Mary Harrington

“Air conditioning is evil” Is both my most left-wing and my most right-wing opinion

Yeeting X off my phone for a week or two, text me if anything happens 👋

If you liked the MAGAfication of the Right you’re going to love votes at 16 and the teen TikTokification of the Left

NHS Fife gave us all a reminder that so many overpaid people do so little this week. No notes, no minutes, unprofessional emails, the list goes on and absolutely none of it was productive or worthwhile.

We absolutely need to move away from political extremism - and on that point, I completely agree with the left. Which is exactly why we should abolish the Human Rights Act and strip out ECHR-style clauses from our immigration laws. The current status quo isn’t moderate; it’s a…

Medieval kings were more accountable to the peasantry than our utterly rotten elites -- and specifically the members of the last Tory government -- are to us.

I’m married to a business owner (though not of a cafe) and have heard this exact rant over the dinner table so many times It’s not even just Labour. The permanent public sector squats like a toad on a dwindling substrate of people who actually make and build. It has to stop

Eating blackberry and apple crumble cold from the dish, after a two-hour run in the rain, is surely peak English summer

Enjoyed this from @katrosenfield. The most startling detail is her report that Danny Boyle, who directed 28 Years Later, admits empathising more with the movie's naked ravening rage-zombies than the unacceptably reactionary Lindisfarne colony of still-human survivors

Girls having the audacity to not be unchaperoned in public are seen as fair game. Where my sister lives there now has to be a police van by the entrance to the secondary school. Girls are spat at if they ignore the ‘attention’ of the migrants housed in a local hotel.

Winding down the Tory Party’s Afghan people-smuggling operation is arguably @Keir_Starmer’s first tangible evidence of progress in “smashing the gangs”

“You can say anything as long as it’s not illegal” is like a soviet joke

Labour thinks voting is less consequential than buying cigarettes. No wonder they keep ignoring what voters want