Harry Taylor
@harrytaylor.bsky.social
Parliamentary Reporter at Press Association. Former news editor at the Times, and reported a bit for the Guardian, Camden New Journal and Ham&High. Own views. Kidderminster Harriers fan.
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Britain's leaders think X's diversification into child porn-on-demand is "unacceptable". Although, in good news for people who want child porn on demand, they will continue to accept it. thecritic.co.uk/poli...
January 8, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Britain's leaders think X's diversification into child porn-on-demand is "unacceptable". Although, in good news for people who want child porn on demand, they will continue to accept it. thecritic.co.uk/poli...
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PM has spoken to Trump this evening and "set out his position" on Greenland, Downing Street says.
Also discussed Venezuela, Ukraine and the seizure of the Marinera/Bella 1.
Also discussed Venezuela, Ukraine and the seizure of the Marinera/Bella 1.
January 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
PM has spoken to Trump this evening and "set out his position" on Greenland, Downing Street says.
Also discussed Venezuela, Ukraine and the seizure of the Marinera/Bella 1.
Also discussed Venezuela, Ukraine and the seizure of the Marinera/Bella 1.
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U-turning from Reform's position last May
Nigel Farage confirms that Reform UK will vote *against* the bill to lift the two child cap, keeping hundreds of thousands of children in poverty.
January 7, 2026 at 11:43 AM
U-turning from Reform's position last May
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Last night was the coldest night of the winter so far, making it a very cold and frosty start for most of us this morning ❄️
Here are the latest overnight lows 👇
Here are the latest overnight lows 👇
January 6, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Last night was the coldest night of the winter so far, making it a very cold and frosty start for most of us this morning ❄️
Here are the latest overnight lows 👇
Here are the latest overnight lows 👇
Judging from the Commons statement on Venezuela, not for the first time, the Government and Yvette Cooper is completely out of step with Labour's backbenchers.
January 5, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Judging from the Commons statement on Venezuela, not for the first time, the Government and Yvette Cooper is completely out of step with Labour's backbenchers.
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Scotland to have national bank holiday after first World Cup fixture
Scotland to have national bank holiday after first World Cup fixture
First minister announces plan for bank holiday on Monday 15 June after opening game against Haiti
Football fans needn’t worry about the hangover when they celebrate, or otherwise, into the wee hours after Scotland’s first match in the 2026 World Cup – because the day after the 2am UK time fixture looks likely to be a national bank holiday there.
The first minister, John Swinney, announced that Monday 15 June will be designated a national bank holiday to mark Scotland’s participation in the tournament for the first time since 1998. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Scotland to have national bank holiday after first World Cup fixture
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
A wintry scene from one of my favourite viewpoints in the world.
January 5, 2026 at 3:46 PM
A wintry scene from one of my favourite viewpoints in the world.
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Snowy Aberystwyth
January 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Snowy Aberystwyth
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It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 AM
It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
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Set out six months ago to investigative some dubious evictions. Ended up writing a sprawling story spread over 450 years about London property deals, the ethics of money lending, Tommy Robinson, Barbary pirates, Jacobean earls, and wealth in the capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/henry-smit...
A Tale Of One City And Two Henry Smiths
These two London landlords are separated by four centuries — but joined by a common name and business interests.
www.londoncentric.media
January 1, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Set out six months ago to investigative some dubious evictions. Ended up writing a sprawling story spread over 450 years about London property deals, the ethics of money lending, Tommy Robinson, Barbary pirates, Jacobean earls, and wealth in the capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/henry-smit...
After all the Primrose Hill new years eve farrago, I went up to Hampstead Heath this evening to watch the fireworks across London. Must have been a few thousand people up there. Didn't see or hear of any trouble - shows that this stuff can be good natured.
January 1, 2026 at 12:54 AM
After all the Primrose Hill new years eve farrago, I went up to Hampstead Heath this evening to watch the fireworks across London. Must have been a few thousand people up there. Didn't see or hear of any trouble - shows that this stuff can be good natured.
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This was the most extraordinary story from this year’s National Archives releases
The papers on the royals Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor which vanished while we were reporting on them
Cabinet Office accused of royal cover-up after Andrew files withdrawn
www.thetimes.com/article/59d9...
The papers on the royals Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor which vanished while we were reporting on them
Cabinet Office accused of royal cover-up after Andrew files withdrawn
www.thetimes.com/article/59d9...
December 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This was the most extraordinary story from this year’s National Archives releases
The papers on the royals Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor which vanished while we were reporting on them
Cabinet Office accused of royal cover-up after Andrew files withdrawn
www.thetimes.com/article/59d9...
The papers on the royals Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor which vanished while we were reporting on them
Cabinet Office accused of royal cover-up after Andrew files withdrawn
www.thetimes.com/article/59d9...
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How not to handle questions about documents, a Cabinet Office guide
This was the most extraordinary story from this year’s National Archives releases
The papers on the royals Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor which vanished while we were reporting on them
Cabinet Office accused of royal cover-up after Andrew files withdrawn
www.thetimes.com/article/59d9...
The papers on the royals Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor which vanished while we were reporting on them
Cabinet Office accused of royal cover-up after Andrew files withdrawn
www.thetimes.com/article/59d9...
December 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
How not to handle questions about documents, a Cabinet Office guide
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Sometimes people ask me - where do you think is doing some really interesting local development?
Often I respond Barnsley.
Here’s why!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgrnkwjvlgo.amp
Often I respond Barnsley.
Here’s why!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgrnkwjvlgo.amp
How a Tuscan vision took Barnsley back from the brink of disaster - BBC News
The once-struggling mining town is now rivalling the historic city of York in visitor numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Sometimes people ask me - where do you think is doing some really interesting local development?
Often I respond Barnsley.
Here’s why!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgrnkwjvlgo.amp
Often I respond Barnsley.
Here’s why!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgrnkwjvlgo.amp
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"A compromise to move the planned development outside the hill fort tipped the balance in favour of building it there rather than Stiperstones, and government approval was given in 1972."
God only knows what horrors a transmitter on top of the Stiperstones would have broadcast into people's houses.
God only knows what horrors a transmitter on top of the Stiperstones would have broadcast into people's houses.
The Shropshire landmark that could have ended up 20 miles away - BBC News
How a TV transmitter ended up on one of Shropshire's most famous hills 50 years ago.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
"A compromise to move the planned development outside the hill fort tipped the balance in favour of building it there rather than Stiperstones, and government approval was given in 1972."
God only knows what horrors a transmitter on top of the Stiperstones would have broadcast into people's houses.
God only knows what horrors a transmitter on top of the Stiperstones would have broadcast into people's houses.
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Marvellous, moving and wise column by @martinsandbu.ft.com:
Why your AI companion is not your friend
First, tech companies usurped the meaning of ‘friends’ and ‘connection’ — now they are coming for ‘companionship’
www.ft.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Marvellous, moving and wise column by @martinsandbu.ft.com:
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It’s crazy to me there’s not been *one* decent intervention by a senior politician on AI, what it’s for, should be about and our society. Unless I missed it? It’s just people saying ‘productivity’ and ‘jobs’ with literally no thought, thinking or ideas. But then I suppose same on everything.
December 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It’s crazy to me there’s not been *one* decent intervention by a senior politician on AI, what it’s for, should be about and our society. Unless I missed it? It’s just people saying ‘productivity’ and ‘jobs’ with literally no thought, thinking or ideas. But then I suppose same on everything.
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Watching a bit of Sunderland-Leeds and I think there have been five different gambling companies advertised either on the sideline ad boards or the Sunderland shirt. Genuinely wild.
December 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Watching a bit of Sunderland-Leeds and I think there have been five different gambling companies advertised either on the sideline ad boards or the Sunderland shirt. Genuinely wild.
Catching up on the news that the Premier League and Football League could end the 3pm blackout, as reported in the Guardian yesterday.
Absolutely staggering, the latest in a series of moves to clobber non-league sides and the wider football ecosystem.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Absolutely staggering, the latest in a series of moves to clobber non-league sides and the wider football ecosystem.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Premier League and EFL to hold talks over ending Saturday 3pm blackout
The Premier League and EFL will hold talks early next year about combining to permit 3pm Saturday kick-offs to be broadcast live each week for the first time
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Catching up on the news that the Premier League and Football League could end the 3pm blackout, as reported in the Guardian yesterday.
Absolutely staggering, the latest in a series of moves to clobber non-league sides and the wider football ecosystem.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Absolutely staggering, the latest in a series of moves to clobber non-league sides and the wider football ecosystem.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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John Robertson was a ‘scruffy, unfit’ genius who did not get the kudos he deserved | Ewan Murray
John Robertson was a ‘scruffy, unfit’ genius who did not get the kudos he deserved | Ewan Murray
Forest great was loved in Nottingham but under-appreciated in Scotland before going on to thrive as a coach
On the eve of a Celtic European tie 25 years ago, Stiliyan Petrov cut an increasingly agitated figure. The young Bulgarian, soon to shoot to prominence under Martin O’Neill, was finding it impossible to snatch the ball from a rotund, wizened coach during a possession drill. Petrov’s teammates were cackling with laughter. John Robertson’s brilliance was understated enough in Scotland. Word of his talent in the game was never likely to reach Petrov as he grew up in deepest Bulgaria.
Petrov is part of a recent generation who owe a debt of gratitude to Robertson the coach. More of them later. When news of Robertson’s death filtered through on Christmas Day, the prevailing sense was that his country had lost one of a kind. He was also an individual who, for reasons associated with his own modesty, really never received the kudos he deserved in the land of his birth. Continue reading...
dlvr.it
December 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
John Robertson was a ‘scruffy, unfit’ genius who did not get the kudos he deserved | Ewan Murray
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Also if you missed this on organ tuning books as local environmental records it’s a nice pairing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Also if you missed this on organ tuning books as local environmental records it’s a nice pairing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Sad news about John Robertson. The reverence with which his teammates from that Forest side spoke of him in I Believe In Miracles was huge.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
John Robertson, Nottingham Forest and Scotland legend, dies aged 72
John Robertson, a legendary part of Brian Clough’s famous Nottingham Forest side and former Scotland international, has died at the age of 72
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Sad news about John Robertson. The reverence with which his teammates from that Forest side spoke of him in I Believe In Miracles was huge.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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A brief break in the clouds over Stansted Airport in Essex teased yesterday’s winter solstice sunrise
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A brief break in the clouds over Stansted Airport in Essex teased yesterday’s winter solstice sunrise
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The UK has been exporting loads of its old Intercity 125s with flimsy fibreglass cabs to Cancun. Unfortunately it seems Mexico has slightly different attitude to the question “is it acceptable to have a car on a level crossing as a train approaches”, creating quite a stream of content.
December 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The UK has been exporting loads of its old Intercity 125s with flimsy fibreglass cabs to Cancun. Unfortunately it seems Mexico has slightly different attitude to the question “is it acceptable to have a car on a level crossing as a train approaches”, creating quite a stream of content.