Carl Harding
@chardle.bsky.social
He/him/oi you.
Woke as hell. I eat tofu and read The Guardian just to annoy people.
Woke as hell. I eat tofu and read The Guardian just to annoy people.
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Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks #ukpolitics you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
#TaxTheBanks
Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing.
The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks #ukpolitics you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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When LGBTQ+ people are outed or doxxed, the harm is irreversible. 💔 Prevention is protection. The ICO & UK police must act NOW to safeguard our community. a.allout.org/s/WngBb/
🛑 UK: Stop Outing & Doxxing
Outing & doxxing aren’t just “online drama” – they put real lives in danger. 🚫 The ICO & UK police must safeguard LGBTQ+ people before it’s too late.
a.allout.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
When LGBTQ+ people are outed or doxxed, the harm is irreversible. 💔 Prevention is protection. The ICO & UK police must act NOW to safeguard our community. a.allout.org/s/WngBb/
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The Blue Labour front bench won’t cheer Mamdani’s win because he stood up in NY, a world centre of capitalism, the city that made Trump, and said, “I am a democratic socialist,” and with that he won +50% of the vote. His win scares the crap out of them. They’re not as scared as they should be. Yet.
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The Blue Labour front bench won’t cheer Mamdani’s win because he stood up in NY, a world centre of capitalism, the city that made Trump, and said, “I am a democratic socialist,” and with that he won +50% of the vote. His win scares the crap out of them. They’re not as scared as they should be. Yet.
If Reform or a Reform/Tory coalition form the next Uk government it will be known as the Morgan McSweeney Memorial Government.
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
If Reform or a Reform/Tory coalition form the next Uk government it will be known as the Morgan McSweeney Memorial Government.
![RE Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, Friday 24th October 2024
Dear Sir or Madam,
Why on earth did the BBC choose yet again to platform Reform when they just lost an election? An interview with Plaid Cymru to learn how they might govern if they won a majority in the Senedd would have been relevant. Labour, the current governing party, lost Caerphilly for the first time in living memory - I wonder how they respond?
What was the justification for interviewing a representative of Reform who came second? I can’t remember the last time, following a by election, we heard not from the winning candidate or their party, not from the current government, not even from the official opposition party, but from a party with a handful of seats in Parliament who lost the election.
In the context of Cardiff University’s recent study quantising the extent of BBC pro Reform bias on Newsnight, this just contributes to listener’s growing sense that the BBC have an obsession with normalising and platforming Reform, whether they are relevant to the conversation or not. As the study noted, “At present they appear to be applying greater weight to trends in opinion poll data as opposed to the [number] of MPs a party has.” As journalists know (or should know) as well as anyone, opinion polls exist in order to shape public opinion as much as to reflect it. It’s all very well to describe Reform as ‘making the political weather’, but that is true at least as much because broadcasters like the BBC choose to make it true as because of the political reality.
BBC Current Affairs will struggle to restore trust in the journalistic integrity of their output until they recover a sense of proportion about Reform and stop acting as if they were employed to promote them.
Yours faithfully,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:upw22tcojkajbnu4buw4bo6e/bafkreigogynt7yepj3t7c2f4pe4u4oqy4bac454hdijecj47x3r76dbxfm@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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TikTok says it bans hate – but LGBT+ users are still being harassed daily with “no violation found.” Sign now to demand real action to protect our community. a.allout.org/s/WeMgg/
TikTok: Protect LGBT+ users from hate
Trans and queer users are facing constant harassment on TikTok – and the platform is failing to act. Sign now to demand stronger protection for LGBT+ people online.
a.allout.org
October 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
TikTok says it bans hate – but LGBT+ users are still being harassed daily with “no violation found.” Sign now to demand real action to protect our community. a.allout.org/s/WeMgg/
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🔍 Our new research with @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social
shines light on the dirtiest mining companies.
❌ Dispossessing people of their land
❌ Polluting land + rivers
❌ Causing deadly disasters
❌ Association w/ militarisation, conflict + human rights abuses
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/tran...
shines light on the dirtiest mining companies.
❌ Dispossessing people of their land
❌ Polluting land + rivers
❌ Causing deadly disasters
❌ Association w/ militarisation, conflict + human rights abuses
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/tran...
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🔍 Our new research with @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social
shines light on the dirtiest mining companies.
❌ Dispossessing people of their land
❌ Polluting land + rivers
❌ Causing deadly disasters
❌ Association w/ militarisation, conflict + human rights abuses
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/tran...
shines light on the dirtiest mining companies.
❌ Dispossessing people of their land
❌ Polluting land + rivers
❌ Causing deadly disasters
❌ Association w/ militarisation, conflict + human rights abuses
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/tran...
Reform and the Tories don’t want people taking English degrees because such degrees teach you, among many other things, to distinguish a well formed argument from nonsense. If I was the leader of Reform or the Conservative Party, I wouldn’t want people to be able to make that distinction either.
October 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reform and the Tories don’t want people taking English degrees because such degrees teach you, among many other things, to distinguish a well formed argument from nonsense. If I was the leader of Reform or the Conservative Party, I wouldn’t want people to be able to make that distinction either.
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It's International Coffee Day. A moment to put our caffeine-based differences aside and unite against our common enemy: soup.
October 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
It's International Coffee Day. A moment to put our caffeine-based differences aside and unite against our common enemy: soup.
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This should be our anthem. If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.
This should be our anthem. If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.
October 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
song.link/zcvx0wpmqzfkk
This should be our anthem. If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.
This should be our anthem. If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.
Unnecessary , unacceptable. c.org/Sv7zqHHVV7
Farmfoods: stop cruelly caging hens
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Unnecessary , unacceptable. c.org/Sv7zqHHVV7
How they make jerk chicken. (With to apologies to Gary Larson)
October 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
How they make jerk chicken. (With to apologies to Gary Larson)
This needs to be known and talked about. Of course, far too few journalists want to serve democracy by actually talking about this. Kudos to the ones who do.
How the Far Right Project 2025 is going to be brought to the UK through the Reform Trojan horse.
Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)
A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.
open.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This needs to be known and talked about. Of course, far too few journalists want to serve democracy by actually talking about this. Kudos to the ones who do.
FFS Storm Amy, all that blowing’ and fussin’ and all those stupid flags are still on lampposts. You had one job, Amy, ONE JOB! You’re fired!
October 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
FFS Storm Amy, all that blowing’ and fussin’ and all those stupid flags are still on lampposts. You had one job, Amy, ONE JOB! You’re fired!
Came across this, from Dr Martin Luther King’s 1963 letter to his fellow clergymen, written from jail in Birmingham Mississippi and nearly fell of my chair. Nailed it, as ever.
October 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Came across this, from Dr Martin Luther King’s 1963 letter to his fellow clergymen, written from jail in Birmingham Mississippi and nearly fell of my chair. Nailed it, as ever.
Please, if you live in the UK tell this government to stop pandering to right wing agendas and stop attacking civil liberties.
September 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Please, if you live in the UK tell this government to stop pandering to right wing agendas and stop attacking civil liberties.
This. Exactly. Right.
The real issue isn’t left vs right.
It’s not white vs black.
It’s not citizen vs immigrant.
It’s not gay vs straight.
The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.
It’s not white vs black.
It’s not citizen vs immigrant.
It’s not gay vs straight.
The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.
September 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This. Exactly. Right.