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Nicholas Harris

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you sir

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 1d

Harris + Partridge = essential reading

A point in favour of Late Partridge is the books, there is a line in Big Beacon that was so good a fellow train passenger asked if I was okay

Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · 1d

“Can a national joke survive when it’s also trying to become a national treasure?”

On the late style of Alan Partridge, in this week’s New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...

Alan Partridge’s late style

Can a national joke survive when it’s also trying to become a national treasure?

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · 1d

“Can a national joke survive when it’s also trying to become a national treasure?”

On the late style of Alan Partridge, in this week’s New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...

Alan Partridge’s late style

Can a national joke survive when it’s also trying to become a national treasure?

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · Sep 8

‘Starmerism, as a political creed and a historical era, appears to have entered its ebb-tide without ever crashing onto the beach.’

At and on the Reform conference, for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage really means it this time

At Reform Conference, his “people’s army” formed a long, gloating parade.

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · Sep 2

My piece on Douglas Carswell's journey from blue-sky thinking to the gutter:

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Douglas Carswell has sunk to the gutter

The former MP is far from the only Brit to be sent into a rage spiral by watching X.

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · Aug 23

For the @newstatesman.com i profiled Dominic Cummings – a case study in elite radicalisation
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The rage of Dominic Cummings

Britain’s rogue intellectual has predicted a civil war. Is he also cheerleading one?

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thanks James

Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · Aug 18

Cheers Anoosh!

Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · Aug 15

‘The tone is established with the seventh word of Kisin’s introduction: “mate”.’

Written about Tommy Robinson’s appearance on Triggernometry: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

The rebuilding of Tommy Robinson

The EDL founder has conquered the “alternative” media sphere.

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · Aug 13

Written about YouTube, YouTube Man, and the tremendous cultural significance of an episode of Question Time from June 2007: www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...

Who’s afraid of YouTube Man?

Screen culture isn’t dystopia – it’s revelation.

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · Jul 10

‘Who the hell dug up this guy and invited him to pronounce, in his dunce cap of humiliation, on the future of British politics’?

On Neil Hamilton, David Starkey, Thatcher and Thatcherism for this week’s @newstatesman.com sketch: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Mrs Thatcher’s bastards

In her centenary year, Maggie’s political and intellectual heirs still yearn for the smack of firm leadership.

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · Jun 25

I went to watch Thomas Skinner’s political crossover event this week for the @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Thomas Skinner’s full English

A Tory MP, a Brexiteer historian, a Reform clown and a reality-TV star walk into an auditorium…

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · Jun 21

In Westminster, a Blue Labour staff network has been set up.

I spoke to the earnest (mostly) young (mostly) men of the tendency about their politics, plans and why they really just want to have a big chat:

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Meet the Blue Labour bros

Inside the ideological faction remaking the party and the government.

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · Jun 19

‘Cassandra in tracksuit bottoms’

Greatly enjoyed watching the Dominic Cummings live show in Oxford last week, for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Dominic Cummings: oracle of the new British berserk

The political visions of Westminster’s most influential intellectual are wracked by elemental forces.

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · May 30

'“Seriously, why don’t you go back to the barrier and pay,” says the 43-year-old MP for Newark, newly Ozempicked into the form of an Inbetweener.'

@morganj0nes.bsky.social on great form in this piece on Robert Jenrick's bizarre vigilante antics: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick is embarrassing himself

His fare-dodger vigilante antics prove that he has become a mouthpiece of the Online Right.

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · May 30

"The kind of impotence that longs desperately for prepotence"

I enjoyed, with some reservations, Harry Shukman's new book on the British far right, which I wrote about for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Neo-Nazi safari

How close can any journalist get to the English far right?

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · May 27

"Even he cannot combine book-keeper and sans-culotte forever."

Went along to see Nigel Farage's latest political mutation today for the @newstatesman.com

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · May 27

"Nigel Farage doesn’t like being bored, and perhaps no press conference he’s ever given has involved so much arithmetic."

🖊️ @nickpaulharris.bsky.social: Nigel Farage’s political personality disorder

Nigel Farage’s political personality disorder

Britain’s greatest shapeshifter is struggling to contain his contradictions.

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · May 14

"This remains a Britain shaped by Osborne and Cameron: an economy growing on precarious jobs and asset prices, while the public realm rots."

A first-rate cover story this week by @willdunn.bsky.social on George Osborne, the author of broken Britain: www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

Why George Osborne still runs Britain

Austerity was a radical economic experiment – but 15 years on, it has become the new orthodoxy.

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · May 8

‘Reading these novels is like watching a world-class chef working while drunk, skidding around the kitchen and capsizing saucepans’

I wrote about the highs and lows of Edward St Aubyn for this week’s @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Edward St Aubyn’s comedy of horrors

The Patrick Melrose novels and his other works are clearly by the same writer – but produce wildly different results.

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · May 3

‘The impulses of Powellism – escapism, paranoia, nativism – are alive and well. Its political ambition is not.’

In the wake of these local elections, read Oliver Eagleton’s first-class essay on Farage, Farageism and its ancestors: www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...

What is Nigel Farage thinking now?

Enoch Powell is his political hero. But Farage will never be his heir.

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · Apr 30

‘In 2025, few seem to disagree that the machinery of government has grown dysfunctional’

Delighted to have @will-davies.bsky.social return to the @newstatesman.com with this essay on how civil servants became everyone’s worst enemy: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Bonfire of the bureaucrats

How the civil service became the enemy.

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · Apr 25

I wrote about 'the yookay', 'the Yookay', Ukania, and nicknames for national self-loathing for the @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/world/uk/202...

Anarchy in the “yookay”

How the new right came to loathe Britain even more than the radical left.

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · Apr 24

Honoured to appear in this week's issue with such a brilliant group of writers, including but not limited to @finnmcredmond.bsky.social, @rmcunliffe.bsky.social, @georgeeaton.bsky.social @hannahsbee.bsky.social, @nickpaulharris.bsky.social, @annaleszkie.bsky.social and the great Andrew Marr

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · Apr 24

How the US president’s assault on prosperity is transforming the world.

🖋️ @willdunn.bsky.social in this week's cover story

Trump’s plan for chaos

How the US president’s assault on prosperity is transforming the world.

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · Mar 27

‘To think about pubescent men you should think about sex, because that’s what they’re thinking about, all the time.’

A very frank and very funny piece on what truly vexes young men by the @newstatesman.com’s George Monaghan: www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Down with the “positive male role model”

The landscape of contemporary masculinity – sex-obsessed and porn-addled – is not one Gareth Southgate can speak to.

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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · Mar 22

Thank you Phil