Rob Harris
@rharris334.bsky.social
Every day I look at the world from my window.
Journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, London.
Journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, London.
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📢 When she walked into a Paris gallery 20 years ago, Bérengère Primat was instantly captivated by what she saw. It was the start of an obsession.
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Meet the woman who owns Europe’s biggest collection of Aboriginal art
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November 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
📢 When she walked into a Paris gallery 20 years ago, Bérengère Primat was instantly captivated by what she saw. It was the start of an obsession.
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on.ft.com/48rkQSH Can the UN save itself from irrelevance?
Can the UN save itself from irrelevance?
As the organisation turns 80, wars are raging in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan, its core ideas are in tatters and the world no longer seems to be listening
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September 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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This is a rather amusing read
August 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This is a rather amusing read
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Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
July 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
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📢 Kyiv stood when it wasn’t meant to. For three years it has held the line, not just for Europe, but for all of us who still believe democracy is worth the fight.
Putin thought he could take this city in three days. Now they wait to toast his demise with champagne
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June 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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📢 The British football icon’s public journey has always followed a particular arc: early acclaim, a fall from grace, and then redemption through endurance.
David Beckham’s knighthood: a symbol of reinvention and quiet service
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June 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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📢 He steered David Cameron and John Howard to victory, but Lynton Crosby wonders if even Winston Churchill would survive the age of online pile-ons.
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‘Gotcha moments’ and ‘digital lynch mobs’: Political mastermind issues warning for democracy
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May 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
📢 He steered David Cameron and John Howard to victory, but Lynton Crosby wonders if even Winston Churchill would survive the age of online pile-ons.
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Postecoglou has taken an unlikely path to this point. He now finds himself in the company of a long line of Australians who have crossed oceans to chase success in London. Some arrived with charm, others with bite, most with something to prove.
Trophy in hand, future in doubt: Ange’s joyful, uncertain triumph in London
Flags whipped in the breeze, faces were painted in navy and white, as Tottenham’s High Road trembled with movement. And then, the man at the heart of it stepped up to the microphone.
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May 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Postecoglou has taken an unlikely path to this point. He now finds himself in the company of a long line of Australians who have crossed oceans to chase success in London. Some arrived with charm, others with bite, most with something to prove.
‘It’s just cold. I don’t like the cold’: The haunting plight of Oscar Jenkins www.theage.com.au/world/europe...
‘It’s just cold. I don’t like the cold’: The haunting plight of Oscar Jenkins
The former cricket coach and teacher from Melbourne is the latest foreigner to vanish into Russia’s brutal penal system.
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May 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
‘It’s just cold. I don’t like the cold’: The haunting plight of Oscar Jenkins www.theage.com.au/world/europe...
Oscar Jenkins sentenced to 13 years in Russian prison after fighting for Ukraine www.theage.com.au/world/europe...
Oscar Jenkins sentenced to 13 years in Russian prison after fighting for Ukraine
The Australian has been sentenced to more than a decade in a Russian maximum-security prison, sparking diplomatic tensions between Moscow and Canberra.
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May 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Oscar Jenkins sentenced to 13 years in Russian prison after fighting for Ukraine www.theage.com.au/world/europe...
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📢 Wrexham got Ryan Reynolds. Chelsea got Roman Abramovich. But London’s Sutton Football Club got a few mates from Melbourne.
Aussies putting heart back into English soccer
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May 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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📢 So often during my time in Europe, I have been struck by deja vu – only to realise that Ms Needham had brought me here once before, through the pages of a history book.
As I cover the world’s biggest stories, my mind always returns to that Australian classroom
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May 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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📢 Eighty years on, the story of Australia’s Stanley Bruce, Winston Churchill and Victory in Europe Day remains strikingly relevant.
As war again rages in Europe, VE Day reminds us all what’s at stake
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May 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: ‘She knew the risks. She did it anyway’: The brutal detention and death of a young Ukrainian journalist www.smh.com.au/world/europe... @sydmorningherald.bsky.social @rharris334.bsky.social #journalism #journalismisnotacrime
‘She knew the risks. She did it anyway’: The brutal detention and death of a young Ukrainian journalist
The body of 27-year-old Viktoriia Roshchyna was returned to Ukraine in February, nearly five months after Russian authorities said she had died during a prison transfer
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May 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: ‘She knew the risks. She did it anyway’: The brutal detention and death of a young Ukrainian journalist www.smh.com.au/world/europe... @sydmorningherald.bsky.social @rharris334.bsky.social #journalism #journalismisnotacrime
Nigel Farage is no longer the clown lobbing bricks from outside the circus tent. He now has a foot inside – and he’s brought the cannon.
‘We’ve had Labour for lunch’: Farage’s Reform UK party delivers political earthquake
Nigel Farage is no longer the clown lobbing bricks from outside the circus tent. He’s now got a foot inside — and he’s brought the cannon.
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May 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Nigel Farage is no longer the clown lobbing bricks from outside the circus tent. He now has a foot inside – and he’s brought the cannon.
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📢 Fifteen minutes. No aides. No flags, no formalities – just two men locked in a contest over Ukraine’s future, in the most unlikely of arenas.
They came to bury a pope, but ended up negotiating to end a war
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April 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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📢 Leighterton still relied on horse-drawn carts when a few hundred young Australians arrived in 1918, weaving their way through the skies above and into the hearts of villagers below.
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The year the Anzacs came: the little-known story one English village still tells its children
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April 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
📢 Leighterton still relied on horse-drawn carts when a few hundred young Australians arrived in 1918, weaving their way through the skies above and into the hearts of villagers below.
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📢 At a time when Europe’s leadership has been diffuse and distracted, Radek Sikorski has emerged as one of the West’s most forceful voices.
Ex-war reporter turned foreign minister leading the charge to keep Russia – and China – in check
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April 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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📢 There are moments in life that stand as quintessentially British – a crisp autumn morning, a cuppa tea just the right shade of beige, and, of course, a trip to Greggs.
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I’ve just eaten the culinary equivalent of a hug
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April 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
📢 There are moments in life that stand as quintessentially British – a crisp autumn morning, a cuppa tea just the right shade of beige, and, of course, a trip to Greggs.
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Whitby, The Abbey of St Hilda, by Albert Goodwin (1845-1932). #NorthernArt
March 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Whitby, The Abbey of St Hilda, by Albert Goodwin (1845-1932). #NorthernArt
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The recipient of Melbourne Press Club's Lifetime Achievement award is Peter Blunden. Peter Blunden has worn many hats ranging from humble beginnings as a copyboy at age 17 to managing director of The Herald and Weekly Times. Congratulations Peter!
March 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The recipient of Melbourne Press Club's Lifetime Achievement award is Peter Blunden. Peter Blunden has worn many hats ranging from humble beginnings as a copyboy at age 17 to managing director of The Herald and Weekly Times. Congratulations Peter!
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As both a certified nerd & Aussie rules fan, I do love that footy has a history of more than a century of Oxford-Cambridge intervarsity games #AFL
‘Nerdiest football club on earth’: How the world’s top scholars made Aussie rules history
It’s a contest that rivals Carlton v Collingwood, only with the odd Nobel Prize thrown in. And it’s been going for 105 years.
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March 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
As both a certified nerd & Aussie rules fan, I do love that footy has a history of more than a century of Oxford-Cambridge intervarsity games #AFL