Phil Harrison
@mrpmharrison.bsky.social
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Journalism, constructive moaning, weird music, telly, LUFC, all the usual shit.
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mrpmharrison.bsky.social
Thanks for sharing this. What a story!
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
This thread is crazy.
Someone should make a film about this utter legend.
oddthisday.bsky.social
It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance
b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
Yeah, I'm not totally sold on him. His NATO ideas are particularly troubling. I'm pretty non-aligned atm tbh.
I'll vote for the best-placed anti-Reform, anti-Tory option, whether that's Lab, Green, LD, YP or LD. Keeping the far right out is all that matters at this point.
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
Not by me you won't! Terrible leader.
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
He's a *much* nimbler communicator than Corbyn and I wonder if that's partly because he just doesn't have that same ideological baggage weighing him down?
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
I don't disagree with this but actually, I think it probably gives him a better chance of really cutting through. Corbyn was easily caricatured by the right as a creature of the hidebound 70s/80s. Unions, Russian sympathies etc etc. ZP's superficiality feels very modern.
dmk1793.bsky.social
Something I find striking about Zach Polanski is how - unlike the vast majority of those who played a key role in Corbynism - his politics are so clearly not rooted in any kind of deeper analysis or intellectual tradition. It's all just a surface-level synthesis of 2010s left-wing slogans and memes.
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
There are many good reasons to criticise Starmer.
The EU stuff is the daftest of them. The rejoin convo only begins if/when we have cross-party consensus. If we don't, why would the EU bother?
Even then, the terms will be wildly different and much worse and that will begin a whole other debate.
jwsidders.bsky.social
And, Rejoiners, this is the best case scenario. It's a long road back into the EU. It involves a lot of incredibly hard work and making plenty of really uncomfortable choices, particularly around points 2 and 3. I see next to no evidence many understand, let alone accept, this.
jwsidders.bsky.social
The real world:
1. Engage with the EU and seek a closer relationship.
2. Ensure the permanent electoral defeat of the pro-Brexit right.
3. Make and win the case for freedom of movement and, yes, the Euro at some point.
4. Begin accession talks.
5. Rejoin the EU, at the earliest, in the 2040s.
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
England suddenly look really good under Tuchel. Wild to think the likes of Bellingham, Palmer and Foden aren't automatic picks - they'd each have been the first name on the team sheet at certain points I can remember.
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
I bet he wheezes as he eats.
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
I know it's tough to believe but this lad is a Young Republican.
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
Perfect!
nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
Well, this is all well worth accelerating the climate crisis for isn't it??
Bubble can't burst soon enough.
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mrpmharrison.bsky.social
This is a classic of the 70s public information film genre. The music was added more recently but works brilliantly, I think. Just an absolute carnival of bleakness.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuAq...
'Illusions' - A film on Solvent Abuse
YouTube video by Nick Herd
www.youtube.com
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
Just nightmarish. Fuck me, the 70s were weird. It's no wonder all us 70s kids are a bit odd.
scarredforlife.bsky.social
Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
It's hard to think of a more despicable human.
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
I don't think anything or anyone can really prepare you for the reality of it. I think death is pretty much just an abstract concept until you experience it so I'm not sure how much use explanations can be.
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
I suppose the challenge now is to get voters to associate Farage/Reform with the ongoing misery of Brexit and the baleful shadow it still casts over British life. Because somehow and for some mysterious reason, he seems immune from the consequences of his one, terrible achievement.
mrpmharrison.bsky.social
This is the absolute focal point of Tory collapse.
All my life, there'd been the suggestion that the Tories were the 'common sense' party. The pragmatism party. Labour were somehow the idealists, the unrealists.
Brexit turned that on its head - if the Tories die, it'll be Brexit that killed them.
jwsidders.bsky.social
"An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories."
jwsidders.bsky.social
"One reason the successive Tory administrations from 2016 to 2024 achieved so little beyond damage control is that they traded middle-aged voters who needed little from the state for older voters who require rather more"
So much good stuff by @stephenkb.bsky.social in his FT column today.
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brendanmay.bsky.social
The worst use of quotation marks in the history of human civilisation is in.