Nicholas Harris
@nickpaulharris.bsky.social
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The two child cap news is big for MPs and more importantly for the country.
But will the budget as a whole boost Starmer over the longer term amongst his discontented ranks? Personally I doubt it.
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But will the budget as a whole boost Starmer over the longer term amongst his discontented ranks? Personally I doubt it.
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The Budget: our writers’ verdicts
Louise Haigh, Faiza Shaheen, James Meadway and others respond to the Chancellor
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November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The two child cap news is big for MPs and more importantly for the country.
But will the budget as a whole boost Starmer over the longer term amongst his discontented ranks? Personally I doubt it.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
But will the budget as a whole boost Starmer over the longer term amongst his discontented ranks? Personally I doubt it.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Some astute budget commentary here from @parth0.bsky.social, @ruthcurtice.bsky.social, @meadwaj.bsky.social, @louisehaighmp.bsky.social, and @morganj0nes.bsky.social
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The Budget: our writers’ verdicts
Louise Haigh, Faiza Shaheen, James Meadway and others respond to the Chancellor
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November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Some astute budget commentary here from @parth0.bsky.social, @ruthcurtice.bsky.social, @meadwaj.bsky.social, @louisehaighmp.bsky.social, and @morganj0nes.bsky.social
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Lovely interview with Anthony Barnett www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Anthony Barnett: “The Sixties were a catastrophic failure”
The writer and campaigner on nationalism, the rise of the new right and how a fractured left can organise in response
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November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lovely interview with Anthony Barnett www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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"There are authentic shivers of the 1970s, now buried deep in the British nervous system"
Really enjoyed this on Fawlty Towers by @nickpaulharris.bsky.social:
Really enjoyed this on Fawlty Towers by @nickpaulharris.bsky.social:
Britain’s Fawlty state of mind
Fifty years after it was first aired, Fawlty Towers now looks ahead of its time
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October 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
"There are authentic shivers of the 1970s, now buried deep in the British nervous system"
Really enjoyed this on Fawlty Towers by @nickpaulharris.bsky.social:
Really enjoyed this on Fawlty Towers by @nickpaulharris.bsky.social:
“Modern British comedy should thank Fawlty Towers the way poets thank spring: that’s where it all begins”
On Fawlty Towers and the invention of a national sense of humour, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
On Fawlty Towers and the invention of a national sense of humour, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
Britain’s Fawlty state of mind
Fifty years after it was first aired, Fawlty Towers now looks ahead of its time
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October 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
“Modern British comedy should thank Fawlty Towers the way poets thank spring: that’s where it all begins”
On Fawlty Towers and the invention of a national sense of humour, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
On Fawlty Towers and the invention of a national sense of humour, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
This is quite something folks: John Gray, against and after postliberalism, today on the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
How to save British liberalism
The post-liberalism of the past decade has been revealed as a fantasy
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October 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is quite something folks: John Gray, against and after postliberalism, today on the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
‘There is a darker though equally Thatcherite story to tell about Grantham’
Returning to Thatcher-land, a century after her birth, today at the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/politics/con...
Returning to Thatcher-land, a century after her birth, today at the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/politics/con...
Thatcher-land
One hundred years after it gave us Margaret Thatcher, what is left of the Grantham she knew?
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October 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
‘There is a darker though equally Thatcherite story to tell about Grantham’
Returning to Thatcher-land, a century after her birth, today at the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/politics/con...
Returning to Thatcher-land, a century after her birth, today at the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/politics/con...
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On this day the infant that would become Mrs Thatcher emerged to make her first demands upon our world, six months later... www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-... (thanks @nickpaulharris.bsky.social & @willoyd.bsky.social )
What did Mrs Thatcher do to us?
Less a prime minister than a monarch, the Tory leader’s real legacy was stasis
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October 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
On this day the infant that would become Mrs Thatcher emerged to make her first demands upon our world, six months later... www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-... (thanks @nickpaulharris.bsky.social & @willoyd.bsky.social )
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'Yet the heart of the Thatcher project was to renew what is still the cause of our country’s downfall.'
@anthonybarnett.bsky.social on the centenary of Margaret Thatcher, for the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
@anthonybarnett.bsky.social on the centenary of Margaret Thatcher, for the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
What did Mrs Thatcher do to us?
Less a prime minister than a monarch, the Tory leader’s real legacy was stasis
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October 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
'Yet the heart of the Thatcher project was to renew what is still the cause of our country’s downfall.'
@anthonybarnett.bsky.social on the centenary of Margaret Thatcher, for the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
@anthonybarnett.bsky.social on the centenary of Margaret Thatcher, for the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
'Yet the heart of the Thatcher project was to renew what is still the cause of our country’s downfall.'
@anthonybarnett.bsky.social on the centenary of Margaret Thatcher, for the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
@anthonybarnett.bsky.social on the centenary of Margaret Thatcher, for the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
What did Mrs Thatcher do to us?
Less a prime minister than a monarch, the Tory leader’s real legacy was stasis
www.newstatesman.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
'Yet the heart of the Thatcher project was to renew what is still the cause of our country’s downfall.'
@anthonybarnett.bsky.social on the centenary of Margaret Thatcher, for the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
@anthonybarnett.bsky.social on the centenary of Margaret Thatcher, for the New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Harris + Partridge = essential reading
A point in favour of Late Partridge is the books, there is a line in Big Beacon that was so good a fellow train passenger asked if I was okay
A point in favour of Late Partridge is the books, there is a line in Big Beacon that was so good a fellow train passenger asked if I was okay
“Can a national joke survive when it’s also trying to become a national treasure?”
On the late style of Alan Partridge, in this week’s New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
On the late style of Alan Partridge, in this week’s New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
Alan Partridge’s late style
Can a national joke survive when it’s also trying to become a national treasure?
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October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Harris + Partridge = essential reading
A point in favour of Late Partridge is the books, there is a line in Big Beacon that was so good a fellow train passenger asked if I was okay
A point in favour of Late Partridge is the books, there is a line in Big Beacon that was so good a fellow train passenger asked if I was okay
“Can a national joke survive when it’s also trying to become a national treasure?”
On the late style of Alan Partridge, in this week’s New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
On the late style of Alan Partridge, in this week’s New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
Alan Partridge’s late style
Can a national joke survive when it’s also trying to become a national treasure?
www.newstatesman.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
“Can a national joke survive when it’s also trying to become a national treasure?”
On the late style of Alan Partridge, in this week’s New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
On the late style of Alan Partridge, in this week’s New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
‘Starmerism, as a political creed and a historical era, appears to have entered its ebb-tide without ever crashing onto the beach.’
At and on the Reform conference, for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
At and on the Reform conference, for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage really means it this time
At Reform Conference, his “people’s army” formed a long, gloating parade.
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September 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
‘Starmerism, as a political creed and a historical era, appears to have entered its ebb-tide without ever crashing onto the beach.’
At and on the Reform conference, for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
At and on the Reform conference, for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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My piece on Douglas Carswell's journey from blue-sky thinking to the gutter:
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Douglas Carswell has sunk to the gutter
The former MP is far from the only Brit to be sent into a rage spiral by watching X.
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September 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
My piece on Douglas Carswell's journey from blue-sky thinking to the gutter:
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For the @newstatesman.com i profiled Dominic Cummings – a case study in elite radicalisation
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The rage of Dominic Cummings
Britain’s rogue intellectual has predicted a civil war. Is he also cheerleading one?
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August 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
For the @newstatesman.com i profiled Dominic Cummings – a case study in elite radicalisation
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
‘The tone is established with the seventh word of Kisin’s introduction: “mate”.’
Written about Tommy Robinson’s appearance on Triggernometry: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Written about Tommy Robinson’s appearance on Triggernometry: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
The rebuilding of Tommy Robinson
The EDL founder has conquered the “alternative” media sphere.
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August 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
‘The tone is established with the seventh word of Kisin’s introduction: “mate”.’
Written about Tommy Robinson’s appearance on Triggernometry: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Written about Tommy Robinson’s appearance on Triggernometry: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Written about YouTube, YouTube Man, and the tremendous cultural significance of an episode of Question Time from June 2007: www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
Who’s afraid of YouTube Man?
Screen culture isn’t dystopia – it’s revelation.
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August 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Written about YouTube, YouTube Man, and the tremendous cultural significance of an episode of Question Time from June 2007: www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
‘Who the hell dug up this guy and invited him to pronounce, in his dunce cap of humiliation, on the future of British politics’?
On Neil Hamilton, David Starkey, Thatcher and Thatcherism for this week’s @newstatesman.com sketch: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
On Neil Hamilton, David Starkey, Thatcher and Thatcherism for this week’s @newstatesman.com sketch: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Mrs Thatcher’s bastards
In her centenary year, Maggie’s political and intellectual heirs still yearn for the smack of firm leadership.
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July 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
‘Who the hell dug up this guy and invited him to pronounce, in his dunce cap of humiliation, on the future of British politics’?
On Neil Hamilton, David Starkey, Thatcher and Thatcherism for this week’s @newstatesman.com sketch: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
On Neil Hamilton, David Starkey, Thatcher and Thatcherism for this week’s @newstatesman.com sketch: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
I went to watch Thomas Skinner’s political crossover event this week for the @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Thomas Skinner’s full English
A Tory MP, a Brexiteer historian, a Reform clown and a reality-TV star walk into an auditorium…
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June 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I went to watch Thomas Skinner’s political crossover event this week for the @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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In Westminster, a Blue Labour staff network has been set up.
I spoke to the earnest (mostly) young (mostly) men of the tendency about their politics, plans and why they really just want to have a big chat:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
I spoke to the earnest (mostly) young (mostly) men of the tendency about their politics, plans and why they really just want to have a big chat:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Meet the Blue Labour bros
Inside the ideological faction remaking the party and the government.
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June 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In Westminster, a Blue Labour staff network has been set up.
I spoke to the earnest (mostly) young (mostly) men of the tendency about their politics, plans and why they really just want to have a big chat:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
I spoke to the earnest (mostly) young (mostly) men of the tendency about their politics, plans and why they really just want to have a big chat:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
‘Cassandra in tracksuit bottoms’
Greatly enjoyed watching the Dominic Cummings live show in Oxford last week, for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Greatly enjoyed watching the Dominic Cummings live show in Oxford last week, for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Dominic Cummings: oracle of the new British berserk
The political visions of Westminster’s most influential intellectual are wracked by elemental forces.
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June 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
‘Cassandra in tracksuit bottoms’
Greatly enjoyed watching the Dominic Cummings live show in Oxford last week, for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Greatly enjoyed watching the Dominic Cummings live show in Oxford last week, for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
'“Seriously, why don’t you go back to the barrier and pay,” says the 43-year-old MP for Newark, newly Ozempicked into the form of an Inbetweener.'
@morganj0nes.bsky.social on great form in this piece on Robert Jenrick's bizarre vigilante antics: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
@morganj0nes.bsky.social on great form in this piece on Robert Jenrick's bizarre vigilante antics: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Robert Jenrick is embarrassing himself
His fare-dodger vigilante antics prove that he has become a mouthpiece of the Online Right.
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May 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
'“Seriously, why don’t you go back to the barrier and pay,” says the 43-year-old MP for Newark, newly Ozempicked into the form of an Inbetweener.'
@morganj0nes.bsky.social on great form in this piece on Robert Jenrick's bizarre vigilante antics: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
@morganj0nes.bsky.social on great form in this piece on Robert Jenrick's bizarre vigilante antics: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
"The kind of impotence that longs desperately for prepotence"
I enjoyed, with some reservations, Harry Shukman's new book on the British far right, which I wrote about for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
I enjoyed, with some reservations, Harry Shukman's new book on the British far right, which I wrote about for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Neo-Nazi safari
How close can any journalist get to the English far right?
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May 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"The kind of impotence that longs desperately for prepotence"
I enjoyed, with some reservations, Harry Shukman's new book on the British far right, which I wrote about for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
I enjoyed, with some reservations, Harry Shukman's new book on the British far right, which I wrote about for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
"Even he cannot combine book-keeper and sans-culotte forever."
Went along to see Nigel Farage's latest political mutation today for the @newstatesman.com
Went along to see Nigel Farage's latest political mutation today for the @newstatesman.com
"Nigel Farage doesn’t like being bored, and perhaps no press conference he’s ever given has involved so much arithmetic."
🖊️ @nickpaulharris.bsky.social: Nigel Farage’s political personality disorder
🖊️ @nickpaulharris.bsky.social: Nigel Farage’s political personality disorder
Nigel Farage’s political personality disorder
Britain’s greatest shapeshifter is struggling to contain his contradictions.
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May 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Even he cannot combine book-keeper and sans-culotte forever."
Went along to see Nigel Farage's latest political mutation today for the @newstatesman.com
Went along to see Nigel Farage's latest political mutation today for the @newstatesman.com
"This remains a Britain shaped by Osborne and Cameron: an economy growing on precarious jobs and asset prices, while the public realm rots."
A first-rate cover story this week by @willdunn.bsky.social on George Osborne, the author of broken Britain: www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...
A first-rate cover story this week by @willdunn.bsky.social on George Osborne, the author of broken Britain: www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...
Why George Osborne still runs Britain
Austerity was a radical economic experiment – but 15 years on, it has become the new orthodoxy.
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May 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"This remains a Britain shaped by Osborne and Cameron: an economy growing on precarious jobs and asset prices, while the public realm rots."
A first-rate cover story this week by @willdunn.bsky.social on George Osborne, the author of broken Britain: www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...
A first-rate cover story this week by @willdunn.bsky.social on George Osborne, the author of broken Britain: www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...