John Harris

I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.

Thank you. Sending sympathy & solidarity

There was a massive queue in Lidl just now, and they played Chance by Big Country boomingly loud. Quite the moment, it was

It's true. Long overdue for the bin

Recorded v early this morning. I think you can probably hear the caffeine kick in ~10mins in.

With a million young people locked out of work, the UK’s hidden jobs crisis is only growing | John Harris Held back by Covid and then phased out by AI, Britain’s so-called Neets are desperately seeking a secure future. Who will offer them hope? asks Guardian columnist John Harris

Latest from me: on the million young people not in education, employment in training, & generational debts still not settled www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks Sean! Really appreciated

Thank you! Great to meet you

One of the books of the year, and great to meet on of your journalistic heroes. The book is a very important book of our time, relating to all things autism and music. The Kraftwerk chapter is very emotional, @johnharris1969.bsky.social

This is a great piece of reporting & writing

Idiot Box is still on repeat play here

Good list

They're all in Spotify, I think. Mostly I found them cos of conversations in record shops

That's good. The SVE record is very overlooked/underrated imho

Here's my 10 albums of the year, for what it's worth

Tomorrow is the 20th Maybe I'm Amazed book event, and the last of 2025. It's at the WriteIdea festival in Whitechapel, East London, at 5.30pm. And it's free. Music, autism, Kraftwerk, The Clash, all that. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-harri...

Fair play to The Graun for putting Mani on the front page 🖤

Mani’s writhing, relentless bass was the Stone Roses’ secret sauce – it taught indie kids how to dance | Alexis Petridis His love of ‘good northern soul and funk’ was always in evidence and had a lasting impact on alternative music

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

this week's Guardian Politics Weekly pod is about asylum reforms, moral outrage, and whether either of those things are going to make any tangible difference

Mani was a great man: warm, funny, self-deprecating at the right moments, and a profoundly talented bass player, born to do it. This is awful news

Yes, it's the latest Politics Weekly UK, a rich & questioning chatfest with me, @kiranstacey.bsky.social, @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social & @rafaelbehr.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Wow. Lovely to hear. And big thanks for your Amazon review. Really appreciated

Labourism is a disease

I think you can get the measure of the deadness of someone's soul from the fact they kick up a stink about [checks notes] autistic kids wearing ear defenders

The problem with having no politics is that you sooner or later lead your party into a moral void.

Briefed to the Times. How's the "battle for the soul of the nation" going, Starmer?

Shabana Mahmood threatens Trump-style visa ban on three countries Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals

Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans

What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
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This weekend has been an interesting approach to winning over the Parliamentary Labour Party for a leader on the verge of being dumped.

Latest from me: on Floods, Storm Claudia & the ones that are ignored, and why. We really have no idea what's about to hit us www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Question on Monday

Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?