Reposted by SpinningHugoFOHF @fohf.bsky.social · 11hThe bond marketstatic.klipy.comI'm The Captain Now - Captain Phillips MemeALT: I'm The Captain Now - Captain Phillips Meme 17013
Reposted by SpinningHugoTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 13hHonestly it’s like a parody by this point isn’t it 2224730
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 13hInteresting and characteristically thoughtful reflections by GP on why Starmer was unsuited to the job he had. 1102
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 14hAlmost everything Burnham announced was about the next Labour manifesto. Which means ..... (I know everybody thinks that nuts, so no need to tell me again. But the Bond Market.) 150
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 14hYes. I disagree with lots of what Burnham is saying (I am an unreformed Blairite, save for the invading countries part). But at least it looks like action (even if lots of that is deferred). Starmer should have tried governing. 1170
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 14hThey should keep the triple lock, but fold national insurance into income tax. Rather more progressive, and more money. 080
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 14hThey should get me to run this Commission. It would take a morning, and the report would be two lines. "We did this already in 1998. Nothing has changed since. Nobody has found any further options." researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP...researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk 030
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 14h1980s themes. Labour loves this kind of stuff. Look forward ffs. 150
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 14hI am still utterly bemused by why Starmer was so terrible as PM. (Not the how, the why, there is lots on the how). He is clearly a bright guy, unlike his predecessor. Perhaps he came too late to politics and had lost the ability to learn? Mysterious to me. Views? 22431
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 14hBut, and it is a Big But. Burnham does appear to be able to make choices. That was the problem with Starmer, he didn't like having to make trade-offs. 070
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 17hBurnham has two terrible populist traits 1. devolution, despite the evidence of the last 30 years as to its effectiveness 2. 80s (or is it 70s?) nostalgia. Reverse Thatcher. things will be better if we bash bits of metal together. Look at the University sector. Look at the current world. 2171
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of my favourite books from last year. Not seen the second film yet, but am so pleased it matches the first. Like everyone he was a flawed human being, but you have to admire his refusal to give the Americans and British any credit at all. Indomitable. 090
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Janice Turner blocked me on old twitter. Quite pleasing in retrospect. 0110
Reposted by SpinningHugoUniversity of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 27/09/2026Oxford looking magical last night 🌕✨ The Harvest Moon lit up the night sky - the name traditionally given to the full moon closest to the autumn equinox. 📷 Instagram | ObservingOxford 16210
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As if increased borrowing were being prevented by the Treasury, and not what bond markets are shouting loudly. 130
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Groan. Haigh. Not someone I trust. There used to be a joke about "disgraced" Liam Fox on twitter. The same should be used about Louise Haigh. 061
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What is the offer? Oh, just say the same as last time. 161
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I've never claimed on house or pet insurance in decades 2110
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I am a deep sceptic about the utility of devolution (we've had some large long term trials for decades now and I doubt that, like socialism, it is the "wrong kind") but this is very good. 120
Reposted by SpinningHugoironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I regret to inform you the bond market is going to be front page news again. 4344
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Who can be surprised that one of the uses of crypto is to allow Russia to evade sanctions? It is just for crime-ing. 34310
Reposted by SpinningHugoLegal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Time to call this out. There is a tendency to talk utter gibberish about recent events. To compare two different events and draw unsubstantiated conclusions. To suggest people are doing “nothing”. A short thread. 89929
Reposted by SpinningHugoChris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone." 1278
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Presumably they're appealing the order, and will just disobey it unless and until there is a SCOTUS decision. No other government in the common law world behaves like this. If a court makes an order, it is obeyed unless and until overturned. 4101
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Good. Let us hope that the price war in China for electric cars, coupled with the US and EU tariffs, means the UK becomes a dumping ground for cheap electric Chinese cars. We need more charging points. Bring it on. 321
Reposted by SpinningHugoGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026quick, mega obvious post about how the US economy is crowding out others gileswilkes.substack.com/p/a-short-di...gileswilkes.substack.coma short, disturbing thought on AI overbuilding and US fiscal laxityirresponsibility spreads across borders 067
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It is my birthday today, and the replies were a nice bluesky gift to work through. Here is mine to you all www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...youtube.comVince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc. 5100
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tha in the UK more time off work is taken and people are not actually unproductive when working is, as @chrisgiles.ft.com says, good. Government policy should be to try and enable people to have good enjoyable lives. The point is not to maximise the util. www.ft.com/content/c819...ft.comWhy your holiday is good news for the UKFor once we should thank the Office for National Statistics for its productivity reporting 030
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I don't think Mancunian is an ethnic identity, as I tried clumsily to express here. British isn't either. So how, as a matter of logic, could the intermediate category, English, be? 350
Reposted by SpinningHugoSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A good English conservative intervention on who could be English came from John Redwood, over a decade ago (in 2013 at a British Future/ippr festival of Englishness), in which he explained why he had moved on from the British = civic & multiethnic but English as more exclusive concept by the 1990s. 3254
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Does not sound like a man who is going to lay off Russian oil production. 1110
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Looking at the world, I also think we may have an early general election. This may be as good as it gets for a bit. 2183
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026On the information available to me, I agree. It looked like a deal only a lawyer could love. It failed to take into account a large number of reasons. The UK needs to be more thoughtful 270
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Please send me your suggestions of great music to listen to. Any era, any genre. Well known or obscure. Uplifting or not. We shouldn't be such downers on bsky. Let us do some more trivia. 43111
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Oh dear. Trump is going to screw the UK. We're going to need both tax rises and an interest rate hike because the US is led by a loon. And that is Bad politically. 1130
Reposted by SpinningHugoBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What this says to me is that the wheels are falling off Reform. Rather than being able to stick to THE BOATS they have gone after legal migrants, permanent migrants and now non-white citizens. It’s a revolutionary spiral that they can’t escape and will chew them up. 44012
Reposted by SpinningHugoSam Dumitriu @samdumitriu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Zack Polanski claims the Government have classified data centres as 'critical infrastructure' and as a result they'll get priority access to water and power over households. Is this true? In short, no. www.samdumitriu.com/p/no-data-ce...samdumitriu.comNo, data centres will not be given priority access to water in droughtsZack Polanski needs to get his terminology right 298
Reposted by SpinningHugoJoe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Philosopher: what could be better than being vindicated? Economist: material goods 0508
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What we need is an internationally respected news outlet broadcasting across the world. Impartial, carrying stories from everywhere. What about the "British Broadcasting Corporation 's World Service"? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comNew UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UNPM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence 2436
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It is amazing to sometimes stop and think about the war that is now taking place in Europe, and has been for over four years (longer than US involvement in WW2). Around 500,000 Russian soldiers killed. Around half that number Ukrainian (from a much smaller population). 1140
Reposted by SpinningHugoAlastair Harper @alastairharper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Thomas Edison in 1910. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves on this net zero business, lads 213860
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Looking forward to the Marlon James. Seven Killings was astonishing 010
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I too am getting to the come the fuck on point. (It is of course also difficult to overstate how incompetent the various police forces are.) 1247
Reposted by SpinningHugoScott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026a little thing by me on the importance of teaching legislation and legislative interpretation as a discrete subject (underpinned by despair that in the UK we generally don't teach enough of this in law degrees (never mind how little there is in conversion courses))blogs.ed.ac.ukIn Support of Teaching Legislation and Legislative Interpretation as a Discrete Subject – Edinburgh Private Law Blog 2217
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I was pretty sure large language models weren't going to kill me. Now I am not so sure. 0141
