Harry Carr
@harrydcarr.bsky.social
Pollster/wonk/data journalist. Feminist who thinks what we tell boys about being men explains a lot. Still an Atlanticist. Dan Burn is an excellent left back in the right system.
Now I’ve seen everything
October 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Now I’ve seen everything
What a strange comparison. “£3bn, or half the suspiciously large GDP of a small island with roughly the population of Lowestoft” www.nytimes.com/athletic/651...
September 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
What a strange comparison. “£3bn, or half the suspiciously large GDP of a small island with roughly the population of Lowestoft” www.nytimes.com/athletic/651...
What are ‘solidarity payments’ here?
September 1, 2025 at 5:28 AM
What are ‘solidarity payments’ here?
Hello! Trivial thing but one I figure you'd want flagged: I'm not getting the optimal choice of starting xi, starts Dubravka at 3.0 over Sels at 3.4 (new issue to me just now so could be a gw2 thing) (always possible I'm being dumb and missing something)
August 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hello! Trivial thing but one I figure you'd want flagged: I'm not getting the optimal choice of starting xi, starts Dubravka at 3.0 over Sels at 3.4 (new issue to me just now so could be a gw2 thing) (always possible I'm being dumb and missing something)
My five year old son recently took this photo of me which yeah
August 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
My five year old son recently took this photo of me which yeah
This is very good. The Boomer idea that Millennials could buy a house if they only quit their avocado and coffee habits is understandable, because it *was true* for them. They did have to scrimp and save to buy them; they earned far less! It’s just scrimping & saving nowadays doesn’t touch the sides
July 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This is very good. The Boomer idea that Millennials could buy a house if they only quit their avocado and coffee habits is understandable, because it *was true* for them. They did have to scrimp and save to buy them; they earned far less! It’s just scrimping & saving nowadays doesn’t touch the sides
Idk if this was a guy venting about women in an equivalent way it would rightly be called out as sexist.
July 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Idk if this was a guy venting about women in an equivalent way it would rightly be called out as sexist.
It’s great that Robin is going to be kinder to himself. But that shouldn’t be dependent on knowing other people’s brains also work like this! There’s an implication that the label, knowing it’s not just you, is an important part of forgiving yourself for neurodivergent tendencies. It shouldn’t be!
July 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It’s great that Robin is going to be kinder to himself. But that shouldn’t be dependent on knowing other people’s brains also work like this! There’s an implication that the label, knowing it’s not just you, is an important part of forgiving yourself for neurodivergent tendencies. It shouldn’t be!
True or false: Grant Shapps?
July 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
True or false: Grant Shapps?
TIL a) Blavatnik school of government at Oxford is realllly pretty, b) seagulls are massive arseholes who randomly like dropping rocks on skylights
July 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
TIL a) Blavatnik school of government at Oxford is realllly pretty, b) seagulls are massive arseholes who randomly like dropping rocks on skylights
And as @jacktindale.bsky.social spotted, you get this sort of reaction as a result of that framing bsky.app/profile/jack...
July 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
And as @jacktindale.bsky.social spotted, you get this sort of reaction as a result of that framing bsky.app/profile/jack...
The enjoyably scouse grammar on this sign spotted in Liverpool
June 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The enjoyably scouse grammar on this sign spotted in Liverpool
In playing around with the stats also came across Patrick Wimmer’s absurd heatmap from RW which has strong Big Joe conversion vibes
June 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
In playing around with the stats also came across Patrick Wimmer’s absurd heatmap from RW which has strong Big Joe conversion vibes
Germaine Greer was still saying this in 1970 - this is from the female eunuch
May 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Germaine Greer was still saying this in 1970 - this is from the female eunuch
Which is in turn the cause of the gender pay gap: women and men's pay tracks evenly until the first kid arrives. Then women take on fewer hours of paid work and men take on more.
March 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Which is in turn the cause of the gender pay gap: women and men's pay tracks evenly until the first kid arrives. Then women take on fewer hours of paid work and men take on more.
Here's a good academic example of this cited in the Wikipedia entry for 'Reverse Sexism'
March 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Here's a good academic example of this cited in the Wikipedia entry for 'Reverse Sexism'
So what is the solution? I think it's obvious. 'Wokeness' has built impressive walls around the people it deems to be in need, but taken to indiscriminately hurling stones at outsiders from the ramparts. It should welcome men within those walls.
March 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
So what is the solution? I think it's obvious. 'Wokeness' has built impressive walls around the people it deems to be in need, but taken to indiscriminately hurling stones at outsiders from the ramparts. It should welcome men within those walls.
Boys and men are constantly, tacitly and explicitly, told that they're the bad guys. What are the attractive messages of the RW misogynists? That they're the good guys. That men are great. @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social had this nailed.
March 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Boys and men are constantly, tacitly and explicitly, told that they're the bad guys. What are the attractive messages of the RW misogynists? That they're the good guys. That men are great. @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social had this nailed.
Let's answer some of the responses. What do examples of this purported finger wagging look like?
March 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Let's answer some of the responses. What do examples of this purported finger wagging look like?
So: I have a book on submission about masculinity and I think this is right.
March 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
So: I have a book on submission about masculinity and I think this is right.
My definition of “mixed at best” is somewhat different than that of The Economist
March 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My definition of “mixed at best” is somewhat different than that of The Economist
He gives the game away here - the assumption that work is only a good social habit if you “go out to” it and wfh does not constitute “a full day’s work”. Clearcut example of the resentful wfh-critical boss bsky.app/profile/harr...
February 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
He gives the game away here - the assumption that work is only a good social habit if you “go out to” it and wfh does not constitute “a full day’s work”. Clearcut example of the resentful wfh-critical boss bsky.app/profile/harr...
“Give us tax relief or we’ll make the England team even shitter than we already are”
We desperately need to remove private schools from the youth development system. It’s simple maths that we should dominate the sport - there’s an extremely obvious reason we don’t.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
We desperately need to remove private schools from the youth development system. It’s simple maths that we should dominate the sport - there’s an extremely obvious reason we don’t.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
February 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“Give us tax relief or we’ll make the England team even shitter than we already are”
We desperately need to remove private schools from the youth development system. It’s simple maths that we should dominate the sport - there’s an extremely obvious reason we don’t.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
We desperately need to remove private schools from the youth development system. It’s simple maths that we should dominate the sport - there’s an extremely obvious reason we don’t.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...