To say that you will ‘have to volunteer’ to be eligible for settled status even if working full time as a doctor or nurse for example is not really volunteering because it would not be voluntary. The govt should call it something else if they want to enforce it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

reminder: if you like cursed images, trash essays, Wiki aesthetic categories, shrimp Jesus & AI slop, book your ticket for the launch of Amateurs! How We Made Internet Culture and Why it Matters ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) at @burleyfisher.bsky.social with @nrolah.bsky.social, tues sept 23rd!

LONDON LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT! 23 September, @burleyfisher.bsky.social with Nathalie Olah - tickets here!!! burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...

I’ll be at @burleyfisher.bsky.social on the 23rd Sept to discuss and launch ‘Amateurs!’ by @badaude.bsky.social. Expect discussions on art and labour, the legacy of postinternet art, platform decay and aesthetics in general. Tickets can be bought here: burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...

London pals, on July 7th I’m going to be talking about Poor Ghost! with the brilliant @nrolah.bsky.social at Reference Point bookshop, WC2R. Come and join if you’re free!

On to our Travelling Scholarships, which enable writers to keep in touch with their colleagues abroad. Established in 1944, the recipients are nominated by the assessors for the year. Five writers are each awarded £7,000 #SoAwards 🧵

I love Claire-Louise Bennett

We are excited to announce our new open call series, Satirical Strains, guest-edited by Holly Pester. We're looking to work with two emerging writers to develop original short books or equivalent. Full details and how to apply here: bookworks.org.uk/news/new-ope...

Qué maravilla de entrevista con Nathalie Olah firmada por Alba Correa en @voguespain.bsky.social www.vogue.es/articulos/ma...

i liked @nrolah.bsky.social’s book “steal as much as you can” that relates to this

There's a long feature on Bad Taste in Spanish Vogue: www.vogue.es/articulos/ma...

"Nathalie Olah paints a vibrant and prescient picture of the destruction of a working class community..." - @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Day Listen to 'A Child of Rover' on BBC Radio 4 tonight at 8pm, co-produced by Nathalie Olah and Alan Hall www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Our friend Mahmoud Muna has been arrested, he runs bookshops, wonderful places of curiosity and knowledge. With love and solidarity to the Muna family x www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Baffled by my former ability to update social media sites regularly. I have become chronically long form. Empty headed unless operating at about 10k words. Can’t tell if this is good or bad.

I’m excited to be speaking to Paul B. Preciado next month about his latest book Dysphoria Mundi. Will be at the LRB bookshop. Tickets available at the link. @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @lrbbookshop.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paul-b-pre...

I’m excited to be speaking to Paul B. Preciado next month about his latest book Dysphoria Mundi. Will be at the LRB bookshop. Tickets available at the link. @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @lrbbookshop.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paul-b-pre...

'Bad Taste' by @nrolah.bsky.social: a trenchant critique of the dominant aesthetics of contemporary everyday life and how they express and reiterate modes of class power. Both sharp and vivid, ranging effortlessly across cultural forms

"the wild horses of subject & theme will roam pretty much undisturbed… but at some point, corralling is necessary. You must bring a sense, not necessarily of control, but a sense of order to bear" — John Akomfrah talking to @nrolah.bsky.social nathalieolah.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

This word salad doesn't even mention the UK's duty to give refuge to displaced people or to provide humanitarian aid. Literally not once. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I finally got around to transcribing a conversation I had with John Akomfrah earlier this year open.substack.com/pub/nathalie...

I have an essay in the new issue of Tate Etc. on the Małgorzata Mirga-Tas show at @tatestives.bsky.social. I was interested in the screen works and the question of what is or isn’t permissible to the European gaze

I come back to the uk today. Distance is good for reminding you that the important work is usually slow to take form, private and unglamorous. London seems especially geared towards making us forget that.

Tucked into this column, a detail I wasn't aware of: one of the cops accused of running spies to collect dirt on the Stephen Lawrence campaign went on to write the recent Policy Exchange report that recommended tougher sentences for environmental protesters. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To my 50 followers on Bluesky, it’s paperback publication day for Bad Taste. Here is the cover with nice new endorsements.