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Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 11m

The Times is making up news again.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 9h

Paris sees red as mayor drives cars off the road

Motorists in the French capital live in fear of the tow truck and sky-high parking fines

Paris sees red as mayor drives cars off the road

www.thetimes.com

Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 1h

Radio 4 PM now appears to be reading out random Twitter-esque opinions and presenting them as news.

Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 21h

"Domestic judges cannot undo the case law of the Strasbourg court that so irritates a section of the political class and its journalist outriders. But they are doing everything short of that to make human rights as much of a domestic legal irrelevance as possible." >> Highly disturbing.

sofia @solidarityqueer.bsky.social · 1d

Have you had a look at this piece?

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. None of this is being done in secret – the...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Double kudos to @jonhenley.bsky.social and the @theguardian.com for:

a) taking the trouble to report on a set of continental European elections where the far-right didn't sweep all before it!

b) calling the far-right the far-right, not 🤮 'the hard-right'!

Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections

Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary elections

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 1d

It might be all right if the AI was prepared to learn I don't want the damn things, but of course it's not!

Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 1d

I open one PDF and it demands 4 times for me to use some sort of AI. 4 times I have to dismiss the insistent pop-ups before it lets me get to the simple search I need to do! 🫨

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Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 2d

Trump not exactly unclear in his Knesset speech that he expects fighting to stop.

Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 2d

Only needs light editing.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 3d

October in local government world can mean only one thing: The start of the tree-planting season! Here's a new one going in on Grays Inn Road 🌳

All part of @camdenlabour.bsky.social's commitment to hunt out new places for trees 🪏

Photo showing a man in orange overalls planting a tree between a cycle lane and a road

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Sean Kemp @seankemp.bsky.social · 5d

Slightly amazed at his description of this as a ‘low-level mistake’. Just a completely untrue implication of Government corruption on prime-time TV. No biggie! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’

Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract

www.theguardian.com

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 6d

The new Cycleway link between the British Library and Mornington Crescent is complete - just waiting for signage to be delivered. 🚲🚲🚲🚲

This nice little route goes along Crowndale Rd, Goldington St, Purchese St & Ossulton St in Camden

👏 @tfl @adamdkharrison.bsky.social & team

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Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 6d

Feeling seen.

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 7d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 7d

London's Network of Cycleways is continuing to grow and get even better. 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲

Great to see the temporary cycle lanes on Haverstock Hill being made permanent by Camden Council - this includes new kerbs to protect cyclists, raised zebras and new bus stop bypasses.

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@adamdkharrison.bsky.social

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Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 7d

This sounds so familiar. I don't think we had any equipment, but I just remember vast expanses of concrete. Good for playing marbles though.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9d

"We should be more like Singapore"

"But far more 18 years old go to university there"

"Not like that"

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 9d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 14d

BBC News leading with completely groundless claims by Farage. Absolutely ridiculous. What happened to journalistic analysis?

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 14d

I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.

I decided this was unacceptable.

Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.

Graphic which reads "Mayor of London / It was predicted to take 193 years to meet legal limits for air pollution in London/ We did it in 9"

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Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 14d

It was also good to meet @translucent.org.uk at their stand and talk about how to ensure inclusion of trans people in these difficult times #LabConf25

Photo of Adam and TransLucent rep Katie standing in from of a banner saying TransLucent: truth, clarity, justice

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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 14d

Y'days post: Misunderstandings on the left (and elsewhere) about the OBR, independence and the bond market mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/misu...
The government delegating some highly technical tasks to independent experts doesn't create a democratic deficit, but it does avoid wishful thinking.

Misunderstandings on the left (and elsewhere) about the OBR, independence and the bond market

I often see pieces from those on the left criticising the OBR. Here is Louise Haigh , for example, talking about the “rigid orthodoxy of t...

mainlymacro.blogspot.com

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Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 14d

Good to meet the Indian high commissioner Vikram Doraiswami. We discussed the recent awful defacement of the statue of Gandhi in Tavistock Square and our shared efforts to look after and restore it.

Photo of the Indian high commissioner and Adam Harrison in front of a banner in a restaurant

Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 14d

It was good to be in the conference hall today for Keir Starmer's speech – taking on Farage, and setting out how we'll rebuild Britain! 🌹

Photo of Keir Starmer's conference speech showing Starmer in the distance on the stage, visible on screens above and with the audience in front

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Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 16d

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

www.avclub.com

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