Everything at BISH is free and always will be, but I can only pay my bills through your kind and generous support. Buying this ebook, or supporting the Patreon, will do just that. AND you get a resource which you can give to young people in your life, or keep for yourself, as a thank you.

New episode of my advice podcast is out now, for the adult theory minded folks. I made a video for the first time but the audio version sounds better (find Culture Sex Relationships on your podcast apps). I'll sort that out for next time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X151...

There is a non-zero chance that Farage could leave politics again.

Let's say that your kid has finished their exams and they're starting their first relationships. You know that their sex ed hasn't covered everything and they'll have questions. You could just send them to BISH but there's so much info: where to start? Send them this www.patreon.com/BISHuk/posts...

This is really very good and a good lesson (for me anyway) in rhetorical analysis.

LOL he’s pitching his new book as a fightback against powerful vested interests and tech bros and my brother in Christ, who do you think it was that lapped up your book about totalitarian youth crushing the spirit of free enquiry? Okay it was fretful middle class dolts, but it was also those people.

Blimey. The football!

There's no better signifier for the lack of wage growth in the UK than the Come Done With Me prize for the winner: which has been £1000 for at least 15 years

Live Rhetorical Political Analysis!

New episode of my advice podcast is out now, for the adult theory minded folks. I made a video for the first time but the audio version sounds better (find Culture Sex Relationships on your podcast apps). I'll sort that out for next time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X151...

I saw this a few weeks ago and it's back. It's super fun and nasty and trippy. sohotheatre.com/events/i-saw... I first found out about CBB and his show This Is How We Die on a date with a theatre blogger (only a one night thing, sadly). I went anyway and I was hooked.

Let's say that your kid has finished their exams and they're starting their first relationships. You know that their sex ed hasn't covered everything and they'll have questions. You could just send them to BISH but there's so much info: where to start? Send them this www.patreon.com/BISHuk/posts...

He's just like me for real "Social media videos starring Nigel Farage as part of his lucrative role promoting a gold bullion dealer and published since the start of last year have received on average fewer than 900 views and eight likes." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

A great way of introducing a young person you know to BISH and also a way of helping me keep it free and ad free (as well as AI free obvs) www.patreon.com/BISHuk/posts...

A great way of introducing a young person you know to BISH and also a way of helping me keep it free and ad free (as well as AI free obvs) www.patreon.com/BISHuk/posts...

Everything at BISH is free and always will be, but I can only pay my bills through your kind and generous support. Buying this ebook, or supporting the Patreon, will do just that. AND you get a resource which you can give to young people in your life, or keep for yourself, as a thank you.

NEW PRODUCT! The BISH Ebook: a guide to sex, love and you. A collection of some of the key posts at BISH in one pdf document. Easy to read on smartphones, with all the cute colourful illustrations that you've come to expect. £5 or just sub to the Patreon www.patreon.com/BISHuk/posts...

Now all supporters of BISH get a resource as a thank you

Itv winning this world cup

NEW PRODUCT! The BISH Ebook: a guide to sex, love and you. A collection of some of the key posts at BISH in one pdf document. Easy to read on smartphones, with all the cute colourful illustrations that you've come to expect. £5 or just sub to the Patreon www.patreon.com/BISHuk/posts...

I'm so fucked off about this, so I'm going to launch a BISH ebook today before the England game

Remember the stink when Farage had an account closed by Coutts? The reams of press and commentary, even by sensibles, was a thing. This meanwhile will merit very little.

So you know that Summer Of Sex thing that Samantha Niblett MP has been working on? They did a call out for sex educators months ago and I've heard nothing. No meeting, no reply to my email, and no invite to parliament. Maybe it's because I'm not Instagram famous or that I'm too socialist

This is such an important point.

Sex education and bodies are stigmatised and underfunded offline, and this is replicated online, but with a crucial difference: digital spaces had once felt inclusive for all these amazing activists and the communities they serve.

📜 From the Archives Alert 📜 We talked about this exact same social media ban two weeks ago with @justinhancock.bsky.social, it won't work in the US any more than here, it'll just be a tech nightmare that negatively impacts kids everywhere. Good jobs, dems. FREE: www.podbean.com/ea/pb-7a7cr-...

Predicted exactly this on the Culture, Power, Politics podcast about 2 years ago.

Decided to take Burnham's argument that this is Labour's last chance and needs a change in direction in good faith. So here are some suggested quick wins to begin recomposing the party's evaporating coalition.

Like I keep saying, we're good at three things in the UK: pubs, creative industries and universities. This government are killing all three

Feeld is the exception to enshittification in that the app started off shit and is also more shit now. And is it getting less shit? Also no.

A lot of people say that foreplay is just kissing, stroking, masturbation, or oral sex: wrong. These are different kinds of sexual/sensual activities. It’s not the activities themselves that make them ‘foreplay’ but it’s what they can do. www.bishuk.com/sex/what-is-...

They used to provide us with a good service. Sadly they were doing this in order to capture us, so that they could then dis-invest in the quality of the service and make as much money as they could. A process which Cory Doctorow describes as ‘enshittification’. www.bishuk.com/relationship...

So we've been asked not to use the lifts in my building because they don't have enough ventilation and they keep breaking down

The Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group, chaired by Jeffrey Donaldson produced this report which says "SRE programmes up to now have been a disaster ... by actually contributing to – even causing – the very problems they’re supposed to stop". parentpower.family/rse-the-way-...

Beat the heatwave with a frozen water filled condom in an old sock, to place on your neck, and also eco-socialism

They used to provide us with a good service. Sadly they were doing this in order to capture us, so that they could then dis-invest in the quality of the service and make as much money as they could. A process which Cory Doctorow describes as ‘enshittification’. www.bishuk.com/relationship...

Also contains some decent advice for an incoming Andy Burnham premiership too.

Impeccable timing as ever, I've written this about why social media bans are bad but also how we can make them work for us. A mix of technical advice (if you have any hacks please leave a comment) and also a SFBT exercise www.bishuk.com/relationship...

ICYMI - @adriennebuller.bsky.social editor of @the-breakdown.bsky.social on the politics of heatwaves and their unequal impacts. We talked climate adaptation (in its more and less benign guises), the Green Party, and the increasing threat of the deployment of geoengineering at scale:

While the government collapses, kids are fainting in classrooms and workers are sweltering. It's time to heatproof Britain: 1⃣ Heatproofing for every home that needs it 2⃣Cooling measures for schools, hospitals and care homes 3⃣ A maximum workplace temperature limit.

How are we all managing in the heat and humidity? I know for many this weather plays havoc with health conditions, medication and disabilities. Are you looking after yourself okay? www.redcross.org.au/extremeheat/

Do the BBC pundits have an outfit colour palette?

If you ban something you don’t get the risks but you also don’t get the opportunities.... Opportunities also include learning how to use social media and how to make it work for us. If we can’t use the tools, we can’t practice, and if we can’t practice we’ll never master it.

Yeah I'm 100% agree on Ep 732 Subway Take btw.

"When temperatures top 30C, farmers are advised to stop transporting cattle... there’s no equivalent upper temperature limit on when you should stop putting children in classrooms." www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-sc... h/t @will-davies.bsky.social

Before the frenzy of leadership speculation I discussed with Andy Burnham his view of where power lay based on his experience as a cabinet minister and mayor…and what needs to be done about it..

If you ban something you don’t get the risks but you also don’t get the opportunities.... Opportunities also include learning how to use social media and how to make it work for us. If we can’t use the tools, we can’t practice, and if we can’t practice we’ll never master it.

This is very helpful btw. Shade cloth works very well. As will an immediate and aggressive shift towards eco-socialism, Andy www.heatwavetoolkit.com

I drew these 💅🏻

Keir Starmer is a bad person who used his power to make the United Kingdom a more unequal place and dismantle the possibility of opposing oppression and genocide, and to drive trans people from public life. If you think he is decent, I have news for you about your own moral judgement.