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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 · 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 · 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 · 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

What are ‘solidarity payments’ here?

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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)

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

My five year old son recently took this photo of me which yeah

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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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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

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!

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

And as @jacktindale.bsky.social spotted, you get this sort of reaction as a result of that framing bsky.app/profile/jack...

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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 · 07/06/2025

In playing around with the stats also came across Patrick Wimmer’s absurd heatmap from RW which has strong Big Joe conversion vibes

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Germaine Greer was still saying this in 1970 - this is from the female eunuch

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Here's a good academic example of this cited in the Wikipedia entry for 'Reverse Sexism'

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Let's answer some of the responses. What do examples of this purported finger wagging look like?

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

So: I have a book on submission about masculinity and I think this is right.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

My definition of “mixed at best” is somewhat different than that of The Economist

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

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...

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“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-...

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The Duck of Marlborough surveying his estate at Blenheim Palace (his lawyers are keen I make clear that you are in fact soliciting his duck pics, rendering them ununsolicited)

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Generally there are more women than men, but these are your best bets (in Rutland it will probably help if you're into military guys)

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Women's strongest competition/the best place for single guys to look is Enfield, Kensington & Chelsea and Lewisham; for single women (excluding City of London cus yeah no shit) there is a small surplus of men in the salubrious environs of Newham and Tower Hamlets (sorry) No, YOU'RE procrastinating

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Left: clear red, three match ban upheld on appeal Right: laughable theatrics, clearly a yellow card for both players

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

They’re going to invent the NHS

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

“Jean Valjean should rot in jail, je suis Javert” is a hell of a way to mangle a simple and vanilla but very popular socially conservative take

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I mean she literally burns down a thinly veiled analogue of London on a massive dragon, not sure there’s much to be misunderstood

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Regardless of whether the “ethnic enemies” language is straightforwardly racist, opposing being lumped together with historical enemies in the north is a bold position for someone who wants to lead the United Kingdom on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

V impressed at your ability to avoid the kids toxifying your algorithm

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My concern is the poor buggers who will be lined up to recreate Hunter’s misery in the aggregate.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

You can also look at the best firms across our metrics for types of job. So e.g. if you don't have a degree and want a safe and stable customer service job, I'd look into Network Rail.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

You can also look at particular industries - so e.g. looking at financial services, interestingly Schroders and Man Group are among the strongest performers both for access to workers without degrees and for pay

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

So e.g. the BBC does well on access and great on promotions, but poorly on retention and pay (compared with what you'd expect given their mix of occupations)

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We compare employers by access for people without degrees, promotions, retention and pay. We make sure it's like-for-like by occupation - so we're comparing the warehouse workers at Tesco and Amazon, but not office administrators at the former with software developers at the latter.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Thinking again about this slide from Focal Data (to whom kudos for transparency - this also applies to NYT/Siena and many others). I said on X at the time that it felt very 2017 - big assumptions that turnout would be like previous elections, which in ‘17 didn’t work out well for those making them.

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Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

And I do wonder the extent to which the cause here (again the trend starts pre-Trump) is a) conservatives & media pinning dems here rather than them moving this way of their own volition, b) it being difficult to say dems represent the working class when they clearly lost their votes in 2016

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