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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

2 months

It’s only the first proof copies of Technology Is Not The Problem! Publication May 2024.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

2 years

Hard to believe this stuff really happened. But it did.

Griff Ferris

@g__ferris

4 years

A police van is going around peckham rye blaring “no sunbathing... exercise only”

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Timandra Harkness

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5 years

If calling us racist gammons too stupid to know what we’re voting for, gloating over the deaths of pensioners, & refusing to implement our vote for 3 years, hasn’t turned us into violent thugs, I don’t think calling the Surrender Bill by that name will do it.

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Timandra Harkness

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2 years

I’m very worried by this push to blame the unvaccinated for both Covid infections and for social restrictions. Especially since we vaccinated can still pass on the virus. I want other adults to get vaccinated for their own protection, but it’s their choice. They’re not my enemy.

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6 years

SMART = Surveillance Masked As Routine Technology

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

2 years

Me on vaccine passports:

BBC Question Time

@bbcquestiontime

2 years

“You essentially put a cap on the number of people who will get vaccinated.” Broadcaster and writer @TimandraHarknes says she is against COVID passports in general and believes that they only confirm the conspiracy theorist’s beliefs. #bbcqt

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

5 years

If you see a lot of voters in one place and think of Nazis, you’re the one who has problems with democracy, not them.

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@TimandraHarknes

5 years

800 out of how many? I need to know the denominator before I can decide if this is ... er....

nature

@Nature

5 years

More than 800 signatories call for the entire concept of statistical significance to be abandoned.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

I would watch a reality TV series in which all these protestors live on an island without fossil fuels or electricity for a year. Nothing delivered. No internet. Show us how they want us to live.

LBC

@LBC

3 years

Eco protestors are being forcibly dragged off the motorway by police after they shut down the M25 again. Watch more:

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

London is open. But you have to walk here.

Sadiq Khan

@SadiqKhan

4 years

BREAKING: We won! Today we blocked the Tory government plans to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport. Today’s judgment is a major victory for all Londoners who are passionate about tackling the climate emergency and cleaning up our air.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Ava speaks for the nation

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@sjanemurf

3 years

“We’re going for another fucking walk” says Ava, my friend’s four yr old to her Granddad on the ☎️ when asked if she has plans for the day.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

2 years

Pitch: Remake of You’ve Got Mail - but this time it’s neighbours who get on well, help each other and gradually fall in love, unaware that their anonymous social media personae are locked in a ruthless war of insults, trolling and nebulous threats.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

This time last year I had Covid. Week 1 like flu. Week 2, every breath hurt. Weeks 3 & 4, had to lie down half the day. And I had it milder than any of my friends. Not recommended. Would I take a sore arm and a day of feeling flu-ey to avoid it? You bet your sweet life I would.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

If ever there was a strong case for somebody to get a statue on the Fourth Plinth, it's this hero:

How should Thames hero Jimi be honoured?

Jimi Olubunmi-Adewole drowned in the Thames while trying to save a woman's life earlier this year.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

5 years

I’m starting to think that the major political division today is not Left/Right or Leave/Remain but “this is a difficult issue we need to debate” vs “merely wanting to discuss this issue means you are a fascist”

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

Interesting that Professor Neil Ferguson doesn’t think the UK population would voluntarily follow Covid guidelines. In the first Lockdown 95% of us did. But a few people thought they were above the rules against households mixing. And he was one of them.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

I have never wanted a drinks cabinet until this moment:

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Still a no from me. Cinemas, theatres and nightclubs have no business asking customers about their medical treatments. Government has no business overseeing such a scheme. It’s discrimination.

Dr Stephanie Hare

@hare_brain

3 years

Boris Johnson plans for vaccine passports version 2.0:

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

“I really should vote..” “But baby, it’s cold outside” “My MP’s a scrote.” “But baby it’s cold outside ..”

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

This is a terrible idea. Smokers are people too, and a fag with a drink in the open air is a completely reasonable pleasure. Fellow non-smokers, join me in a call for tolerance.

Local Government Association (LGA)

@LGAcomms

4 years

Councils are calling for the introduction of smoke-free pavements outside bars, pubs and cafes, as indoor seating is restricted We're urging @UKHouseOfLords peers to support an amendment to the Business and Planning Bill, which would make this possible👇

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Students protest against the possibility of hearing ideas they don’t agree with in a Philosophy department.

ArtistX

@ArtistX75123818

3 years

TRA protest @SussexUni open day today. About 100 of them, some in quasi military look - black hoodie with assault rifle motif. Not sure I'd want to send my child there seeing this. #istandwithkathleenstock

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

5 years

@TheSimonEvans @simonblackwell @HackneyAbbott We should have a mass tinny-drinking on TFL.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

I dug VERY deeply into Matt Hancock's COVID Contact-tracing app for @unherd

Can your smartphone crack Covid?

Contact-tracing apps are touted as a way out of lockdown. But what about privacy?

unherd.com

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

"Scotland now has the dubious honour of being the only country in the Western world where the state polices what you say even in the privacy of your own home." Important by @iainmacwhirter

Iain Macwhirter: So what will independence be if SNP no longer protect freedom of speech?

Since the Middle Ages, Scots have been entertaining themselves during the long winter nights with a dialectical tradition called “flyting”. This…

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

“Once you have handed over the control to decide which opinions may be expressed, or even thought, not just in the workplace but on social media or perhaps in private, it will be near-impossible to reclaim.” The death of solidarity: me for ⁦ @unherd ⁩

The hounding of Kathleen Stock

Her union's betrayal signals the death of solidarity

unherd.com

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

The government: "Why don't people want to get vaccinated? Don't they trust our motives?" Same government: "We're considering a scheme that will exclude you from public life if you aren't vaccinated." I think everyone who can should get vaccinated. But it MUST be a free choice.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Anyone else feeling like ten days locked in an airport hotel at £80/night would at least make a change?

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

This is the spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion. He thinks he has the right to tell you what you can read.

Rupert Read 🌍

@GreenRupertRead

4 years

Check this out. No Times today, and no Sun: no Murdoch trash. No Telegraph either; we blockaded them too, for their continuing lies & distortions on climate (and Covid). We are #extinctionrebellion . For one day, let’s #freethetruth . And get the oligarchs to get it: #tellthetruth !

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Going to retweet this again. Surely SOMEBODY in government realises that half the country is still going out to work and that infections are not evenly distributed? Support to self isolate is essential to stop sick people working on and spreading infection.

Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

"We still have no co-ordinated plan to support self-isolation, statutory sick pay, or incentives for employers to co-operate." And why this matters so much: By @jackiecassell

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Timandra Harkness

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3 years

Once you accept the idea that it is our job to protect the NHS, instead of the NHS’s job to care for us, there is no logical limit to the sacrifices that can be demanded.

Good Morning Britain

@GMB

3 years

'It's about protecting the NHS.' The world's first Salt and Sugar Reformulation tax could be added to food sold in shops, cafes and canteens in England. @DrHilaryJones explains we need to cut back on certain foods to protect the NHS and the environment.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

5 years

Eagerly awaiting my re-education so I can in future vote the correct way and please our Glorious Leaders

David Lammy

@DavidLammy

5 years

Parliament's greatest failure over the past 3 years is not our inability to agree a Brexit deal. It has been our lack of collective will to educate the public and expose the lies of 2016. As a result, hard right populists are on the march, selling the same fantasy all over again.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

6 years

Trust me to miss the election for National Women’s Spokeswoman On Brexit.... can we re-run that vote?

Jeremy Vine

@theJeremyVine

6 years

"Women no longer want to leave the European Union. The failure to listen to their voices is a national scandal and it stops now."

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

5 years

I dunno, for me flavour and not being rotten are two key aspects of food

Action on Salt

@actiononsalt

8 years

Salt is the easiest of things to reduce - it's often there just for flavour or preservation. Let's get on with it! #SaltAwarenessWeek

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How I spent my Sunday. With about 105,000 other people. #MarchAgainstAntisemitism

Campaign Against Antisemitism

@antisemitism

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Britain has not seen a gathering against antisemitism of this size in almost a century, since the Battle of Cable Street. We are proud to come together to say: This is the United Kingdom: United Against Antisemitism. #MarchAgainstAntisemitism

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Reconsidering my belief that dogs lack a theory of mind

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

2 years

Really sorry to hear the argument being wheeled out yet again that ending online anonymity would end online abuse. It wouldn’t, it just silences people who need to post anonymously. #BBCWato

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

Now I understand why his models assumed a lot of us would break the rules.

Anna Mikhailova

@AVMikhailova

4 years

EXCLUSIVE Professor Neil Ferguson resigns from government advisory group SAGE after Telegraph reveals he broke lockdown rules to meet his married lover

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

7 years

On #EuropeanStatisticsDay here's my best Stats joke: Why should you never tell a Statistician he was average? Because it's mean.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

I fear we are losing the ability to distinguish between disagreeing with an idea and believing it should be a crime to say it aloud.

Maya Forstater

@MForstater

4 years

Progressive authoritarianism on the rise 21% in Scotland say it should be a *criminal offence* to say that someone born biologically male cannot become a woman 40% of adults under 25!

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 months

I'm not the best statistician around. I'm not the best journalist around. But I am a very good Chair, and I can talk - and listen - to both statisticians and journalists, so I'm honoured to share this news...

Significance

@signmagazine

3 months

We're excited to announce that @TimandraHarknes has been appointed the new chair of the Significance editorial board

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Please stop trying to ban people for their opinions. We need to hear all opinions, good and bad, so we can work out why we think they’re wrong, and argue against them.

Chortle Comedy

@chortle

3 years

BBC 'should ban Alexei Sayle' | MP calls for comic's Desert Island Discs to be axed in antisemitism row

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Am I alone in being less concerned about the reduction of the noble game to an international cash cow, and more concerned about government plans to return flying and driving to being luxuries for the rich?

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

My genius policy proposal of the day is - Nightingale Pubs! Plenty of room for social distancing, capacity to employ ALL the laid-off hospitality staff and deal with the pent-up backlog of sociable drinking!

Covid-19: Nightingale hospitals to close from April

The temporary hospitals, which were largely unused, are being shut as patient numbers fall.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

What do they think Coronavirus is? Some kind of werewolf?

YouGov

@YouGov

4 years

62% of Britons – and all ages ranges - say they would support the introduction of a curfew between 10pm and 5am as a measure to prevent a second coronavirus wave

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

It’s official. For the next couple of years I will mostly be writing this book:

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

3 years

. @HQstories signs a "brilliantly original new book" from broadcaster and statistician @TimandraHarknes , with Recognised exploring the changing relationship between human identity and technology. See more:

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

Doing the ⁦ @SkyNews ⁩ Paper Review tonight so spending the next 4 hours rearranging my bookshelves for public scrutiny 😬

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Brexit is about, “a more directly accountable democracy, ... and a country in which people can seriously influence the decisions that are affecting their daily lives. “ ⁦ @GoodwinMJ ⁩ for ⁦ @unherd ⁩

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

What I want most in the world right now is a Friday evening in the pub with workmates. They wouldn't even gave to be MY workmates, I would happily tag along with somebody else's workmates.

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@TimandraHarknes

4 years

"putting forward a male rep & then boycotting the resulting all-male panel" is the new "negotiating a new agreement and then campaigning against it in a second referendum"

Julia Macfarlane

@juliamacfarlane

4 years

. @adamboultonSKY takes a moment to apologise for the “manel” today, noting that the parties were asked for representatives to come on air and all put forward male reps (including the Greens, who then boycotted the panel because it was all male)

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Timandra Harkness

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4 years

BBC One - The Andrew Marr Show, 10/05/2020, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter: Here is the whole ten minutes of ⁦ @d_spiegel ⁩ talking such refreshing sense about COVID19, numbers and risk

BBC One - The Andrew Marr Show, 10/05/2020, Professor Sir David...

Andrew Marr spoke to Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter from the University of Cambridge

www.bbc.co.uk

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

6 years

You mean... voters?

Andrew Adonis

@Andrew_Adonis

6 years

When Brexit is stopped, there will have to be a public enquiry and in my view those directly responsible should never hold office again

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

6 months

Honoured and a little daunted to have been elected to the Council of the @RoyalStatSoc . I look forward to contributing to the work of the Society in making statistics and data central, not just to society but to democracy and public debate.

Royal Statistical Society

@RoyalStatSoc

6 months

📢 Announcing the results of our ballot for RSS Council 📢 Congratulations to those elected: Timandra Harkness, Neil Spencer, Louisa Nolan, and Rhiannon Edge We can’t wait to start working with you next year 🎉 🤝

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Does this build popular support for what should be a popular policy? No. It builds the public’s perception that you despise them and their everyday lives. Does it inconvenience the government? No, it hands them the justification for draconian new anti-protest laws.

LBC

@LBC

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'How can you be so selfish?!' This desperate motorist pleads with eco protesters blocking the entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel asking them to move so she can get to her sick mother in hospital. Read More:

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

Empirically, Britain is less racist than other European countries, and a lot less racist than it was...

Matt Goodwin

@GoodwinMJ

4 years

Twitter tells me Britain is engulfed by racism New research tells me that the vast majority of the foreign-born population feel that Britain is hospitable or welcoming for migrants & over 90% say migrants can get ahead if they work hard. Source: Oxford Migration Observatory

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

5 years

Timpsons is such a rock solid force for good in this world

James Herring

@itsjamesherring

5 years

This wonderful service is available from 500 of Timpson shops nationwide.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

2 years

So the Government thinks we are going to show our papers to go out, but they can do anything they want? I think they are forgetting who put them in No. 10 in the first place - and who can vote them out again.

Alan D Miller

@alanvibe

2 years

Get involved #together Vaccine Passports serve only to discriminate segregate & damage Here @JeffreyPeel appeals & we know Fri Wales want to extend & Nxt week N Ireland decides while Plan B hovers England Sign share @Togetherdec #TogetherDeclaration

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

This is a perfect expression of why we should not make laws on the basis of “emotional harm,” whether they’re about statues or cartoons, freedom to demonstrate or blasphemy. Nobody’s feelings or identity should be used as justification for those in power to silence others.

Naz Shah MP 💙

@NazShahBfd

3 years

Today the Government proposed a bill to protect the emotional harm connected with the damaging of statues. If people can understand the emotional connections to statues, then they can understand the connection Muslims have with the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ #NotJustACartoon .

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@TimandraHarknes

3 years

“When I heard that Health Person solemnly say that, vaccine or no vaccine, we would still be wearing masks and social distancing and so on for the next 18 months, my response was not fit to print.” - ⁦ me for @unherd ⁩

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@TimandraHarknes

1 year

Today we will have a male monarch AND a male Prime Minister for the first time in 70 years. What an inspiration for little boys who dream of making it to the top!

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@TimandraHarknes

4 years

Me on ⁦ @SkyNews ⁩ earlier today, when they asked what I thought about Facebook and political advertising

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@TimandraHarknes

3 years

British warehouse worker shortage triggers up to 30% pay spike | Reuters Good. It’s about time the people whose work keeps the world running got paid enough not to need benefits, to save, to enjoy life. If laptop zoomocrats like me have to pay more: Good!

British warehouse worker shortage triggers up to 30% pay spike

Warehouses in Britain are having to pay up to 30% more to recruit staff after a chronic shortage of workers exacerbated pressure on already buckling supply chains and threatened to derail the run up...

www.reuters.com

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@TimandraHarknes

2 years

It’s the writers of dystopian fiction I feel sorry for.

Jay in Shanghai 电动 Jay

@JayinShanghai

2 years

Full Lockdown in Shanghai, this is how they broadcast announcements. Robot Dog + Speakers #Shanghai #COVID #Lockdown

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@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Like anyone else, I get pissed off by disruptive protests that I disagree with. But I fiercely defend the right to protest for everyone, whether I agree with them or not. It is fundamental to democracy. Please kick this Bill out of Parliament.

Unite Politics

@UnitePolitics

3 years

This is a section of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, ordered by @pritipatel following the BLM and XR demos last year. It comes to Parliament on Monday, and MPs will vote on it on Tuesday. It must be opposed.

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@TimandraHarknes

4 years

Surely all these examples demonstrate that we were European before the EU existed, and will continue to be European after we've left? And I'm not sure the Freud family moving to Britain in the 1930s is the best advert for a Greater European Project tbh.

WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK

@JANUSZCZAK

4 years

Thank you Holbein from Switzerland, Van Dyck from Flanders, Francis Bacon from Ireland and Lucian Freud from Berlin for what you brought to British art. Where would British art be without you? #SadDay #NotInMyName

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@TimandraHarknes

5 years

@WinterfellT we need a T shirt that says, "It's not you - it's EU"

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

Oh come on, @Royal_Greenwich - don't make me change my mind about your generally reasonable approach. Nobody in this image represents the remotest risk of infection. They're at much lower risk there than in a room with another human.

Royal Borough of Greenwich

@Royal_Greenwich

4 years

This is from Oxleas Woods this morning. Sunbathing is NOT essential and any person seen sunbathing will be moved on by enforcement officers or fined by the police. Parks are open for exercise only- please #StaySafeKeepMoving to make our job easier! #StayAtHome #RBGsaferspaces

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@TimandraHarknes

5 years

I'm proud to have @Fox_Claire as a friend and inspiration. She's got more integrity than anybody else I know. Disagree with her all you want, but you won't find anybody more principled, brave, and ready to stand up for what she believes.

Claire Fox

@Fox_Claire

5 years

According to Nick Cohen I'm "one of the most immoral people in public life" & uses this to make gutter slurs on @BBCRadio4 But can I use this to encourage you all listen to brilliant #moralmaze podcasts and judge for yourself. Have been panelist for almost 20 years & proud of it

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@TimandraHarknes

4 years

Renewable energy needs to be more ambitious

★ Colin Stuart ★

@skyponderer

4 years

The collision of two black holes creates 3.6 septillion yottawatts of power - greater than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe

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@TimandraHarknes

8 years

#TimPeake - "Britain's first male astronaut" Well played, Woman's Hour, well played.

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@TimandraHarknes

1 year

Mar a Lago is smaller than I imagined

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@TimandraHarknes

4 years

Come on England, let's offer political asylum to Scots fleeing repression at home.

Jo Wolff

@JoWolffBSG

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UK coronavirus live: Scotland's pubs and restaurants banned from selling alcohol indoors for 16 days

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@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Are there no boundaries any more?

Norwich Evening News

@EveningNews

3 years

320m of hedge stolen from farmer's field

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@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Me arguing that current measures should be allowed to take effect instead of going back into lockdown:

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

3 years

“Extraordinarily disproportionate” says broadcaster Timandra Harkness on government plans to take England into a second national lockdown Conservative peer Lord Finkelstein says he prefers the advice of medical experts and backs a lockdown #politicslive

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@TimandraHarknes

4 years

It’s an impending asteroid strike isn’t it.

Royal Astronomical Society

@RoyalAstroSoc

4 years

You may have heard a rumour that we're announcing something big this afternoon - well of course we want you to be the first to know what's going on so stayed tuned here. At 4pm this video will go live and we'll also be live-streaming our press conference.

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@TimandraHarknes

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This is why you should always ask for absolute risk as well as relative risk. Chance of infection at 1 metre from a CV19 patient - 2.6% Chance of infection at 2 metres - 1.3%. Though decimal points imply levels of certainty that I doubt we have. So yes, risk doubled (1.3% extra).

Lorien

@CaeruleanSea

4 years

Can't beat a bit of clear messaging during a global pandemic.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Fish and chip shop man not only knows my order but commented that I was late this week. I count this a massive win.

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@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Is anybody else feeling that they don’t want to be used as an excuse to put undercover police into bars and clubs?

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@TimandraHarknes

2 years

It’s getting harder to see how vaccine passports have any purpose other than stigmatising the unvaccinated and making them scapegoats for the continuing impacts of the virus, and of the policy measures against it.

Kate Andrews

@KateAndrs

2 years

Nothing about Britain's incredible vaccination achievements required us to abandon the fundamental right to go where you want, and do as you please, without proving your health status.

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If you’re thinking that vaccination “passports”. (Or Immunity Certificates) for going to theatres, festivals, etc. are a small price to pay, read this thread about Singapore’s Covid surveillance and how its uses and purposes expanded:

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

@philmcraig He just wanted to flatten her curves

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@TimandraHarknes

3 years

The fact that he broke his own Social Distancing Guidelines just reveals how absurd and appalling it is to police people's intimate lives.

The Spectator

@spectator

3 years

‘One of the most pro-lockdown ministers, Hancock has favoured caution over liberty at nearly every stage of this crisis, pushing for crude laws instead of guidance when it comes to the most personal and intimate aspects of our lives’ ✍️ Kate Andrews

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@TimandraHarknes

2 years

@Davejonesy Eugenics slides back under the language of patient choice.

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@TimandraHarknes

4 years

@Fox_Claire Wouldn’t it be quicker to put a sign at the door saying “anything in here made before 1800 definitely involved conquest and slavery”? I mean, Rome, Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, Babylon....

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@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Wow. Comedy Club included in government release about vaccine passports without ever having been consulted about them. Rightly pulls out of any involvement in pilot scheme.

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@TimandraHarknes

2 years

How it happened is that you got rid of too many senior editorial staff and journalists who understand how journalistic standards work, and what it takes to do the job properly.

BBC News Press Team

@BBCNewsPR

2 years

Statement on interview with Alan Dershowitz

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@TimandraHarknes

7 years

"Paint me like one of your French beans"

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@TimandraHarknes

3 years

Me on online anonymity

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

3 years

“A lot of people are anonymous online for really good reasons, they are at risk of losing their job... threats against their family” Broadcaster Timandra Harkness does not back Labour MP Margaret Hodge's call to block social media anonymity #politicslive

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3 years

“When the government’s roadmap was agreed, with 21 June as the end date, scientific advisers on the Sage committee drew up five scenarios for hospitalisations. None of them imagined that by this stage the figure would be as low as it stands now.”

The Spectator

@spectator

3 years

'Unless we have set ourselves the impossible task of eliminating Covid, at some point we will have to say that we can live with the problem — and that we can no longer delay the repair our society so urgently needs.' ✍️ Spectator leading article

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

Depressing thread about thinking algorithms know people better than people do:

Listening to The Cure and thinking about the Bomb

@TheWrongNoel

4 years

A friend of mine has been trying to hire a new employee for her department in a medium-sized org. After advertising several times with few applicants, and a couple of rounds of interviews, the new employee is less than great. Then she discovered there were other applicants ...

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@TimandraHarknes

4 years

Please don’t call me because you’re trying to hit your target of 50% women for the month. Call me if you think I have something to contribute - expertise or opinion or entertainment. If I was a man, would you call me? If the answer’s no, please don��t call me.

Reuters Institute

@risj_oxford

4 years

1. Today at 14:00 we are hosting (and live-streaming) our weekly seminar at @greentempleton , chaired by @MeeraSelva1 . @BBCRosAtkins will speak on the #5050Project , launched to increase women's representation in @BBC journalism. Details on the topic in this thread #RISJseminars

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@TimandraHarknes

4 years

This is an MP who thinks that debate is a dangerous thing and a threat to equality:

Nadia Whittome MP

@NadiaWhittomeMP

4 years

We must not fetishise “debate” as though debate is itself an innocuous, neutral act. The very act of debate in these cases is an effective rollback of assumed equality and a foot in the door for doubt and hatred.

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@TimandraHarknes

3 years

1: That’s not how you spell ‘peek.’ 2: This looks like Hell but without the human feelings.

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@TimandraHarknes

4 years

Very worrying. She could have had all sorts of good reasons for travelling that she wouldn't want to share with the police. This is the death of privacy.

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

Coronavirus: Woman fined £650 for refusing to tell police why she was out

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1 year

The thing is, this requires very little maths, just a willingness to think things through and organise what you DO know to find out what you DON’T know. Unfortunately too many people panic when something is called maths.

Evil Leslie Knope

@adb0wen

1 year

Remember guys it’s modern education that’s been dumbed down

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@TimandraHarknes

4 months

Oh no Radio 4 has discovered darts. Brace yourselves for a new craze - “wild darting” (going to a pub and playing darts like normal people do).

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@TimandraHarknes

2 years

Hey librarians! Suppose, hypothetically, that somebody’s mother borrowed a book in 1978… Would her heirs be liable for the fines?

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@TimandraHarknes

5 years

Rhythm is a dancer

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

5 years

Anxiety is a scalar, fear is a vector

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

2 years

Obviously do whatever works for you, but this “car free” life seems to include a lot of cars?

Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

I’ve been car-free with 3 kids under 7 for nearly a year now. Here are some thoughts on how we have done it. First, I live in a city and we don’t need a car to commute. True for most car owners, but obvs if not true for you, it’s v. tricky. #carfree

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@TimandraHarknes

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@HannahAlOthman One of the shocking aspects of this case is that seeking information online may later be treated as evidence against you:

Hannah Al-Othman

@HannahAlOthman

10 months

CPS providing significantly more detail on this case at court — it is understood that the woman had said she did not know how many weeks pregnant she was. But police gathered evidence of web searches and messages, which dispute this.

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Timandra Harkness

@TimandraHarknes

4 years

I both do and do not want to know the story told by the intervening tweets: