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Jim Hunter

@jimhunter.bsky.social
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Interested in current affairs. Does a bit of cooking. Golfer, gym rat and E-bike rider. Wordle fan. World traveller. Social democrat and federalist. Co-owner Heart of Midlothian FC.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 21h
More populist tosh from the TUC. There was no "tax break for the banks". The 8% bank surcharge was created to offset the corporation tax cut from 28% to 20%. So, when corporation tax then went up 5% to its current level, the surcharge went down 5%. Not a tax break.
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Cornish/Manc Parallel Realist (Worldwide Dept.) @leftymuso.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed. I wonder how long it will be before we see them hanging people from lampposts?
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Remember our match against Rayo Vallecano back in July? This is worth a read. #JamTarts www.theguardian.com/football/202...?
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Sergio Camello: ‘Rayo is the last team standing – it’s football from another time’
Rayo Vallecano’s fascinating forward on his unique club, his musical passions and the goalscoring form that puts him among Europe’e elite
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A shipwreck near Aberlady. Rumour has the locals nabbed all the whisky.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s taken Brighton a good number of years to get to this point. It won’t be overnight success for Hearts but initial signs are encouraging.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In depth piece on how Brighton are benefiting from JTA and how they run their development programme www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... Much to ponder for us Jambos.
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How Brighton attract and develop the best young players ahead of their rivals
Brighton sporting director Mike Cave discusses Brighton's transfer policy and how the club signs and nurtures the best young talent in the game.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Now I think about it it’s an excess of 5G this week. Grandkids, gym, golf, gardening and gastronomy.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Suffering from an excess of 4G this week. Having a lazy day today. Cafe for breakfast and then pick up ingredients for making steak and egg hash (a new recipe) this evening.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He wouldn’t like Sydney, Australia then. Electric bikes with surfboard racks are everywhere.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just found out the Scottish FA have a chief football officer and a head of strategy, operations and performance. How’s that working out lads?
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JosimarFootball @josimarfootball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ny! New! Manchester City is run by, and in the interests of, the United Arab Emirates, a state whose appetite for conflict and violence is matched by its contempt for rules and norms. By @ncgeehan.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2026/10/05/m...
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Mob Rule - josimarfootball.com
Manchester City is run by, and in the interests of, the United Arab Emirates, a state whose appetite for conflict and violence is matched by its contempt for rules and norms. By Nick McGeehan, the dir...
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Edinburgh is a village.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It was obvious yesterday that Rangers had a very much younger average age. Thought it was a bit cheeky. Hearts Skacel is 47 and Flogel is 55.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ha. One of the musicians and I played golf. together in a fourball this morning. We won six and five.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At the Soccer Sixes today with the oldest kiddo. His first ‘Derby’ win. 🥳 I’d bigged up Rudi so thankfully he scored!
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The cope from some Man City fans is that the sham sponsorship income meant the club overstated revenue and so overpaid corporation tax. So they are due a refund! Awesome! Um, no. City paid *zero* corporation tax because they lost buckets of money. The receipts:
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
RIP EU-Haul 🪦 Welcome Eurosky Migration Service 🤗 They grow up so fast 🥹 -> move.eurosky.tech
A screenshot of the new, cleaner Eurosky Migration Service Website
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Curious article in that it implies that there are now no helmet exemptions and in the next paragraph it suggests that mandatory use for adults only applies to rural roads. I’m confused.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just one very good example of how Man City appear to have cheated the system and quite possibly committed a criminal offence. In the thread note the reference to the liquidated Rangers FC.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You underestimate the power of the gutter press to track down those involved and offer squillions for an exclusive. “ My night of dogging and being paid in diesel”. “ I was tempted by an offer of baklava but it turned out to be a balaclava.” That sort of thing.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh, this is going to be very interesting.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Brother of Jar Jar.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This monster is about to take off from Belfast. On the side it has the message “Be brave like Mykolaiv” and a Ukrainian flag. Cargo plane carrying Airbus wings I think.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looking down at the Bogside in Derry/Londonderry from the City Walls it’s easy still to imagine what it must have been like in 1969.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mural of The Undertones on a gable right by the Derry/Londonderry City Walls. Last saw them live a couple of years ago at the O2 Academy in Edinburgh.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two views from the Derry/Londonderry City Walls.
Unionist slogan painted on a wall. Nationalist slogan painted on a wall.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey Siri. Tell me about this beer.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Time to start the refreshments. Derry/Londonderry.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At the Giants Causeway. Looks a bit ordinary if I’m honest.
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The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Rezillos release a new studio album The Rezillos have released a new studio album this Weeknd with all original songs co-produced by Fay Fife and Martin Metcalfe, marking their 50 years in the music industry....
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The Rezillos release a new studio album
The Rezillos have released a new studio album this Weeknd with all original songs co-produced by Fay Fife and Martin Metcalfe, marking their 50 years in the music industry. Psycho Tornado is released on three shades of vinyl and on CD and digital on Last Night From Glasgow. Formed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1976, The Rezillos emerged at the same time as other bands in the punk rock movement, in their own unique bubble of raucous B-Movie Sci Fi tinged brash energy, memorable tunes and their own inimitable approach to music and live performance.
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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is quite something from Raspberry Pi. www.raspberrypi.com/news/backing...
raspberrypi.com
Backing our people as parents: introducing our childcare contribution - Raspberry Pi
We've introduced a new policy to help our people with childcare costs.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google maps has finally updated its Satellite photos of Gaza and it shows the most complete destruction of a city ever. A Genocide.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It was the Turkish Eggs with a side of Blackpudding. Pretty good.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Driving through Ballycarry in rural Northern Ireland today and spot this Jambo flag. I kid you not.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s chucking it down in Belfast so golf cancelled. Brunch instead. It might be the full fry.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Older than he is.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Remember Craig Whyte, former Rangers FC director? This is worth a read.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mind-blowing story in Private Eye about how the Telegraph's chief reporter reached out to James Orr (or meant to) after the Channel 4 donation revelations


...within hours of journalists on either the *Guardian* or *Sunday Times* contacting Reform for comment on the same stories ahead of them publishing their own investigations. Reform deputy leader Richard Tice and his fiancée, supposed journalist Isabel Oakeshott, even crowed online about their spoiler tactics.

Not that the *Telegraph* doesn't do its own leg work when reporting on Reform. After James Orr, the party's head of policy, had to resign after a sting by *Channel 4 News* (see "*Right Orr Wrong*, p14"), *Telegraph* chief reporter Rob Mendick texted Orr: "I was hoping to talk to you entirely on background," he schmoozed. "You must be feeling very bruised and I totally Appreciate [sic] the sensitivities. I suspect you deserve better and I wanted to see how I can put the record straight in some way." Alas, instead of the Reformer and Cambridge theologian, Mendick messaged someone else, who shared it with the *Eye*!
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
First time I was in the Canaries when that happened someone warned me to use even more sun protection because the sand particles in the atmosphere reflect sunlight and increase its intensity.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Clear that @pantsshaton.bsky.social and @everybodylovesij.bsky.social each voted for their alter ego.
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Interesting to see Brighton’s playing style described as ‘organised chaos’. Isn’t that what it was said WV aims for. www.theguardian.com/football/202...?
theguardian.com
Football Daily | Brighton’s organised chaos viciously pecks Arsenal into submission
In today’s Football Daily: Brighton’s birthday bounce sends them soaring
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oslo on the stern of the ship is a bit of a giveaway.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Indeed. Much better when Milne came on.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That’s a messy tactic.
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Indeed.
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Everybody loves IJ @everybodylovesij.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bro-in-law works for Belhaven. Got me a wee present. Belhaven...LAGER
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Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Been down the C road three times. After treatment for my second diagnosis a lump appeared on my chest and I was sent same day for a mammogram. I’ve never forgotten the looks I was getting from all the women in the waiting room thinking I’d made a mistake and was in the wrong place!
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