Sian Harrison
@bysianharrison.bsky.social
Communications professional, Journalism/PR/Media Relations. Co-author McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists editions 26 & 27, 🎻 lover, wearer of many hats
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PPE Medpro partners open to settlement over £122m COVID gowns contract breach
PPE Medpro, linked to Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone, filed to enter administration earlier this month.
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October 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.
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London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding
Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...
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October 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.
By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...
By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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June 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Much of the Government's intention for cutting PIP and UC is to motivate people to find a job
But cutting social security can't 'incentivise' people into jobs that don't exist
New @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis shows there are simply too few jobs for the Government's argument to hold
But cutting social security can't 'incentivise' people into jobs that don't exist
New @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis shows there are simply too few jobs for the Government's argument to hold
June 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Much of the Government's intention for cutting PIP and UC is to motivate people to find a job
But cutting social security can't 'incentivise' people into jobs that don't exist
New @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis shows there are simply too few jobs for the Government's argument to hold
But cutting social security can't 'incentivise' people into jobs that don't exist
New @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis shows there are simply too few jobs for the Government's argument to hold
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BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional.
We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
June 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional.
We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
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TW: suicide/self-harm
A coroner has warned that overstretched prison staff have become "hardened" to incidents of self-harm at a women's prison with one of the worst records of inmate deaths in the country
The report to the Ministry of Justice highlighted a lack of staffing
By me, for Private Eye
A coroner has warned that overstretched prison staff have become "hardened" to incidents of self-harm at a women's prison with one of the worst records of inmate deaths in the country
The report to the Ministry of Justice highlighted a lack of staffing
By me, for Private Eye
![Private Eye article text:
Headline: Failure to ACCT
Article: Overstretched prison staff have become "hardened" to incidents of self-harm at a women's prison with one of the worst death records in the country, a coroner has warned.
HMP Styal in Cheshire has the highest number of deaths of any prison and accounts for almost half the deaths on the female prison estate, a recent inquest into the death of inmate Sarah Boyle in July 2024 heard.
A prevention of future deaths (PFD) report by coroner Victoria Davies to the Ministry of Justice highlights weaknesses in HMP Styal's assessment, care in custody and teamwork (ACCT) process - the care planning system for prisoners identified as being at risk of suicide or self-harm. The report also flagged evidence that staff at the prison were alarmingly blasé about the risk of self-harm.
Sarah's death came just months after Davies was assured by the prison service that mental health provision at Styal had been boosted, during the inquest into the suicide of Annelise Sanderson (Eye 1616), who was jailed rather than referred for treatment after assaulting a paramedic who intervened when she drank petrol and threatened to set herself on fire.
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June 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
TW: suicide/self-harm
A coroner has warned that overstretched prison staff have become "hardened" to incidents of self-harm at a women's prison with one of the worst records of inmate deaths in the country
The report to the Ministry of Justice highlighted a lack of staffing
By me, for Private Eye
A coroner has warned that overstretched prison staff have become "hardened" to incidents of self-harm at a women's prison with one of the worst records of inmate deaths in the country
The report to the Ministry of Justice highlighted a lack of staffing
By me, for Private Eye
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BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping https://on.ft.com/45wFAHq
BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping
British broadcaster makes first move to clamp down on alleged infringement of copyright by tech groups
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June 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping https://on.ft.com/45wFAHq
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Referring to events in Ballymena as "disturbances" is a euphemism too far. We are witnesses to a pogrom. And it behoves us to say so, loud and clear.
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Séamas O’Reilly: Ballymena violence is the result of politics based on scapegoating any ‘other’
"The central perversity of treating these people as anything other than racist thugs is only more transparent in Ballymena because they have so few migrants that any other excuse is patently absurd."
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June 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Referring to events in Ballymena as "disturbances" is a euphemism too far. We are witnesses to a pogrom. And it behoves us to say so, loud and clear.
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www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings
June 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings
We all know his favourite character is Thénardier (very enterprising man, he likes money and I like money etc). Though he would say Javert #LesMis
June 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We all know his favourite character is Thénardier (very enterprising man, he likes money and I like money etc). Though he would say Javert #LesMis
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Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.
i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone
June 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.
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🔴I wrote about the anti-raids protests in LA and whether anything similar could ever take place in Britain.
With the rise of Reform and the ramping up of Labour's enforcement activity, we ignore what's happening there at our peril.
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With the rise of Reform and the ramping up of Labour's enforcement activity, we ignore what's happening there at our peril.
open.substack.com/pub/notanoth...
Could the LA protests happen here?
Watching Los Angeles burn is a reminder to us all that immigration is a tinderbox of an issue rooted in racism.
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June 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
🔴I wrote about the anti-raids protests in LA and whether anything similar could ever take place in Britain.
With the rise of Reform and the ramping up of Labour's enforcement activity, we ignore what's happening there at our peril.
open.substack.com/pub/notanoth...
With the rise of Reform and the ramping up of Labour's enforcement activity, we ignore what's happening there at our peril.
open.substack.com/pub/notanoth...
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once again I must tap my own sign
June 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
once again I must tap my own sign
As they say, a picture paints a thousand words
At time of writing, Tesla has lost about $150 billion in market value today
June 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
As they say, a picture paints a thousand words
Brass Eye was not media training, pack it in
So among those Robert Jenrick identifies here as being "Britain's enemies" are the 20 "Caribbean nations..." who are members of Caricom
June 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Brass Eye was not media training, pack it in
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The essays in the new federal hiring process are designed to avoid any objective metrics, and easily gameable by AI. They make it more difficult to assess political bias, and so millions of job applicants can reasonably assume they did not get a job because they lacked MAGA credentials.
June 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The essays in the new federal hiring process are designed to avoid any objective metrics, and easily gameable by AI. They make it more difficult to assess political bias, and so millions of job applicants can reasonably assume they did not get a job because they lacked MAGA credentials.
In a nutshell, the majority decision amounts to "Your uncertain immigration status (bc of the state) means your life in the US is so unstable you can't possibly have settled properly here, so it's fine for you to go back to a country you last saw as a toddler"
A brutal 2–1 decision from the 5th Circuit forcing the removal of a young girl to Venezuela even though she has lived in Texas for years and it is the only home she can remember. The dissent verges on incandescence in its fury and despondency. Incredibly bleak.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
June 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
In a nutshell, the majority decision amounts to "Your uncertain immigration status (bc of the state) means your life in the US is so unstable you can't possibly have settled properly here, so it's fine for you to go back to a country you last saw as a toddler"
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A group of women in Kenya rebelled against trading sex for a fisherman's catch to sell. They got their own boats, had success — but in past years have faced floods and now fears about HIV medications.
The women of No Sex for Fish are survivors — but their survival is precarious
A group of women in Kenya rebelled against trading sex for a fisherman's catch to sell. They got their own boats, had success — but in past years have faced floods and now fears about HIV medications.
n.pr
June 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A group of women in Kenya rebelled against trading sex for a fisherman's catch to sell. They got their own boats, had success — but in past years have faced floods and now fears about HIV medications.
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Walk on fare for two from London to York at 4pm on a Monday: £345*.
"Demand pricing helps smooth overcrowding and gives us all a better railway!"
Peak trains:
"Demand pricing helps smooth overcrowding and gives us all a better railway!"
Peak trains:
June 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Walk on fare for two from London to York at 4pm on a Monday: £345*.
"Demand pricing helps smooth overcrowding and gives us all a better railway!"
Peak trains:
"Demand pricing helps smooth overcrowding and gives us all a better railway!"
Peak trains:
The cruelty is the point, from the top down
“I’m sorry that visibly distraught woman was too stupid to know that everyone is going to die someday. She probably thinks the Tooth Fairy is real too LOL. Again, I truly apologize… for that woman’s stupidity.”
Absolutely bonkers — Joni Ernst doubles down on her “we are all gonna die” defense of Medicaid cuts while walking through a cemetery
June 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The cruelty is the point, from the top down
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Putting this underneath a huge great headline containing the big ending spoiler is honestly hilarious
May 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Putting this underneath a huge great headline containing the big ending spoiler is honestly hilarious
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The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.
The White House is sued over lack of sign language interpreters at press briefings
The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.
n.pr
May 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.
It would seem that many reporting on the AG's comments re the dismantling of international law in the 1930s don't actually know the context for the ECHR. This is a failure of accurate and honest reporting
May 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It would seem that many reporting on the AG's comments re the dismantling of international law in the 1930s don't actually know the context for the ECHR. This is a failure of accurate and honest reporting