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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 12h

Everton went about £20m over their PSR spend in one season, co-operated with the PL and still got a points deduction. In that context, this doesn't look great for City does it??

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 13h

His body shape after striking the ball reminds me of Yeboah at Wimbledon. Which is just about as high as praise gets from me!

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 14h

Labour needed a leader that wanted to get into some fights. I didn't think that would be Burnham, but here we are. People change a lot in 10 years

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 14h

Absolutely this. I didn't see the speech but it's brilliant that Burnham has clearly been so emotionally open. We need much more of it from men in public life.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 15h

The Guardian Panel responds to Andy Burnham's speech: Polly Toynbee "This was a triumphant refutation of decades of neoliberal dysfunction and a road map to a glorious future etc etc..." Sharon Graham "Burnham mustn't betray Brexit" Owen Jones "Feel like pure shit, just want Jezza back..."

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe they were a stag party that got a bit out of hand?

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. No they won't. 2. See 1. 3. Yes it will. Because no they weren't. 4. No it won't because no they don't.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"We have a country ten times better than theirs..." I mean regardless of the (odious) politics involved, what a fucking douche. He sounds like an immature, overtired 9-year-old.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh man. Tony picked Neil up in his taxi ("I recognised his walk") and took him home and made him a cup of tea. My heart.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the many things to love about the final episode of #70Up is the extent to which it interrogates the relationships Michael Apted had with the participants. Quite rightly, they've obviously pushed back pretty hard at times. It shows them as collaborators rather than merely his subjects.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Make a donation if you can. It's really the last site standing in terms of maintaining the original idealism of the internet.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I had so many arguments with people about what happened to Begum, including some with so-called progressives who became a lot less progressive in the context of that case. She was so obviously the top of a very slippery slope.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Three Feet High and Rising. Including the skits.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ireland goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu has told the Irish squad he does not want to participate in the Republic of Ireland’s Uefa Nations League games against Israel.

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Ireland’s match against Israel thrown into chaos as Bazunu tells squad he does not want to play

Some other players understood to be considering whether to join goalkeeper in withdrawing from Nations League fixtures

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My sense is most fans (including lots of City fans) want this sorted fairly and properly but lots of insiders (including, sadly, some journalists) were pretty happy with the status quo.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"it's much, much harder now to be an anti racist than it is to be a racist" Those words should be a source of shame and horror to everyone; to governments going back a decade and a half, to our media and to all of us who have let this cancer fester and failed to push back.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is quite funny but also, fucking hell.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is no forgiving Huey Lewis and the News. #totp

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He's getting closer all the time...

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The new Gilla Band album is extraordinary. Blimey.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fascinating to see which British shows cut through. Peaky Blinders?? (Also, like fuck is Breaking Bad better than The Wire and Mad Men!! Get in the bin)

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This headlong dash to the right is an amazing and disconcerting feature of post-Brexit British politics. Farage's thing (shrewdly if not honestly) has always been 'Vote for us or you'll get *actual* r/w thugs like Tommy Robinson'. Now, thanks to Restore, they're pandering to them.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I actually think this Grange Hill storyline was quite a formative influence on the infuriatingly woke and self-righteous adult I was to become! Properly gritty for a kids' show that screened at 5.30 in the afternoon.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is such a great thread from Big Dan. Just the right balance between learned elucidation and entirely justified scorn.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Me too. And loads of vinyl. And I am SO glad I do!

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We're in the fight of our lives with these crackpots. Fortunately, they're complete idiots.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Going to wear my woke socks this evening.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Agree. And we also need to say that it began with Brexit. Brexit wasn't about leaving the EU. It was about leaving the modern, interconnected, multicultural world. That's why it was doomed to fail. And yes, while not all Brexit voters were/are racists, all racists were/are Brexit voters.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If there is a tiny, tiny consolation to be had about the Danny Tommo horrors, it's that I suspect they make things *much* harder for Farage. His whole thing over the last several years has been "detoxifying" Reform; presenting them as a firewall against fascists.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Five minutes in and two "iconics" already... #GBBO

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The first album came out in 1990, on Go Discs! It should have been massive - after all, There She Goes was a huge indie hit and the Stone Roses had paved the way. But Lee Mavers had a lot of problems...."

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

God, I'm so BORED of this stupid old man.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just clicked on the Red Scare pod link in this piece. Dear god, do people watch/listen to that stuff for pleasure? Almost performatively dull and stupid. Didn't they used to be edgelord "dirtbag left" types? The idiot left to idiot right pipeline keeps on pumping doesn't it??

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've posted about this before but I've jus finished it and Furious on Disney is really something. Blimey.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Really looking forward to "classical liberals" like Douglas Carswell trying to tell everyone that people like Jude Bellingham and Lenny Henry and Clive Myrie and Alison Hammond and Moeen Ali and Floella Benjamin and Trevor Mcdonald aren't English. I'm sure that's going to go very well for him...

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The evolution of Charlotte Church has been quite a thing to witness.

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: The White House TV Press pool is downing tools following Trump's ouster of Politico, MSNOW and CNN. This letter sent to pool members by Fox News' Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton, current pool chair, via Scott Nover of the Washington Post.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spoken like a man who lives in his parents' basement and has never had to do his own washing.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

God, imagine having more donations than all the other UK political parties put together, most of the print media onside, a whole TV channel cheerleading for you and the state broadcaster apeing their narratives and you're *still* polling about 21-21%? Reform are actually really shit aren't they??

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Don't worry fella. The RNLI will save you.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What a band. It's so brilliant that they had this final chapter to their career. Have extremely fond memories of seeing one of their very early comeback shows at Electrowerkz in Islington; one of the most feverishly received performances I've ever witnessed.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Say what you like about Putin but he can't half win an election...

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