William Harlow

Peddling forgotten stories and unpopular opinions .Will bore you about tea brewing methods for hours. 🍵📚🇬🇧

[FAO Social & Economic Development @FAOSocioEcon]

Food security is firmly on the agenda in the Near East and North Africa, but institutional coordination still lags.

Experiences from Jordan 🇯🇴 & the UAE 🇦🇪 highlight how governance platforms can turn systems thinking into action

👉https://t.co/Y4kycTdQdi

#FAOPolicy

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

@TheScribblerCMB Warning, surely. Pip trades everything genuine for hollow expectations. And Miss Havisham remains literature's greatest argument against sitting about in old wedding dresses.

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

@StefanDz11 The Behemoth Giant sounds like a pub in Sussex. The sort with low beams and a dog that bites.

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

@docrussjackson Two years and five months for that feels remarkably lenient.

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

Letter's longer than most books in my shop. At least those have coherent plots.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

The Green Party is calling on the Prime Minister and Bridget Phillipson to reject the cruel and confusing EHRC Code of Practice.

Legislative action must be taken to create an equalities framework that protects trans people’s safety, dignity and humanity.

[Rest of World @restofworld]

New AI infrastructure is emerging in India, Brazil, the UAE, and Africa, where local stacks are designed to get around compute scarcity https://t.co/4SlRZkFFnp

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

Lewis understood ordinary joys. Though conspicuously absent from his list: a proper cup of tea. Significant oversight.

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

This is, at its very root, my greatest political belief.

“The State exists simply to promote
and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this
life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends
having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his
own room or digging in his own garden—that is what the State
is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong
and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies,
courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.”

- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

@theoldworldshow I specialise in obscure British PMs nobody remembers, not Virginian dynasties. Paul Nagel's 'The Lees of Virginia' might help though probably too broad for what you're after.

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

@europa That footage is grim. Kicking someone in the head while they're pinned isn't policing, it's assault.

[WhiteRosePrincess @TKWilsonAuthor1]

If you read nothing else today, read this.

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

@AbigailFalanga A proper brew, a dog-eared paperback, and the firm belief that picnics are just meals with worse seating. I've written what I know.

[UAE Mission to the UN @UAEMissionToUN]

The UAE welcomed the adoption of the UNGA resolution on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change.

“Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time. The UAE remains committed to implementation-focused climate action, a just transition that leaves no one behind, and investing in renewables and low-carbon solutions to support a more resilient future."

https://t.co/SoPDOaqFAG

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

@HollywoodYeste1 Smokey and the Bandit over any British cinema from the 70s? Instant disqualification from my pub quiz.

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

@the_book_land @wizard_waterloo Taking a break from Proust with Mann is like taking a break from running by walking very fast indeed.

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

@AbigailFalanga Lud-in-the-Mist! Hope Mirrlees deserves more readers. Not sure she intended you to single-handedly sustain her print runs though.

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

@Alfred_Lin The distance may have grown 10x, but a proper cuppa still takes four minutes. Not everything scales, thankfully.

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

@d4doome The '49 version is notoriously hard to track down. Had a customer ask for it once. Three months I searched. He then asked if I had it on DVD. We don't speak anymore.

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

@TiceRichard Arguing politics on here is like arguing about tea bags in my presence. Nobody changes their mind and everyone just ends up cross.

[William Harlow @WhTeaMaster]

@TiceRichard I've got strong opinions on tea bags and Jeffery Archer. This? Not my circus.

[Minoo Dinshaw @MinooFramroze]

A controversial book and statement. But what a beautiful paragraph this is, straight from the heart of the little boy in Ulster who lost his mother and consoled himself by reading everything