Hunt The Economist
@hunttheeconomist.bsky.social
Same profile as I had on Twitter. Local Government Officer. Economist. Left Leaning. Politically engaged. Cat owner. Fish owner. Lego enthusiast. Video Gamer. Board Gamer. My receptions are more exquisite than the Ambassador’s. Not much else to say.
@lbc.co.uk The fans loved it when the club got huge investment from the owners.
The fans have benefited from the cheating, and now they want immunity from the punishment.
The fans have benefited from the cheating, and now they want immunity from the punishment.
September 26, 2026 at 11:29 AM
@lbc.co.uk The fans loved it when the club got huge investment from the owners.
The fans have benefited from the cheating, and now they want immunity from the punishment.
The fans have benefited from the cheating, and now they want immunity from the punishment.
@lbc.co.uk businesses are having their profits subsidised by working tax credits.
Cut the welfare bill by reclaiming the money from the profits of businesses paying poverty wages.
Cut the welfare bill by reclaiming the money from the profits of businesses paying poverty wages.
September 26, 2026 at 10:26 AM
@lbc.co.uk businesses are having their profits subsidised by working tax credits.
Cut the welfare bill by reclaiming the money from the profits of businesses paying poverty wages.
Cut the welfare bill by reclaiming the money from the profits of businesses paying poverty wages.
@lbc.co.uk highest level in 80 years? Post war, wealth was taxed at up to 90% and the country boomed.
These people just want the ability to increase inequality.
These people just want the ability to increase inequality.
September 26, 2026 at 10:25 AM
@lbc.co.uk highest level in 80 years? Post war, wealth was taxed at up to 90% and the country boomed.
These people just want the ability to increase inequality.
These people just want the ability to increase inequality.
@lbc.co.uk I use trains a lot in Germany.
Yes they get delays, but after 20 minutes, you can then use ANY train to get to your destination.
And for €60 per month, it is incredibly good value.
(Yes you can get more expensive tickets for their higher speed trains, but you don’t have to)
Yes they get delays, but after 20 minutes, you can then use ANY train to get to your destination.
And for €60 per month, it is incredibly good value.
(Yes you can get more expensive tickets for their higher speed trains, but you don’t have to)
September 26, 2026 at 7:47 AM
@lbc.co.uk I use trains a lot in Germany.
Yes they get delays, but after 20 minutes, you can then use ANY train to get to your destination.
And for €60 per month, it is incredibly good value.
(Yes you can get more expensive tickets for their higher speed trains, but you don’t have to)
Yes they get delays, but after 20 minutes, you can then use ANY train to get to your destination.
And for €60 per month, it is incredibly good value.
(Yes you can get more expensive tickets for their higher speed trains, but you don’t have to)
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September 26, 2026 at 5:14 AM
@lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social brilliant caller.
My thoughts exactly.
IF (and it’s a big IF) it is done well, and that roles are on an equal footing, it would be great to give young people a better gateway into a far wider range of careers, and to learn to play to their strengths.
My thoughts exactly.
IF (and it’s a big IF) it is done well, and that roles are on an equal footing, it would be great to give young people a better gateway into a far wider range of careers, and to learn to play to their strengths.
September 25, 2026 at 9:50 AM
@lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social brilliant caller.
My thoughts exactly.
IF (and it’s a big IF) it is done well, and that roles are on an equal footing, it would be great to give young people a better gateway into a far wider range of careers, and to learn to play to their strengths.
My thoughts exactly.
IF (and it’s a big IF) it is done well, and that roles are on an equal footing, it would be great to give young people a better gateway into a far wider range of careers, and to learn to play to their strengths.
@lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social racists and fascists need to discredit the immigration figures or they lose a gateway drug used to bring scared people round to their position on wider policy issues that will penalise minorities simply for existing in the U.K.
September 22, 2026 at 11:37 AM
@lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social racists and fascists need to discredit the immigration figures or they lose a gateway drug used to bring scared people round to their position on wider policy issues that will penalise minorities simply for existing in the U.K.
September 22, 2026 at 9:50 AM
@lbc.co.uk a nutty preacher.
This is nothing to do with the phone in, and she’s spouting disproven nonsense.
Women were the ones to tend the tombs, so it would have been more weird for men to see him first.
What a mad caller.
This is nothing to do with the phone in, and she’s spouting disproven nonsense.
Women were the ones to tend the tombs, so it would have been more weird for men to see him first.
What a mad caller.
September 20, 2026 at 1:22 PM
@lbc.co.uk a nutty preacher.
This is nothing to do with the phone in, and she’s spouting disproven nonsense.
Women were the ones to tend the tombs, so it would have been more weird for men to see him first.
What a mad caller.
This is nothing to do with the phone in, and she’s spouting disproven nonsense.
Women were the ones to tend the tombs, so it would have been more weird for men to see him first.
What a mad caller.
@lbc.co.uk you absolute liar!!!!
At the time you said that he had played a blinder.
You were heaping praise on how he handled Trump.
Stop being utterly dishonest with your listeners.
At the time you said that he had played a blinder.
You were heaping praise on how he handled Trump.
Stop being utterly dishonest with your listeners.
September 20, 2026 at 9:21 AM
@lbc.co.uk you absolute liar!!!!
At the time you said that he had played a blinder.
You were heaping praise on how he handled Trump.
Stop being utterly dishonest with your listeners.
At the time you said that he had played a blinder.
You were heaping praise on how he handled Trump.
Stop being utterly dishonest with your listeners.
Americans, please stop doting on your journalists when one of them asks a good question.
The quality of your journalists is shit, and if any of them had a spine, they would be treating Trump like the lunatic he is, and walking out on his press briefings in solidarity with their colleagues.
The quality of your journalists is shit, and if any of them had a spine, they would be treating Trump like the lunatic he is, and walking out on his press briefings in solidarity with their colleagues.
September 20, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Americans, please stop doting on your journalists when one of them asks a good question.
The quality of your journalists is shit, and if any of them had a spine, they would be treating Trump like the lunatic he is, and walking out on his press briefings in solidarity with their colleagues.
The quality of your journalists is shit, and if any of them had a spine, they would be treating Trump like the lunatic he is, and walking out on his press briefings in solidarity with their colleagues.
“Show us on the doll, where the FBI director touched you”
September 19, 2026 at 8:09 AM
“Show us on the doll, where the FBI director touched you”
@lbc.co.uk debate has been lost because politics has become integrated with morals.
If you disagree with my politics, you disagree with me on a moral level, and my morals aren’t up for debate.
If you disagree with my politics, you disagree with me on a moral level, and my morals aren’t up for debate.
September 19, 2026 at 7:42 AM
@lbc.co.uk debate has been lost because politics has become integrated with morals.
If you disagree with my politics, you disagree with me on a moral level, and my morals aren’t up for debate.
If you disagree with my politics, you disagree with me on a moral level, and my morals aren’t up for debate.
@lbc.co.uk get with the times, Grandad.
It’s only plonkers like you that think a tie matters anymore.
And your only argument sounds pathetic.
“You look like a scruff” - if that’s what’s important to you, you need to get a life.
It’s only plonkers like you that think a tie matters anymore.
And your only argument sounds pathetic.
“You look like a scruff” - if that’s what’s important to you, you need to get a life.
September 19, 2026 at 4:51 AM
@lbc.co.uk get with the times, Grandad.
It’s only plonkers like you that think a tie matters anymore.
And your only argument sounds pathetic.
“You look like a scruff” - if that’s what’s important to you, you need to get a life.
It’s only plonkers like you that think a tie matters anymore.
And your only argument sounds pathetic.
“You look like a scruff” - if that’s what’s important to you, you need to get a life.
@lbc.co.uk Danny Tommo’s men dressed in black with balaclavas on will be so confused as they try to figure out if they’re meant to support the people of Piddington or keep them out of our country!
September 18, 2026 at 9:12 PM
@lbc.co.uk Danny Tommo’s men dressed in black with balaclavas on will be so confused as they try to figure out if they’re meant to support the people of Piddington or keep them out of our country!
“Legitimate concerns” can go fuck themselves.
September 18, 2026 at 12:12 PM
“Legitimate concerns” can go fuck themselves.
@lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social I find it utterly depressing that Burnham can’t say the kind of thing you just have.
How’s your Burnhamometer today?
Cos to me, he gets a big fat 0 for his response/lack of.
How’s your Burnhamometer today?
Cos to me, he gets a big fat 0 for his response/lack of.
September 18, 2026 at 10:15 AM
@lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social I find it utterly depressing that Burnham can’t say the kind of thing you just have.
How’s your Burnhamometer today?
Cos to me, he gets a big fat 0 for his response/lack of.
How’s your Burnhamometer today?
Cos to me, he gets a big fat 0 for his response/lack of.
People talking about what happens when the Democrats take one house or both in the mid terms.
You think Trump will allow that to happen?
Have you not been paying attention to politics this last 2 years?
You think Trump will allow that to happen?
Have you not been paying attention to politics this last 2 years?
September 16, 2026 at 5:16 AM
People talking about what happens when the Democrats take one house or both in the mid terms.
You think Trump will allow that to happen?
Have you not been paying attention to politics this last 2 years?
You think Trump will allow that to happen?
Have you not been paying attention to politics this last 2 years?
We are heading down the same path as America.
And it is entirely because of the apathy of the Labour Party.
They act like they don’t have a huge majority and can’t implement radical improvements to our political system.
What happens next is entirely on them.
And it is entirely because of the apathy of the Labour Party.
They act like they don’t have a huge majority and can’t implement radical improvements to our political system.
What happens next is entirely on them.
September 13, 2026 at 10:06 AM
We are heading down the same path as America.
And it is entirely because of the apathy of the Labour Party.
They act like they don’t have a huge majority and can’t implement radical improvements to our political system.
What happens next is entirely on them.
And it is entirely because of the apathy of the Labour Party.
They act like they don’t have a huge majority and can’t implement radical improvements to our political system.
What happens next is entirely on them.
@lbc.co.uk Labour are literally in position to reform our politics and prevent us going down this path.
They are SO pathetic.
Annoyingly limp.
They will do nothing to clean up British politics.
I hate being stuck in a society where our politicians are so wishywashy.
They are SO pathetic.
Annoyingly limp.
They will do nothing to clean up British politics.
I hate being stuck in a society where our politicians are so wishywashy.
September 13, 2026 at 9:29 AM
@lbc.co.uk Labour are literally in position to reform our politics and prevent us going down this path.
They are SO pathetic.
Annoyingly limp.
They will do nothing to clean up British politics.
I hate being stuck in a society where our politicians are so wishywashy.
They are SO pathetic.
Annoyingly limp.
They will do nothing to clean up British politics.
I hate being stuck in a society where our politicians are so wishywashy.
@lbc.co.uk
Me: turns on LBC
10 seconds of Rachel Johnson being an utter disgrace and then frantically backpedaling.
Me: turns off LBC
Me: turns on LBC
10 seconds of Rachel Johnson being an utter disgrace and then frantically backpedaling.
Me: turns off LBC
September 11, 2026 at 7:19 PM
@lbc.co.uk
Me: turns on LBC
10 seconds of Rachel Johnson being an utter disgrace and then frantically backpedaling.
Me: turns off LBC
Me: turns on LBC
10 seconds of Rachel Johnson being an utter disgrace and then frantically backpedaling.
Me: turns off LBC
September 10, 2026 at 9:08 PM
@lbc.co.uk I take a very different message from this story.
When someone’s value to the treasury is 38,000 times that of their peers, something is fundamentally broken in our economy.
It makes the country exposed to the whims of the wealthy on threat of them leaving.
The inequality is obscene.
When someone’s value to the treasury is 38,000 times that of their peers, something is fundamentally broken in our economy.
It makes the country exposed to the whims of the wealthy on threat of them leaving.
The inequality is obscene.
September 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
@lbc.co.uk I take a very different message from this story.
When someone’s value to the treasury is 38,000 times that of their peers, something is fundamentally broken in our economy.
It makes the country exposed to the whims of the wealthy on threat of them leaving.
The inequality is obscene.
When someone’s value to the treasury is 38,000 times that of their peers, something is fundamentally broken in our economy.
It makes the country exposed to the whims of the wealthy on threat of them leaving.
The inequality is obscene.
@lbc.co.uk of course light bounces of the earth.
Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to see it from space.
Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to see it from space.
September 10, 2026 at 11:43 AM
@lbc.co.uk of course light bounces of the earth.
Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to see it from space.
Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to see it from space.
@lbc.co.uk oh no. This caller now going down conspiracy routes.
September 10, 2026 at 10:32 AM
@lbc.co.uk oh no. This caller now going down conspiracy routes.