Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP. 16357082451
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time 481394606
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026But, in the Cam, this is MUCH more remarkable 1318412
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex... 491100325
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialRosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I had no idea this was an option. 841282
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way... 791708565
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 08/09/2026On Andy Burnham's sudden bout of shyness. thecritic.co.uk/sanc... 19957304
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026A large group of co-ordinated, masked men blockading a piece of significant infrastructure is a security threat and should be dealt with as one. There should also be serious questions about why police/intelligence services didn't pick up on it in advance. 57944271
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialJames Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Just exempting care workers would be ridiculous. Basically it would be a case of designing a policy to kick out care workers, panicking when you realise how stupid an idea that is, and then kicking out a load of engineers, scientists etc out of sheer stubbornness. 1236396
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialBen Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 12/07/2026SUVs are higher at the front and three times more likely to kill a child when they hit them. SUV drivers drag the child under their vehicle, and then they crush the child to death. It's incredible that SUVs don't have higher tax, and why not lower speed limits. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comBritain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian WolmarLarger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar 13403143
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 21/06/2026Traditionally on Father’s Day I have posted about my own father, but today I am going to post instead about becoming one. /1 51709157
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10/06/2026If you're gonna pick a group to compensate for their treatment by government why not pick one that did acrually face financial disadvantage without notice, like Plan 2 graduates? As opposed to "some people who had many years' notice but didn't open some letters" 1840742
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026John Major is a better former PM than Tony Blair will ever be iandunt.substack.com/p/john-major... 791278264
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 20/05/2026This is craven, abject cowardice. Betraying Ukraine instead of levelling with the electorate about the realities of what the Iran war means is totally contemptible. 3239
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.sociallastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026... c. on immigration they have combined reactionary coms with a punitive and cruel restrictionist agenda that I genuinely think is economically disastrous, culturally poisonous, and electorally is dooming us to a far right government in the near-to-medium future, d. not enough to build more houses. 2985
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Breaking: Jess Phillips resigns as safeguarding minister just ahead of the 1pm news bulletins 74393130
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 09/05/2026The real takeaway from this is just what a disaster statutory obligations are for democracy. An attempt to hide where the costs go that has screwed over all the most visible bits of government and has empowered popularism by forcing councils to make choices no one in their right mind would vote for. 815932
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 20/04/2026sometimes feel like the original sin of this whole shebang was looking at the crime currency and going "yeah seems fine" 0233
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide. 15455112217
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialKamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2026The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this. 21704682511449
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialFelicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Jesus has re-entered the chat 1231153
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialRob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026It is completely mad that the government is expelling high flying Sudanese students from British universities - from a scheme that is explicitly aimed at the future leaders of countries. 333788
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialTom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides. 75888227
tomjhbennett.bsky.social @tomjhbennett.bsky.social · 27/02/2026If it takes more than a week to get a new Home Secretary with a +ve view of immigration, I can’t see how the Labour Party can regain the trust of its core vote. The party has so much policy to re-write to tackle the strategic disaster of an ageing population. It’s not just a rhetoric issue. 000
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 27/01/2026As public opinion turns, reports from within Mount Doom suggest Orc Lieutenant Gothmog is to be relieved of command and withdrawn from Gondor back to Minas Morgul where he is expected to soon retire. Sauron hopes this ends the matter and the Fellowship will now go home and stop blowing whistles. 14730179
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_... 22253072692
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialJacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 20/01/2026🚨🚨"Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on the Republicans as the last barrier to stop #Trump the madman. 912358
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 18/01/2026US justice department says it is not investigating ICE agent over shooting ft.trib.al/0Q5fF99ft.trib.alUS justice department says it is not investigating ICE agent over shootingDemocratic mayor and governor made subject to federal probes amid protests in Minnesota over killing of Renee Good 297747
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialSarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 09/12/2025Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5... 331157498
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialRutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1 336100435078
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17/11/2025Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. Investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. Staggering economic self-harm. bit.ly/44faQchthelondoneconomic.com'GDP reduced by 8%' - Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economyCan't help but feel those responsible for Brexit should not, for example, be riding high in the polls with a new party... 311363
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit... 1352489847
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialRobert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 10/11/2025The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks. No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comUK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: ‘We should have been on our guard’ 1725788
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/10/2025I have a very bad feeling about this... 18345396910115
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialPhil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 22/10/2025And here - thanks to @richholman.com et al - it is!: ilr.dowu.ukilr.dowu.ukDowu.uk 274
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialRich Holman @richholman.com · 22/10/2025@philtinline.bsky.social the copy needs work, but was such a good idea of yours around ILR and the real world consequences for our friends, neighbours and colleagues just had to have a crack at building it, using the GOV dot uk design system ilr.dowu.uk 2124
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialPhil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 22/10/2025If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work. 711340317
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialJack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 22/10/2025I just cannot take this shit seriously. If you're a senior Labour figure and think that the party's stance is cowardly but are too afraid to put your name on the record saying it YOU ARE A COWARD. 14719201
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialProf Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 09/10/2025🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published! www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... 1/11ucl.ac.ukUK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisationSeven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling. 22727449
tomjhbennett.bsky.social @tomjhbennett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025For heavens sake @theguardian.com it is not “highly contentious”, it is without any evidence at all and plenty of evidence to the contrary. Don’t suggest there is a debate to be had. Do better, or it’s @financialtimes.com all the way. 010
tomjhbennett.bsky.social @tomjhbennett.bsky.social · 22/09/2025The thing is I’ve got a half a century of memory of Disney movies. Laughter sure, but more than that. Our movie heroes were brave when all was lost, they thought they would lose and did the right thing anyway. These Disney execs have sullied those memories and the inspiration we took from them. 110
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialAnnette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state. Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job. 9423911007
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025If a Labour government with 400 seats which has nailed its colours to the masts of planning reform and the green transition can't steam roller people like this and their ridiculous selfish BS objections, then what on earth is the point of it? 631038244
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialAnna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Build, build, build isn't much use as mantra if you then leave the new homes sitting empty for a year or more while the Building Safety Regulator gets round to approving them. This process used to take a matter of days when local authorities were in charge of it. news.sky.com/story/bluesk...news.sky.comHundreds of empty flats that developers say sum up UK's housing crisisSir Keir Starmer has made house building one of his government's priorities, and regularly rails against NIMBY culture. But Sky News can reveal the government's own regulator has also been getting in ... 65116
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialArmando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 27/08/2025The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 1082253876
tomjhbennett.bsky.social @tomjhbennett.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Rare example of a #GraphCrime in the @financialtimes.com . Allegedly, bomb shelter capacity as a % of population. 020
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialMichael Dnes @roadscholar.bsky.social · 19/07/2025On Thursday night, we heard that government was making big concessions on its planning bill, putting lots more controls on its nature recovery plans. I find this disappointing. And to explain why, I have to tell a story I’ve been holding off from sharing. 89638
Reposted by @tomjhbennett.bsky.socialJulianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 06/08/2025Oh you absolutely useless wankers 53177537