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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 14h

Despite last night's, er, 'technical issues' (and the accompanying deluge of messages in barrister WhatsApp groups), I am nonetheless thrilled to have been ranked by the Legal 500 for the first time, with four entries for commercial, company, insolvency and trusts/probate.

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The page says "all-new", but the page itself must be from 2017 because of the heavy use of The Shape from that year's style guide — they could do with a refresh, I think!

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Constituency level data here very interesting. But, if these central projections are the right 'starting point', there is imo no way that the Lib Dems don't end up on 75-80 seats in reality given tactical voting (Brecon a great example).

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hysterically sobbing and crying in disbelief that they went for “Merry Percymas” rather than “Merry Pigmas”

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not content with merely presenting his primetime talkshow and RuPaul's Drag Race UK, it looks like he has decided to pivot towards running for Senate in South Carolina

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nicky Spence has been absolutely terrific. What a revelation!

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Always love imagining what led a person to take up one of the more unusual instruments. "Shall I learn the violin, the piano, the trumpet? No. I'm going to learn the contrabassoon."

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One of my favourite things is seeing utterly incomprehensible Tube ads. What is a ZOHO CRM? What does it mean to “grab value”, and why are “flexible” and “simple” bad? Why two adjectives and one noun? Someone in marketing did this and, to my great joy, thought, “Yes. I have nailed this.”

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Very strange experience — just had a video promoted in my feed showing the arrest of someone I knew quite well through the same university society. Followed it through, and he's just been convicted of attempted rape and imprisoned for six years. Bloody hell.

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sad that I don't live in Holborn and St Pancras anymore — would make up for the pointless vote I cast while living at Gray's Inn during the 2019 general election!

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An obscure academic communicates very slowly with two unexpected visitors.

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

POV: Your delicately placed googly is about to get smacked for 6 by @williamten.ch

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Back at the most beautiful place on the planet

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Absolute loathe when in cooking videos the person nods and gesticulates with their fork at what they’ve been eating

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Just genuinely gasped with delight at this.

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I can't believe how many people are genuinely against the emergency notification being sent — I think it's a completely appropriate thing to have done given the fires across the UK!

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just paid my final set of fees/charges before completing on my flat next week, and I am now officially a member of the Stamp Duty Haters Club. What a pointless tax!

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I have become a human pinhole camera. The Sun has chosen me.

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Finding the articles about "how to view the eclipse safely" infuriating — watching a tiny speck of light be occluded by shadow through a colander or in the back of a cereal box is *not the same* as watching the eclipse!

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Finished reading John of John by Douglas Stuart last night. I can see why this is the favourite to win the Booker Prize this year — a really craggy, complex, gorgeous novel full to the brim with interesting and imperfect characters. The last third of the novel was particularly beautiful.

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Learning Welsh at the moment in an effort to impress my partner's mum in Anglesey and getting so FRUSTRATED at how slow and grammar-less the Duolingo course is. Good for basic concepts but I am absolutely yearning for quicker vocab acquisition and some more explicit teaching of grammar

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Sorry to be immensely boring, but the Angela Hartnett/Waitrose fennel sausage ragù is absolutely unreal

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Heard Sam Matterface say the World Cup Final was on ITV, momentarily despaired, then saw that it is shown on the BBC too, phew

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What confuses me is why John Terry is not only at every match but also repeatedly gets the camera lingering on him

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Why do we allow them so much space?! Whenever England are developing, they cannot move for blue shirts, but then Croatia have no pressure at all when they are building to an attack!

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Absolutely loving the darts music being used as England's goal music

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I find it very confusing that the Belgian team is dressed as Spain.

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is absolutely barmy. We cannot have the government trying to control prices, for heaven's sake. Especially when there are several other levers to pull first, but the Treasury refuses.

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Bulgaria got three votes from me so I am *delighted* #eurovision

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I think Australia might be my winner. Pains me, but it’s such a good song and such a good performance #eurovision

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Great to see The Trickster from The Sarah-Jane Adventures as one of Romania's backup dancers #eurovision

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Bulgaria by far my favourite entry so far (across both semi-finals) #eurovision

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I do not understand the hype around Finland at all #eurovision

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

“…I’d like to keep it on please” #swe #eurovision

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Andrej @tepid.meme · 11/05/2026

I think there comes a point - let's call it the Salisbury Point - at which the public have simply made up their minds about a leading politician and literally nothing will dissuade them of that view. I'm not sure how to measure when that has happened exactly, but you know it when you see it...

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Despite some of the results, amidst all the focus on the local elections it has in many respects been *immensely* refreshing for the news to have been focused away from the US for the past few days

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Starmer has lost Catherine West, but results are still being counted in Catherine East and Catherine Central

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I'm not sure Labour's problem in Wandsworth was people voting Reform.

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I... really think the Gordon Brown appointment might backfire. He's popular in Labour circles on social media, but non-online family members of mine still talk about him as the guy who sold the gold and "crashed the economy".

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The "ballot draw" was a major event at the student society where I was once Returning Officer — candidates at the top of the ballot, especially for lower positions where there was nothing to differentiate them, would routinely get massively more votes. Mad that national elections are alphabetised.

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

No mention of the Lib Dems in the opening sequence of the BBC's coverage, and now no Lib Dem on the discussion panel at all...!

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Not long until my ceremonial play of BBC Election Theme (2010-2015), the majestic, glorious composition by Richard Blair-Oliphant which was wrongly jettisoned in favour of an inferior arrangement of Rick Wakeman's Arthur. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pFI...

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BBC Election Theme (2010-2015)

YouTube video by NewsFan30 Max

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

If any Scottish political party hasn’t yet come up with a themed cocktail for their post-election celebration event, might I humbly propose “X on the Peach”?

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We’ve been told our content needs to be more informative so here you go

An incredibly silly meme with an image of Buckinghamshire's waterways. The following text is around it.

'Can't remember the names of the rivers and waterways in historic Buckinghamshire? Try this handy mnemonic!

"Roman roads really ran right resiliently"

[The first letter of the following words (R) is highlighted]
River Thames
River Great Ouse
River Wye
River Thame
River Colne
River Ouzel'

There is an image of an otter in the bottom left with a speech bubble says 'It's easy!'

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Does anyone know where the cover image on this article was taken, with the staircase of former Liberal leaders? It doesn't look like Lib Dem HQ or the National Liberal Club, but could be wrong. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Ed Davey: ‘Zack Polanski has taken up where Jeremy Corbyn left off’

Critics say the Lib Dems lost their radicalism just as it could have paid dividends, but their leader argues they will benefit from the rise of Reform and the Greens

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Harry Samuels @harrysamuels.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Chronology is a huge issue, especially with Friday counts at many councils. I will never forget the GE24 BBC narrative being centred on Reform because of Sunderland/the NE counting early, while the Lib Dems were ignored because their big wins (including beating four Cabinet ministers!) came later.

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