James Harvey

@keepof4worlds

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

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James Harvey@keepof4worlds· 1d

We unroll a 40 quid shade cloth from Amazon on our glass roof. Without it interior temp is +4C vs the outside. With it: -9C on the outside. We through ventilate through the night to get the starting temp down. It really works.

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· 4d

I’m not remotely serious in this analysis… Mind you if I were trying, Jar-Jar actually went down very well with 7 year olds. TPM was *massively* the blockbuster film of its year. It’s “failure” as a movie is a retrospective take…

Box Office mojo for 1999, showing TPM in first place, making $250m more than the number 2 film

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· 9d

As soon as we arrived in France, there was this sign in a very traditional bistro in Lille:

Sign reads “Toilettes avec urinoirs & cabine. Chacun choisit l’espace ou il est le plus a l’aise”

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· 27d

My proposed minister for AI

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· Jul 9

Even the DT poll isn’t showing the result they want…

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%

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· Jul 7

Whenever the dreadful leadership of the police comes up, I’m reminded of this passage from Max Hastings account of his time as editor of the DT from about 30 *years* ago:

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.

Chief constable after chief constable then stood up, to denounce my views. It was not true that public confidence in their forces was declining, they said crossly. It was monstrous to suggest that police evidence was less readily believed in courts. It was time people like me understood that sporting shooters in the countryside (for instance) caused a lot of trouble. The chief constables' protests were deeply depressing, because they highlighted the gulf between reality as the public knew it, and the delusions cherished by policemen. I often talk to service audiences, and seldom go home without being impressed anew by the quality of senior army people. It is dismaying to notice the contrast with police leader-ship, much of which is conspicuously inadequate. Most chief constables would not rise above the rank of sergeant major in the British army, and they display the warrant officer's limited perspective.

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· Jun 30

The Anglo-Saxons 3/2

Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry, probably designed and executed by Anglo-Saxons…

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· Jun 26

Vaillant aroTHERM plus 10. Sound power level 60dB apparently. Anyway, we can’t hear the thing, so we must be deaf.

Vaillant aroTHERM plus 10
With a SCOP of up to 5.03, the aroTHERM plus is extremely energy efficient.
With a nominal output of 10kW, this model is suitable for many mid-sized houses.
ENA Registration Number: VAILL/09872N1 Heating SCOP at 45°C: 4.13
Sound Power Level: 60.0 dB
Nominal Output: 10.00 kW
Proposed flow temperature: 45°C
Actual Output at 45°C*: 10.56 kW
*at outside design temperature of -1.7°C

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· Jun 26

Oooh another pointless political survey! Cannot resist! 🤪

Your Results
69% Woke
31% Chud
64%
Techbro
36% Neo-Luddite
56% Hopepilled 44% Doomer
86% Davos
14% Dubai
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James Harvey@keepof4worlds· Jun 21

Heh

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· Jun 17

Can we grant an exception for the gloriously obscene England fans please?

“He’s fat, with piles. He’s in the Epstein files”. England fans chant

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· Jun 14

Quite. Charterhouse (1611) is currently £60,000. It’s one of nine Clarendon School and one of the seven 1868 Public Schools Act schools (Charterhouse, Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Westminster, Winchester). There is *no world* in which it is not one of the most upper class schools in the country.

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· Jun 11

Defence Secretary retreating from the burning hulk of Bismarck owing to lack of fuel. Heavy Cruiser HMS Dorsetshire finishing her off with torpedoes.

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…

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· Jun 11

Ser Bronn of the Blackwater from Game of Thrones

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· Jun 6

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· Jun 6

The open day for the Crystal Palace Subway - it has been gloriously restored!

Crystal Palace Subway - before and after pictures

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 28

Other examples from the Moomins and (gloriously weirdly) Snoopy Kabuki!

Japanese job advert using Moomins character.

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 23

If I may quote from the doyenne of woodland academia, the fabulous Oliver Rackham (“Trees and Woddland in the British Landscape”)

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.

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 20

And of course you can’t reference that film without posting this picture

Sean Connery in Zardoz. He is dressed only in red chest straps, a red jockstrap and black leather thigh boots.

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 20

I can never see that grave without thinking of…

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 20

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 19

The point would also stand up much better if anyone could point to any instance where the Labour Party has stood aside and put country before party to, say, enable the election of a Green or a LibDem. Here’s Labour putting party before country given the opportunity to unseat Jeremy Hunt, for example

2024 Godalming and Ash general election result. Conservative majority over LibDems 891, Labour vote 2,748

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 18

My result: Progressive Nationalist (Not sure how my Sovereignty score *really* pegs me as a nationalist!) Economic: centrist Social: progressive Sovereignty: cosmopolitan Military: hawkish Authority: leaning libertarian Constitutional: reformist Take the quiz: quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

🇬🇧 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

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 17

No surprises here. I seem to be drifting economically leftwards as I get older…

Survey results indicating Liberal Progressive

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 17

Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone.

Sexy bloke from Hook Norton beer festival in 2005

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 9

I’ll just leave this here…

East Surrey council results with the Tories losing 34 seats to the LibDems

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 8

The sheer entitlement of the eternal Labour “we are the only progressive option - any vote for someone else is a betrayal” mentality is coming back to bite them. They are a party of the 1920s. They’ve had their day.

Greens wipe out Labour in Waltham Forest

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 8

Winning with Kemi… East Sussex FFS!

Conservatives lose 24 councillors to leave a total of 3/50 - fourth largest party

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 7

Indeed, and I think this vast broken trunk in his mortuary temple is the inspiration for the poem.

James Harvey@keepof4worlds· May 5

Clive James’s review of this when it was on TV is one of the funniest things ever. It starts like this…