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Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here linktr.ee/maybeimamazed

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 11h
This is utterly clueless & why the Lib Dems need a new leader. This is a potentially progressive moment and they should be part of it. Polanski was more positive than Davey, and this reads like chat GPT
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 15h
Now leaving conference (autism story to work on). atmos was a fascinating mixture of excitement/hope and everyone knowing you can't do much in two and a half years, so also nervous. Main thought: Starmer was such a completely wasted two years, one of history's rare utter nothings
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Easily the most interesting fringe I've been to at this year's Lab conf: on the grassroots politics of AI & work, put on by the Union of tech & Allied Workers, branch of the Communication Workers' Union
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I bought the EP in '89, now it's the title of a Labour fringe meeting. Funny world
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Latest from me: there's a lot for Labour to be happy & purposeful about - but a)we're not going back to two party politics and b)watching them and the greens duke it out while fascism brews feels wrong wrong wrong www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour is nostalgic for two-party politics. That cosy, simple time is over – let it go | John Harris
Our fragmented political model will endure for the foreseeable future – and Reform will benefit from it until Burnham learns that cooperation is key, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A real honour & pleasure to be interviewed by Sean Rowley on the book floor of Real Magic in Wendover & sign so many books. Sean's record shop (upstairs) is also thing of wonder
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Latest from me: there's a lot for Labour to be happy & purposeful about - but a)we're not going back to two party politics and b)watching them and the greens duke it out while fascism brews feels wrong wrong wrong www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour is nostalgic for two-party politics. That cosy, simple time is over – let it go | John Harris
Our fragmented political model will endure for the foreseeable future – and Reform will benefit from it until Burnham learns that cooperation is key, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
C'mon people of Bucks! We can sell this out! 3 standard tix left, 9 concessions, five frees. See you tomorrow!
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My local "TG Jones" closes today. Might seem unimportant, but besides the OAPs lining up for the Mail & Express, it was the only place to buy The Wire, Electronic Sound, Jacobin, whatever. So one more portal into a a different world - and reading - collapses, and back to the net's moronic inferno.
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People of Wendover, Aylesbury, Tring et al: only a few tickets left now. Sunday 22pm, I'll be talking to the great Sean Rowley about my book Maybe I'm Amazed, music, neurodivergence & more wegottickets.com/f/27442/
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MAYBE I’M AMAZED
Real Magic Records' Sean Rowley will be talking to Guardian writer John Harris about his brilliant book, Maybe I'm Amazed - A Story of Love and Connection in Ten Songs. In this extraordinary memoir, ...
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People of Wendover, Aylesbury, Tring et al: only a few tickets left now. Sunday 22pm, I'll be talking to the great Sean Rowley about my book Maybe I'm Amazed, music, neurodivergence & more wegottickets.com/f/27442/
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MAYBE I’M AMAZED
Real Magic Records' Sean Rowley will be talking to Guardian writer John Harris about his brilliant book, Maybe I'm Amazed - A Story of Love and Connection in Ten Songs. In this extraordinary memoir, ...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Never fails to miss
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Send love to one of our modern greats www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke
The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Accurate summary of the basic current condition of the west www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...
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We Must Create the Shit Machine
“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could A...
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Also upcoming in budget Tax breaks on stag weekends in Prague Legalization of cocaine but only if it's crap, cut and suspiciously cheap Limited edition pound coin featuring Finchy from The Office
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1)how to create an illicit fags & booze economy run by spivs that'll deprive the Treasury of tax revenue 2)you don't get people "back to work" by making their lives impossible (note cut of a third to long-term benefits). It makes the problem worse 3)you bastards
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in Wendover a week on Sunday, talking at Real Magic books to the great Sean Rowley about my book Maybe I'm Amazed, music, autism and loads more. 12pm start: tickets here wegottickets.com/f/27442/
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MAYBE I’M AMAZED
Real Magic Records' Sean Rowley will be talking to Guardian writer John Harris about his brilliant book, Maybe I'm Amazed - A Story of Love and Connection in Ten Songs. In this extraordinary memoir, ...
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
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Slumberland Records @slumberlandrecords.com · 21/09/2026
This story is wild
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just a reminder that it's Ed Sheeran, not Fidel Castro
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
McCartney's chordal genius, direct from the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Westwood, Wiltshire
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Latest from me: on why the next election will be more emotional than political, because of what has happened to the English right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Latest from me: bit of proper journalism. A specialist in the industrial scale production of fake vinyl was jailed yesterday. This is the whole story www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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Deep cuts: how one Londoner’s fake vinyl empire sheds light on ‘industrial scale’ fraud
Thousands of knock-off records worth a fortune are being seized in the UK by anti-counterfeit police stings
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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Over 54,000 people have signed the petition to protect disabled children’s rights. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 There are 27 days left to get to 100,000. Has everyone in your house signed? Friends? Family? Neighbours? Colleagues? Remember children can sign too. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Protect legal right to support for children with SEND
A petition created by a British citizen or UK resident. You can share this petition if you agree with its message.
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in Wendover a week on Sunday, talking at Real Magic books to the great Sean Rowley about my book Maybe I'm Amazed, music, autism and loads more. 12pm start: tickets here wegottickets.com/f/27442/
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MAYBE I’M AMAZED
Real Magic Records' Sean Rowley will be talking to Guardian writer John Harris about his brilliant book, Maybe I'm Amazed - A Story of Love and Connection in Ten Songs. In this extraordinary memoir, ...
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Big up Johnny Marr
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The King leading discussions about AI: very "constitutional monarch", I'm sure
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
But it's his tour.
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Don't concern us with your bollocks, I don't want your prayer - Save it for the morning after."
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
BBC News: Mass trespass staged in PM Andy Burnham's constituency "They walked on to the Winstanley Hall estate in Wigan as part of their calls for a change in the law to bring in a Scottish-style right of responsible access to land and water that is privately owned." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mass trespass staged in Prime Minister Andy Burnham's Makerfield constituency
Protestors walked on to a private estate in Wigan as part of their calls for the right to roam.
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is quite a story: accidental municipal anarchism in Oldham www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
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The law is being broken in Oldham but it could soon get even more grim
SPECIAL REPORT: Oldham council is making headlines over the fact its most senior officers believe the local authority is breaking the law but what exactly is happening?
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All those well-taken Labour attack videos on a party now basically funded by two crypto zillionaires, not
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Question: why 36 million?
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Latest from me: on why the death of reading might kill democracy, drawing on James Marriott's excellent book The New Dark Ages www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John Harris
While fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote about Ben Delo back in July... was obvious something like this was about to happen. Also, further evidence that Starmer was completely asleep. Donations reform should have been a priority as soon as Labour got in www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Our son James turns 20 today. If you've read my memoir Maybe I'm Amazed, you'll know it's been an intense, joyous, revelatory, sometimes trying two decades. But the music's on and all is well
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I now have a standing order with the RNLI cos of all the crap Farage came out with a few years back. You can either set one up or make a donation here: rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump pardoned crypto felons and his family’s crypto bank is backed by the UAE’s national security advisor. Todd Blanche gutted crypto enforcement and disbanded DOJ’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement team. Spare us the tough-on-crypto crime press conference. It’s a farce.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/09/2026
A plurality of *Conservative voters* support Ed Miliband's sanctions
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
YOUGOV poll of UK voters: “Do you approve or disapprove of the UK government's decision to ban the import of goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank?” 52% approve 17% disapprove
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Dave Haslam @davehaslam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My new book, 'Creative Journeys', is a collection of interviews with the likes of Neneh Cherry, Maxine Peake, Jarvis Cocker, Paddy Considine, Terry Hall, and Andrew Weatherall. Book events include Glasgow www.waterstones.com/events/creat... Chorley chorleytheatre.com/theatre_even...
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I think this is one of those issues where we conclusively find out who everybody is (see also S.Braverman)
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The “old enough to remember why Nazis are bad” demographic at the end there
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"What is a lie to the infinite ages?"
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Quelle surprise www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Pupils with Send plans in England likely to double to one in 10 in rush for support
Schools and councils express financial concerns as EHCP applications surge before potential change in provision
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Latest from me: a theory of the brilliant Geese... and a US in conflict and a world on fire. From @endoftheroadfestival.com
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Has anyone yet called Angine De Poitrine Mr Proggy?
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