James Harvey

@keepof4worlds.bsky.social

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Liberal. Gay. Green. Countryman. Living with in Ebernoe, Sussex and Kennington, London. he/him/his keepof4worlds@mastodon.lol

James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 12:23 UTC

Blimey

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:23 UTC

🥶

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:22 UTC

I’m reliably informed that a raw lamb’s kidney goes a LONG way…

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:21 UTC

The lack of a (much promised) DAM solution is the critical flaw for me: I spend 95% of my time in LrC, and much of my time there outside Develop mode…

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:26 UTC

On Twitter Sam Freedman points out… There are more people in the Commons who were in Gordon Brown's last cabinet (2010) than were in Boris Johnson's cabinet when he resigned (2022). Five vs three.

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:40 UTC

Gosh - I hadn’t seen it at the time, but what a perspicacious identification of a bubble every bit as misleading as left wing twitter…

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:20 UTC

I was assured - repeatedly - that centrists and liberals would *always* side with the fascists over the leftists, not ally with the leftists against the fascists. How strange. It’s *almost* as though Twitter communists are full of shit.

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:15 UTC

Please. Thank god.

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 22:59 UTC

Nah. It’s a *law* firm wanted for fraud. Lawyers are shit at fraud…

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 22:54 UTC

See also the RNLI in the UK…

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:55 UTC

Also: Reform-Tory combos will not appeal in Surrey. They will be much more of a problem in the red wall - not in the leafy liberal suburbs where the LDs hunt. For every seat that the Conservatives can gain by swinging right, they will lose another to the LibDems

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 06:52 UTC

Some initial thoughts on the UK elections. 1. It confirms once again that when a center-right party veers to the hard right to weaken the far right, it ends up doing the opposite. After purging moderates and going full-on wingnuts and fever swamp, the Tories got decimated by Reform, not Labour. 🧵

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:09 UTC

They never learn - primarily because they are not a liberal party (with a liberal concern around democratic control of power), but a social democratic one (concerned with the exercise of power for Good Works).

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:07 UTC

WTAF???

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:06 UTC

This victory brought to you by tactical voting by Labour and LibDem voters… …who constitute what percentage of the voters? Ah 48%

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:05 UTC

Your point about the fragility of Starmer’s majority is well made. And makes Labour’s perennial refusal to reform the voting system even more frustrating.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 04:22 UTC

Worth remembering, for the next five years, that the Tory party rules ASSUME they'll have a large number of sitting MPs. e.g. to automatically start a leadership context only 15% of tory MPs have to put in letters. 15% of 130ish seats is... not a lot.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 05:20 UTC

The bad news continues for the Tories as James Cleverly holds his seat.

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Nicholas Whyte @nwhyte.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 05:46 UTC

Chelsea & Fulham: Labour win Hahahahaha Ben Coleman (Labour) - 18,556 Greg Hands (Conservatives) - 18,404 Blaise Baquiche (Lib Dems) - 3,611 Anthony Goodwin (Reform UK) - 3,144 Mona Crocker (Green Party) - 2,798 Sabi Patwary (Workers Party) - 538 David Poulden (Heritage Party) - 65

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The Stylite @columnist.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:05 UTC

I haven’t looked at anything apart from the exit polls but based on my many years of experience and all-round sage-ness, it looks like Rishi really turned this one around - a huge vindication for the turn to the right strategy. Great work everyone!

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

It’s… …fine? Not 1986 any more?

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:16 UTC

It’s important to retain a level of faith in politics and not give in to cynicism. JESUS WIGGO, FFS!

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:04 UTC

Absolutely not (having worked at a couple).

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:47 UTC

It turns out that when you say “fuck business” to business people, and make their lives much harder for eight years, they… …don’t much like you?

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 11:44 UTC

I mean - the degree to which they have alienated “their people” is quite startling

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 11:43 UTC

I (54) was on a Strategic Advisory Board call for a financial sector firm this morning. Everyone on the call was a current or retired *senior* banking or IM executive. Natural Conservative territory? Everyone was *rejoicing* at potential Tory extinction.

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 07:50 UTC

Ed Davey as LOTO: ROFLMAO

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:32 UTC

🤪

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:31 UTC

You misspelled “deranged”?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:27 UTC

A Conservative (who is, you are not gonna be shocked, not standing again) put it well in the other direction to me lately: 'I didn't agree with Gordon Brown, I didn't like his policies or his hopes for the country. But he had them and he tried his best to implement them, unlike us now.'

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:35 UTC

I don’t like first past the post and in general prefer minority governments or coalitions. But I think it would be very bad for everyone if Sunak’s Conservative party didn’t get a notably worse result than Major’s, because the cynical and lazy approach of the last two years would appear validated.

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:11 UTC

Fucking hilarious.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:20 UTC

Looking forward to retweeting this thread when the exit poll drops

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:10 UTC

Carry on over-achieving! Just don’t *require* it of yourself…

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:53 UTC

This take is baffling. People were loudly saying this in 2016, large chunks of lefty dissenters maintained it was just a scare tactic, and then the lesser evil lost and the greater evil won and this is the direct result of that. The squishy liberal mind was proven emphatically correct

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 11:54 UTC

Donald Trump is the counter example - the trouble is that FPTP *does* prevent new parties entering from the left or right - but by the same token, if an extremist can gain control of an existing party, it can give them untrammelled power. If Farage does a reverse takeover of the Tories…

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:14 UTC

😍

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:07 UTC

Sanskrit FTW

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 21:53 UTC

Look at it this way: orthography in English has been all downhill since 1066. I feel a sense of perspective is helpful…

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 18:16 UTC

So many people see this and get a moment of amusement and surprise but never think more about it: This is all of ancient history and archaeology: All of the fatty nooks and crannies lost to the decay of time until we take what remains and reimagine it as a leaner, purpose-built, brutal existence.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 19:17 UTC

SWEDISH BARMAN: You do not want that much mead ME: I absolutely DO want that much mead SWEDISH BARMAN: But you're meant to drink it like you would drink wine ME: Sir, this IS how I drink wine.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 31, 2023 at 14:06 UTC

EARLY CAT: What that? HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them. EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly- EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON- HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

Johnson is a moderately talented columnist and bloody terrible novelist who became prime minister by mistake. Sunak is an assistant regional manager who was made CEO by computer error and thought he'd earned it.

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 16:37 UTC

When people ask me what my “wizarding house” or “school” is, the answer will always be “Roke”.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 23:12 UTC

Yeah. Johnson is 'Come on, it'll be an adventure', whereas Sunak is 'Come on, it's bedtime'.

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 11:27 UTC

Glorious. The abrupt left turn into “porn star” was the WTF??? moment for me…

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 19:24 UTC

Exclusive report: a series of errors by HMRC let Paul Baxendale-Walker, probably the UK's most notorious tax avoider, escape a £14m penalty.
He's threatening to prosecute me for harassment, sue me for libel and sue me for £500,000 if I report this. Here’s our report: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/19/b...

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 08:15 UTC

This is excellent in genocide by Dorian Lynskey and @iandunt.bsky.social. Hard but necessary listening podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 20:22 UTC

Those are very silly shorts. Well done

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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 13:28 UTC

He’ll - they could even rediscover… …Liberalism!!! E.g. on crime and rehabilitation

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