Richard Hesketh

Liberal humanist, betwattled apanthrope, sidekick to an 8 year-old, follower of Turkish politics, geek, lover of funk, soul and anything with a killer groove.

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@TrumpLoy0 I have a couple off the cuff:
Mount Shushmore
Mount Cashwhore
Mount Stealmore

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@jefftimmer Thanks - I just sprayed my tea everywhere! 🤣Best retort I’ve read to this yet!

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@oelma__ I’m speaking from second-hand experience, but please, if you can, find a safe place where you’re supported and go there. If it’s a refuge, so be it; if it’s family or a friend, even better. You did the right thing asking a wider community this question.

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@CharlieM2024 Simple. What’s being called ‘No 10 North’ was a Lon-planned move of Civil Servants and others out of Westminster, for both political and practical reasons. Take your tinfoil hat off and give your head a wobble…

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@senatorbabet Good morning! The empire has been gone (if you consider the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947) for nearly 80 years. Even if you measure by the hand back of Hong Kong in 1997, it’s nearly 30 years. No serious person talks about Britain as an extant imperial power.

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@EdCatalano @PeteHegseth @Arcsyst1 @POTUS Don’t mind you getting what you deserve, but the rest of the world will share the burden of your folly.

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@BowesChay Furthermore, the fact that those countries are NATO allies is irrelevant to the current situation - Iran did not commence hostilities against the US, so this is not an article 5 defensive situation.

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@BowesChay I do t have an answer to that, but it would further degrade the NATO alliance and I don’t think Trump wants that, in spite of his words and actions (neither of which are to be trusted). It speaks volumes that the US is respecting those nations wishes.

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@trussliz Jesus. How much is the orange nepo baby paying you, Liz? This shit would cheapen a mote of dust, nevermind an allegedly sentient organism.

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@Jude_62 @trussliz If I’m wrong, then fuck it. I’m not even British any more. Not by this half-arsed toxic definition at least….

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@Jude_62 @trussliz Have you analysed who is watching the BBC at 1030 on a Sunday morning? SML is toxic diversity theatre for Truss & Co. It is not representative of the Reithian ideals of the BBC, and I challenge you to prove that it represents of a majority of today’s license fee payers.

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@linfitlass @trussliz Ouch. That stings. I get paid a fraction of that to try and do shit that actually supports the UK in itself, and in the wider world. Being a traitorous witch is probably easier than my job, though. God, I feel so stupid, now….

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@Darcetron73 @trussliz Ewww. An unspecified polling organisation believed that more than a third of us liked the corrupt orange nepo baby at some point. 😱

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@DanRobinsonG47 @trussliz Nah, ‘cause she’s not that influential. Somewhere in future history books awaits a footnote to be assigned to something more important…

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@beckylucywalsh @trussliz @beckylucywalsh Amidst all the polarised opinion, this is something deeply personal that might have meaningful, broader relevance. Please tell us more. @trussliz you’re a brief glitch in the matrix. Kindly behave as such.

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@elonmusk What troubles me is why anyone is surprised about this. It’s a harmonic of WW1 & WW2.

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@Lilacrose109 @trussliz Brists = Brits for anyone who can’t guess. I’d love it if X made it as easy to correct my typos as iMessage/WhatsApp do….

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@Lilacrose109 @trussliz Amen! Most rational Brists don’t get it either @Lilacrose109 - thanks for saying what so many of us are thinking!

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

@theScotsman23 @trussliz I think I’d rather be hit by a projectile orange than ruled by a demented narcissist.

[Richard Hesketh @RichardHesketh]

Ooooh look, I’ve just had a pang of empathy.

No, wait a minute. Sorry, just a bit of wind.

Either way you’re fucked, Trumpistas…

[Smiffy @smiffy_73]

@trussliz