John Harris
@johnharris1969.bsky.social
Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
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For what it's worth, the very best books of 2025, in no particular order. Thank you @johnharris1969.bsky.social @stuartgillespie.bsky.social @duncanweldon.bsky.social @johncassidysays.bsky.social @patrickmcgee.bsky.social @jonawils.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
For what it's worth, the very best books of 2025, in no particular order. Thank you @johnharris1969.bsky.social @stuartgillespie.bsky.social @duncanweldon.bsky.social @johncassidysays.bsky.social @patrickmcgee.bsky.social @jonawils.bsky.social
Great to wake up and find that Maybe I'm Amazed is one of the Times' books of the year. Thanks to @cecibrowning.bsky.social for such a lovely summary
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Great to wake up and find that Maybe I'm Amazed is one of the Times' books of the year. Thanks to @cecibrowning.bsky.social for such a lovely summary
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Lindsay Anderson and Shelagh Delaney's 1967 short, The White Bus, is currently available for free on Prime. It's credited as being from 1979 but don't let that fool you. Devised as both allegory and satire, it's curious how much of it still feels relevant to the noise of the 21st Century.
New Backlisted! A Taste of Honey, and what Shelagh Delaney did next 🎈 with @davehaslam.bsky.social @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social and me. @backlisted.bsky.social
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245. A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney — Backlisted
Dave Haslam and Melanie Williams join us to discuss A Taste of Honey (1958), Shelagh Delaney's first play, written and produced when the author was not yet 20 years old. To describe this as an ...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Lindsay Anderson and Shelagh Delaney's 1967 short, The White Bus, is currently available for free on Prime. It's credited as being from 1979 but don't let that fool you. Devised as both allegory and satire, it's curious how much of it still feels relevant to the noise of the 21st Century.
If the govt's line on SEND funding is "worry about it later", it won't cut it
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
If the govt's line on SEND funding is "worry about it later", it won't cut it
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Worth noting that the same day these negotiations to ditch day one rights to claim unfair dismissal were going on (Monday), No 10 told us they would "overturn all attempts to scupper these plans, including watering down day one protection from unfair dismissal".
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Worth noting that the same day these negotiations to ditch day one rights to claim unfair dismissal were going on (Monday), No 10 told us they would "overturn all attempts to scupper these plans, including watering down day one protection from unfair dismissal".
... so much so that I suspended Labour MPs over it. Stop insulting everyone's intelligence man
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
... so much so that I suspended Labour MPs over it. Stop insulting everyone's intelligence man
Yes, it's the new hot-off-the-edit Politics Weekly, in which me, @pippacrerar.bsky.social & @kiranstacey.bsky.social take the budget to pieces and ask (and answer) all those pressing questions podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
The budget: Labour’s big tax and spend gamble
Podcast Episode · Politics Weekly UK · 26/11/2025 · 28m
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November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Yes, it's the new hot-off-the-edit Politics Weekly, in which me, @pippacrerar.bsky.social & @kiranstacey.bsky.social take the budget to pieces and ask (and answer) all those pressing questions podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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Bought a copy of Dylan’s Bootleg vol. 10 at my preferred second hand record shop. Tucked inside the booklet was @johnharris1969.bsky.social review from the Guardian in 2013. Love tucked in surprises when I buy records or books.
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Bought a copy of Dylan’s Bootleg vol. 10 at my preferred second hand record shop. Tucked inside the booklet was @johnharris1969.bsky.social review from the Guardian in 2013. Love tucked in surprises when I buy records or books.
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It means a significant change to EHCP eligibility, or it's not remotely affordable.
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It means a significant change to EHCP eligibility, or it's not remotely affordable.
What does this mean for SEND & education? From the OBR report
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
What does this mean for SEND & education? From the OBR report
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Very nice that our podcast has been nominated for two of these awards.
Well done to the brilliant team including @pippacrerar.bsky.social @johnharris1969.bsky.social @zoehitch.bsky.social @frankietobi.bsky.social and Maz Ebtehaj.
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Well done to the brilliant team including @pippacrerar.bsky.social @johnharris1969.bsky.social @zoehitch.bsky.social @frankietobi.bsky.social and Maz Ebtehaj.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Very nice that our podcast has been nominated for two of these awards.
Well done to the brilliant team including @pippacrerar.bsky.social @johnharris1969.bsky.social @zoehitch.bsky.social @frankietobi.bsky.social and Maz Ebtehaj.
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Well done to the brilliant team including @pippacrerar.bsky.social @johnharris1969.bsky.social @zoehitch.bsky.social @frankietobi.bsky.social and Maz Ebtehaj.
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I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
There was a massive queue in Lidl just now, and they played Chance by Big Country boomingly loud. Quite the moment, it was
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
There was a massive queue in Lidl just now, and they played Chance by Big Country boomingly loud. Quite the moment, it was
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Recorded v early this morning. I think you can probably hear the caffeine kick in ~10mins in.
🚨Start Your Week🚨
It’s a big week for Starmer and Reeves as the Budget looms. How’s it going to go down? @rafaelbehr.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss this and other news to look out for this week.
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It’s a big week for Starmer and Reeves as the Budget looms. How’s it going to go down? @rafaelbehr.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss this and other news to look out for this week.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Recorded v early this morning. I think you can probably hear the caffeine kick in ~10mins in.
Latest from me: on the million young people not in education, employment in training, & generational debts still not settled www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
With a million young people locked out of work, the UK’s hidden jobs crisis is only growing | John Harris
Held back by Covid and then phased out by AI, Britain’s so-called Neets are desperately seeking a secure future. Who will offer them hope? asks Guardian columnist John Harris
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November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Latest from me: on the million young people not in education, employment in training, & generational debts still not settled www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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One of the books of the year, and great to meet on of your journalistic heroes. The book is a very important book of our time, relating to all things autism and music. The Kraftwerk chapter is very emotional, @johnharris1969.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
One of the books of the year, and great to meet on of your journalistic heroes. The book is a very important book of our time, relating to all things autism and music. The Kraftwerk chapter is very emotional, @johnharris1969.bsky.social
This is a great piece of reporting & writing
I also write about how little the floods have been covered in national newspapers, and how appalled I am that the Prime Minister has said nothing to the people of Monmouthshire directly. Please read and share. www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...
Storm Claudia puts Wales under water – why did these record-breaking floods barely make the news?
On the frontline of a deluge on the Welsh borders, Jude Rogers heard local stories of devastation and heroism – but incredibly the disaster was hardly referred to in Westminster and the national press
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November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is a great piece of reporting & writing
Here's my 10 albums of the year, for what it's worth
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Here's my 10 albums of the year, for what it's worth
Tomorrow is the 20th Maybe I'm Amazed book event, and the last of 2025. It's at the WriteIdea festival in Whitechapel, East London, at 5.30pm. And it's free. Music, autism, Kraftwerk, The Clash, all that. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-harri...
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Tomorrow is the 20th Maybe I'm Amazed book event, and the last of 2025. It's at the WriteIdea festival in Whitechapel, East London, at 5.30pm. And it's free. Music, autism, Kraftwerk, The Clash, all that. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-harri...
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Fair play to The Graun for putting Mani on the front page 🖤
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Fair play to The Graun for putting Mani on the front page 🖤
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this week's Guardian Politics Weekly pod is about asylum reforms, moral outrage, and whether either of those things are going to make any tangible difference
Yes, it's the latest Politics Weekly UK, a rich & questioning chatfest with me, @kiranstacey.bsky.social, @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social & @rafaelbehr.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
How dangerous are Labour’s asylum plans?
Podcast Episode · Politics Weekly UK · 19/11/2025 · 31m
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November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
this week's Guardian Politics Weekly pod is about asylum reforms, moral outrage, and whether either of those things are going to make any tangible difference
Mani was a great man: warm, funny, self-deprecating at the right moments, and a profoundly talented bass player, born to do it. This is awful news
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Mani was a great man: warm, funny, self-deprecating at the right moments, and a profoundly talented bass player, born to do it. This is awful news
Yes, it's the latest Politics Weekly UK, a rich & questioning chatfest with me, @kiranstacey.bsky.social, @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social & @rafaelbehr.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
How dangerous are Labour’s asylum plans?
Podcast Episode · Politics Weekly UK · 19/11/2025 · 31m
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November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Yes, it's the latest Politics Weekly UK, a rich & questioning chatfest with me, @kiranstacey.bsky.social, @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social & @rafaelbehr.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Labourism is a disease
Green MP Carla Denyer accuses Shabana Mahmood of trying to "out Reform Reform" and says "toxic racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants" are to blame for "tearing our country apart" not migrants.
Mahmood: "I couldn't care less what any other political party has to say about these matters"
Mahmood: "I couldn't care less what any other political party has to say about these matters"
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Labourism is a disease