Ann Harries
@annharries.bsky.social
Dog lover, crisp aficionada, sometime French teacher and proud European living in SW🇫🇷.Labour voter who is beginning to despair of her country s lurch to the right. 🍉🇪🇺DMs blocked
Reposted by Ann Harries
"Opposition is a defined constitutional role - not something you can just claim... It is utterly depressing to see all media cover Farage's shadow-shadow cabinet nonsense as if it is of any consequence or has any substance. I might as well announce my Bermondsey Olympics team for Los Angeles 2024."
🪦 The Shadow Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 🦇
As the UK economy wobbles and global headwinds persist, Farage cosplays having a cabinet.
+
In the light of the decision on Palestine Action, is it time to rethink both law and policy?
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6o7b...
As the UK economy wobbles and global headwinds persist, Farage cosplays having a cabinet.
+
In the light of the decision on Palestine Action, is it time to rethink both law and policy?
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6o7b...
The Shadow Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 19/02/2026 · 1h 4m
podcasts.apple.com
February 19, 2026 at 11:32 AM
"Opposition is a defined constitutional role - not something you can just claim... It is utterly depressing to see all media cover Farage's shadow-shadow cabinet nonsense as if it is of any consequence or has any substance. I might as well announce my Bermondsey Olympics team for Los Angeles 2024."
Reposted by Ann Harries
"Emergency podcasts, sir. Thousands of 'em"
February 19, 2026 at 10:25 AM
"Emergency podcasts, sir. Thousands of 'em"
Reposted by Ann Harries
Ok I have far too much to do today to spend more than 2 minutes on this but here’s my political cartoon of the day, please enjoy
February 19, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Ok I have far too much to do today to spend more than 2 minutes on this but here’s my political cartoon of the day, please enjoy
Reposted by Ann Harries
Feeling quite patriotic. This is what equality under the law is meant to look like.
February 19, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Feeling quite patriotic. This is what equality under the law is meant to look like.
Reposted by Ann Harries
I’d say he’s sweating now
February 19, 2026 at 11:28 AM
I’d say he’s sweating now
Reposted by Ann Harries
Statement from Virginia Giuffre’s family: “Our broken hearts have been lifted by the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty... He was never a prince. For survivors, everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”
February 19, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Statement from Virginia Giuffre’s family: “Our broken hearts have been lifted by the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty... He was never a prince. For survivors, everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”
Reposted by Ann Harries
I’m dying…..
Oh, the grand old duke of york
He ██████████████████
He ██████████████████
And he ██████████████████
He ██████████████████
He ██████████████████
And he ██████████████████
February 19, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I’m dying…..
This just made my day.
February 19, 2026 at 9:23 AM
This just made my day.
And it’s about time the government got off X and considered banning his racist bollocks.
Elon Musk is talking about Nigel Farage's Reform Party: he says Reform are trying to eradicate white people in Britain.
He is a radicalised + increasingly racist lunatic - obsessed with theories of white racial extinction + promoting the idea of civil war in Britain
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
He is a radicalised + increasingly racist lunatic - obsessed with theories of white racial extinction + promoting the idea of civil war in Britain
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
February 19, 2026 at 9:21 AM
And it’s about time the government got off X and considered banning his racist bollocks.
Reposted by Ann Harries
🇪🇺 "In recent years to see the London Stock Exchange on its knees, to see good jobs lost, actually losing out in a way we could never have imagined to competitors in Europe."
🫠 Can anyone think of a major political event that made the British economy less attractive - maybe around 2016?
🫠 Can anyone think of a major political event that made the British economy less attractive - maybe around 2016?
February 18, 2026 at 3:05 PM
🇪🇺 "In recent years to see the London Stock Exchange on its knees, to see good jobs lost, actually losing out in a way we could never have imagined to competitors in Europe."
🫠 Can anyone think of a major political event that made the British economy less attractive - maybe around 2016?
🫠 Can anyone think of a major political event that made the British economy less attractive - maybe around 2016?
Reposted by Ann Harries
Fgs @lbc.co.uk the Reform Party Ltd is not the official opposition, Farage can call his pretendy wee appointments Shadows if he likes but you and the rest of the media are doing yourselves and us a disservice by going along with this claptrap. Update your website please.
February 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Fgs @lbc.co.uk the Reform Party Ltd is not the official opposition, Farage can call his pretendy wee appointments Shadows if he likes but you and the rest of the media are doing yourselves and us a disservice by going along with this claptrap. Update your website please.
Reposted by Ann Harries
On top of this, it really risks tipping Reform into a US oriented, Christian nationalist, socially conservative party in a way that is uncomfortable for a lot of UK voters. The question is if those voters notice or care.
Reform’s new “head of policy” has said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a “regional Slavic conflict”.
He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”
He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”
February 18, 2026 at 10:21 AM
On top of this, it really risks tipping Reform into a US oriented, Christian nationalist, socially conservative party in a way that is uncomfortable for a lot of UK voters. The question is if those voters notice or care.
Reposted by Ann Harries
Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.
February 18, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.
Reposted by Ann Harries
to be clear, Matthew Goodwin has one (1) child and should thus be penalised for failing to meet the replacement rate under the incentive scheme that he’s established here
February 16, 2026 at 2:04 PM
to be clear, Matthew Goodwin has one (1) child and should thus be penalised for failing to meet the replacement rate under the incentive scheme that he’s established here
Reposted by Ann Harries
Since 1952, no incoming Tory Govt. left office with defence spending above the level of when it came in. It destroys the myth that the Tories are the champions of the military. They are the people that actually degrade it, over and over again.
February 16, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Since 1952, no incoming Tory Govt. left office with defence spending above the level of when it came in. It destroys the myth that the Tories are the champions of the military. They are the people that actually degrade it, over and over again.
Reposted by Ann Harries
there are reports from liam's father that he can't sleep at night and wakes up screaming for his dad. todd lyons i hope you die scared and alone.
Lyons says ICE agents actually "took care" of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos when they detained him, before shipping him off to a horrific Texas ICE facility.
He says ICE officers "comforted him" as they chased his dad, put him in their car to play "his favorite music, then took him to McDonalds."
He says ICE officers "comforted him" as they chased his dad, put him in their car to play "his favorite music, then took him to McDonalds."
February 11, 2026 at 12:36 AM
there are reports from liam's father that he can't sleep at night and wakes up screaming for his dad. todd lyons i hope you die scared and alone.
Reposted by Ann Harries
I’m in France, but I can’t but please can everybody who can say something about the deplorable pro reform bias that seems to be prevalent all over the BBC
February 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
I’m in France, but I can’t but please can everybody who can say something about the deplorable pro reform bias that seems to be prevalent all over the BBC
Reposted by Ann Harries
It beggars belief that people don’t see this man for what he is — a traitorous Putin puppet!
February 15, 2026 at 12:26 PM
It beggars belief that people don’t see this man for what he is — a traitorous Putin puppet!
Reposted by Ann Harries
Welcome to America 🇺🇸
February 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Welcome to America 🇺🇸
I naively believed the i Paper to be neutral. I took out a cheap subscription to read Ian Dunt s comments, but oh my God, they are really, no better, and in some ways is worse than The Times in constantly kicking this government for everything.
February 15, 2026 at 7:08 AM
I naively believed the i Paper to be neutral. I took out a cheap subscription to read Ian Dunt s comments, but oh my God, they are really, no better, and in some ways is worse than The Times in constantly kicking this government for everything.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/422...
I’d like to think that this is bad editing by The i Paper. The woman has lived in Germany for 40 years. Surely she doesn’t kill herself a fucking expat?
I’d like to think that this is bad editing by The i Paper. The woman has lived in Germany for 40 years. Surely she doesn’t kill herself a fucking expat?
I’m a British expat in Germany. Brexit made my pension more complicated
There are intricacies to life as a long-term British expat in the post-Brexit world
liveapp.inews.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 6:57 AM
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/422...
I’d like to think that this is bad editing by The i Paper. The woman has lived in Germany for 40 years. Surely she doesn’t kill herself a fucking expat?
I’d like to think that this is bad editing by The i Paper. The woman has lived in Germany for 40 years. Surely she doesn’t kill herself a fucking expat?
Reposted by Ann Harries
Every day my heart breaks a little more.
January 26, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Every day my heart breaks a little more.
Reposted by Ann Harries
Seems likely.
Correct me if I’m off-base here, bluesky historians, but it seem to me that by the time they’re out of power, this regime will have—by some distance—killed more human beings around the world than any U.S. government since World War II.
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
February 13, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Seems likely.
Reposted by Ann Harries
this feels like a spoof from The Day Today
Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.
February 13, 2026 at 3:24 PM
this feels like a spoof from The Day Today