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Rhys Harris

@rhysharris3.bsky.social
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38 year old Chelsea fan and dart player. Guardian reading, tofu eating, member of the wokerati

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I basically think if you've ever written a 'defence spending has to go up' column (and I've written a fair few), you have no business asking any one else to take a hit from *that* if you won't even take the hit of not being on X.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
How to Draw Cartoons, by Julius Streicher
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/10/2026
Man City such a good team - will be hard to beat in next season's Championship
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
just when you thought it couldn’t get worse
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Have they answered this question yet? Or are we to assume that it'll be paid for out of their magic money tree benefit cuts, which somehow serve to fund every other policy they announce.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
*taps microphone* Stop sticking up for billionaires who don’t care if you live or die.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Spot on! 🎯
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The online far right conspiracy theorists’ obsession with the Fabians - stoked massively by GB News, Talk TV et al - is one of the weirdest, most disturbing things in British politics right now (and that’s saying something) Like a mini British QAnon Must be awful working for Fabians rn
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't understand why Farage is silently sympathising with the attacks on the RNLI. This feels like a disaster for Reform - exactly the kind of issue that powers the tactical voting against him and alienates soft conservatives.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2026
How it started / How it's going
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wonder what it is about off shore tax hating billionaires being so drawn to Nigel Farage's "people's party"
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lifeboat museum forced to close after abuse from thugs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Poole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteers
The museum in Poole says it will remain closed until until the anti-migrant protests stop.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As the government bans social media for kids further evidence emerges that it's a minority of retired adults we should really be concerned about. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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Pensioners attack traffic lights over wild 'deadly weapon' claims
An online movement say that the sensors on traffic lights can cause heart attacks, brain cancer, anxiety and even sudden death
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Though I think the phrasing is important. If the Q had mentioned violence towards police or RNLI the numbers would look very different. (Which is why the govt response should have focused on that).
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s a crowded field, but the jaw-dropping moment for me is when Orr reels off all the other illicit donors who have illicitly donated one to Reform via illicit means, like this is helpful
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Whenever there is an undercover sting in politics I'm always astonished what people will say to someone they have never met - usually because they think there is money on (or under) the table.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The best time for broad based tax rises was autumn 2024. The next best time was autumn 2025. But here we are. The next best time is this budget. The point of political capital is to spend it when you need to. Take the hit now and give yourself a path to a strong political argument in 2028/29.
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Rhys Harris @rhysharris3.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Where’s Caicedo??? #cfc
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Note that Andy Burnham moved into the Everton Directors Box yesterday as Keir Starmer did with Arsenal on becoming PM, but today's messaging was this was to avoid disrupting those sitting around the new PM, rather than being about his preferences. Sometimes it is just the comms.
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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026
29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.
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wisewebwoman.bsky.social @wisewebwoman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Honestly, this is like a Monty Python skit. She's swaying to her own private head music, Brainworms is spouting insane nonsense as usual and yer man is snoring in the middle. This is the US government.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is what Farage and Johnson’s xenophobic Reform and Conservative Brexit campaigns actually did to UK migration. At every point they use their failures as an excuse for the next disaster
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The war. It always comes back to the war. That happened long before they were born.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
According to Luke Tryl on Radio 4 disillusioned Reform voters think Farage is “just the same as the rest” on the corruption front. But he isn’t is he? He’s exponentially worse. And his grifter tendency has been obvious for a very long time.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Trump to press on Airforce One: “We are taking billions and billions of dollars from Venezuela. “That will happen with Iran too.”
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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 19/07/2026
Infantino could resurrect his entire reputation by convincing Donald Trump this is true.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Why aren't they dropping deep to defend this lead?! Bring on Dan Burn!
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Daniel Storey @danielstorey85.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thomas Tuchel was appointed for that last 30 minutes. We were told that it would be different from the knockout king and we got tactical cowardice. And if he really has no regrets, he can leave now. Column from Atlanta 🔽 inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Thomas Tuchel deserves to be sacked for his cowardice
I will be haunted by the last half an hour of England's World Cup semi-final for years
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A German coach throwing away England's best chance of a world cup final in 60 years - and losing to Argentina in the process 😬😬😬
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Rhys Harris @rhysharris3.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Please tell me Enzo is off! #chelsea
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This gameplan doesn't feel sustainable. #engarg
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Rhys Harris @rhysharris3.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Jordan Henderson in full kit?? #eng
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Maybe FrogFace SHOULD be worried about BInFace. He can deliver! BInFace at the Oxford Union 👇
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It is shown, repeatedly, that the inevitable outcome of pandering to "populists" is they want more. You can never go far enough. Mahmood's proposals are the most draconian reforms of immigration and asylum systems in decades. They undermine international human rights. Still not enough for this lot.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Whatever your opinion of what he's saying it's completely undermined by him posting it on the fascist owned website X. If he had one iota of integrity. If he really believed in his ersatz Lenin posturing... he'd have left it months or years ago. But he relies entirely on the clicks and praise.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov


**UK public support net zero, but underestimate UK achievement to date**

"Thinking about the government's target to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, how much progress, if any, do you think the UK has made towards achieving this target?"

**Long way / less than halfway** — 50%

**Don't know** — 28%

**Most of the way / More than halfway** — 8%

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*All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 2,040 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 17th - 18th June 2026. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all GB adults (aged 18+)*
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Rhys Harris @rhysharris3.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Every time Madueke breaks free the excitement ends
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Musk continues to stoke race wars in the U.K. using his platform to do so. It’s feeble how little power we are exercising against X.
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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Treating any communication platform that algorithmically selects which content to put in front of a user as a publisher, and legally responsible for that content, is the screamingly obvious solution that will deeply upset maybe seven companies and make life considerably better.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/06/2026
I feel like I'm going mad: Henry Nowak's killer has been sentenced to life in prison with a 21-year minimum. The whole process took less than six months. There were grave errors on the night. But how does this possibly evidence two-tier justice? www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...
This is not what happened in the Henry Nowak case. Nowak was killed in December 2025. Once police realised they had been deceived on the scene, they rapidly investigated, properly. 

They secretly recorded Digwa and his brother talking to one another, in Punjabi, about how they planned to mislead officers about the attack. Police quickly amassed more than enough evidence for prosecutors to use.

Less than six months after his killing, Nowak’s attacker has been convicted of murder and sentenced to at least 21 years in prison. Police failed Nowak in his final moments alive, but the justice system delivered exactly as it was supposed to do so for his family. Showing truly admirable restraint and forbearance, Nowak’s father said, clearly, that “we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension”.
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 03/06/2026
🚨 WATCH: The BBC's on-air apology to Nigel Farage after misquoting his "pure cold rage" comment as "white cold rage"
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