New Origin Story: on our fetish for self-categorisation & the obsession with the introvert-extrovert binary. Do these terms mean anything? Are they scientifically valid? Where did they come from? All will be answered in a story of psychoanalysis, neurotic conflict amd super-weird sex stuff.

8 am update for you. The UK grid is currently close to fossil fuel free. Wind and solar 70%, nuclear 13%, gas… 4%. grid.iamkate.com

This is the sort of phrasing you use in a legal letter you *really* relish writing.

Today at 6pm - our movie GAME at @princecharlescinema.com Come and see our biggest and potentially last Screening/Q&A. Apparently we have @iandunt.bsky.social hosting the Q&A so we should be professional.

The two stars in the bottom left-hand corner are a perfect touch

For all of the excitement in Westminster around the Danish model of social democracy the Danish Labour Party is heading for its worst election result since 1901. They’ll likely remain in power but the red bloc won’t have a majority. Meanwhile radical left and right parties gain.

I'm chairing the Q&A at a special screening of Game at the Prince Charles tomorrow night. One of the best films of 2025 at the best cinema on earth. It's a vicious bit of psychedelic rural horror that'll absolutely ruin you. Come along share.google/d1Q4ZYhBpihg...

It's been months and I still find the Your Party name funny. Every headline looks insane. My party won't stand for Holyrood? How can you tell?

This is magnificent.

Very clever and entertaining guest post. Well worth a read.

Lots of big delivery challenges remains, but taken in conjunction with the Warm Homes Plan, the clean power mission, planning reforms, and today's news of new energy bill discounts on windy days, the government's long term green economy and energy security plans are making some real progress.

When Australian broadcasters discussed the terms of the deal Boris Johnson ‘secured’ for the UK by contrast, they collapsed in fits of giggles. I will dig out the clip today.

The great @mikebraddick.bsky.social writes a guest post for Striking 13: Trump thinks he's Don Corleone but he's now discovering the limit of his power iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

The deep, deep stench of corruption.

After almost a decade of work – we can say: we did it. We have concluded the EU-Australia Free Trade Agreement. And it is such a win for both sides ↓ link.europa.eu/x33M9C

NEW The US guided missile attack on a school in Minab in Iran looks like a war crime By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Strongest words yet from Keir Starmer on UK role in Iran conflict: "This is not our war, and we are not getting dragged into this war."

We sold out of Origin Story live show tickets, but they've just released eight seats (where do they find these things?) if you want to sneak in at the last second www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/choose...

How can this go on for another 3 years?

Fair enough. The ideological capture of supermodels is also why I had so much trouble dating then in my 20s.

I first read these and thought, “these proposals are so stupid and harmful to the economy that they will surely be reversed within a year or two” then I remembered Brexit and thought “shit”.

I’ve been interviewing low paid migrant people about what the changes would mean for them, it’s horrifying.

Its biggest & most regressive reform for 40 years but it was obvs produced on back of an envelope within 2 months with media headlines in mind Due to scale of significant asylum reforms in same week, only now emerging just what a chaotic unworkable mess the draft package is for work, women,children

The lunatic quality of these proposals is persistently underestimated. They are far, far worse than people recognise.

"So far, there is little sign that either Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, or Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, want a new fight over Brexit, which is now widely unpopular with voters, including among many Leave supporters." www.ft.com/content/b031... In a day of otherwise rubbish news

1/. NEW: The Guardian reports our research uncovered a £170m “media-political complex” behind Britain’s populist right. This isn’t just funding politics. It’s funding influence. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

He was designed by god for Sunday afternoons

Precisely this. It is the worst possible tesponse to the crisis. She is either too stupid or too dishonest to remain party leader.

This is apparently an actual journalist asking questions in the White House but in a moment he'll pop in a phone box and come out dressed as Superman.

The story of 'woke' FOr years. mainstream conservatives and even centrists rounded on progressive culture as though it were a threat to society. Now they see where the real threat lay Writer and critic @dorianlynskey.bsky.social examines the meaning of one of the defining terms of our age.

My mate's kids call his phone/wallet case a Boomer Flap and I'm sorry but that's what it's called now.

48 hours to open the Straits, which Trump also says US don’t need to have opened, in a war he has already said US has won, and in a situation where he demands help from countries which he also insists US does not need.

While attention naturally focuses on Iran the war in Ukraine continues. Russia may be in the early stages of a spring offensive and so far it is not going well. I explore in this post (£/free trial), samf.substack.com/p/has-the-ru...

I know people are sceptical about journalism right now but this is the kind of story that takes weeks to get to the bottom of. I hope people see the value in what we do

This is not me. Please report and block if you've a moment.

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

To tilt Hungarian election, the Russians proposed staging an assassination attempt www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Fundamentally what Timothy said, Muslim prayer in public spaces is an act of domination, is so indefensible that every defence is stuck pretending he didn't say that and trying to start a discussion about something else, crucially, Kemi then can't stop herself also saying something hard to defend!

Hard to be optimistic about anything at the moment, but there is one positive development I suppose. Donald Trump has made the strongest possible case for why countries must turn their back on fossil fuel. And they seem to be listening.

Me on this week's shitshow in UK gvt bonds and why it matters. 300 free clicks innit - as.ft.com/r/0bbdc86f-b...

It’s worse than Idiocracy, we don’t have cryogenic freezers.

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Once again this is deliberately misleading from Mahmood. Treating the public and Labour MPs like fools in order to try to justify a policy that is simultaneously economically damaging, politically counterproductive, and morally wrong. archive.ph/25pgV

Utterly the wrong call. Step by step, this embroils us in an immoral, illegal, illogical war.

I would not recommend this if you want to start your weekend on a high www.wired.com/story/iran-w...

Jesus wept.

A few thoughts on earned settlement after a busy week. (1) Govt is going through consultation after over 200,000 people responded, far higher than other consultations of this type. This means there is still a lot up for grabs to shape the policy, including transitional measures.

A sensible 10 point mitigation plan from the IEA. www.iea.org/news/new-iea...

The populism-dampening magic of Australia’s preferential (instant runoff) voting system. If US presidential elections had this system we’d have been in a vastly different world for the last 26 years.

How Australia killed populism open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...