Jack Harrison
@jlharrison.bsky.social
Former maths extraordinaire. (he/him)
Have noticed BBC and Sky both make no mention of Bonehill-Paine’s absurd YouTube output in their articles, to the extent that when discussing it with my mother she quite reasonably assumed I had fallen for some kind of disinfo because what I was saying was so at odds with the reporting she’d seen
Credit to Badenoch, this was a totally unsurprising news alert until the final clause when my eyes popped out of my head like a cartoon character.
Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 12h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
Well at least we know who Starmer passed the mantle of “rake-stepping extraordinaire” onto when he resigned.
How are we at a point where if they brought back Grant Shapps it would be an improvement what has HAPPENED to this country?
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · yesterdayRather puts Grant Shapps being rejected as a Conservative candidate into perspective.
I was lucky enough to have known John for the last 25 years. He was remarkable to the end, witty, sharp and kind to a fault. Do read his obituaries, a fascinating life. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
John Croft obituary
Codebreaker at Bletchley Park who later worked at the Home Office and became a successful abstract artist
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The High Court also heard RTC leader Ben Cullen had threatened physical violence to a resident removing flags, boasting that he was a “violent criminal” who had served 15 years in prison. Full report in today’s Clarion: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
The Clarion, 4 August 2026
We're doing a rain dance. You? While we wait for some sorely needed water, here is some news, not all of it cheerful. Including less than savoury details about Raise the Colours; celebrating Oxford Ci...
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One highways manager told the High Court she had been placed on medication after becoming “fearful of being followed home, tracked and exposed on social media”. Highways staff now wear unbranded PPE, work in unbranded vehicles, wear face coverings to hide their identity, and do not travel alone.
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
In a crowded field of disasters I think the worst thing Starmer ever did was give legitimacy to these people. This is a group that Starmer went as far as to obliquely praise in his resignation speech and they’re so dangerous even the highways agency have to travel in pairs in unmarked vehicles now.
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Absolutely crackers, extremely self serving as a defence as there is absolutely no chance she'd extend this same benefit of the doubt elsewhere, which becomes obvious in the, factually incorrect, statement on early release she can't resist tagging on at the end.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · yesterdayKemi Badenoch certainly seems to be advancing with her agenda to turn the Conservatives into Reform.
you can't build a big enough coalition if Gavin Barwell is too radical for you but an ex-Neo Nazi who broke into a police station isn't
My jaw is on the floor at this. When I first read he was selected it’s awful but there’s lots of local candidates and selection is handled locally, sometimes people like this get chosen and there’s a media circus until leadership steps in. Happens to all parties. Instead, Badenoch is DOUBLING DOWN
Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · yesterdayAbsolutely crackers, extremely self serving as a defence as there is absolutely no chance she'd extend this same benefit of the doubt elsewhere, which becomes obvious in the, factually incorrect, statement on early release she can't resist tagging on at the end.
Via Reddit. The AI prompt left in the book. A bit 1984ish... "Julia was twenty-six years old... and she worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department. She enjoyed her work, which consisted chiefly in running and servicing a powerful but tricky electric motor...
Deeply embarassing for editorial standards at The Times to not just have to correct such an error, but then to not even spot their own columnist produce such a mad sentence repeating it
Badenoch needs to go after this result - with Farage imploding the only thing that could stop right-wing voters moving to a yet more extreme party is a strong and moderate Conservative Party - Badenoch has shown herself incapable and uninterested in leading a party like that.
Just saw The Odyssey. Casting Matt Damon as Leopold Bloom was brave, but it really worked. Tom Holland good as Stephen Dedalus too. Anne Hathaway brilliant as Molly, but wish they had not cut her soliloquy. Wasn’t familiar with which bits of Dublin they used, but that didn‘t seem to matter.
it was pretty noticeable a few of Stancil's various insane stalkers were claiming he was going to fundraise off having his tired slashed - I saw three in one thread - and then people offered to do a GoFundMe and he was like 'I can pay a bill, go donate to something worth it.'
They’re calling it the worst hostage situation in Britain since that time a guy blocked a Hoover engineer’s van over the free flights thing
I still find it darkly funny that basically everything CENTCOM ever says or thinks gets leaked to the press. Back during WW2 we needed the best minds in mathematics to decipher German military comms/strategy, these days nations need not bother as they can find the same info from reading the news
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 5d agoUS Central Command (CENTCOM) has prepared a large-scale operation in the form of a decisive two-week bombing campaign should Trump choose escalation to break the deadlock in the Middle East, two sources confirmed.-NYP
I see it's taken only five years for our political class to forget how covid spread and how lockdowns worked.
1. Many school support staff were at very high risk 2. Your argument assumes the virus somehow behaved differently in schools 3. debate should never have been about schools closed/open - as we argued it should have been about making them safe www.independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
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🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
It is a “surprise” apparently that two trillion tariffs and a self-imposed energy shock did not improve the economic outlook. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
US economic growth sees surprise slowdown in second quarter
The economy grew at an annual rate of 1.5% in the three months to June, down from 2.1% seen in the previous quarter.
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.
Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree
Can it be described as a surprise when the country you’re in the middle of a war with attacks?
Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · last wk.At 5:45 p.m. ET today, IRGC launched multiple ballistic missiles from Iran in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East. All Iranian missiles were successfully intercepted, CENTCOM says
