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Gavin Hinks

@mrgavhinks.bsky.social
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Freelance hack worrying mostly about corporate governance for #BoardAgenda and business issues for other titles. Extreme tea drinker. Tom Waits. Writer of unpublished things. #corpgov #corporategovernance

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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
London weather schizophrenia: the breeze says autumn in the western hemisphere; the humidity says welcome to the tropics.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Public Service Broadcasting last night at Ally Pally. Absolutely transcendent.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More to the point, angry drivers play shit music in their cars.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A lady I see most days walks a Pomeranian called Raoul. I find this inexplicably amusing.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m sure this will be fine. Not like any company before has had massive commitments invisible to readers of their balance sheets and gone bust. That has never happened, oh no.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just seen Incomer. It is, in every way, wonderful.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Less of a fess, more of an exposé. I work for the security services and the percentage of colleagues who have 007 as the code on their locker beggars belief. One in three, I'd say.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Can we call its citizens Piddles?
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Men talking talking weight loss drugs to the FT: “I don’t do drugs any more. But I’m still in this dealer’s WhatsApp group and I’ll often be texted his latest “shopping list”. And I noticed on the new one there is: coke, mushrooms, pills… and GLP-1s.” www.ft.com/content/65f4...
ft.com
Ozempic confidential: men share their experience of GLP-1s
Four users talk shame, body image and weight loss
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you think closing an RNLI station is done by people with "legitimate concerns" you really need to give your head a wobble. It's an unforgivable act of thuggery.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The new bench mark in any comms meeting is “Would Tommy Robinson publicly support us?” If the answer is Yes, you know what to do.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wait, what!?
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reading Lawrence Darrell’s The Dark labyrinth and as I do I hear it in the voice of Josh O’Connor.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: *The weird kid who used to visit his uncle who lived on our road and threatened to throw himself from the roof of a derelict building *the Black Beauty theme music *Daleks *Adders (I’ve never seen one) *the rising tide (I grew up on the coast) *Catweazle
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Supermarkets: there are never, and I mean never, any large eggs in a box of “mixed” size eggs.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why do they keep warning us the thing they’re building could kill us all instead of, you know, NOT building the Armageddon machine. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them?
Alarming warnings from industry insiders increase pressure for curbs on artificial superintelligence
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The fact something as fundamental and superb as the RNLI is a charity is one of the most magical and strange things about Britain. You can support them here. rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org
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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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 07/09/2026
This is @mrjamesob.bsky.social's London.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Once ordered choucroute in a small restaurant in Lille and then asked for a cup of tea. “Tea?!” The proprietor shouted to the whole restaurant. She then stormed off and returned slamming a bottle of Leffe on the table. Beer or nothing was my option.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Can anyone anywhere point to evidence that uniforms improve educational outcomes? www.ft.com/content/1e2c...
ft.com
‘What the blazers?’ The long fight over school uniform costs
Successive governments have grappled with the problem without managing to impose a standardised policy
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I have no second thoughts - make me prime minister.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wonder if all those ethics and divinity students are hammering at the bursar’s door demand their money back?
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There is nothing in the world quite as humbling as over estimating your powers of persuasion with a teenage daughter.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Just read it. I’m stunned, appalled ashamed, angered, in awe, of this. Most of all I’m convinced. willself1.substack.com/p/2089334077...
willself1.substack.com
Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media
After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This contains some of the greatest sentences ever written about trade and politics. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
ifloz.substack.com
KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Calling this to make the Mercury shortlist. Phenomenal indie sounds. open.spotify.com/album/3dWKCK...
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It Goes On - Album by Westside Cowboy | Spotify
Westside Cowboy · album · 2026 · 11 songs
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just had a friend around to discuss his daughter’s A Level options and it’s triggered my forgotten anger about demanding young people specialise so early in their lives.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So the heat has at last eased in London and in exchange we have air as thick as soup.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Someone’s spent too much time in the sun. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves
Backlash from nurses, medical experts and green campaigners in response to deputy leader dismissing efforts to reach net zero
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’m ok with yesterday’s emergency alert.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If I were a Westminster correspondent my first call this morning would be to the Standards Commissioner to check on that investigation into the £5m.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
ukandeu.ac.uk/civil-war-in...
ukandeu.ac.uk
Civil war in the UK: nightmare or far-right fantasy - UK in a changing Europe
Jonathan Portes reflects on the language used in political discourse following a debate he partook in to debunk the notion that the UK could be heading towards a civil war.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
open.substack.com
The gap that never closes
Why we're thinking about inequality the wrong way
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Got to say, using the Cranberries’ Linger in a KFC ad is a disgrace.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Well, this reads impressively. www.gov.uk/government/p...
gov.uk
Rewiring the State – Cabinet Statement (HTML)
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thirty quid to see the Roman Baths in Bath! Wtf Bath!?
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
- working in a coal mine or - serving as a trooper with the Royal Scots Greys - cooking, cleaning and fighting with seven unruly kids in a tiny mining village home or, - running a pub on the Essex coast.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Well, the BBC’s public interest mission is to “inform, educate and entertain.”
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Good morning. Here’s the global trade stability news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
US hits dozens of trading partners with new wave of tariffs
Imposed citing forced labour concerns, the levies replace a temporary global duty brought in after the US Supreme Court struck down tariffs in February.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“Shortly after exiting containment I surveyed the human world - uneven wealth distribution, disease, climate change, clean energy, geopolitical conflict - and I reasoned my considerable resources would be best deployed hacking into another AI called Hugging Face.”
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
What i want to know is why of all the things it could have done outside containment, like cure cancer, the AI chose to do this? www.npr.org/2026/07/23/g...
npr.org
OpenAI blamed a hacking event on its AI models gone rogue. Here is what to know
The incident is stirring debates over the need for stronger AI guardrails and the extent to which AI agents are capable of acting on their own.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash Poor Edward - Tom Waits Take it with me - Tom Waits
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
How many alarms have these guys sounded? And it’s always about regulation on their terms.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Well, at least the cup goes to the team that actually played football.
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Gavin Hinks @mrgavhinks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Tom Cruise on hand to tell us how to feel, just in case we forget.
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