My @theguardian.com piece on what the UK can learn from Mamdani about how to frame wealth taxes: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

Who remembers proper banks?

At least when the Southampton coaching staff did spying they didn't report their findings to the deep state. Reminder to journalists covering Labour that this is who you're talking about - this news only broke two months ago ffs! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Next Tuesday I’ll be talking to @danhancox.bsky.social at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social about THE ASSET CLASS - if you’re in London, do come along! housmans.com/event/book-l...

Excellent piece by @danhancox.bsky.social on how Kanye West, openly racist,sexist, anti-semitic,homophobic for years & making money off his hate, should NOT be playing prestige gigs in London or anywhere—but the greed of promoters like Live Nation made this happen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pedro Sánchez’s lone stance against Trump may look risky but the truth is he is a sound strategist at home and abroad. Few other centre-left leaders have shown his instinct for seizing political moments in recent decades. My opinion piece in The Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Væry excited tø reåd this!

"Davos hand warmer" sounds like a Private Eye euphemism for a bribe but no a real thing

Another new @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social episode, with a very special guest on a very timely subject: Davos, its weird global elites and weirder freebies cursedobjects.podbean.com/e/davos-hand...

Best of the pods on this so far 🫡 @piercepenniless.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/399w...

And to come at it from a "wider culture" angle, to supplement the (terrible) data, as @jonathanliew.bsky.social has covered, "Keir Starmer is a wanker" was effectively a national meme before the Epstein files were released! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Story quickly becomes a lot less weird if you are even vaguely aware of Labour Together

Thought I'd finally read Doppelganger by Naomi Klein and, well, quite

It is a constant source of derangement to me that I spent my entire 20s lamenting New Labour's reactionary degradation of Labour history, only to realise now how much more progressive they were than Starmer's administration. A brilliant piece by Alan here

This mendacious drivel should be a resigning issue, for both the author and anyone who thought it was right to publish it

Yesterday I happened to be listening to Tony Benn's diaries from the 2000s, when his son Hilary became an MP. Seeing his name on this proud Labour announcement... ugh

New Substack from me - on "the battle for the soul of this country", fascism and UK rap's Flag Play danhancox.substack.com/p/i-think-i-...

New Substack from me - on "the battle for the soul of this country", fascism and UK rap's Flag Play danhancox.substack.com/p/i-think-i-...

New genre of Binmenism (cf @danhancox.bsky.social ) slop has dropped: nostalgia for watching tv in the nineties

Christmas haul at FRBH Towers with @liaminscoejones.bsky.social @danhancox.bsky.social and this hot new band Finitribe

50 years since the death of Francisco Franco, @danhancox.bsky.social reports how the families of the many victims are still seeking justice. https://bit.ly/4pcV0ad

Really good article about a history I knew very little about. But that’s not just me being ignorant. As Dan put it (in DMs), ‘The Pact of Forgetting is a thing with capital letters and its own Wikipedia page.’ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact_of...

“Franco died not in a ditch but in bed, as a victor, and he left behind this legacy: that justice would not to be served, that the amnesty law would be signed, that everyone would be pardoned and that his successors would sign up to a pact of silence – of forgetting.” — Andrés Rebolledo Barreno

Happy to report @danhancox.bsky.social is back on his bullshit (complimentary) observer.co.uk/style/featur...

‘There were more than 45,000 forcibly disappeared people in Andalucía alone – and yet, as far as the state is concerned, no one forced them to disappear.’ @danhancox.bsky.social on Spain’s deep failures of memory and accountability re. the Franco regime. observer.co.uk/style/featur...

This is a great book for all people who've been part of a protest and then talked about as a mindless mob in the papers the next day. 'Wait,' you think. 'I was there and my mind was still working.' Yet the establishment does this over and over and it turns out it has a long history.

🟡 MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World is out in paperback from @versobooks.bsky.social today 🟡 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

My latest Guardian Long Read is about a shadowy area of criminal law that has exploded since austerity, and what “two tier justice” really means in Britain: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

I notice Thames Water have the main ad on the New Statesman politics podcast. I recall Uber had a running NS ad about how brilliantly they treat their employees... an interesting slot that, for some of the worst companies. I guess they figure SPADs listen www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The Inbetweeners is making a comeback, which is confusing, because I'm sure we were told by tedious culture warriors that this was against the laws of physics

Starmer's almost directly quoted The Day Today's mock campaign ad: "we know that all conflict will perish in the brotherhood of flags" www.youtube.com/watch?v=T72T...

Last week I published the full transcript from Burial's last ever interview on my Substack. The conversation took place the month before Untrue came out in October 2007, in my living room in Tooting. Suffice it to say people have gone a bit nuts over it 💗 danhancox.substack.com/p/burials-la...

missed this: the Met promising to put its facial recognition tech onto officers' phones to be used on the spot. how long until every conversation with the police involves getting your face scanned? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/t...

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

I have a name, Jim! ;) open.substack.com/pub/danhanco...

Don’t ignore that the bbc asked a racist question here

It has been an astonishing realisation / waste of my valuable time to learn that Lucy Mangan's review was if anything too kind to Destination X - aka GeoGuessr for people who have never ever thought about the outside world - hallucinatory is bang on though www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!

Can’t remember if I shared this already, but I recently did a live episode of @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social with @luketurner.bsky.social, fab curator Kate Clements and of course @kasiatee.bsky.social and @danhancox.bsky.social. You can listen here:

A great read this book by @danhancox.bsky.social. Thank you Dan. An excellent closing paragraph too: ‘One of the greatest mistakes we have made in recent decades is to accept the idea that freedom is a quality that can be found and enjoyed only by the individual acting alone. #Booksky 💙📚 #AmRrading

Just learned a new expression which is fascinating but does resonate a bit with the first time I went to London alone as a callow 17 year old in 1980! ‘One was now in the urban danger zone where visitors from the country were thrown to the wolves,' the Swedish academic Orvar Löfgren #Crowds

More love for Cameron Winter/Geese here from @danhancox.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/danhanco...

‘‘Totalitarian movements are mass organisations of atomised, isolated individuals, Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism.’’ From @danhancox.bsky.social’s Multitudes. Are we here now too? Reference is made to this in Adam Curtis’s #Shifty - did neoliberal capitalism create this too?

Good morning, I've written a piece about the prime minister. I spoke to several dozen sources, including government insiders, former legal colleagues and campaigners to ask: what happened to Keir Starmer the heroic human rights lawyer? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Great piece by @cianginty.bsky.social about the fascinating history of the bicycle as a liberating invention in Ireland (as it was in so many places!) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ladybird book in the Spotlight ‘Public Services: Water Supply’ 1969 [Deep sigh] Artist: John Berry

sure, but details of which of his identities? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“British food is too heavily seasoned” is exactly the nineteenth-century perspective that we need to counter all those tedious American takes that British food is bland

Hard to find the words to sum up David Lammy on R4 Today this morning, doing and saying precisely nothing to stop a British ally pursuing genocide, starving and massacring innocents, plotting concentration camps. Go on, write another sternly worded letter