Francis Harris

@francish.bsky.social

Journalist

BWM cars now showing owners and unskippable ad for the new Spider Man Film whenever they start the vehicle. This shit needs to become illegal, yesterday, else how long before you have to watch it *before* you can start the vehicle.

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The sheer spitefulness, the loathing for independent-minded women and anyone saying the wrong thing, runs like a thread though this hateful Guardian piece (And well done Sophie, because they attack when they can’t silence) www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

Sophie Cunningham isn’t rejecting politics. She’s cashing in on them

Sophie Cunningham’s rise says less about basketball than the incentives of a sports culture where outrage, identity politics and attention have become lucrative commodities

theguardian.com

Has @amnesty.org completely lost the plot? It lists Beira's Place as an "anti-rights" organisation. Beira’s Place in Edinburgh provides trauma support to women and girls who have survived sexual violence and abuse. It happens to have been founded and is funded by JK Rowling. beirasplace.org.uk

Beira’s Place: Edinburgh Sexual Assault Support Centre

Sexual violence support service for women across Edinburgh and the Lothians, offering practical and emotional help to women in a safe and supportive environment.

beirasplace.org.uk

The reaction to guidance explaining men can't lawfully identify into women's facilities & services shows how much society values men's demands for validation over women's privacy, safety and dignity. And that's why I've become blunter in saying: NO. comment.press/answer-is-no

I don't care about your male howls of anger. The answer is no.

The reaction to guidance explaining that men can't lawfully identify into female-only spaces was inevitable, but depressing.

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OTD in 1948 operation Vesna began in Lithuania. 40,000 people were deported to Siberia and replaced by Russians. Imagine that kind of thing happening today. Imagine selectively opposing it.

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Britain has a problem in its Muslim community Good Muslims will condemn these vicious Jew hunts, but an awful lot of mosques say nothing

Jack Mendel@mendeljack.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Police investigating ‘violent attack’ in Golders Green as antisemitic hate crime www.jewishnews.co.uk/police-inves... “They caught him, dragged him across the road, brutally beat him until he was close to losing consciousness. They tore his clothes, threw away his shoes and shouted abuse in Arabic"

Yes, it is racist to lay the responsibility of Israel's actions at the feet of Jews, just like it's racist to blame your local Indian restaurant owner for the actions of Narendra Modi.

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OP image: grey haired woman sat on the pavement holding a multicoloured sign saying 

"THIS JEW SAYS: NOT IN MY NAME PEACE AND RECONCILIATION

OP text: Marcus Chown @marcusc...

Big demo assembling, Exhibition Road. London

#standuptoracism 

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If more jewish people spoke up like this admirable woman against Israel's racist genocide and bloodthirsty warmongering, there'd be a good deal less antisemitism. As it is, the impression - right or wrong - is of a lot of 'looking the other way' and 'Israel, right or wrong'...

If men who identify as female, like Roxanne Tickle below, feel uncomfortable or unsafe using male facilities, it is up to men to resolve this issue among themselves. Women should not be expected to feel uncomfortable or unsafe to accommodate a male problem that men have failed to address.

Britain threatened to board Russian shadow fleet ships. 238 voyages later, not one has been boarded. 184 UK-sanctioned vessels, 238 journeys, zero action. One tanker was escorted by a Russian warship. A former Royal Navy commander called it "pathetic."

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We should repeat this every day: russia is intentionally, deliberately, murdering Ukrainian children, day after day, for the sheer pleasure of it. We can never forgive this—and above all, we have no right to forgive it. These crimes will haunt the russians—all russians—for as long as they exist.

UNITED24@u24.gov.ua · 4mo ago

These children should have lived. They should have gone to school, played, made friends, dreamed, planned their future, loved. But they were killed by russia. Do not allow new victims. Join the effort to protect the sky over Ukraine.

Good night, dear friends. It’s 01:00 in Ukraine. Last night, this home was full of life—people were living, breathing, dreaming inside it. Today, it’s nothing but ruins. Can you imagine living like this? Russia is a terrorist state!