Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Top @pamhutch.bsky.social content on Radio 4 right now. 110
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I gave up reading the Economist a long time ago, when I got bored with reading articles that, whatever the problem, prescribed the free market as the solution. Has it evolved in recent years? 010
Reposted by Robert HanksJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant? 129572
Reposted by Robert HanksRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”. 211244447
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Isn't this just a joke? (And if it is, is the quoter inadvertently showing that she's more stereotypically Bluesky than the original poster?) 011
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is what happens when you let a WOMAN write cartoon strips. 000
Reposted by Robert HanksAlex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Now seems as good a time as any to post the plasticine Frank Muir that I built for the ‘Amateur Frank Muir Modeller’ Viz ad back in 2006. 1439852
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026But let's hear it, too, for Bryan Pringle, who won the Bancroft Gold Medal at RADA in 1955, when the competition included Peter O'Toole. 020
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Why can’t any of these people grasp the really easy truth that the reason traffic has got worse is more cars. 1144
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Why won’t social media accept ads for a Musk documentary – billionaire solidarity or just cowardice? 010
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I’m in Peterborough, which so far isn’t nearly as bad everyone said. 010
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Get my broker on the phone – I want to go large on shares in private ADHD and autism clinics. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comNHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessmentsPatient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses 020
Reposted by Robert HanksVerity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We had a prison officer come in to scare us off crime. Tiny Scottish dude. Gave us detailed instructions on how to kill a man with a sock and some batteries and how to make a shank from a toothbrush. For the girls, the message was, avoid prison because "you'll come oot a dyke". 529934
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026youtu.be/_tUctFu46_c?...youtu.beTomorrow Belongs to Me - CabaretYouTube video by Sean Scott 010
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As I'll keep saying till they finally get rid of him, worst BBC political editor – no, I'll go further: worst BBC political journalist – of my lifetime. My theory is that Laura Kuenssberg lobbied hard for him to get the job because it would make her tenure look retrospectively amazing. 040
Reposted by Robert HanksStephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It’s impossible to read this about the police still wasting huge resources attempting to convict people for peacefully walking slowly and then begin to comprehend the craven police inaction over Tommo and his violent masked thugs. Can anyone explain it? 1316468
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A lot of people slagging off Eggers for getting the history wrong, but my guess is this is just bad reporting, and he's actually talking about using authentic Shakespearean pronunciation. (And now I'll be proved wrong, as per.) 100
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Darned Earl Spencer, making me agree with Piers Morgan 120
Reposted by Robert HanksEdouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026i have no words. it is all so absurdtheguardian.comMeta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminismTheatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism 16625
Reposted by Robert HanksGoldfinch liker @ruudboy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It was just down from Jimmy Tarbuck Medical School 67821
Reposted by Robert HanksRichard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Rarewaves currently has a big ol' 2 for £16 Blu ray sweet deal on a bunch of cool labels, including the great Second Run. Here are some of my favourite bangers they've put out over the years... (Post not sponsored by Rarewaves or Second Run, but it should be) www.rarewaves.com/collections/... 65612
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026What I briefly thought might be a major malfunction in my boiler turns out to be a helicopter on the television in the next room. 150
Reposted by Robert HanksNagihan Haliloğlu @nhaliloglu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026fascists and AI are inevitable, my public broadcaster tells me 111
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Radio 3 news bulletin refers to the AfD having won a “landslide victory” in Saxony-Anhalt recently. But they didn’t get a majority! How is that a landslide? Why this careless boosting of the far right? 171
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Last year I subsisted for weeks on apples I picked at my local community orchard. This year, not only are the apples mostly small and hard, a huge proportion of them have suffered insect damage. 110
Reposted by Robert HanksSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Good letters in The Times on Canada’s moves towards the EU. Seems we’re far happier to discuss the strategic sense of Canada rethinking its allies and trade arrangements, than we are to discuss our own not-so splendid Brexit isolation. Looking very foolish again, UK. 26596187
Reposted by Robert HanksCaptain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Each day stranger than the last. 5409104
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The bottom half of this is bizarre: seems to have overlooked entirely the outright corruption of Cameron's Greensill lobbying and the bizarre postures Truss has adopted to tout for cash from the American far right. 000
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I was really not on Ed Sheeran's side over this whole Macklemore thing, but I see that Roger Waters has called him a "little prick", so now I don't know what to think. 010
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Astonishing, vile. This is now mainstream Republican thinking, apparently. (And I checked: genuine tweet www.snopes.com/fact-check/b...)snopes.comTexas GOP candidate Bo French called for deporting several Native AmericansHis campaign said he didn't call to deport all Native Americans, but rather only the ones in the photograph he posted with his comment. 011
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026But the *best* way to get rich in the United States is to build a product that you can either sell to the government or get subsidized by the government. That way, the American taxpayer will never know they're being defrauded. 000
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Wow. Hyperpolitics is both a tendency and a "gravitational pole"? And linking = distantiation? This is impressive stuff. 100
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Small irritation: why did #BBCPM, in quoting Trump's remarks about a "STRONG AND SMART (HIGH IQ) PRESIDENT" leave out the part in brackets? The effect was to make the sentence sound just that bit less loopy; and I think listeners need to understand the full insanity of the man. 040
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Just been alerted to the surprising sequel to Krakatoa East of Java. 020
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026They think there’s such a thing as an autistic dog? 000
Reposted by Robert HanksSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Susanna Reid: "what does anyone expect in return for £72m?" Kevin Maguire: ".. funnily enough Reform doesn't have anybody to speak on social care.. but it has a very detailed policy on crypto currency.. & it would coincidentally make these billionaires even more money" #GMB 9243101
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Honestly, if the government could just keep rolling out this level of sensible, useful stuff, it would do a lot to bring the national temperature down. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comRail passengers get automatic right to switch operators for free when trains are cancelled‘Commonsense change’ looks to end current confusion and put ‘passengers first, not shareholders’ when services are disrupted 084
Reposted by Robert HanksKateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A collection of Nancy Banks-Smith's columns, being published early next year! (She was the Guardian's TV critic for many years, and brilliant.) 2389