Carol Harris
@carolharris.bsky.social
Writer, editor, researcher, speaker, historian. Feminism, fashion, football, health, social care. NUJ. Views my own. Obviously.
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2/13/1871 — b. Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet, author,critic, playwright. Essayist, short story writer,a leading Ukrainian poet + the foremost female writer in Ukrainian literature during her time. Civil,political + #womensrights advocate #womenshistory #womenwriters #WriterSky #PolSky #SlavaUkraine
February 13, 2026 at 12:34 PM
2/13/1871 — b. Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet, author,critic, playwright. Essayist, short story writer,a leading Ukrainian poet + the foremost female writer in Ukrainian literature during her time. Civil,political + #womensrights advocate #womenshistory #womenwriters #WriterSky #PolSky #SlavaUkraine
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The thing is, you didn't have to be Nostradamus to see it. You just had to be independent of the ultra-rich. Unfortunately, the great majority of the media is in the plutocrats' pockets. So the people pointing it out are shunned. In 2009 I tried and tried to get the BBC to pick this up. But ...⛔🤐
1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.”
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
Mandelson’s Fifth Column
The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.
www.monbiot.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:28 AM
The thing is, you didn't have to be Nostradamus to see it. You just had to be independent of the ultra-rich. Unfortunately, the great majority of the media is in the plutocrats' pockets. So the people pointing it out are shunned. In 2009 I tried and tried to get the BBC to pick this up. But ...⛔🤐
Come to my talk on the amazing Thomas Coram and his 'darling project', in the lovely setting of Bell House .
#children #socialcare #socialwork #history #Georgians
Details and tickets: www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...
#children #socialcare #socialwork #history #Georgians
Details and tickets: www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...
Every Child Matters – Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital — Bell House
Join Carol Harris, social historian at Coram, as she presents how much has changed in the way we view and look after children across three hundred years. £8.60 | In-person | Book here
www.bellhouse.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Come to my talk on the amazing Thomas Coram and his 'darling project', in the lovely setting of Bell House .
#children #socialcare #socialwork #history #Georgians
Details and tickets: www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...
#children #socialcare #socialwork #history #Georgians
Details and tickets: www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...
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“I believe that everyone ought, in duty, to do any good they can.”
The man who saved children: Thomas Coram, English sea captain, philanthropist & founder of London’s Foundling Hospital, world’s first incorporated charity; died #OTD 1751.
Portrait 1740 by William Hogarth, Foundling Museum
The man who saved children: Thomas Coram, English sea captain, philanthropist & founder of London’s Foundling Hospital, world’s first incorporated charity; died #OTD 1751.
Portrait 1740 by William Hogarth, Foundling Museum
March 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“I believe that everyone ought, in duty, to do any good they can.”
The man who saved children: Thomas Coram, English sea captain, philanthropist & founder of London’s Foundling Hospital, world’s first incorporated charity; died #OTD 1751.
Portrait 1740 by William Hogarth, Foundling Museum
The man who saved children: Thomas Coram, English sea captain, philanthropist & founder of London’s Foundling Hospital, world’s first incorporated charity; died #OTD 1751.
Portrait 1740 by William Hogarth, Foundling Museum
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The august facades and impeccable decorum of our great institutions arise from fortunes built on slavery and murder. As WH Auden noted of Oxford: "Knowledge is conceived in the hot womb of Violence".
This ritual cannibalism is perfectly symbolic of the whole.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
This ritual cannibalism is perfectly symbolic of the whole.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals
Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The august facades and impeccable decorum of our great institutions arise from fortunes built on slavery and murder. As WH Auden noted of Oxford: "Knowledge is conceived in the hot womb of Violence".
This ritual cannibalism is perfectly symbolic of the whole.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
This ritual cannibalism is perfectly symbolic of the whole.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Oh FGS. Anything that upsets corporate power and/or the far right is now deemed by the BBC to invoke "public controversy", and must therefore be nixed.
The BBC has done more to censor public debate than any other organisation in the UK.
And still it goes on.
The BBC has done more to censor public debate than any other organisation in the UK.
And still it goes on.
Sad news about the Happy Heat Pump Podcast.
Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we’re drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy.
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youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
Sorry to say, that after about 20 episodes, we’re drawing it to a close at the request of the BBC which worries it may be seen as steering into areas of public controversy.
1/2
youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
https://youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?si=92B9xN4zy6BiWXqK
t.co
April 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Oh FGS. Anything that upsets corporate power and/or the far right is now deemed by the BBC to invoke "public controversy", and must therefore be nixed.
The BBC has done more to censor public debate than any other organisation in the UK.
And still it goes on.
The BBC has done more to censor public debate than any other organisation in the UK.
And still it goes on.
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A thought-provoking speech by our keynote speaker Chris Wright from charity Catch 22 about "joining forces for the collective good of beneficiaries". 🤝 🙌
"It requires us to leave personal and organisational ego outside the door."
#TheLiteracyLink
"It requires us to leave personal and organisational ego outside the door."
#TheLiteracyLink
April 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A thought-provoking speech by our keynote speaker Chris Wright from charity Catch 22 about "joining forces for the collective good of beneficiaries". 🤝 🙌
"It requires us to leave personal and organisational ego outside the door."
#TheLiteracyLink
"It requires us to leave personal and organisational ego outside the door."
#TheLiteracyLink
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Hello! I’m the BBC’s Social Media Investigations Correspondent. I do podcasts investigating the real-world consequences of what's unfolding on social media - disinformation, hate, algorithms - for BBC Radio 4, BBC Panorama & across BBC News.
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More here. amp.theguardian.com/media/2024/o...
‘It’s important to talk about online abuse’: Marianna Spring on trolls, conspiracy theorists – and positivity | Marianna Spring | The Guardian
The BBC receives more abusive messages about Marianna Spring than anyone else. But the disinformation correspondent remains hopeful about people – and the world we live in
amp.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Hello! I’m the BBC’s Social Media Investigations Correspondent. I do podcasts investigating the real-world consequences of what's unfolding on social media - disinformation, hate, algorithms - for BBC Radio 4, BBC Panorama & across BBC News.
More here. amp.theguardian.com/media/2024/o...
More here. amp.theguardian.com/media/2024/o...