James Harrison
@jameswharrison.bsky.social
Ginger tertiary education policy wonk from Glasgow.
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Budget day at last.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Budget day at last.
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I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.
I don't think words can encapsulate how much I despise Steve Witkoff.
November 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I don't think words can encapsulate how much I despise Steve Witkoff.
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I was actually just considering who to switch energy providers to and now I know it won't be SP.
For Women Scotland wins Public Campaign or Campaigner of the Year at The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards 2025, in association with ScottishPower
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#politicianawards25
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November 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I was actually just considering who to switch energy providers to and now I know it won't be SP.
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This is appalling and what's worse you did it on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Every single person involved in this should be ashamed of themselves.
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This is appalling and what's worse you did it on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Every single person involved in this should be ashamed of themselves.
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How many older journalists and papers look back at their role whipping up hatred against gay people like me in the 80's and 90's with pride and a sense they did right? Very few. So what do *you*, today's journos and papers, think your prospects are after re-running same campaign against trans folk?
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
How many older journalists and papers look back at their role whipping up hatred against gay people like me in the 80's and 90's with pride and a sense they did right? Very few. So what do *you*, today's journos and papers, think your prospects are after re-running same campaign against trans folk?
Next year, maybe they'll give the award to Tommy Robinson?
Honestly so disgusted by this.
Honestly so disgusted by this.
For Women Scotland wins Public Campaign or Campaigner of the Year at The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards 2025, in association with ScottishPower
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
#politicianawards25
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
#politicianawards25
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Next year, maybe they'll give the award to Tommy Robinson?
Honestly so disgusted by this.
Honestly so disgusted by this.
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Looks like I'll have to add two grand to my pre-election poll crowdfunder because I certainly won't be working with this rag again. Absolutely disgraceful, awarding a hate campaign that is out to destroy my community and kill my best friend like this. Shame on you.
For Women Scotland wins Public Campaign or Campaigner of the Year at The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards 2025, in association with ScottishPower
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
#politicianawards25
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
#politicianawards25
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Looks like I'll have to add two grand to my pre-election poll crowdfunder because I certainly won't be working with this rag again. Absolutely disgraceful, awarding a hate campaign that is out to destroy my community and kill my best friend like this. Shame on you.
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scottish political "awards" each year are an excuse for scotland's transphobic media class and their acolytes to give each other encouraging little pats on the back and celebrate their victories over a minority community
For Women Scotland wins Public Campaign or Campaigner of the Year at The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards 2025, in association with ScottishPower
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
#politicianawards25
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
#politicianawards25
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
scottish political "awards" each year are an excuse for scotland's transphobic media class and their acolytes to give each other encouraging little pats on the back and celebrate their victories over a minority community
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I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.
I mean come on: we'll ask but reserve right to exclude you on the basis of how you look. Oh, and if you try to use your birth sex specific facilities we'll kick you out of those as well.
Get fucked.
Get fucked.
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.
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Yep, why not score a goal from your own half in the 98th minute?
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Yep, why not score a goal from your own half in the 98th minute?
That was the best game of football I've ever seen.
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
That was the best game of football I've ever seen.
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Think tank founded in memory of Jo Cox wants us all to be very willing to go along with policies diametrically opposed to the values Jo Cox expressed in her maiden speech
I swear to god “More in Common” just seems to spend half their time laundering right wing bollocks.
The phrasing of the questions 1. Doesn’t deal with the most contentious bits of the policy and 2. Are phrased in the most flattering PR speak
The phrasing of the questions 1. Doesn’t deal with the most contentious bits of the policy and 2. Are phrased in the most flattering PR speak
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Think tank founded in memory of Jo Cox wants us all to be very willing to go along with policies diametrically opposed to the values Jo Cox expressed in her maiden speech
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Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
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UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
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"Thank Heavens Reeves froze the thresholds," says the median voter in 2029 as they walk past the derelict sports centre and down the empty high street to cast their vote.
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books, according to a survey of local authorities.
The key cities group of councils, which represents second-tier cities in England, said 60% of councils were planning to sell assets to meet the escalating costs of adult and children’s social care. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"Thank Heavens Reeves froze the thresholds," says the median voter in 2029 as they walk past the derelict sports centre and down the empty high street to cast their vote.
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If you get made a traitor your charity should switch and the money should go towards ppe medpro or saudi aramco or palantir or some otherwise evil company in order to up the stakes of the game
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If you get made a traitor your charity should switch and the money should go towards ppe medpro or saudi aramco or palantir or some otherwise evil company in order to up the stakes of the game
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Congratulations to Zarah Sultana for not being the first MP to quit or be expelled from a party that doesn't exist yet, genuinely unexpected outcome
Blimey. Major new split in Your Party. Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain -who is secretary of the Your Party company - says he's quitting due to "persistent infighting, factional competition, and a struggle for power, position and influence rather than a shared commitment to the common good."
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Congratulations to Zarah Sultana for not being the first MP to quit or be expelled from a party that doesn't exist yet, genuinely unexpected outcome
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This is why we should protect the BBC.
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is why we should protect the BBC.
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I now call to order the first meeting of the ancient mystic society of No Zarahs
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I now call to order the first meeting of the ancient mystic society of No Zarahs
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Not Philomena Cunk herself, but actress Diane Morgan will be joining the Disney+ series VisionQuest. But really when you think about it, aren’t they the same person? Aren’t we all just “characters?” And is life just one big Marvel TV show? bit.ly/4oIsSfy
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Not Philomena Cunk herself, but actress Diane Morgan will be joining the Disney+ series VisionQuest. But really when you think about it, aren’t they the same person? Aren’t we all just “characters?” And is life just one big Marvel TV show? bit.ly/4oIsSfy
Me when I hear Keir Starmer is about to face a leadership challenge.
Vs
Me when I hear the challenger is Wes Streeting.
Vs
Me when I hear the challenger is Wes Streeting.
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Me when I hear Keir Starmer is about to face a leadership challenge.
Vs
Me when I hear the challenger is Wes Streeting.
Vs
Me when I hear the challenger is Wes Streeting.
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Billie Piper announced as the new BBC Director General but we've got to wait until next Christmas to find out why.
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Billie Piper announced as the new BBC Director General but we've got to wait until next Christmas to find out why.
Another insane week of Traitors drama and Big Brother evictions.
Another day of wanting to call my sister to talk about it all but remembering I can't. 💔
Another day of wanting to call my sister to talk about it all but remembering I can't. 💔
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Another insane week of Traitors drama and Big Brother evictions.
Another day of wanting to call my sister to talk about it all but remembering I can't. 💔
Another day of wanting to call my sister to talk about it all but remembering I can't. 💔
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Labour are obsessed with the name James 🤣
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social points out to @iandunt.bsky.social that Four Labour Party leaders were called James...
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#labour #ukpolitics #originstory
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social points out to @iandunt.bsky.social that Four Labour Party leaders were called James...
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#labour #ukpolitics #originstory
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Labour are obsessed with the name James 🤣
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social points out to @iandunt.bsky.social that Four Labour Party leaders were called James...
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#labour #ukpolitics #originstory
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social points out to @iandunt.bsky.social that Four Labour Party leaders were called James...
Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#labour #ukpolitics #originstory
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Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.
Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.