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.
MP calls for companies to pay tax for AI bots used to replace workers
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MP calls for companies to pay tax for AI bots used to replace workers
Neil Duncan-Jordan (Poole) says measure could shore up employment and protect Treasury revenues.
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
MP calls for companies to pay tax for AI bots used to replace workers
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Quick scan of the curriculum review.
This is interesting.
My school offered French & German. My kids have only ever done Spanish.
This is interesting.
My school offered French & German. My kids have only ever done Spanish.
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Quick scan of the curriculum review.
This is interesting.
My school offered French & German. My kids have only ever done Spanish.
This is interesting.
My school offered French & German. My kids have only ever done Spanish.
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left-winger wins: BUT WILL HE DELIVER
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
left-winger wins: BUT WILL HE DELIVER
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
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I wish those weather people on the radio would announce the currently unusual warm weather in a slightly less enthusiastic way.
18 degrees in November is not normal.
18 degrees in November is not normal.
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I wish those weather people on the radio would announce the currently unusual warm weather in a slightly less enthusiastic way.
18 degrees in November is not normal.
18 degrees in November is not normal.
Button shop owner ‘amazed’ at response to fundraiser
Maureen Rose in her shop at 22 Cleveland Street. Photo: The Fitzrovia News. Maureen Rose, who runs Taylor's Buttons out of a tiny shop in Cleveland Street, says she is "amazed" by the public response to the fundraising appeal she set up in an…
Maureen Rose in her shop at 22 Cleveland Street. Photo: The Fitzrovia News. Maureen Rose, who runs Taylor's Buttons out of a tiny shop in Cleveland Street, says she is "amazed" by the public response to the fundraising appeal she set up in an…
Button shop owner ‘amazed’ at response to fundraiser
Maureen Rose in her shop at 22 Cleveland Street. Photo: The Fitzrovia News. Maureen Rose, who runs Taylor's Buttons out of a tiny shop in Cleveland Street, says she is "amazed" by the public response to the fundraising appeal she set up in an effort to save her business from closure. Last month she appealed for donations in an effort to try to pay off £17,000 of rent arrears that dates back to the time of the Covid restrictions when the shop had to close for many months.
fitzrovianews.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Met the former editor of the York Evening Press last night, who said in the mid-90s he had 85 people working directly for him, including nine staff photographers. All that to serve a city and surrounding area of about 200k people. Local news was wilddddd.
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Met the former editor of the York Evening Press last night, who said in the mid-90s he had 85 people working directly for him, including nine staff photographers. All that to serve a city and surrounding area of about 200k people. Local news was wilddddd.
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This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
The Ban
www.newyorker.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
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The afterword of Le Carre’s The Russia House has an excellent anecdote about his visit to Russia
November 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The afterword of Le Carre’s The Russia House has an excellent anecdote about his visit to Russia
Another brilliant story from London Centric. Sadly not surprised to see the Met's disengaged approach on this - despite the BBC special on the topic recently.
The fun thing about having a small team working with you is you can say "hey you're spending this week digging for stolen mobile phones in London flowerbeds, I promise you it's a thing". www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...
London's thieves are burying phones in flowerbeds
The police don't take much interest in returning the stolen devices when they're dug up — so London Centric decided to do it.
www.londoncentric.media
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Another brilliant story from London Centric. Sadly not surprised to see the Met's disengaged approach on this - despite the BBC special on the topic recently.
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Grandchildren want pardon for last woman executed in UK - www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/gran...
Grandchildren want pardon for last woman executed in UK
New call for abuse suffered by Ruth Ellis before Magdala pub shooting to be considered – 70 years after case which hastened end of death penalty
www.camdennewjournal.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Grandchildren want pardon for last woman executed in UK - www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/gran...
Sadly another example of television deals coming in the way of tradition and supporters. Then again, a full calendar of non-league is available for football hungry fans...
www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...
www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...
Only one Premier League game set for Boxing Day due to calendar pressure
Tradition of December 26 football set to be all but broken this year as top flight fulfils broadcaster obligations with conventional weekend of matches instead
www.thetimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Sadly another example of television deals coming in the way of tradition and supporters. Then again, a full calendar of non-league is available for football hungry fans...
www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...
www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...
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Fascinating story.
A new study involving DNA extracted from the teeth of French soldiers buried in a mass grave in Lithuania's capital Vilnius along the route of Napoleon's retreat from Russia has detected two pathogens not previously documented in the event. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
A new study involving DNA extracted from the teeth of French soldiers buried in a mass grave in Lithuania's capital Vilnius along the route of Napoleon's retreat from Russia has detected two pathogens not previously documented in the event. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
DNA from mass grave reveals pathogens that beset Napoleon's army in 1812
The retreat from Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Grande Armée in 1812 was a cataclysmic event that marked the beginning of the end for his empire and personal dominance in Europe, with about 300,000 soldiers perishing in a force that originally numbered roughly a half million.
www.reuters.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Fascinating story.
A new study involving DNA extracted from the teeth of French soldiers buried in a mass grave in Lithuania's capital Vilnius along the route of Napoleon's retreat from Russia has detected two pathogens not previously documented in the event. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
A new study involving DNA extracted from the teeth of French soldiers buried in a mass grave in Lithuania's capital Vilnius along the route of Napoleon's retreat from Russia has detected two pathogens not previously documented in the event. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Exclusive: Lord Hermer is a defendant in a civil suit he drafted and represented until weeks before the 2024 election, which implicates the previous Labour government in complicity in torture www.politicshome.com/news/article...
The Attorney General Is A Defendant In A Torture Claim From A Libyan Military Commander That He Drafted
Exclusive: Lord Hermer is a defendant in a civil suit he drafted and represented until weeks before the 2024 election, which implicates the previou...
www.politicshome.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Exclusive: Lord Hermer is a defendant in a civil suit he drafted and represented until weeks before the 2024 election, which implicates the previous Labour government in complicity in torture www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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this is vg www.ft.com/content/94e0...
October 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
this is vg www.ft.com/content/94e0...
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This remains my favourite “PM to new minister of state conversation“, from Michelle Clement’s “The Art of Delivery”.
October 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This remains my favourite “PM to new minister of state conversation“, from Michelle Clement’s “The Art of Delivery”.
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X is not only completely out of control, it is also increasingly dangerous.
A very worrying escalation of online harassment.
Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"
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Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"
x.com/EuropaIneffa...
Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X
In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match
x.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
X is not only completely out of control, it is also increasingly dangerous.
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Nigel Farage has gone "on strike" from PMQs, saying he won't return until he next gets a question
There's just one problem: Reform UK knows the rota for qus for the rest of the year.
His next question is on Nov 12
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
There's just one problem: Reform UK knows the rota for qus for the rest of the year.
His next question is on Nov 12
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Nigel Farage stages ‘strike’ despite date for next PMQs q...
Reform party leader has moved to the public gallery after claiming he is excluded from process in the chamber
observer.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Nigel Farage has gone "on strike" from PMQs, saying he won't return until he next gets a question
There's just one problem: Reform UK knows the rota for qus for the rest of the year.
His next question is on Nov 12
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
There's just one problem: Reform UK knows the rota for qus for the rest of the year.
His next question is on Nov 12
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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🔺 NEW: Prince Andrew in talks with Palace to move out of Royal Lodge
Prince Andrew in talks with Palace to move out of Royal Lodge
The King may have to offer compensation and a new home to persuade his brother to quit his Windsor mansion, after pressure mounted over the Andrew’s lavish lifestyle
www.thetimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
🔺 NEW: Prince Andrew in talks with Palace to move out of Royal Lodge
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It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sound of Cinema, A place for ideas
Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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this is utterly hilarious, turns out that it was the Tories who took the word "enemy" out of the crucial witness statement in the collapsed China spy case
over to you, Kemi Badenoch?
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
over to you, Kemi Badenoch?
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Adviser removed ‘enemy’ from China spy case witness statement
Matthew Collins says he deleted the word from the final draft in 2023 because it did not reflect the Conservative government’s view
www.thetimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
this is utterly hilarious, turns out that it was the Tories who took the word "enemy" out of the crucial witness statement in the collapsed China spy case
over to you, Kemi Badenoch?
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
over to you, Kemi Badenoch?
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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BREAKING - Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are to leave Strictly at the end of the current series.
October 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
BREAKING - Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are to leave Strictly at the end of the current series.
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Worth keeping in mind that Aldi & Lidl top the supermarket pay tables. And as they expand to new locations it often causes recruitment problems/wage pressure for other low paying employers.
Lidl GB pushes ahead with expansion as profit jumps reut.rs/3JiXTH9
Lidl GB pushes ahead with expansion as profit jumps
Lidl GB, the UK arm of the German discount supermarket chain, reported a near fourfold jump in profit for its 2024/25 year and said it would press ahead with expansion, including the opening of 40 new stores in its current year.
reut.rs
October 22, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Worth keeping in mind that Aldi & Lidl top the supermarket pay tables. And as they expand to new locations it often causes recruitment problems/wage pressure for other low paying employers.
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The Ministry of Justice has been convicted of a crime and fined £1,000, in a closed-door court hearing the department itself was apparently not aware was happening
www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...
www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...
Ministry of Justice handed criminal conviction in fast-track courts
The Ministry of Justice is now seeking to overturn its conviction
www.standard.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The Ministry of Justice has been convicted of a crime and fined £1,000, in a closed-door court hearing the department itself was apparently not aware was happening
www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...
www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...
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Trafalgar Day.
The most interesting bit of Trafalgar isn’t the battle, it’s the preceding cross-Atlantic chase.
The most interesting bit of Trafalgar isn’t the battle, it’s the preceding cross-Atlantic chase.
October 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Trafalgar Day.
The most interesting bit of Trafalgar isn’t the battle, it’s the preceding cross-Atlantic chase.
The most interesting bit of Trafalgar isn’t the battle, it’s the preceding cross-Atlantic chase.