Reposted by Mike RobsonAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Love the legalese bunkum. Apparently, attaching something to someone else's property, without permission, means they can't take it off or it's theft/criminal damage. It would be terrible if someone, who knows where this prick parks, filled his windscreen with RNLI stickers, to test the principle. 2730958
Reposted by Mike RobsonThe Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 26/09/2026I still don’t understand how anyone thought that this was going to be a good policy. It also baffles my mind that it’s still going ahead. 2539593
Reposted by Mike RobsonAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 25/09/2026Why have we reached a stage where people call in to @natashadevon.bsky.social and say they want people to drown? Well headlines like this don’t help. Let’s forget that numbers are way down on years previous and just keep stoking fear and division. This is why the RNLI is under attack. 61596146
Reposted by Mike RobsonJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention. 211134388
Reposted by Mike RobsonSpooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Please can someone call the burns unit? 🔥🔥🔥🔥 36979177
Reposted by Mike RobsonWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026These groups need to be proscribed immediately. They are a threat to public order and the rule of law. 561008262
Reposted by Mike RobsonDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault. 433128789
Reposted by Mike RobsonWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Time is long overdue that the political mainstream in Britain vigorously re-asserts its longstanding anti-racism norms... these have been allowed to be significantly eroded the last few years. 528458
Reposted by Mike RobsonOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago. 681754596
Reposted by Mike RobsonTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026And yet she can't persuade her own colleagues and government to get the eff off X 🙄 1021751
Reposted by Mike RobsonJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 17/09/2026Burnham should visit an RLNI station and thank the volunteers. There's no way that the vast majority of people, even those who are more hawkish on immigration, are not going to side with the RLNI over a mob of balaclava-wearing thugs. 48317
Reposted by Mike RobsonSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026As 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. 27643235
Reposted by Mike RobsonWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The original reporting of what happened in Portsmouth was a joke. This is just a hate mob that has been whipped up who are now targeting the RNLI. Throw the book at them.independent.co.ukRNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protestsRNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore 27556173
Reposted by Mike RobsonTorsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026These are thugs being thugs, not legitimate protests 77566120
Reposted by Mike RobsonBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/09/2026Excellent letter in The Times. "Greater hate hath no person than to accuse those who put their lives on the line for others of being traitors." 11954349
Reposted by Mike RobsonJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/09/2026nothing says “party of the ordinary workers” than taking a £36m donation from a crypto tycoon convicted in the US in 2022 for failings in an anti-money laundering programme before being pardoned by Donald Trump 11348123
Reposted by Mike RobsonDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026As I keep pointing out, does no one understand Ricardian comparative advantage anymore. FACT: China produces over 1 million engineering graduates per year FACT: To date, China has not produced a single internationally marketable game show format Where does it look like our advantage lies? 37652182
Reposted by Mike RobsonJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"? 5133651131
Reposted by Mike RobsonChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to 451459420
Reposted by Mike RobsonSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/09/2026Astonishing to hear people say they'd rather asylum seekers drowned than be saved by the RNLI. Next comes letting people die in burning hostels rather than be saved by the fire brigade and letting people get kicked to death in the street rather than be saved by the Police. Don't platform this hate. 511835448
Reposted by Mike RobsonJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/09/2026If every statement about Extinction Rebellion had opened with "Climate change is the single biggest issue facing humanity, and we understand why people have legitimate concerns the world isn't doing enough to tackle it…" this approach might be *faintly* defensible. But they didn't, and it isn't. 12730279
Reposted by Mike Robsonkatie @supermathskid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Jeremy Vine on radio 2 inviting comment on the thugs last night, literally suggested that you might phone in if "you think they've got a point, because the government clearly isn't doing enough to curb the small boat crossings". How fucking dare you use my licence fee for this fascism 36872227
Reposted by Mike RobsonAndy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Another compilation video from yesterday's fascist paramilitary 'storm' action in #Dover town and at the Port of Dover. #FarRight Some national security-related observations below. 140994574
Reposted by Mike RobsonSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...bbc.co.ukPort of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roadsHundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port. 1061847818
Reposted by Mike RobsonDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026I wish I could stay longer to keep discussing ways to conceal illegal foreign contributions to my political party, but I'm late to lecturing on ethics at Cambridge University where I am a live-in landlord for multiple students. 15594136
Reposted by Mike RobsonRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"We just don't have British resident donors that would support us ... That's the grim reality". "The Electoral Commission...are completely useless. They're just so dumb & ineffective". Some jaw-dropping quotes in this film from senior figures in Reform. We need updated laws AND proper enforcement 17591203
Reposted by Mike RobsonKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.nytimes.comDolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.” 247238635776
Reposted by Mike RobsonStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Think the discourse on “lanyardian” is missing the far crazier part of this, which is that it’s a conversation between two people who now believe that saying “UK” is a weird, Starmer-like affectation. Margaret Thatcher used it, because it is literally the name of our country! 10277373
Reposted by Mike RobsonChris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A really miserable piece of writing, wholly based in electoral impressionism. No thought for principles or the rights of migrants, and including spurious calculations about lifetime fiscal costs and benefits that simply ignore the real costs of what would happen if these workers were absent.ft.comBurnham must reveal his hand on immigrationLabour MPs dislike tough proposals to limit rights to settle and collect welfare but voters’ trust has run out 527884
Reposted by Mike RobsonJim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Perennial personal bugbear: UK policy/politics discourse that rests on half remembered and understood vibes about other countries from 20 years ago. This a great example. See also, Finnish education now sucks. Italy and Spain are pretty efficient and well run in lots of respects. Etc. 910619
Reposted by Mike RobsonStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A sitting Conservative MP using the word Yookay. Genuinely astonishing to me that visibly there is no warning sign, at all, will be heeded by loads of people at Westminster with a *direct stake* in this type of politics failing. 27680143
Reposted by Mike RobsonEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26 10628191394
Reposted by Mike RobsonAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I'd say "Something for nothing" culture is getting paid £100,000 a year of public money, plus expenses, for a job that you then fail to turn up to for months on end 922804921
Reposted by Mike RobsonEd Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 18/08/2026Disabilities don't start at 9:30 AM, and now disabled bus passes won't either. Huge credit to Lib Dem MP Tom Gordon and campaign groups like Transport for All. Their fight against unfair restrictions has led to nationwide change for fairer, accessible transport! 838282
Reposted by Mike RobsonKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/08/2026Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!" 1386379916
Reposted by Mike RobsonProf Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Oh my god what TF is wrong with #BBC #BroadcastingHouse? They have got KATHLEEN STOCK on to do the review, SPECIFICALLY to talk about Jason Arday. When she was one of the most egregious examples of the pile on, just days ago. I have turned the radio off. Shame on you BBC. 1063742769
Reposted by Mike RobsonHOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 14/08/2026👀Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Danny ‘Tommo’ Thomas says his new anti-migrant vigilante group exists to protect women and children. So obviously we know what comes next: several of the men he personally “handpicked” have criminal convictions, including for violence against women. 13248121
Reposted by Mike RobsonChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Capita and Serco - two companies that shouldn't be getting a penny of public money after this many *decades* of repeated failure. There are others 78825
Mike Robson @mikerobson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Some phenomenal performances tonight. The distance Nadia Battocletti & Karsten Warholm won by 😲 #European 000
Reposted by Mike RobsonCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuelsindependent.co.ukAndy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecuesAndy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified 2162326848
Reposted by Mike RobsonJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Also serious reminder that if your kid DOES fail to get the results they need: 1) don't panic. 2) IT'S FINE. Don't rush. Ring unis. chat to them. Our phone line people are trained to help. 3) Consider Greenwich. Our entire thing is helping kids master study skills and become their best selves. 620329
Reposted by Mike RobsonJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We should probably start treating DEFRA like a important department we focus on and properly resource, rather than as a late one to fill after the big posts have been handed out. 38814
Reposted by Mike RobsonTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 09/08/2026As ever, I am left asking what the success criteria for the student visas policy looks like. 712234
Reposted by Mike RobsonDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Rowling has upskirted, and defended doing so on basis of how someone was dressed. Rowling nas demonised cis women who look too "masculine". This is on top of being massively transphobic. Rowling doesn't give two shits about protecting women. She just wants to attack trans and non-binary individuals 312221
Reposted by Mike RobsonEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 09/08/2026i bet if people were doing to the telegraph’s office what they are doing to asylum seekers’ homes, we wouldn’t be hearing about “legitimate concerns about the state of modern journalism” 314538
Reposted by Mike RobsonMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Muslims aren't the United States' biggest threat. Christian nationalists like mean, crazy, and fake-Christian Nancy Mace are. (And Trojan is capitalized, you semi-literate troll.) 1523199904421
Reposted by Mike RobsonRachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 09/08/2026New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...observer.co.uk‘Scandi wings’ offering pianos, pool and tea parties coul...A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution 531490582
Reposted by Mike RobsonEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 08/08/2026amazing how this is still relevant a year after i posted it 5708147
Reposted by Mike RobsonAndrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It's a very good challenge Ian. Some of us are trying (appreciate a backbench MP may not qualify as a leader), but we need to collectively do much more. 3486
Reposted by Mike RobsonChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The chaos being created by Reform in local government is almost as scandalous as the issues around its funding at national level. 614061