Harry Farmer
@psychfarmer.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Psychology at University of Greenwich. Interested in studying self, body and social cognition using behavioural, neural and VR methods.
Even better that no one with any influence on either side is at all interested in learning the lessons.
November 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Even better that no one with any influence on either side is at all interested in learning the lessons.
How would going full rejoin as opposed to promising a second ref have possibly helped win in 2019. Reality is that they should have worked to get lab MPs to push Teresa May’s deal through ensuring that Brexit was a non issue by the time of a GE. I think it would have turned out better for them.
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
How would going full rejoin as opposed to promising a second ref have possibly helped win in 2019. Reality is that they should have worked to get lab MPs to push Teresa May’s deal through ensuring that Brexit was a non issue by the time of a GE. I think it would have turned out better for them.
Do you think Kier has the stomach to fight it for that long?
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Do you think Kier has the stomach to fight it for that long?
Starmer spent his time in opposition ruling out enacting the policy platform he was elected as Labour leader on, purging the left and defending genocide. Did that really look like impressive opposition to the tories to you?
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Starmer spent his time in opposition ruling out enacting the policy platform he was elected as Labour leader on, purging the left and defending genocide. Did that really look like impressive opposition to the tories to you?
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“There she goes again with her psycho fascist rants!” we used to laugh. “In the Spectator and, uh, on Radio 4. And now, as a columnist in the Times. Why is she on TV? A mass-murderer has quoted her in his wacko manifesto and now she’s being RT’d by Michael Gove. Wait, what exactly is going on here?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“There she goes again with her psycho fascist rants!” we used to laugh. “In the Spectator and, uh, on Radio 4. And now, as a columnist in the Times. Why is she on TV? A mass-murderer has quoted her in his wacko manifesto and now she’s being RT’d by Michael Gove. Wait, what exactly is going on here?”
Well that must really be some coffee habit. No wonder she doesn’t feel great.
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Well that must really be some coffee habit. No wonder she doesn’t feel great.
What does the total spent relate to?
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
What does the total spent relate to?
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This is why they won’t let the priests in to distribute the Eucharist.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This is why they won’t let the priests in to distribute the Eucharist.
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“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?”
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?”
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
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It's almost like maybe the ones who've been driving the fascism all along were the chattering class "centrist" elite who resented their loss of control over bourgeois propriety to the damn millennial filthy proles on Twitter, and the crass egoist kleinburger bosses who resent being judged by anyone
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It's almost like maybe the ones who've been driving the fascism all along were the chattering class "centrist" elite who resented their loss of control over bourgeois propriety to the damn millennial filthy proles on Twitter, and the crass egoist kleinburger bosses who resent being judged by anyone
How would nationalising water have an enormous cost? If we just fined the companies properly we could force them all into bankruptcy (many of them are already on the brink) and then appropriate the assets.
November 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
How would nationalising water have an enormous cost? If we just fined the companies properly we could force them all into bankruptcy (many of them are already on the brink) and then appropriate the assets.
The argument in favour of keeping these industries privatised is simply far worse. This is especially true for water and rail but when you look at energy bills and the need for large government investment to pivot from carbon I think nationalised energy also makes sense.
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The argument in favour of keeping these industries privatised is simply far worse. This is especially true for water and rail but when you look at energy bills and the need for large government investment to pivot from carbon I think nationalised energy also makes sense.
It’s not proven because to prove it you’d have to do it. But comparable countries with nationalised industries have lower bills (including Scotland for water) and the fact that you’d no longer have payouts to shareholders holders means there would be room for a bill cut all else being equal.
November 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It’s not proven because to prove it you’d have to do it. But comparable countries with nationalised industries have lower bills (including Scotland for water) and the fact that you’d no longer have payouts to shareholders holders means there would be room for a bill cut all else being equal.
Duncan almost every other country in the world has nationalised water and many of them have far less shit in their rivers. Most of our private energy companies are literally other countries state run companies. Privatisation of national monopolies has patently been a disaster.
November 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Duncan almost every other country in the world has nationalised water and many of them have far less shit in their rivers. Most of our private energy companies are literally other countries state run companies. Privatisation of national monopolies has patently been a disaster.
And I just don’t seen that misapplying what was already an under evidenced model to try and show that it’s the voters who don’t get it and need to realise that actually the government is doing a good job is supposed to persuade anyone.
October 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
And I just don’t seen that misapplying what was already an under evidenced model to try and show that it’s the voters who don’t get it and need to realise that actually the government is doing a good job is supposed to persuade anyone.
While the voter starmer is chasing will always prefer Reform and the Tories to Starmer.
On top of all of that as soon as they got into power the Labour front bench have been caught out by scandal after scandal including Reeves today which has damaged their credibility…
On top of all of that as soon as they got into power the Labour front bench have been caught out by scandal after scandal including Reeves today which has damaged their credibility…
October 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
While the voter starmer is chasing will always prefer Reform and the Tories to Starmer.
On top of all of that as soon as they got into power the Labour front bench have been caught out by scandal after scandal including Reeves today which has damaged their credibility…
On top of all of that as soon as they got into power the Labour front bench have been caught out by scandal after scandal including Reeves today which has damaged their credibility…
But actually people genuinely dislike many of the governments policies eg cutting winter fuel, trying to cut benefits. The existing Labour base also dislike the criminalising of dissent on Gaza, the constant dog whistles on immigration and unwillingness to make any large economic interventions…
October 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
But actually people genuinely dislike many of the governments policies eg cutting winter fuel, trying to cut benefits. The existing Labour base also dislike the criminalising of dissent on Gaza, the constant dog whistles on immigration and unwillingness to make any large economic interventions…
2) That the model being employed has no relation to why the gov is actually unpopular. It posits that people are frustrated that change isn’t happening fast enough r are just resistant to change...
October 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
2) That the model being employed has no relation to why the gov is actually unpopular. It posits that people are frustrated that change isn’t happening fast enough r are just resistant to change...
My issues with that thread are
1) that an oversimplified model of grief has first been transposed to the field of management consultancy to model response to change in general which I think is symptomatic of the type of poorly evidenced pseudostheories used by consultants.
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1) that an oversimplified model of grief has first been transposed to the field of management consultancy to model response to change in general which I think is symptomatic of the type of poorly evidenced pseudostheories used by consultants.
And…
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
My issues with that thread are
1) that an oversimplified model of grief has first been transposed to the field of management consultancy to model response to change in general which I think is symptomatic of the type of poorly evidenced pseudostheories used by consultants.
And…
1) that an oversimplified model of grief has first been transposed to the field of management consultancy to model response to change in general which I think is symptomatic of the type of poorly evidenced pseudostheories used by consultants.
And…
I don’t deny the emotion of grief exists or that in some cases it might be a good lense to understand people’s response eg the catastrophic defeat of a political project (Remain post 2016 or Corbynism post 2019).
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October 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I don’t deny the emotion of grief exists or that in some cases it might be a good lense to understand people’s response eg the catastrophic defeat of a political project (Remain post 2016 or Corbynism post 2019).
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