Paul Harper 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴
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Left-leaning (but not loonie left) pragmatist, realist, atheist cis-male gay. Green Party member. Vocal trans supporter. Insta-blocks bigots and never argues with idiots for more than a few messages - so if your thread goes quiet you know why. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧
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I oppose certain societal injustices, however people anticipating that because of that I will help reinforce their precious sense of victimhood are in for a very sharp shock.
That's emotional empathy. I don't do emotional empathy.
Here's why - Harper's Handy Guide to Empathy:
That's emotional empathy. I don't do emotional empathy.
Here's why - Harper's Handy Guide to Empathy:
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Yup.
AI is the 21st century's religion: Preying on the gullible and the stupid, telling them believable lies, manipulating people into conforming.
It's been done before - paganism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and the rest. All the same bullshit.
It worked then. It'll work again.
AI is the 21st century's religion: Preying on the gullible and the stupid, telling them believable lies, manipulating people into conforming.
It's been done before - paganism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and the rest. All the same bullshit.
It worked then. It'll work again.
December 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Shameful on the part of the BBC who are supposed to represent the *whole* of Britain, not just the bits its right-wing management thinks it should.
I'm rapidly getting to the point where I no longer care if the BBC dies.
I'm rapidly getting to the point where I no longer care if the BBC dies.
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Shameful on the part of the BBC who are supposed to represent the *whole* of Britain, not just the bits its right-wing management thinks it should.
I'm rapidly getting to the point where I no longer care if the BBC dies.
I'm rapidly getting to the point where I no longer care if the BBC dies.
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BBC Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage brilliant co-host Robin Ince has resigned & his graceful & eloquent letter says a lot about the issues the media is facing today.
I’d advise you to read it all because it’ll likely be cherry-picked (or strawberry-picked) by some using it for political reasons
I’d advise you to read it all because it’ll likely be cherry-picked (or strawberry-picked) by some using it for political reasons
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
BBC Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage brilliant co-host Robin Ince has resigned & his graceful & eloquent letter says a lot about the issues the media is facing today.
I’d advise you to read it all because it’ll likely be cherry-picked (or strawberry-picked) by some using it for political reasons
I’d advise you to read it all because it’ll likely be cherry-picked (or strawberry-picked) by some using it for political reasons
Superb stuff!
December 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Superb stuff!
I'm not but I'm starting to get a bit suspicious of my husband.
Why are you gay?
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I'm not but I'm starting to get a bit suspicious of my husband.
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
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The true Big 5 of Eurovision:
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December 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The true Big 5 of Eurovision:
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Yay! 3 new personal bests plus first time over 70,000lbs. Happy with that. Onwards!
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Yay! 3 new personal bests plus first time over 70,000lbs. Happy with that. Onwards!
We've seen this show twice - once as paying customers, once as guests at the very first public rehearsal. It's brilliant!
ABBA Voyage has been an absolute sensation.
Since it opened, it has drawn visitors from around the globe, filled restaurants and hotels, and given ABBA fans an unforgettable night out. It has once again shown why London is the music capital of the world.
Since it opened, it has drawn visitors from around the globe, filled restaurants and hotels, and given ABBA fans an unforgettable night out. It has once again shown why London is the music capital of the world.
The 'super' impact ABBA Voyage has had on London revealed in new report
A new report reveals just how much ABBA Voyage has pumped into London’s economy.
www.londonworld.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We've seen this show twice - once as paying customers, once as guests at the very first public rehearsal. It's brilliant!
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Maya Forstater is seething...
And it's GLORIOUS!
And it's GLORIOUS!
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Maya Forstater is seething...
And it's GLORIOUS!
And it's GLORIOUS!
I shall be so glad when the Christmas markets close and the gormless hoardes bugger off. It's mayhem out here!
December 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I shall be so glad when the Christmas markets close and the gormless hoardes bugger off. It's mayhem out here!
Manchester Hyperlapse Twilight (4K)
YouTube video by Bardhok Ndoji
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December 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Nice Mirror article about my son Chris who will be appearing in the Call The Midwife Christmas specials again this year:
www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/c...
www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/c...
Call the Midwife confirms return of Coronation Street star in sneak peek photo
Call the Midwife's Nurse Trixie Franklin will be delighted as a familiar face returns to Poplar this Christmas
www.mirror.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Nice Mirror article about my son Chris who will be appearing in the Call The Midwife Christmas specials again this year:
www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/c...
www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/c...
There is significant satisfaction and validation in reading someone posting an outraged message about some reality show and me knowing that I have absolutely no idea what they're whittering on about.
December 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There is significant satisfaction and validation in reading someone posting an outraged message about some reality show and me knowing that I have absolutely no idea what they're whittering on about.
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Getting a Peace prize from FIFA is like getting an Emmy from Jehovah’s Witnesses.
…which will probably be next.
…which will probably be next.
December 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Getting a Peace prize from FIFA is like getting an Emmy from Jehovah’s Witnesses.
…which will probably be next.
…which will probably be next.
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I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
Trump seemed very happy to get his FIFA Peace Prize - just imagine his delight when he takes off the foil wrapping and finds the chocolate underneath.
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Trump seemed very happy to get his FIFA Peace Prize - just imagine his delight when he takes off the foil wrapping and finds the chocolate underneath.
"We didn't know our racist was a racist" says racist spokesman for a racist party.
Reform revokes council leader's party membership
Reform UK revokes Staffordshire County Council leader's membership - BBC News
It follows an investigation by the party into racist content on social media.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
"We didn't know our racist was a racist" says racist spokesman for a racist party.
Awake stupid early (4am here), so Test Match Special on the headphones, listening to the Ashes, it is.
Getting flashbacks to the glorious summer of '76 listening to John Arlott while laying in the sun in the back garden. I think it was the West Indies when they were at their peak. Great memories.
Getting flashbacks to the glorious summer of '76 listening to John Arlott while laying in the sun in the back garden. I think it was the West Indies when they were at their peak. Great memories.
December 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Awake stupid early (4am here), so Test Match Special on the headphones, listening to the Ashes, it is.
Getting flashbacks to the glorious summer of '76 listening to John Arlott while laying in the sun in the back garden. I think it was the West Indies when they were at their peak. Great memories.
Getting flashbacks to the glorious summer of '76 listening to John Arlott while laying in the sun in the back garden. I think it was the West Indies when they were at their peak. Great memories.
The Cabinet?
Trump's harem of halfwits...
Trump's harem of halfwits...
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The Cabinet?
Trump's harem of halfwits...
Trump's harem of halfwits...
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World Cup Draw: I've never understood why people watch stuff that upsets them.
I don't watch F1 because it's boring, I never watch football for the same reason, I dont watch Sky News because it's biased, I don't watch BBC News because they're useless...
Just turn the damned thing off! Read a book.
I don't watch F1 because it's boring, I never watch football for the same reason, I dont watch Sky News because it's biased, I don't watch BBC News because they're useless...
Just turn the damned thing off! Read a book.
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
World Cup Draw: I've never understood why people watch stuff that upsets them.
I don't watch F1 because it's boring, I never watch football for the same reason, I dont watch Sky News because it's biased, I don't watch BBC News because they're useless...
Just turn the damned thing off! Read a book.
I don't watch F1 because it's boring, I never watch football for the same reason, I dont watch Sky News because it's biased, I don't watch BBC News because they're useless...
Just turn the damned thing off! Read a book.
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