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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shower thought: the lyrics to the Beatles‘ Taxman scan perfectly to the chorus to Avicii’s Hey Brother 🎶 Don’t ask me what I want it for If you don‘t want to pay some more Now my advice for those who die Declare the pennies on your eyes If the sky comes falling down for you 🎶

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I have no wish to piss on my own chips but I think I can see the answer to “why are Man City willing to take a loss on a massively hyped young player in the current CM market, and why is no bigger club coming in to gazump us?” #nufc

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tired: everybody should have their own owl Wired: everybody should have their own Greggs

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

See also: boys bsky.app/profile/harr...

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“Odysseus is the cleverest of us all“ ad nauseam - no! He spends the whole film doing dumb shit then John Wicks eleventy armed goons who killed his dog. Telemachus is “so much like his big clever dad” - no! He’s shite useless. He will be a hopeless king and his head will shortly be on a spike.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

[After winning an important football match against bitter rivals] yeah but remember that time we started an actual war with you guys and lost dreadfully

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Bing bing bing bsky.app/profile/harr...

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Your boys took one hell of a beating/hastily reworked to gave us one hell of a beating bingo for later: John Lennon/Haruki Marukami’s preferred timber The frosty bitch that slapped Captain Scott The concept of investing income from newly discovered North Sea oil reserves for future generations A-ha

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Bring on the megafauna finale of Haaland versus Dan Burn

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It's the Gulf of England now, I don't make the rules.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The Independent Inquiry into White Working Class Educational Outcomes is vitally important. It also essentially ignores the specific problems faced by boys in a way I'm truly shocked by. 🧵

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is obviously right. At the same time, I do think the fact that we’re generally cool with body-shaming men (e.g. Rayner on Sunak, AOC on Miller, mainstream comedy in general) is a Bad Thing that tells vulnerable young men we’re not on their side

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Great to see the BBC tackling this - men are often sidelined in fertility conversations and by fertility services. I think the answer is designated advocacy for men in areas like these. 🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2w4kz7z1ko

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How male infertility is still not getting enough attention

How could the system better support men who have been told they might have a fertility issue?

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Listening to an old BBC interview of JG Ballard from 2002, as one does. Extraordinarily prophetic and deeply unsettling - he'd have loved 2026.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It remains mad to me that when ”playing advantage“ you don’t get to have the shot and then revert to the free kick if it doesn’t lead to anything. It’s almost never an advantage and incentivises both diving and fouling!

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We don't really know if social media bans work. But the problems they look to tackle are real, and are a major factor behind worsening gender relations. 🧵

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Boys do not need to be taught differently than girls. But we do need to change the way teachers think about them. 🧵

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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

How we measure things matters. It’s time to adjust the Census question so that “English” is not only available under “White”. Decades of seeing “Black British” on forms took British out of the conversation- time to do the same for English

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Great to be on BBC Radio 5 Live yesterday talking about Gareth Southgate and whether we need to "teach boys differently". (We don't! This is an area where doing better for boys is most obviously not a zero-sum game - what narrows the gender gap improves outcomes for girls in absolute terms too.)

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I love Gareth Southgate, and it's great that he's taking the underperformance of boys at school seriously. But there's good evidence here and the answer is not to "teach boys differently." It's actually the opposite. What works for everyone works best for boys. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Gareth Southgate: We need to teach boys differently to girls to get best out of them

The former England manager has made a documentary looking at the issues affecting boys and young men.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Much of this is great. But there’s a problem. If real men serve, what does it mean when a man can’t? If he gets sick? If he’s the one that needs help? This line of thinking lies behind men’s tendency to die deaths of despair, to resist seeing a doctor or a therapist or their friends.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The gender pay gap begins when babies arrive. This is, in the words of Claudia Goldin, ‘mainly, but not entirely, due to a reduction in hours of work’. Dads, if anything, work longer hours, while mums’ hours crater. It is often assumed that this reflects what dads want. This is not true.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I’ve written a book! Coming out 19 November (International Men’s Day), 'What A Man Is Not: New Rules for Masculinity' aims to transform how we think and talk about men. Pre-order it here: www.waterstones.com/book/what-a-... (Pre-orders dictate what bookshops stock – they make a BIG difference!)

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 15/09/2025

Why would they believe that? Their problem has been that the consensus that racism is bad created a social cost for them. They hd to be careful whom they spoke to; a reputation for racism could be ruinous. Even in my lifetime that wasn’t always true. People worked hard to build that consensus. /3

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die" = Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Again, I really do have concerns about exactly how Justin Webb is acquiring his knowledge of US politics or what prompted him to make this exact point.

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Adam Drummond @adamdrummond.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I increasingly wonder if this is down to so many government people still using X and mistaking that for an actual measure of public opinion. Poll after poll after poll has shown that British voters don't like small boats but they hate street violence and open racism much more.

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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Sir Robert Worcester, legendary pollster and founder of MORI (now Ipsos UK) has died at 91. He taught so many people so much about the value and importance of opinion polls in modern democracies - everyone in our industry and politics owes him a debt of gratitude.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

yeah this does not bode well either for this season or for next summer (or indeed January). Need to start preparing dickhead-mitigation plans for each transfer window in the same way you do for players going off to afcon

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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...

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I think an underestimated factor behind the rise of open, old fashioned racism on the right is the legitimation of blood and soil nationalism by well-meaning but myopic parts of the identity politics left

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Season killer unless, a la Woltemade, his/Wilson’s replacement is already on the plane to Newcastle and we just don’t know about it yet. Disastrous long term either way. Dreadful, embarrassing decision making at the highest level throughout, publicly shitting the bed for the second summer in a row.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

If he means it, let him rot. As with parenting young children, you can’t have the message be act like a dickhead and you get what you want, or you’ll end up with a bunch more dickheadery

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

A lot of replies here telling on themselves on what they think feminism is. A genuine parallel of feminism for men would be an extremely good thing

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Great as always from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. Fits with my general feeling that it’s not enough to point at a graph and tell the public “I think you’ll find”, if they are witnessing certain types of crime rising without consequence. (Also as ever it depends on where you are) on.ft.com/4mq2HbL

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The great crime paradox

Disorder is rising in public consciousness. Is it rising in reality?

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Are you watching Rupert Lowe, Matthew Goodwin, Konstantin Kisin? Your theories took a hell of a beating!

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Idk if this was a guy venting about women in an equivalent way it would rightly be called out as sexist.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

As someone on the high functioning borders of this, I feel happy for people who feel validated or that they understand themselves better or accessed help through diagnosis, but I do worry if there are negative impacts too both for those diagnosed & folks with less labelable neurodiverse tendencies

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Absolutely incredible graphic from 1880 tracing the history of political parties in the United States.

From Smithsonian description: "This ambitious chart presents U.S. political history on a single page. Moving from left to right, a timeline of parties, policies, persons, and events courses like a river through graphic space marked in four-year intervals. The analogy between politics and springs and rivulets (that jump and rejoin their banks) is the most conspicuous feature of the timeline. The parties appear in different colors. The ascendance of a party is gauged as its stream rises above the centerline, and above the streams of other parties. The thickness of a stream indicates the party’s strength.
The diagram is meant to dramatize U.S. political history in a more accessible shape for educators and to offer a ready reference for scholars, statisticians, and statesmen. The chart itself, titled “Diagram of the Rise and Fall of American Political Parties, from 1789 to 1880, inclusive,” is from the Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government, by Walter R. Houghton, 1880"

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Review of parental leave and pay is great, but the framing is all wrong: it is not about being "generous and supportive," it is (or should be) about basic equality, and addressing what is currently flagrantly sexist government policy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Parental leave and pay for new parents to be reviewed by ministers

Campaigners say the UK's system has been

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The enjoyably scouse grammar on this sign spotted in Liverpool

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Obviously spectacularly sexist against men, but the really weird thing is the assumption that you take the leave together rather than dad swapping in so mum can return to her career, which is the whole point from a gender equality/pay gap pov and also financially necessary for most families

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Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Our latest report looks at five 'anti-supply measures' that are a major bottleneck on urban housebuilding and the 1.5m new home target - a quick thread below on what they are, why they're a problem, and how to fix them:

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A brilliant tool - but don't look at it if you have a deadline today.

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