Richard Hull

@richardhull54

P/T lecturer 0.2 in Social Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, London, + semi-retired. Views my own. Climate Justice, Stop Ecocide, Critical Management Studies, Solidarity Economy, 💙. N🚫 DMs - you WILL be blocked

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Richard Hull@richardhull54· Jul 11

🤣🤣🤣 #CountBinface "Count Binface has said he will offer a more hopeful alternative to Nigel Farage in the Clacton byelection." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Graphic by The Guardian combining an image of Count Binface with the famous Obama Hope poster.

- Composite: Guardian Design/Photo by Aaron Chown / PA.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Apr 11

That's excellent , so I've added #AltText so that more folk can appreciate it - and do check their web-site, more fun photos.

Photo of a hand-written blackboard sign that reads:
"A Wise Doctor Once Wrote" followed by six unintelligible squiggles.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Apr 1

Trying to counter the right-wing narrative that we are being over-run by dangerous #immigrants arriving on small boats (that's for folks who don't get the reference 😀). #Subvertising

A poster on the side of a bus shelter in London, near St Thomas' Hospital and County Hall.
The poster says:
"The Enemy Doesn't Arrive By Boat, He Arrives by Private Jet".
The poster shows a picture of a private jet and Donald Trump.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Mar 31

Yikes!! The #AIDoomLoop - H/T @adamtooze.bsky.social www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

"The Three Drivers of the 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis
Interconnected reflexive loops with no natural brake"

This is a complex graphic showing three linked feedback loops.

"1. Real Economy Disruption (2025-Q3 2026)
AI Capability Improves => Companies need fewer workers => White-Collar layoffs increase => Displaced workers spend less => Margin pressure on firms => Invest more on AI => AI Capability Improves etc.

2. Financial Contagion (Q4 2026 - Q1 2028)
Income Loss from (1) feeds into:
Wealth Effect Collapse => Income Permanently Impaired => Mortgage and Credit Stress => Private Credit Defaults & Ins. Losses => Forced Asset Sales into Illiquit Market => Credit Tightening => Wealth Effect Collapse etc.

3. Policy Paralysis & Fiscal Risk (Q1 2028 - Present)
Structural Economic Change from (2) leads to:
Circular Flow Breaks => Tax Receipts Collapse => Structural Transfers Needed => Structural Deficit >10% GDP => Partisan Debates and Lobbyist Influence => Insufficient Policy Response => Circular Flow Breaks etc.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Mar 22

Wow. Now that's what I call a ceiling - this is the Tiwi Island art gallery and studio. #Photo by Satrina Brandt. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwi_Is...

Long semi-circular ceiling composed of many panels each showing different mostly abstract designs.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Mar 13

Only in New Cross, London, SE14. I detect the hand of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social or one of their acolytes? #Subvertising #CultureJamming

Photo of New Cross High Street. Left half is the edge of an advertising hoarding. In the centre is a small advertising board saying 'JUST EAT' and below that 'THE RICH'. At the top is a larger advert sign for Gateway Chicken.

A close up of the JUST EAT THE RICH board and the Gateway Chicken sign.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Mar 1

That's very good, so I've added #AltText so that more people can appreciate it. #OperationEpsteinDiversion

It looks like a sew-on patch or badge, in shades of dull green and khaki.
It has a picture of a helicopter and a soldier in a parachute.
The words around the edge read:
Operation Epstein Diversion.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Feb 24

This looks great - #StirToAction's Book Festival "Connecting #SocialHistory and #PoliticalChange with the forces reshaping Britain today ... explores new approaches to #EconomicRegeneration, #GreenDemocracy, and #SocialOwnership". Excellent speakers. www.tickettailor.com/events/stirt...

Stir To Action's Book Festival
Exploring Power, Place and Possibility
22-23 May 2026
St Katherine Cree, London

Connecting social history and political change with the forces reshaping Britain today, Stir to Action’s Book Festival explores new approaches to economic regeneration, green democracy, and social ownership – and what they mean for democratic renewal.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Feb 15

That's very good, so I've added #AltText so that more people can appreciate it. #Ukraine #Olympics #VladyslavHeraskevych

The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for ... memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes - his friends, colleagues, champions - killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet "did not comply with regulations."
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber: Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal - but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended ... for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:

• Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete - killed in Kharkiv.
• Mariia Lebid, 15 - missile strike in Dnipro.
• Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater -killed in Bakhmut.
• Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete -also Bakhmut.
• Daria Kurdel, 20 -missile strike in Kharkiv.
• Alina Perehutova, 14- standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
• Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer-killed defending Luhansk region.
• Viktoriia lvashko, 9, judoka -missile strike in Kyiv.
• Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast - airstrike on Mariupol.
• Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion -shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would "compete" alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations. But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal - its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength-but their
right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations -then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.

Photos of Vladyslav Heraskevych and Senator Filipo Sensi.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Feb 13

Jeez - even Ronald Raygun had more empathy than Donald Trump. #NoNukes Support ICAN - www.icanw.org www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

"The Day After.
"Nicholas Meyer’s television film about a nuclear attack on the US was watched by more than 100 million people when it aired in 1983. One of the people watching was the president. Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that night that the film was, “very effective and left me greatly depressed … My own reaction was one of our having to do all we can to have a deterrent and to see there is never a nuclear war.” The drama helped shift Reagan’s mind on US nuclear policy and he adopted a more diplomatic approach that led to the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987."

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Feb 13

Graphics and visuals journalists @ashleyjkirk.bsky.social, @alexjclark.bsky.social and Heidi Wilson at @theguardian.com doing excellent work here: "How Trump's isolationism pushed the world to China." #Trump #China #UN

Map of the world, headlined "How Trump's isolationism pushed the world to China: US/China alignment by country, 2024 versus 2025, based on UN voting records"
With little blue arrows indicating "moved towards the US" and little red arrows indicating "moved towards China".
There are far more red arrows than blue arrows.

Text at the bottom of the graphic says:
"Guardian graphic. Source: Focaldata. Notes: Based on analysis of votes on UN resolutions. A score can move towards either China or US either because they are voting more proactively with that country, but also because they are simply not voting as frequently with the country on the other end of the scale. Some countries unavailable due to insufficient voting data."

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Feb 13

Excellent, by Amna A. Akbar on recent events in South #Minneapolis, and on the difference between #resistance and #defence. #StrongerTogether #DisbandICE Link to article in thread. 🧵1/2

We have adapted too. South Minneapolis is alive with community defence practices. There are patrols and rapid response networks, people stationed at schools and bus stops, parents taking shifts watching daycare centres, protests and general strikes, grief ceremonies and rides. Recently, near the park, people had pushed garbage cans into the streets that ICE has been driving down. ‘ICE OUT!’ the handmade signs said.

My friend K, who was here in 2020, said that what was most remarkable now was that you could get so many of your needs met without paying a dollar. ‘It’s almost like a parallel society being built, a form of anarcho-communism.’ The day after that conversation, a neighbourhood haunt, Modern Times, renamed itself Post Modern Times and promised to provide free meals until the occupation is over (it’s also accepting donations). Its new motto is ‘Everyone welcome except ICE’. Meanwhile, a campaign is taking shape to organise a city-wide tenant union and to demand a moratorium on evictions.

In The Commune Form, Kristin Ross argues that ‘defence and the act of defending are more conducive to the creation of solidarity’ than resistance. Resistance, she says, ‘means the battle is already over and we have lost; our sole means of persevering is to “resist” the newly consolidated power we attribute to the other side.’ But defence ‘begins elsewhere – not with the state and its power, but rather with what it is that we hold dear: what we already have; a positivity, a thing worth fighting for.’

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Feb 9

OTD The Mud March - more than three thousand women marched peacfully in the largest public demonstration supporting women's suffrage seen up to that date. Incessant heavy rain left the marchers drenched and mud-spattered. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_Mar...

1907 Poster advertising GREAT DEMONSTRATION Before the Opening of Parliament, to Demand the Franchise - United Procession of Women On Saturday, Feb 9th, To assemble in Hyde Park, Band Stand, Hyde Park Corner, at 2pm. Banners will be set up in the Park, and each Contingent will assemble under its own banner.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Feb 6

Don't Go Near That Yellow Snow! Olympic skier has a message: #Fuck_ICE www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Photo by Gus Kenworthy. The words "fuck ice" have been pissed into the snow, shown in between Gus's legs on skis.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Feb 6

That's a great cartoon by Greg Perry, so I've added #AltText so that more folk can appreciate it. #EpsteinFiles

Cartoon shows a grinning skeleton in a cupboard with a sign round its neck saying "Epstein Issue" and holding up anopther sign which says "Still Here". Trump is holding the door of the cupboard open with a very grumpy face and saying "Just checking", and holding a piece of paper which says "Distraction du jour".

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Feb 1

That would be Howard I guess.

Cover of the first issue of the Marvel Comics spoof super-hero Howard The Duck, Jan 1st 1976. Sub-titled "Trapped in a world he never made". Splash to top right reads "Because you demanded it -- the fabulous First Issue of Marvel's most sensational new Super-Star!" At the bottom of the cover, next to an image of Spider-Man, a splash reads "Against sword and sorcery, Howard stands side-by-side with the amazing Spider-Man". The main image shows an anthropomorphic duck, dressed in a jacket, shiort and tie, smoking a cigar and holding a broad-sword. Behind him is a prone and clearly frightened woman. A shadow on the wall behind both implies they are being threatened by a very large viking, also holding a much larger broad-sword.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Jan 9

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Classic Grauniad typo (to folk outside the UK - @theguardian.com newspaper has long been infamous for its typographical errors). Article is here: www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Jan 9

I support Greenland, and you can too, as their flag 🇬🇱 is included in BlueSky's emojis. And here's a bigger version: There is an excellent Facebook group 'Europeans Support Greenland.'

The national flag of Greenland, approved in 1985.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Jan 8

That's really good, so I've added #AltText so that more folk can appreciate it - that is, folk who use a screen reader for various reasons such as impaired vision.

"If the situation was hopeless their propaganda would be unnecessary" The image looks like a screengrab from a video, as the words "Play" and "00:17:24" are at the top. The picture has a blurred green background, and the foreground looks like a small plant sprouting from soil.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Jan 3

Please support this if you can. #SolidarityWithVenezuela

Screenshot of Facebook post from Venzuela Solidarity Campaign.

"🚨 NO WAR ON VENEZUELA 🚨
🗣️ EMERGENCY ONLINE RALLY
📅 Sunday 4 Jan ⏲️ 6PM
Register: https://eventbrite.co.uk/.../emergency-rally-no-war-on...
📣 EMERGENCY PICKET
📅 Monday 5 Jan ⏲️ 6PM
📍 Outside Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA"

Signed by the VSC, Stop The War and CND.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Dec 30

Amia Srinivasan, in the latest @lrb.co.uk, gives a perfect example of using #psychoanalysis as a technical craft within our political struggles: #TransRights #FarRight #Authoritarians #FatherFigures See also Judith Butler's book "Who's Afraid of Gender". www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

But there is a still deeper wish contained in the war on ‘gender ideology’. Like all our deepest wishes, it is an unthinkable wish, and so Freud says, one that must be repressed from consciousness. Indeed, for Freud it is the deepest of all wishes: not the wish to sleep with your mother or kill your father, but to be both mother and father, to transcend the forced choice represented by what Freud called the ‘great antithesis’ of male and female. The trans person reminds us of this denied wish, and so reveals that our sense of ourselves as simply a woman or a man is, in the words of Jacqueline Rose, ‘the outcome of multiple repressions whose unlived stories surface nightly in our dreams’. The trans person is the chimera we all desire and dread.

It is no surprise, then, that the increasing visibility of trans life has led to the reassertion of sex as a self-evident distinction, rooted in biology and underwriting a natural social hierarchy. Nor is it a surprise that this reassertion of sexual division and hierarchy plays a central role in the global advancement of the far right. On the day of his second presidential inauguration, Donald Trump signed an executive order: ‘Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’. The order affirms that there are only two sexes, male and female, as a matter of ‘immutable biological reality’; that men are biological males and women biological females; and that any suggestion otherwise has a ‘corrosive impact’ on ‘the validity of the entire American system’. This is the declaration of the reinstated father, who promises to restore the rule of fathers everywhere; to undo the psychic castration suffered by straight white men at the hands of invading immigrants, feminist women, ‘woke’ mobs, DEI initiatives and the democratic presumption of equality.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Dec 30

That's good, from the excellent Hampton Institute (named in honour of Fred Hampton), so I have added #AltText so that more folk can appreciate it.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Dec 3

Oh Crap!!

Image in the style of Glen Baxter, but marked at the top with "For Reading Addicts".
It shows three stone-age men, two with spears trying to hold off a very large green standing dinosaur-type beast.
Speech bubble from the dinosaur says:
"Your lackadaisicalness is disadvantageous. I propound you all vamoose with great importunity."
Speech bubble from one of the men says:
"Oh crap! It's a Thesaurus!"

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Nov 21

In trying to make sense of Epstein’s career, it’s hard not to be reminded of one of the greatest of American novels, Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973). Pynchon was obsessed with the covert system formed in wartime that merged deceptive public goals with private ambitions and corporate agendas. At one point, the narrator of Gravity’s Rainbow reflects on how war allows traffickers of all sorts—in luxury goods, in sex work, in refugees—to thrive: “Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals…. The true war is a celebration of markets. Organic markets, carefully styled ‘black’ by the professionals, spring up everywhere.” Epstein flourished in the shadows of those organic markets.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Nov 13

H/T @adamtooze.bsky.social Top Links from his Chartbook. #Arabic #Berlin #Xenophobia

Screenshot of a tweet by "Al Muqaddimah (on Youtube) @AlMuqaddimahYT - 19h".
Photo of a person standing in a metro train, with a tote bag over their shoulder. The tote bag has Arabic writing on it.
The caption to the photo reads:
Bag Spotted On Berlin Metro:
"This Text Has No Other Purpose Than To Terrify Those Who Are Afraid Of The Arabic Language."

Small inscription: BoredPanda.com
Little image of a panda peaking into the bottom right corner of the screen.

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Nov 9

That's a great example of #Brandalism so I've added #AltText so that more folk can appreciate it 😀.

Photo of an outdoor advertising panel on the side of a London bus-stop, which has been subverted, brandalised - the large poster in the panel has these words above a picture of Musk:
"Imagine having a trillion dollars and still being the world's biggest loser".

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Oct 25

That image deserves wider appreciation (and the link is paywalled) so I've added #AltText for you. #ICE

A photograph of a woman holding a number of grocery bags standing in front of a gate into an apartment block. The caption of the photo reads:
"A woman delivers groceries to a family too cared to go outside because of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in Chicago. (Ben Strauss/The Washington Post)

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Oct 18

There's also rallies in Europe:

Screenshot of a section of the Guardian Live reporting of the No Kings protests.
Headline:
"No Kings solidarity protests pop up across Europe.
Ahead of the huge No Kings protests expected across all 50 states of the US on Saturday, several protets in solidarity have popped up across Europe.
In Berlin, Germany:
[Over a photo by Christian Mang, Reuters. A group of people with signs and banners, one with a megaphone, stand in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.]

In Madrid, Spain:
[Over a photo by Violeta Santos Moura / Reuters. Three signs held up by a group of people. One reads 'Defend Democracy, Madrid'. The second reads 'No Tyrants, No Fascists, No Dictators, No Trump'. The third reads 'Nuestra Diversidad = Nuestra Identidad'.]

In Rome, Italy:
[Over a photo by Marco Di Gianvito / Zuma Press Wire / Shutterstock. In the foreground is a large pink inflatable of what seems to be an alien creature. Next to it is a sign reading 'Same Shit, Different Hat' with pictures of a Klu Klux Klan hood, a Confederate cap, a Nazi cap, and a MAGA cap.]

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Oct 12

I just wish it was this easy 😔 Cartoon by @tomgauld.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

Where writers get their ideas.
Cartoon showing a hipster man in a park, with a list in his hand, standing in front of what looks like an ice cream vendor's trolley. But the trolley has a sign saying 'Fresh Ideas'. And the vendor is saying, whilat looking into the trolley, "I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."

Richard Hull@richardhull54· Oct 12

That's excellent so I've added #AltText so that more folks can appreciate it.