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Mike Harrison

@higheredactuary.bsky.social
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Pensions, Higher Education, medieval history, running, diversity, climate change, working towards grade 4 piano (2026). Partner @ Marsh (formerly Mercer). Actuary (both sides of the Atlantic 🇬🇧🇨🇦). Views my own.

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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 23m
“Rough Edges” and “Peasants” - it’ll be a fun literary working class afternoon ❤️ 📚
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This I can get behind. Auto-enrolment pension contributions need to go up, and be from the first £1 of income.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m still struggling to be on-side with politicians directing, or seeking to direct, pension scheme investment.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stability of costs - understandable that Higher Education finance directors want this.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president" All men. Obvs.
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‘Super Intelligence’: Three takeaways from Trump's tech summit
The meeting at the White House came as some tech bosses and experts have called for tighter rules around AI.
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Bryn Davies @daviesofbrixton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is getting bonkers! The idea that social care could be funded by scrapping the triple-lock makes no sense. We simply don’t know what abolition would save, if anything at all, apart from some speculative figures from the OBR. We do know that a social care service will be expensive.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good to see pensions getting top billing and media coverage at the Labour Party conference. #triplelock
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
View from the office window this morning. What was that song lyric again?! 7️⃣ 🦢🎄
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pensions apathy…
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Alan Partridge Shrugs 'I Don't Know'
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Front page of today’s FT - excoriating infrastructure journalism in one brilliant sentence.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Define “geopolitical irony”. Today’s FT…
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“£90bn of assets are looked after by a PCST” Anybody remember the early ‘90s when new pensions legislation said it was so important to have member nominated trustees? #nostalgia
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pithy one para explainer of bond yields on the front page of today’s @financialtimes.com.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And you don’t have kids in school and you have no commute…
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
AI…
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Star Trek Character Nods Yes
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Learning to be patient… like many of the scheme’s pensioners…
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“reprimanded him for leaving the child alone on an active volcano” Peak parenting. I’ll wait…
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A Higher Education sector Brexit dividend… but not for the UK of course… Front page of today’s FT.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This was quite fun to watch live. Kudos to Faisal for his speed of thinking on his feet!
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Not quite up to the standard of @curatorkate.bsky.social door pictures but I thought it was kind of fun. Ettington Park Hotel. Very fancy. @susanabernethy2.bsky.social
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It was a tough day when this was my view from morning coffee…
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Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Climate crisis parkrun this morning - obviously it's been getting worse for weeks now but something about the alerts yesterday and seeing this today has really gotten me down. The type of photos historians will see and go "and they still didn't do enough to stop it getting even worse?!"
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Supermarket still selling barbecue coals shocker!! I’m supposed to dial 999 then, right? 🚨 👮
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Front page of today’s FT. No really…. 💎 Mrs Pankhurst will haunt him. 👻
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
excellent (fewer) deaths news 💀
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sounds like an excellent webinar. 🔥 🌎
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Climate change should be the biggest issue at the next General Election. Front page of today’s FT. (It won’t be of course…) I am not sure that future generations will forgive us.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s the pensions industry, not the Chancellor, that starts this nonsense chatter before every Budget…
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Bill Murray's Iconic Groundhog Day Report
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Pensions PLUS Higher Education EQUALS Webinar You’re welcome.
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Higher Education Webinar
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🌍 🔥 Today’s FT. Turning our backs on net zero would be an extraordinary political, economic and demographic miscalculation.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The inevitable pensions industry “news” as we head towards a Budget… again…
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Bill Murray's Iconic Groundhog Day Report
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Apparently there is “no current risk” to the nuclear power station though it’s a “dynamic situation”. So this is all totally fine then. And moving away from climate change commitments definitely feels like the right way to go. Carry on. 🔥 ☢️ 🌍
bbc.co.uk
Suffolk wildfire updates: Watch aerial footage as fire crews fight blaze
A major incident has been declared as an area about the size of 14 football pitches is on fire.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Front page of today’s FT. Such a shame that the desire and ability to THINK has fallen off a hi-tech cliff. (PS I wrote this myself… honest, guv)
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If the workplace AI says “this looks like a long document, would you like a summary?” when it’s only five pages long… Have we seriously already lost the ability to think and learn and absorb information?
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Alan Partridge Shrugs 'I Don't Know'
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“Fire thunderstorms” in today’s FT. You’d have thought climate change action would be higher up the political agenda. This is France - not a distant desert area.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Not totally convinced the market model always works perfectly in UK HE…
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Literally an “inconvenience”
bbc.co.uk
Water returns to Gatwick Airport after major outage
Gatwick Airport faced a day of disruptions with toilets and restaurants closed to passengers.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Oh I love the way journalists write! Super piece by @emmavj.bsky.social “Others spurn it altogether, opting out of automated shortcuts because it makes them lazy-brained and contaminates their thinking” 😂 Personally I encourage my colleagues to see AI as a way to supercharge their own ability.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“The concerns of the 600,000 high earners that they must pay more for their extravagant lifestyles in retirement comes as no heart-ache for the majority of workers and pensioners” Indeed. 🎻
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
🔥 You can’t outrun climate change. (Or, often, wildfires for that matter.)
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
THIS. A thousand times THIS. Of course “net zero” policies have a cost and we need to protect people hit by the transition. But ignoring climate change has a MUCH BIGGER COST.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Front page of today’s FT. But that’s OK, you all just abandon net zero and plans to mitigate climate change. That’s definity sensible.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Sometimes you see a painting that’s so good you just want to share it. You’re welcome.
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Staggering heat related death statistics from Belgium. “higher weekly deaths than at any moment of the pandemic” Thanks to @jeanfisch.bsky.social for the original thread here. 🥵 💀
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Good (and congratulations!). We need/want continuity and stability in pensions-land. @torstenbell.bsky.social
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A paragraph in today’s FT. Welcome to the future. I’m sure everything will be fine. 🤖
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We die in the hot weeks… and we die in the cold weeks… and we die in all the weeks in between… but still we mostly die in the cold weeks in the UK at least… 🥶 🥵 💀
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Mike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“Orderly market exit” sounds so simple… 😂
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