Phil Harrison
@mrpmharrison.bsky.social
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Imagine how much of a fucking fanny you'd have to be to accept a prize that someone else had won and be genuinely pleased with it?
It's actually quite hard to imagine how such a person could achieve anything in life.
It's actually quite hard to imagine how such a person could achieve anything in life.
January 16, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Imagine how much of a fucking fanny you'd have to be to accept a prize that someone else had won and be genuinely pleased with it?
It's actually quite hard to imagine how such a person could achieve anything in life.
It's actually quite hard to imagine how such a person could achieve anything in life.
A bizarre, brief, astonishing period when you could stick BBC2 on at 7pm and find yourself watching Butthole Surfers or Napalm Death or Nitzer Ebb while you ate your tea.
What a show.
What a show.
Any excuse to bollock on about this again... Snub TV is available, nearly entirely, on YouTube here, complete with VHS glitches and BBC2 idents...
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youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Snub TV (UK) - YouTube
Snub TV was an alternative culture television program that ran from 1987 to 1989. The original program, while made in the UK, was developed by American produ...
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January 15, 2026 at 9:41 PM
A bizarre, brief, astonishing period when you could stick BBC2 on at 7pm and find yourself watching Butthole Surfers or Napalm Death or Nitzer Ebb while you ate your tea.
What a show.
What a show.
Stephen's outfits are quite a lot aren't they?
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
January 15, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Stephen's outfits are quite a lot aren't they?
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
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Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
January 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
I say this with desperate, perhaps unfounded optimism.
But all this has the potential to go quite badly wrong for them. Jenrick, Zahawi etc are big egos. It's a marriage of convenience, not love. Farage is malicious and overbearing. LOTS of sparks are going to fly because these are all awful people.
But all this has the potential to go quite badly wrong for them. Jenrick, Zahawi etc are big egos. It's a marriage of convenience, not love. Farage is malicious and overbearing. LOTS of sparks are going to fly because these are all awful people.
Flash of anger from Farage as a journalist asks what the deal between them was. Farage speaks over Jenrick, who looks sheepish and terribly alone.
January 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I say this with desperate, perhaps unfounded optimism.
But all this has the potential to go quite badly wrong for them. Jenrick, Zahawi etc are big egos. It's a marriage of convenience, not love. Farage is malicious and overbearing. LOTS of sparks are going to fly because these are all awful people.
But all this has the potential to go quite badly wrong for them. Jenrick, Zahawi etc are big egos. It's a marriage of convenience, not love. Farage is malicious and overbearing. LOTS of sparks are going to fly because these are all awful people.
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Reform have recruited which means they don’t get to murder tonight
January 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Reform have recruited which means they don’t get to murder tonight
'So I'm going to shut up for a bit...'
BREAKING - Jenrick tweets: "It's time for the truth."
Defection imminent.
Defection imminent.
January 15, 2026 at 4:32 PM
'So I'm going to shut up for a bit...'
I drop wikipedia a tenner once a year.
It really is the last bastion of the old internet. The pre-evil internet.
It really is the last bastion of the old internet. The pre-evil internet.
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
I drop wikipedia a tenner once a year.
It really is the last bastion of the old internet. The pre-evil internet.
It really is the last bastion of the old internet. The pre-evil internet.
David Lynch - died at 78.
Donald Trump - still going strong at 79.
There isn't a god.
Donald Trump - still going strong at 79.
There isn't a god.
David Lynch died a year ago.
I miss his artistry but I really miss him making me laugh.
I miss his artistry but I really miss him making me laugh.
January 15, 2026 at 3:43 PM
David Lynch - died at 78.
Donald Trump - still going strong at 79.
There isn't a god.
Donald Trump - still going strong at 79.
There isn't a god.
In a sane political landscape, that affair would have ended Jenrick's political career there and then.
It's a shame that in these anti-political times, Jenrick doing extremely lucrative planning favours for mega-rich donors is not something anyone bothers to mention about him
January 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM
In a sane political landscape, that affair would have ended Jenrick's political career there and then.
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This "open borders" line is *infuriating* - these people came here to study or work, because they had a uni place or a job to come to. They paid visa fees, student fees, NHS surcharge - and many of them are doing challenging and important work - staffing our care homes, for example, including Mum's.
Starmer keeps using this line, & it's bonkers.
Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders".
It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer
Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders".
It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer
!["And this is what Keir Starmer’s press secretary has said about Robert Jenrick at the lobby briefing this morning.
[Highlighted] Robert Jenrick was the immigration minister in a government that presided over an open borders experiment [Highlighted], a health minister who left people stuck on waiting lists, and a Treasury minister during the worst decline in living standards on record.”
While Reform continues to welcome failed Tory retreads, this Labor government is putting the country back on track."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cixgmtrg7nzy4gkmyfeosaox/bafkreibe3jczrmbmzfnhj2adl4qe432lbpmcbn6m6qrentwih7vxj4fu7y@jpeg)
January 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
This "open borders" line is *infuriating* - these people came here to study or work, because they had a uni place or a job to come to. They paid visa fees, student fees, NHS surcharge - and many of them are doing challenging and important work - staffing our care homes, for example, including Mum's.
George Saunders wrote this in 2020.
It's incredible and incredibly prescient.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
It's incredible and incredibly prescient.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Love Letter”
Fiction by George Saunders: “What would you have done? I know what you will say: you would have fought. But how? How would you have fought?”
www.newyorker.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:28 PM
George Saunders wrote this in 2020.
It's incredible and incredibly prescient.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
It's incredible and incredibly prescient.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Hmmm. Dunno about this. He bailed on us in September so I don't feel that warmly towards him.
An obvious talent though.
An obvious talent though.
🚨🟡🔵 EXCLUSIVE: Leeds United reach verbal agreement to sign Facundo Buonanotte! Chelsea to interrupt loan move from Brighton, leaving #CFC to return to #BHAFC and then join Leeds. Move to #LUFC will be on loan until the end of the season. Here we go, soon. 🇦🇷
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Hmmm. Dunno about this. He bailed on us in September so I don't feel that warmly towards him.
An obvious talent though.
An obvious talent though.
As Reform prepare to unveil Racist Rob as their newest, shiniest recruit, let's take a moment to remember his genuinely hilarious musings on football in the 80s.
In a party of rats, idiots and fakes, he'll fit in SO well.
In a party of rats, idiots and fakes, he'll fit in SO well.
January 15, 2026 at 11:19 AM
As Reform prepare to unveil Racist Rob as their newest, shiniest recruit, let's take a moment to remember his genuinely hilarious musings on football in the 80s.
In a party of rats, idiots and fakes, he'll fit in SO well.
In a party of rats, idiots and fakes, he'll fit in SO well.
When you also factor in the current state of the housing market, it's hard to see this kind of thing as anything other than a demographic time-bomb.
I was so lucky to catch the very back-end of state-subsidised higher education. God knows what today's under 30s are supposed to do with this shit.
I was so lucky to catch the very back-end of state-subsidised higher education. God knows what today's under 30s are supposed to do with this shit.
This is clearly depressing and radicalising in a way a tax wouldn't have been.
January 15, 2026 at 11:11 AM
When you also factor in the current state of the housing market, it's hard to see this kind of thing as anything other than a demographic time-bomb.
I was so lucky to catch the very back-end of state-subsidised higher education. God knows what today's under 30s are supposed to do with this shit.
I was so lucky to catch the very back-end of state-subsidised higher education. God knows what today's under 30s are supposed to do with this shit.
Happy 85th birthday Captain!
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Captain Beefheart - The Thousandth and Tenth Day of the Human Totem Pole
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January 15, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Happy 85th birthday Captain!
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🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 3:59 AM
🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
This photograph is terrifying. Fucking hell America.
We are so far past the Rubicon that it isn't worth having a discussion anymore as to whether Trump is acting as an authoritarian. The only question is whether we have the strength and courage to get back to the other side.
January 14, 2026 at 9:43 PM
This photograph is terrifying. Fucking hell America.
Matthew's weird cardigan though...
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
January 14, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Matthew's weird cardigan though...
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
Harriet has fucked this so badly. Particularly since she's actually right.
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
January 14, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Harriet has fucked this so badly. Particularly since she's actually right.
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
Right, she's overplayed her hand now. She needs to take it down a notch.
##TheTraitors
##TheTraitors
Harriet is FIRE!
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
January 14, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Right, she's overplayed her hand now. She needs to take it down a notch.
##TheTraitors
##TheTraitors
Alpha behaviour.
An end to the male loneliness epidemic? Previously aimless and disaffected young men and boys are finding companionship by driving around together to tail the goon squads and warn their neighbors.
January 14, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Alpha behaviour.
Can we stop having this stupid debate about whether or not the Trump regime is fascist? There is no longer an argument to be had. It's literally telling us it is.
Non-fascist regimes simply do not put out communiques like this.
Non-fascist regimes simply do not put out communiques like this.
January 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Can we stop having this stupid debate about whether or not the Trump regime is fascist? There is no longer an argument to be had. It's literally telling us it is.
Non-fascist regimes simply do not put out communiques like this.
Non-fascist regimes simply do not put out communiques like this.
"Not only are there almost four times as many ‘progressive’ ex-Labour voters, they are also far more open to voting for us in the future. It is unclear why we should focus on a smaller, more hostile voter group at the expense of a larger one that is more open to us"
labourlist.org/2026/01/avoi...
labourlist.org/2026/01/avoi...
'Avoiding the iceberg' - LabourList
Labour’s polling crisis isn’t about Reform voters but losing progressives. To avoid electoral collapse, the party must clarify its values and unite its bloc.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:04 PM
"Not only are there almost four times as many ‘progressive’ ex-Labour voters, they are also far more open to voting for us in the future. It is unclear why we should focus on a smaller, more hostile voter group at the expense of a larger one that is more open to us"
labourlist.org/2026/01/avoi...
labourlist.org/2026/01/avoi...