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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@goingmedieval.bsky.social LOVED the latest ep of Gone Medieval, and think you will appreciate AK Blakemore’s novel Doom Painting (pub’d next week). I’m not involved in its publication, but got my hands on a proof, and it’s 💯 💯💯.

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

‘I walk around the Bath & Body Works and I think about the Monroe Doctrine, about manifest destiny.’ Miccaeli isn’t on here, but her cultural analysis-inflected perfume blog is *chef’s kiss*. She is such a superb writer. substack.com/@miccaeli?r=...

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australian. enthusiast. i write, obsessively, about perfume.

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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Had a great time hanging out with @shelleyharris.bsky.social today and impressing her with my Chas & Dave facts. I also pointed out that is is a genuinely great song.

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Chas & Dave - Ain't No Pleasing You (Official HD Music Video)

YouTube video by Chas & Dave

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

@grindrod.bsky.social I’ve just finished Tales of the Suburbs and thought it was fantastic (and important). Thanks for writing it!

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Hear me out. Keep the State Visit, but send Princess Anne instead.

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It blows my mind that this is from the party I considered ’mine’ for so long. Canvassed to get a local candidate elected in 2024. What a mug.

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

@fotofacade.bsky.social ‘Britain … is not a land of singular identity, but of accumulation - difference held in proximity.’ I wish more people were saying this. ♥️

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

‘A piece of handsomely-mounted, crypto-facist propaganda.’ @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social’s review of Melania is utterly on the money: precise, unrelenting, sharply-contextualised. No notes.

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

That Carney speech. I forgot what a backbone looked like.

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Our Hendricks adopted alternative families twice (we moved house). They named him, fed him sometimes, took him in occasionally. When he died, it was a bloke from one of those ‘second homes’ who found him and came to tell us, in tears. King among cats. A lazy, greedy, beloved king.

A BEAUTIFUL British Shorthair cat hanging out under a dressing table.

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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Anyway, this will come as absolutely zero surprise to anyone who works in the book world.

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Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The general right-wing freakout about London as a multicultural city doesn’t stand up very well to … an actual awareness of history, does it? This twelfth-century text (William fitzStephen’s biography of Thomas Becket) sees it as part of what makes the city thrive.

Extract from the Becket biography, mentioning the ’infinitude of knights or foreigners’ in the city.

The Becket biography on the goods brought into London ’from every nation that is under heaven’.

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Last week: we roll out the red carpet for a fascist. This week: our Health Secretary has to go on morning television to reassure the public that, counter to that same fascist’s claims, paracetamol does not *checks notes* cause autism.

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Gutted not to be at the anti-Trump march today. If you’re going - thank you! Please shout for those of us who won’t be there. No quarter for fascists.

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Please enjoy my mother-in-law’s painting, which I like to call ‘Man with Levitating Cat’.

There’s just no other way to describe this. It’s a man standing next to a cat. Which seems to be levitating. Neither party seems unduly concerned.

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Yeah, not quite what I expected when a human rights lawyer became PM. Thought he might mind a bit more about genocide, but OK yeah, yeah , cool.

Sky News headline: ‘More than 500 people arrested after Palestine Action protest - with almost half aged 60 and above.’

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Unexpectedly beautiful pommes dauphinoise prep making me think of Whoopi Goldberg.

Annie Leibovitz’s 1984 photo of Whoopi Goldberg in a bath of milk.

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Adria @adriaandthepriors.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Is it starting?!

Indeed job advertisement

Guillotine Operator
Eurostampa UK
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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Not just one, a triptych.

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

As someone also born overseas, it strikes me that quite a few Times journalists probably were.

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I love this piece so much I once wrote a flash fiction about it. We’ve adorned our bodies since forever. This would look utterly banging on anyone in the twenty-first century.

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The National giving us the best front cover of all time @scotnational.bsky.social

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snikpoh.bsky.social @snikpoh.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

World Central Kitchen has been able to provide water & fresh bread while their food is stuck at the border. www.worldcentralkitchen.org/donate

worldcentralkitchen.org

World Central Kitchen | Donate

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Are we meant to consider this a big leap?

Episode title for the ‘Leading’ podcast: ‘Gary Stevenson: From Teenage Drug Dealer to Millionaire Trader’.

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

@isabelrogers.bsky.social Donating plasma. Look at this beauty. (Mint Club also available.)

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Blimey, America. I’ve never felt so divided about a country that isn’t my own. Trump voters: may everything you wish on immigrants happen to you. Non Trump voters: my brothers, sisters and non-binary siblings, I am with you. If you run and need a place to crash, I’ve washed the spare duvet.

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Rant alert. Mega rant alert. How about our leaders stop wringing hands, issuing feeble denunciations, and actually DO something? Stop the moral equivalency. Stop pretending we’re helpless. There’s plenty we could do if genuinely committed. Here’s some suggestions for starters. 🧵

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Superlative stuff. Got me thinking about other novels which take an encompassing / dispassionate gaze across time (no ‘plot’ as we’d understand it, no hero). John McGregor’s Reservoir 13, I think. Any others…?

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Happy solstice! (I’m at a cocktail bar on an iron age hillfort).

Solstice sunset from the top of Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 20/06/2025

Of all the priceless and world changing glorious objects and pieces in all the museums in the world, this is still one of the most precious. Well done ‪@poolemuseum.bsky.social

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The proportion of state school pupils accepted into the University of Cambridge has fallen by a record amount, following the institution’s decision to scrap admissions targets in this area, analysis reveals. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Cambridge’s state school intake falls again after target scrapped

More students accepted into prestigious university, but numbers coming from maintained schools return to 2020 levels after ‘period of rapid growth’

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Allow me to wholeheartedly recommend this book, written by a German-American jew who embedded himself in post-war German society to learn about how ordinary people came to support the unthinkable. Yes, there are of course multiple analogies with what we’re seeing in the US right now. /

The cover of Milton Mayer’s ’They Thought They Were Safe’.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This evening UK Parliament voted to reform abortion law. It is the most substantial reform in almost 50 years. This is an historic moment.

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Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Thinking of all the Shakespeare scholars I know, weeping into their beer.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This magnificent thread about a forgotten Welsh marquess – yes – is frankly REQUIRED READING. Newspapers in March 1905 declared his death a "wasted life". Nonsense. Anyone who yearly spent £3,000 (£314,000) In today’s terms on bejewelled underwear strikes me as a man having a remarkably good time.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14/06/2025

[Exit King.]

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