Phil Harrison
@mrpmharrison.bsky.social
Journalism, constructive moaning, weird music, telly, LUFC, all the usual shit.
Straight onto episode two. Mackenzie Crook is a diamond.
Small Prophets is a melancholy, gently profound delight.
February 9, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Straight onto episode two. Mackenzie Crook is a diamond.
Small Prophets is a melancholy, gently profound delight.
February 9, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Small Prophets is a melancholy, gently profound delight.
This Sheffield United v Boro game is like a #lufc rejects fever dream. Kalvin has been booked, Rothwell sent off, Bamford on the scoresheet, Ayling CB for Boro and now Leo Hjelde has come on...
February 9, 2026 at 9:43 PM
This Sheffield United v Boro game is like a #lufc rejects fever dream. Kalvin has been booked, Rothwell sent off, Bamford on the scoresheet, Ayling CB for Boro and now Leo Hjelde has come on...
Protecting our women and girls latest:
Jeremy Kyle is interviewing Reform MPs at a live press conference
Discussing who might take over from Keir Starmer as PM, Kyle just said: "She's had a makeover, Angela"
Lee Anderson: "She's throwing her money away, isn't she, to be honest with you"
*applause from the audience*
Discussing who might take over from Keir Starmer as PM, Kyle just said: "She's had a makeover, Angela"
Lee Anderson: "She's throwing her money away, isn't she, to be honest with you"
*applause from the audience*
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Protecting our women and girls latest:
@ofcom.bsky.social is an utterly pointless organisation isn't it?
We really may as well not bother with media regulation at all. At least then we'd all know where we stood.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
We really may as well not bother with media regulation at all. At least then we'd all know where we stood.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Ofcom under fire after refusing to investigate ‘misleading’ GB News Trump interview
US president not challenged over false claims climate change is ‘hoax’ and parts of London have sharia law
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
@ofcom.bsky.social is an utterly pointless organisation isn't it?
We really may as well not bother with media regulation at all. At least then we'd all know where we stood.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
We really may as well not bother with media regulation at all. At least then we'd all know where we stood.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Anyway, enough about Starmer. I suddenly found myself thinking about that family who were looking for a tutor to help their one-year-old become a perfect English gentleman.
I want to know who got the job and how it's going. And it infuriates me that I probably never will.
I want to know who got the job and how it's going. And it infuriates me that I probably never will.
February 9, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Anyway, enough about Starmer. I suddenly found myself thinking about that family who were looking for a tutor to help their one-year-old become a perfect English gentleman.
I want to know who got the job and how it's going. And it infuriates me that I probably never will.
I want to know who got the job and how it's going. And it infuriates me that I probably never will.
It's actually quite a shock to learn that someone has been directing Labour's comms all this time.
Bit embarrassing.
Bit embarrassing.
Did anyone notice Starmer's Comms director Tim Allan resigned a couple of hours ago?
He'd only been in the job for 5 months.
Rats. ship.
He'd only been in the job for 5 months.
Rats. ship.
February 9, 2026 at 3:22 PM
It's actually quite a shock to learn that someone has been directing Labour's comms all this time.
Bit embarrassing.
Bit embarrassing.
But then they wouldn't be able to virtue-signal to people who hate them and wouldn't vote for them in a million lifetimes.
And that would never do...
And that would never do...
I'm no political strategist but has anyone in Labour considered *not* alienating any huge chunk of their base? I just feel like they tried alienating the left and the centre left and the public sector workers and the academics, and none of those things worked great, so maybe give my idea a whirl?
February 8, 2026 at 9:48 PM
But then they wouldn't be able to virtue-signal to people who hate them and wouldn't vote for them in a million lifetimes.
And that would never do...
And that would never do...
They didn't just go to war with the PLP.
They went to war with their own voters. If you repeatedly tell the people who voted for you that their values are wrong, what the fuck do you think is going to happen?
They went to war with their own voters. If you repeatedly tell the people who voted for you that their values are wrong, what the fuck do you think is going to happen?
Since Labour has been in government the lack of preparation and depth of thinking has been apparent but I think one of the biggest mistakes was going to war with the PLP so early. It stunned a lot of MPs to be told they could not even table amendments. This resentment is a massive part of the story.
February 8, 2026 at 8:55 PM
They didn't just go to war with the PLP.
They went to war with their own voters. If you repeatedly tell the people who voted for you that their values are wrong, what the fuck do you think is going to happen?
They went to war with their own voters. If you repeatedly tell the people who voted for you that their values are wrong, what the fuck do you think is going to happen?
That might be the funniest goal I've ever seen!
February 8, 2026 at 6:27 PM
That might be the funniest goal I've ever seen!
This was also obviously and transparently true of Cummings.
As with DC, it isn't so much 'this guy is a cynical master of the political dark arts' as 'this guy is a total bell-end with a face you'd never tire of punching'.
As with DC, it isn't so much 'this guy is a cynical master of the political dark arts' as 'this guy is a total bell-end with a face you'd never tire of punching'.
Like, what's frustrating about Morgan McSweeney more than anything is he is just really, really obviously a massive prick. If you had a workmate like him, you'd hate him. If he was your relative, you'd hate him. If you saw him in a pub, you'd hate him instantly. He just absolutely radiates it.
Out of many reasons to really, really hate this cunt, I think I'm so shallow that my main one is that he looks like a sub-Max Beesley level Britpop-era Actor Who Is In Everything. Like "that guy, from that thing, you know.... with thingy... from EastEnders, oh YOU KNOW"
February 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
This was also obviously and transparently true of Cummings.
As with DC, it isn't so much 'this guy is a cynical master of the political dark arts' as 'this guy is a total bell-end with a face you'd never tire of punching'.
As with DC, it isn't so much 'this guy is a cynical master of the political dark arts' as 'this guy is a total bell-end with a face you'd never tire of punching'.
"Full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism".
Sounds fucking brilliant, to be honest.
Sounds fucking brilliant, to be honest.
February 8, 2026 at 5:49 PM
"Full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism".
Sounds fucking brilliant, to be honest.
Sounds fucking brilliant, to be honest.
This is incredibly brave.
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
February 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
This is incredibly brave.
I feel like we need to evolve beyond our constant valourising of the political 'dark arts'.
From Mandelson, through Cummings, onto McSweeney, these people offer nothing but cynicism and calculation and moral compromise.
We should probably try something else??
From Mandelson, through Cummings, onto McSweeney, these people offer nothing but cynicism and calculation and moral compromise.
We should probably try something else??
February 8, 2026 at 2:36 PM
I feel like we need to evolve beyond our constant valourising of the political 'dark arts'.
From Mandelson, through Cummings, onto McSweeney, these people offer nothing but cynicism and calculation and moral compromise.
We should probably try something else??
From Mandelson, through Cummings, onto McSweeney, these people offer nothing but cynicism and calculation and moral compromise.
We should probably try something else??
Totally agree. Just because Starmer has shat the bed, it doesn't follow that a successor would.
Expunge Blue Labour.
Stop pandering to people who will always hate you.
Allow morality to enter your political calculations.
Start governing.
Expunge Blue Labour.
Stop pandering to people who will always hate you.
Allow morality to enter your political calculations.
Start governing.
This! Labour’s leadership is being talked about as if it’s some kind of poisoned chalice.
In reality it’s a chance to take over the first term of a government with a huge majority. It’s the political opportunity of a lifetime.
In reality it’s a chance to take over the first term of a government with a huge majority. It’s the political opportunity of a lifetime.
Yet this is a government with three years left to run and an enormous Commons majority. For all the problems, there is an enormous opportunity there for someone with the political nous to take it and use it.
February 8, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Totally agree. Just because Starmer has shat the bed, it doesn't follow that a successor would.
Expunge Blue Labour.
Stop pandering to people who will always hate you.
Allow morality to enter your political calculations.
Start governing.
Expunge Blue Labour.
Stop pandering to people who will always hate you.
Allow morality to enter your political calculations.
Start governing.
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Brilliant, important piece.
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
The Writing's on the Wall for the Betrayal of Iran | The Quietus
Roshi Nasehi speaks to Iranians at home and in the UK about what the left anti-imperialists hijacking the protest movement have got wrong.
thequietus.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Brilliant, important piece.
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
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Reposted by Phil Harrison
February 7, 2026 at 1:03 PM
We got Ampadu for £7m!
Absolute joke to be honest. He'd walk into all but a handful of Premier League teams.
All time #lufc legend in the making.
Absolute joke to be honest. He'd walk into all but a handful of Premier League teams.
All time #lufc legend in the making.
Ethan Ampadu appreciation, cast your mind back to the basket case of a club we were post relegation. Farke signs on and then his first signing through the door is Ethan Ampadu. It all started right there with those two. #alaw #mot #lufc #farkelife
February 7, 2026 at 2:03 PM
We got Ampadu for £7m!
Absolute joke to be honest. He'd walk into all but a handful of Premier League teams.
All time #lufc legend in the making.
Absolute joke to be honest. He'd walk into all but a handful of Premier League teams.
All time #lufc legend in the making.
It's weird, isn't it, how Television were readily accepted as being part of 'punk'?
They were obviously massive musos and their best songs were basically prog-rock epics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_5-...
They were obviously massive musos and their best songs were basically prog-rock epics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_5-...
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:46 PM
It's weird, isn't it, how Television were readily accepted as being part of 'punk'?
They were obviously massive musos and their best songs were basically prog-rock epics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_5-...
They were obviously massive musos and their best songs were basically prog-rock epics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_5-...
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Morgan McSweeney has *intense* ‘cyclist rights activist/amateur magician from Swindon defending himself in court re: a ‘mass action’ deflating SUV tires’ energy. The judge absolutely hates him.
February 6, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Morgan McSweeney has *intense* ‘cyclist rights activist/amateur magician from Swindon defending himself in court re: a ‘mass action’ deflating SUV tires’ energy. The judge absolutely hates him.
"We thank too many people, often mindlessly. Thank you, shop assistant (whose job it is to help you shop). Thank you, bus driver (who is getting paid to drive the bus)."
Nah, fuck off.
As a former shop worker, people not thanking you is grim. It feels belittling.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nah, fuck off.
As a former shop worker, people not thanking you is grim. It feels belittling.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The hill I will die on: Britons love saying thank you – I think we should ban the phrase | Sangeeta Pillai
Really, what is the point of this endless conversational back and forth? Step out of the loop, and change your life, says author Sangeeta Pillai
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:53 AM
"We thank too many people, often mindlessly. Thank you, shop assistant (whose job it is to help you shop). Thank you, bus driver (who is getting paid to drive the bus)."
Nah, fuck off.
As a former shop worker, people not thanking you is grim. It feels belittling.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nah, fuck off.
As a former shop worker, people not thanking you is grim. It feels belittling.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Honestly diidn't think Theresa May had it in her. Dark horse.
February 7, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Honestly diidn't think Theresa May had it in her. Dark horse.