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At Zohran Mamdani’s block party, I observed a simple truth: people want more politics, not less | Samuel Earle

I have a piece in today's guardian, a dispatch from a moment of optimism on Jan 1, which now feels a lot longer ago than it did last night www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"What a year for the ultra wealthy. The world’s 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes in 2025’s… booming markets, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. And about a quarter of this year’s gains went to just eight billionaires.” — Bloomberg Morning Brief

We have already had some great episodes of this new #Journalism2050 podcast - this is one of my favorites so far with @jayrosen.bsky.social - the internet that promised so much, what went wrong, and where do we go now

A pretty fascinating ad from 1918 for an early PA system: the fascism vibes are strong

And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.

Chapter 4 in my dissertation from 1986 is "From Crowd to Public." pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch... Here's journalist and PhD candidate, Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social who is working in similar territory, but 39 years later. We asked him to comment: pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch... 3/

me, seeing the headline: hmm, that's a strange & counterintuitive take me, seeing the author: ah

Claire Fox, chairing a 'debate' on populism at the Battle of Ideas, apologises: "This wasn't intended as a Reform rally." Oops

America's answer to Zac Polanski - what a success story

Ann Coulter NOT a fan of me - though unclear what she made of the piece www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...

This is great. Come for the Farage profile, stay for the drive-by on the PM. "Labour’s dour and directionless year in power, defined by a centrism of the blandest variety, has led Mr. Starmer’s approval ratings to reach record lows in record time..."

My essay on Nigel Farage 2.0, what he learned as Trump's apprentice, and his gleeful forecasts of violence - for @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...

"This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t." haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here

great episode

Paul Marshall and GB News aren't mentioned in this but their involvement is key - look where the meeting between Farage, the anti-abortion group (ADF) and Trump's team happened: Marshall's private member's club at UnHerd (1/3)

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

"The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and ideas that have led to mass shootings." Banger from @embits.bsky.social

It's hard to explain how delusional it is to believe that there is some magic level of anti-migrant policy that this government can hit that will somehow neutralise this issue.

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

Further evidence for the giant void at the heart of Keir Starmer - from @trillingual.bsky.social's long read www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“It’s clear what Farage gets from this – the good graces of a US president who wants to be king and prizes sycophancy in his court above all – but the benefits to UK voters are naught” V good on the US-lite con that is Reform and its idiotic policies of prejudice www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Rhetorically, this was among the less-remarked gifts of this campaign: to see and speak to working people in both the bonds of universality and with the dignity of specificity." A great (and even euphoric) essay on Mamdani

naturally

Farage's 'leftwing' pose is flimsy – but so are Labour's own governing fantasies | Samuel Earle

This Tory attack ad on Farage is kinda giving him exactly the image he wanted this week...

this is basically bullying

we used to be a country

Re-posting my recent essay on polling for @nybooks.com on why whether the polls were "right" this election is less important than how they've hollowed out our understanding of politics and democracy www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

so this is where we rebuild jerusalem