Rob Hewes

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Interview with Kieran McKenna - on leaving Ipswich, when & why he decided to put a stellar career on pause, and his vision for what comes next: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

A 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...

Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...

Burnham made Farage seem “angry, thin-skinned… absurd. What we witnessed today was a masterclass in political communication which makes Farage look like an amateur” Finally. The confidence that comes with emotional intelligence. It could make all the difference. iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "Homes, water, energy, transport, care, broken up and sold off." "The British right talk about taking back control. Never let them forget they are the ones. That gave it away in the first place."

The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.

Nick and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social discussing all of the red lines that the Burnham Government - and even the Conservatives SHOULD be voicing, promoting and implementing. It still feels like Labour are clinging desperately to that Ming vase while the fascists are banging on the door

Why can’t Labour fight the new Blackshirts?” Piece from me on Burnham’s extraordinary failure to take on the extreme right-wing forces that our rampaging through this country

Kent 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...

Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Corrupt, embarrassing, an utter failure: Trump's catastrophic handling of America's 250th anniversary iandunt.substack.com/p/ice-ice-ba...

Really recommend listening to this, for an insight into lives that are so little known about or understood, but so vital to the global trade that we all depend on. Found it absolutely fascinating.

Britain can choose to be a partner in [Europe] or accept a role as adjunct. Or it can be circumscribed by the Brexit cult of sovereignty that sees regulatory harmonisation with Europe as colonisation but welcomes subordination to US tech giants and industrial lobbies, which it calls free trade.

Lovely bit of #ipswich nostalgia, set to a piece of music produced by AI youtube.com/watch?v=fk0d...

The state of things. A thread 🧵

Great discussion between two of my favourite commentators and columnists @nickcohen.bsky.social and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social

Chelsea and Man City in the FA Cup final. No other English clubs have systematically ignored, bent or broken the rules like both have done. In terms of trophies won, no other English clubs have been as successful over the past decade and a half either. The moral of the story - is that there is none.

It's a beautiful day 💙 #itfc

stopreformuk.vote

You can still be shocked can't you, even after years of this shit. That sentence chilled me to my bones. To see an American president say that. To see him boast about it.

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

In Trump we've got the most transparent President in history in terms of saying what he's thinking and talking to journalists on the record. And it's entirely useless because what's happening in his brain is a monkey playing cymbols.

Excellent interview with Russell Osman - well worth a listen - especially for #itfc fans of my vintage!

Imagine how much money we’ve wasted. Imagine how much could have gone into the NHS, public services, tackling poverty… Will anyone be held responsible though? For the lies that were told, the false promises made? Perhaps a brexit tax on all the corporations that cashed in? I’M SO CROSS!

Mark Ashton, Your time at the club has to end now I'm afraid. As CEO & Chairman the buck stops with you and as fans we've been lied to and gaslit. This IS the end. Not the end of the beginning. Not the beginning of the end. The end. All the best, thanks for 99% of what you've done. #itfc 💙

This week's #itfc blog - on something unforgivable bluewhitenotes.beehiiv.com/p/speechless

Ipswich Town is a special football club. They’ve got so many things right over the past five years and beyond. But they got this badly wrong - and now they should apologise. My thoughts ⬇️ #itfc www.eadt.co.uk/sport/259698...

Politics and football don’t mix? Tell that to Ipswich’s players, who are not happy about Farage’s visit. What a mess, and many tough questions still to answer: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Today I did the same and wrote to #itfc

The political party in question has posted a video of the visit yesterday. There is footage showing a shirt being signed. If you screenshot and zoom in it looks to me like it says "To Mark" I wonder which Mark at #itfc had this shirt given to them? Enquiring minds etc

Not an email I expected to have to send to be honest #itfc

̶R̶u̶n̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶T̶o̶w̶a̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶A̶d̶v̶e̶r̶s̶i̶t̶y̶ Running away from Diversity Sandwiched in-between the clubs annual Foundation fixture and an #ITFC womens fixture, the club hosted Nigel Farage at Portman Road today. We don't know what the purpose of Farage's visit was. Maybe #itfc can clarify? Really disappointed

What is the point of the Constitution if this criminal is not impeached and removed? Seriously.

Francis Fukuyama on Trump: "The world has become a very dangerous place because the most powerful country is under the control of a ten-year-old boy. That boy discovered a flamethrower in his parents’ backyard and is now enjoying the ability to burn things up with it."

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman | The Guardian #AUSpol #QuitGPT #AI https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley

Trump: All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs.

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

Looks over shoulder and sees looking glass disappearing into the distance www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Who could possibly have seen THIS coming! www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.

Meanwhile, Britain finds itself lost between two worlds. We were told we didn’t need Europe, we could rely on the transatlantic relationship. They couldn’t have been more wrong.

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A Declaration of Independence From The Mad King open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

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