ICYMI Blumenkohl’s review of 2025 #Herdspotting #management #nonsense open.substack.com/pub/markearl...

The European “patriotic” parties the Trump administration seeks to encourage are exactly those far-right parties which the Kremlin has so amply funded and supported for the last decade open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

I wonder what it is about Rachel Reeves that they hate: a woman who went to a comprehensive school, who rose from relatively humble origins to the top and who still speaks with a South London accent. I wonder why they hate her so much. It's a mystery.

We did an extra 75 miles in November to do our bit against that bastard cancer. Can anyone top up the last £20 so it's a round grand? fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/marks-g...

Coverage of migration last week repeatedly referenced people emigrating – implying either white flight, that young people were heading overseas, or the rich were in mass exodus. The reality: emigration of British citizens is flat. Non-EU citizens are leaving. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

Will everyone in my timeline stop saying ‘Release the Russia Report’. Boris Johnson tried to hold it back, but it was released in 2020 with (necessarily) redacted elements and the confirmation British Intelligence never investigated Russian interference

It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says: "The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order." That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories. How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?

To all of my American friends, wherever you are, Happy Thanksgiving. To those who find it difficult and might need a strategy for get through and the many like me, who are not from the US, here's a handy HERDspotting guide to work out what's really going on here open.substack.com/pub/markearl...

Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years. Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"

The only reason Gill stopped being the Reform UK leader in Wales was because he failed to win a seat in the 2021 Senedd election. Zia Yusuf keeps trying to make this sound like this is ancient history, and Reform washed their hands of him, but nothing is further from the truth.

ICMYI: me on leopard print. How we remade it over time open.substack.com/pub/markearl... #HERDspotting

So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this

I guess that explains politicians unwillingness to investigate the Brexit campaign.

BREAKING: Reform UK's former Welsh leader and close Nigel Farage associate, Nathan Gill, sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for repeatedly taking bribes to spread pro-Russian propaganda

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This 100%. Incompetent. Irresponsible. And idiotic. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

You won't see anything more embarrassing today. Guaranteed

The right wing approach now is to put me in a box with an incredibly successful politician who just won a stunning victory. This is Pure Cope Exhibit A Join.greenparty.org.uk

It takes a village #HERDspotting on alloparenting, orphans and the helping hand open.substack.com/pub/markearl...

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

Chris it is time for you to read this book press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

New from me on Authenticity: what comes After Real #HERDspotting open.substack.com/pub/markearl...

ICYMI The Great Pretend: #Herdspotting on the dance floor markearls267269.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The Great Pretend More from me on the modern miasma of authenticity markearls267269.substack.com/p/the-great-... #HERD #HERDspotting

ICYMI: Professor Blumenkohl on the epidemic of Future Fever. markearls267269.substack.com/p/guest-post... #HERDspotting

On BBC Breakfast today shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho said the UK has the “most expensive electricity in the developed world”. We heard a similar claim from Ms Coutinho last month, and took a look at what the data shows.

This week's GUEST POST from the acerbic Professor Blumenkohl: Futures Fever #HERDspotting  open.substack.com/pub/markearl...

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Chris Philp calling for an increase in Stop & Search over the weekend and claiming its wider use has been actively prevented by "the Left". Conveniently forgetting that to increase S & S you need more police officers and not less which is what **checks notes** the Tories left us with! #Amnesia

Well said Adam, I found out today that between March 2013 and March 2023 672 prisoners were released in error, I must have been out the day it was reported in the MSM.

There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone. Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government

She seems charming. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

Racism, nationalism and xenophobia enabled Brexit and were further emboldened by it. Arrogance, entitlement, meanness of spirit, laziness and greed all fuelled Brexit and propel racism and its cowardly twin nationalism. It’s like a sewer that has broken open and Farage bids us splash about in it.

Conservative Councillor says "young black males" are "flooding" the UK Contacted by Byline, she defended her comments, saying “we cannot sustain the volume of.. black males” that “jeopardises [our] security" Asked why their skin colour matters, she replied “because they are [black], aren’t they?"

Medieval Fashion: How Clothing Defined Status and Power www.medievalists.net/2025/08/medi... #fashion

Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English. Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’. The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

ICYMI: me on stranger danger and respectable fears #HERDspotting markearls267269.substack.com/p/stranger-d...

Reform UK now having to take down flags so that Christmas doesn't get cancelled www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Can’t believe we are at the ‘What Would Tolkien Do’ stage of America

how long have we been hearing about Japan using robots for elder-care? it's been something like 30 years. it still hasn't happened - indeed, studies found the robots made MORE work for human carers. www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1...

Spot on.

NEW from me: markearls267269.substack.com/p/herdspotti... #HERDspotting

ICYMI Performing Real more from the age of #Authenticity #HERDspotting #HERD markearls267269.substack.com/p/authentici...

ICYMI I am not what I am Me on what we had before the plague of authentic markearls267269.substack.com/p/before-aut... #HERDspotting #HERD #authentic

New from me: Before "authentic" #HERDspotting #HERD open.substack.com/pub/markearl...

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP. And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

ICYMI Me on the scourge of authenticity as a meme markearls267269.substack.com/p/authentici... #HERDspotting #HERD

In shock news, Liz Truss's Stilton and Cheddar deal with Japan... actually led to a year on year decrease in Stilton and Cheddar exports to Japan.