James Harvey

@keepof4worlds.bsky.social

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Liberal. Gay. Green. Countryman. Living in Ebernoe, Sussex and Kennington, London. he/him

Avon from Blake’s 7
Was Farage right to trigger a by-election? • Yes, let the voters judge his conduct No, he should've waited for the investigation to finish Total votes: 13,535 26% 74%
One day in 1990, for instance, I was invited to address senior policemen at the annual ACPO conference in Preston. I talked about a subject close to my heart, the breakdown of the traditional relationship between the police and the middle class. I sat down to muted applause, to put the matter politely.
Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry, probably designed and executed by Anglo-Saxons…
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Glass roof draped with a big silver cloth
Liberal Despot with antlers
“He’s fat, with piles. He’s in the Epstein files”. England fans chant
Charterhouse. It looks like Hogwarts.
HOUSE OF COMMONS LONDON SWIA OAA Thursday 11" June nine Minter, It has been the privilege of my life to serve this country, first in uniform and then in government. I have said that there are issues facing this Department that do not lend themselves to easy answers, and that there needs to be agreement throughout the government about the scale of the challenges we face. It has become clear to me that the change I had pushed for is not going to come. Given the situation, I have decided to resign as Minister for the Armed Forces. We face a more unstable and dangerous world than at any point in recent decades, and having spent most of my adult life in uniform, I understand what public service in such a moment demands. It is for this very reason I cannot continue. I have watched, as a Marine, what war looks like now. I have spoken to those who have seen it up close in Ukraine. The lesson is uncomfortable and it is unambiguous. The character of conflict is changing faster than our procurement can keep up with. We are still purchasing capability suitable for the last war while our adversaries arm for the next one. Platforms that cost billions can be defeated by systems that cost thousands. Any serious Defence Investment Plan has to start from that reality. While I had no hand in the Defence Investment Plan, that distance does allow me to say plainly that it is not built for the threat we face. It is neither transformative enough nor sufficiently funded. We are asking our Armed Forces to operate in a more dangerous world on a budget written for a calmer one. I have sat in the rooms, seen the assessments, and spoken to the commanders who will be asked to do more with less, and I cannot in good conscience stand at the dispatch box and detend a level of investment I know to be inadequate to the task. A serious country funds its defence to meet the threat it actually faces, not the threat it wishes it faced. The same instinct, that serious problems can be managed rather than f…
Ser Bronn of the Blackwater from Game of Thrones
Crystal Palace Subway
Crystal Palace Subway - before and after pictures
Japanese job advert using Moomins character.
What is there about trees and woodland (and the landscape gen-erally) that makes them specially, perhaps uniquely, productive of canards? Authors confuse the history of woodland with the history of woodland folk or the history of what people have said about wood-land. These are very different things. Landscape changes through natural causes and human default as well as human action. People notice the sudden felling of trees but not their gradual growth; they may put on record the grubbing-out of a wood as an investment, but not the making of a new wood by neglect, which costs nothing; they take far more notice of oak than of hornbeam. Historians forget that trees and woodland are living things, and have lives of their own independently of what men do to them. They are not mere artefacts, and are not wholly predictable. As living things, trees are very unlike us and unlike each other. They are much less anthropoid than dogs or codfish; an ash is less like a pine than a dog is like a fish. Each species has its own behaviour, and we do not understand them fully. A huge inverted pyramid of argument has been built on the belief that trees die when cut down - a factoid which flatly denies the whole basis of woodmanship as practised over the last 5000 years.
Sean Connery in Zardoz. He is dressed only in red chest straps, a red jockstrap and black leather thigh boots.
Zardoz
The Day Today “War” episode
2024 Godalming and Ash general election result. Conservative majority over LibDems 891, Labour vote 2,748
🇬🇧 British Political Spectrum Quiz My result: Progressive Nationalist Economic: centrist Social: progressive Sovereignty: cosmopolitan Military: hawkish Authority: leaning libertarian Constitutional: reformist Take the quiz: https://quiz.jmoxley.co.uk
Survey results indicating Liberal Progressive
Sexy bloke from Hook Norton beer festival in 2005
East Surrey council results with the Tories losing 34 seats to the LibDems
Greens wipe out Labour in Waltham Forest
Greens win Waltham Forest with 31/60 councillors from a base of zero
Conservatives lose 24 councillors to leave a total of 3/50 - fourth largest party
Broken statue of Rameses II in Luxor
In The Cassandra Crossing the TransEuropean Express has been hit by a plague of bad act-ing. NATO attempts to shunt the train off into Poland and isolate it there until all the bad actors have either died off or recovered, but its plans are foiled by Richard Harris in the role of a famous surgeon, Sophia in the role of his estranged but adoring wife, Martin Sheen as a drug-addict mountain-climbing gigolo, and numerous others. Some, although not all, of those mentioned are good actors in normal circum-stances, but even Martin Sheen finds it difficult to turn in an Oscar-winning performance when he is pretending to be a drug-addict mountain-climbing gigolo with plague.
Warren Buffett’s entirely normal suburban house
Cover of “The Romans” from MacDonald’s “People’s of the Past” series in the 1970s
Appian Way
Castell Sant’Angelo
Temple of Venus and Roma with the Colloseum in the background
Pantheon and Piazza della Rotonda by night
Pantheon, Rome
Merlin bird ID app output, with Wren, Blackbird and Nightingale emphasised.
French and Saunders “The Phantom Menace” sketch
Stained glass window of a swan
38% German, 31% Autistic
Screenshot of Bluesky Accessibility settings page
Netted statue in Vienna
Parson Russell terrier
Packet of revels sweets
they are vastly outnumbered by those of us who don’t give a shit about the Labour party as an institution: we just want there to be a viable electoral vehicle through which progressive politics can happen.
The final vote had barely been cast in Gorton & Denton when anonymous whispers suggested Shabana Mahmood's immigration reforms were to blame and should be dropped. Debate over immigration policy is a healthy sign of a functioning party, but Friday morning's vicious briefing owed nothing to evidence and everything to the search for comforting solutions to uncomfortable problems.
Chart showing declining vote share for the two major parties
Bank of England and the old Stock Exchange tower catching the last of the sun
Fake headline from Allister Heath “The total failure of sewer valves exposes the moral bankruptcy of the Left”
Rush 2027 tour poster
Muller’s Android, Blake’s 7
A one eyed Border Collie smiles at the camera
My mother, brothers and grandmother walk down a lane on the Isle of Wight in 1953 with two standard poodles
Black and white picture of Finty, a lurcher
A black white picture of Finty, a female lurched
Is it possible the root cause is Narcissism?
A triffid
Canaima waterfalls
20 ft Xmas tree on a pickup truck…
A mud bath in the Weald