Tom Harwood

Reparations. Is there any logic to these calls at all? Are former British colonies today poorer than they would be without colonisation? Did Britain somehow 'extract' their wealth? And to what extent is Britain to blame for global slavery? My analysis 👉tomharwood.substack.com/p/on-colonial-…

@DawnNeesom @GBNEWS Reading? READING? That was off the top of my bloody head.

BAFTA winning broadcasting ⁦@GBNEWS⁩ courtesy @tomhfh Shakespeare reading…🙉😂#GBNews #Friday #Shakespeare

@polytixs Northern Ireland is British.

@tomhfh Jeez Tom, why do you keep pushing this crap? If someone you refer to as "we" happens to live in Northern Ireland then are you going to assert their identity is British?

Around the turn of the century politicians decided that Britain was no longer acceptable shorthand for the country we live in. Instead, they rebranded as ‘UK’. Ugly ‘UK’ branding was slapped everywhere. They diminished our identity and now we’re UKians, not British.

@bswud @josephkazUK @RobertKwolek @haringeycouncil it's a genuine popular uprising against an out of touch elite

@josephkazUK @RobertKwolek @haringeycouncil I feel like AI has blown this whole field wide open.

This is Seven Sisters Road in @haringeycouncil. It's an utter embarrassment that we have allowed our high streets to deteriorate to this point. This parade of shops could be a landmark destination, but instead it's neglected and forgotten. I'm all for liberalising planning BUT design codes have a place, and this is a great example. No satellite dishes, no PVC, no estate agent signs, no white paint. Just consistent signage, colours and high-quality heritage shopfronts. @createstreets

@court_college @boys_nicholas @HistoricEngland @TheCriticMag Literally look at *any* visual preference survey. There are of course some who like the concrete buildings others find ugly. But you are always in a minority.

@boys_nicholas @HistoricEngland @TheCriticMag I love it, do you believe you speak on behalf of the nation?

London’s brutalist Southbank Centre has been listed at Grade-II by @HistoricEngland. The centre is visited by ~3.4 million visitors a year. Modernist aficionados are cock-a-hoop. This, they claim, is evidence Britain now loves brutalism. My latest article in @TheCriticMag ...

The windows on new builds are atrocious, they’re so ugly they’ll come to define the era. People will date buildings they walk past by observing the tiny windows of the early 21st century.

95% of looksmaxxing is just going to the gym.

Sometimes I think about how we could have had a London Sphere by now if our politicians weren’t all allergic to economic growth.

@Plingplonghed @ColeFusionHQ Hmm

@tomhfh @ColeFusionHQ No one said it was impossible you cunt, just that there's a huge deposit and costs more than a normal rental.

PIP claiming Catherine Wieland, 33, claimed she suffered anxiety so crippling she was housebound.

@93vintagejones yuck

I profoundly disagree with Nicholas on his disdain for brutalism: but, as he makes quite clear in this fantastic piece, the public are sadly with him...

Reparations. Is there any logic to these calls at all? Are former British colonies today poorer than they would be without colonisation? Did Britain somehow 'extract' their wealth? And to what extent is Britain to blame for global slavery? My analysis 👉tomharwood.substack.com/p/on-colonial-…

Has Robert Jenrick been looking to Canada when reading the tea leaves of Britain's political future. There are three ways in which he might have been emulating our loyal cousins across the Atlantic. Read my analysis here 👉tomharwood.substack.com/p/a-very-canad…

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I don't think the advice is awful, but it is worth noting that the extent to which it is 'evidence-led' is overblown. The recommendations are based off a literature review where most of the studies are non-causal, cross-sectional, and heavily confounded. Honestly, we really don't know how bad (or not) screen time is for kids. The advice itself is informed by the review, but it is highly precautionary. At every point, they err on the side of caution. In my view, when the Govt puts out advice they should be careful to communicate when we're dealing with a precautionary best-guess, and when we're dealing with 'vaccines stop this virus/smoking causes cancer' tier information.

@JackLloyd_18 Reform didn't lead in a single poll until January 2025.

@tomhfh Let’s be serious, the media never gave this government a chance, they had already turned to Reform by July 5th.

Historic artefact, capturing the last moment Labour retained a reasonable lead in the polls.

@ColeFusionHQ The Motability BMW that PIP campaigners assert was *impossible* for 'anxiety' cheats to claim.

@tomhfh That's why she needed the Motability BMW saloon automobile x.com/maxtempers/sta…

@mr_james_c Logic will win.

@tomhfh Yes but Tom, you're trying to apply logic to a situation that is really about grifters trying to exploit people who have been brainwormed into compliance.

"For all the riches of global dominance, Britain at the height of its imperial power in 1913 was per person poorer than Ghana (with all its demands for reparations) is today. Per person, today’s Nigeria is 55% richer than Britain was then." tomharwood.substack.com/p/on-colonial-…

On Colonial Reparations, by @tomhfh open.substack.com/pub/tomharwood…

Give this judge a gong.