le Népal contre Fenerbahçe en Ligue des champions
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Interdit d'afficher son sponsor habituel en Turquie, l'AS Rome va porter un maillot appelant aux dons pour le Népal contre Fenerbahçe en Ligue des champions
L'AS Rome disputera son match de Ligue des champions contre Fenerbahçe, jeudi (18 h 45), avec un maillot appelant à faire des dons pour le Népal où une vague meurtrière a déferlé fin août. Le club romain est interdit d'afficher son sponsor habituel en Turquie.
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
More self-entitled shite from debt-ridden scroungers.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I seem to recall that Thatcher was ready to negotiate handing over the islands to Argentina, but the Galtieri Junta's invasion (and, as is the case now, to shift Argentine public attention from the economic and political mess the country was in) put paid to that.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.
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Libération @liberation.fr · 07/09/2026
Un passage du document, stipulant en anglais que la France va «accepter» sur son sol les migrants interceptés dans les eaux britanniques, ne figure pas dans la traduction française. ➡️ l.liberation.fr/1sJ
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
FFS, please no, not ever, no. Not Paris. Don't succumb to this, please. PS: I don't like burgers of any description. But offer me a me an americain merguez with mustard on a proper baguette then I'm all yours.
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Reminds me of many years ago (late 70s, tbh) when in Damascus, the American Embassy faced what were officially called 'organised spontaneous demonstrations' . I was up the road from all that, often drinking Barada beer, made by East Germans. More importantly: forget history, get f....ed!
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nigel Farage filmed celebrating illegal foreign donations Undercover footage reveals plot to break the law by funnelling offshore funds through a UK donor. Donations funded a series of widely reported polls boosting Reform ahead of the local elections channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I wonder if she'll be having a pre-match pint in The Percy? Not that she'll get a beer she might recognise.
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/many...
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The Many Myths of the Term 'Anglo-Saxon'
Two medieval scholars tackle the misuse of a phrase that was rarely used by its supposed namesakes
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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ha ha! 👍
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