Tesla is a meme stock & Musk is key to it remaining so, just as Kim Kardashian is key to the appeal of the Kardashians. So he's got a lot of bargaining power. This has less to do with car-making than with the economics of superstars. See eg Moshe Adler: pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers...

This investigation from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social is absolutely staggering. It is very common in Sheffield (I live in this bit) to have a leasehold, often with hundreds of years left on and pennies in ground rent. This is extortion pure and simple. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

UnHerd have spent the last year platforming Nina Power through their live events. This is someone who was exposed two years ago as keeping a copy of Mein Kampf and saying that the social disapproval of racism is a psyop

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

The HPV vaccine has been a public health triumph. Very depressing to see this potentially unravel while we're on the verge of essentially eradicating cervical cancer. As the article says, the problem is as much about the service as it is about parental attitudes.

Why would anyone hang out with this person

This is beyond grotesque. Another young journalism who treats the lives of minorities as a game. I know plenty of people who still hang out with this guy – I can't respect that as a decision when he's publicly gloating about further stigmatising disabled people.

Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism

Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing

What’s the opposite of imposter syndrome

I guess I don’t think she’ll be a disaster, in that the office provides limited scope for disaster (and Lord knows Michael D has tested the boundaries) but I can’t get past the fact the new president voluntarily went to Syria as a guest of the regime in 2018, when we knew all to there was to know

Journalist and author @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social takes us inside the 'manosphere' - exploring masculinity, conspiracy, and radical politics in the digital age. 4 December in Manchester. Book your place now. humanists.uk/events/holyo...

Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.

Anyone would think he’d raped a child or something

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

The fact that something like this is being published - *published* - on a major newspaper tells you everything you need to know about how certain media are actively contributing to the collapse of societal norms

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

Won’t someone please think of the poor Maccabi ultras! www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Anyone would think he’d raped a child or something

The story of Matt Goodwin, 'a person for whom perceived slights or imagined intrigues become sources of lifelong resentment.' Extraordinary read from @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social: a portrait of one thinker, and a story of the last ten years in UK politics. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos...

back in 2016 I was at some event and got introduced to Goodwin; he found out I worked for the Londoner's Diary and proceeded to follow me round the room like a puppy for the rest of the night, throwing quips in my direction in the hope of being quoted in the paper the next day

The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

Britain’s Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism. Why? @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/b...

Prince Andrew to give up royal duties, but what about noncing duties?

I’m generally against bans on groups of people assembling based on the behaviour of a small number and I think I feel the same in this case. I suppose I should be pleased that people who’ve spent the last two years calling for pro-Palestine protests to be banned have come around to my point of view

Why do Newsnight always have that cretin from the telegraph? It’s not even a real newspaper

The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)

Something I find striking about Zach Polanski is how - unlike the vast majority of those who played a key role in Corbynism - his politics are so clearly not rooted in any kind of deeper analysis or intellectual tradition. It's all just a surface-level synthesis of 2010s left-wing slogans and memes.

Journalist @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social takes us inside the sinister world of the 'manosphere' in our Holyoake Lecture. A vital exploration of online radicalization and modern masculinity. 4 December in Manchester. humanists.uk/events/holyo...

Oh hello

Speaking in Cheltenham today for those who are around: www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/mascu...

Homophobic Christian evangelical group ‘King’s Army’ marches through London’s Old Compton Street www.scenemag.co.uk/christian-ev...

Just what is drawing young men to this space? Just how do these ideas intersect with extreme politics, conspiracy theories, and Christian Nationalism? And if young boys are in crisis, just how can we support them? humanists.uk/2025/10/07/i...

In a new interview on the Humanists UK website, author @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social discusses 'redpilled' young men, 'god pills' and born-again 'pickup artists', Andrew Tate, Donald Trump, and the heady world of online misogyny known as the manosphere.

‘If you are a billionaire buying a media organization, you could not find a more eager servant than Weiss, someone blissfully captured by the richest people alive…She has a cop's heart and a tadpole's brain.’ defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Syrian refugee stabbed to death in street after walking past woman www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Had a marvellous time talking about Lost Boys at the @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social yesterday with Sally Johnson. Thanks to the organisers and those who braved the weather to turn out for a packed event.

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

Israeli bulldozers in West Bank carve up hopes for Palestinian state www.reuters.com/world/middle...

How I feel reading a Gurwinder tweet

Astonishing how far being mediocre will get you if you’re reactionary enough

Sold out before Nick Clegg, which is the main thing 💅🏻

“Milei is the template” - Kemi Badenoch.

This is so good. Just read it. Absolutely nails the attempts by James Lindsay and co to scurry away from their arguments.

This, from @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social is very good. The hysteria has to be seen to be believed. www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/there-is-n...

There's no 'woke' right. New essay by me on the horseshoe theory's bastard offspring: www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/there-is-n...

What drives young men into the 'manosphere'? Journalist @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social takes us on a personal journey through these online subcultures. Our annual #HolyoakeLecture, 4 December in Manchester humanists.uk/events/holyo...

There's no 'woke' right. New essay by me on the horseshoe theory's bastard offspring: www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/there-is-n...

Attempting actual engagement with an Aris Roussinos take is very much like playing chess with a pigeon, but about 98% of the change has already happened and the only thing left to do is probably for the anti-Americanism/Pro-Europeanism to really bite

The online right trying to bring this level of overt racism into mainstream media and politics is a central test of the next couple of years. For Britain, this is racist remigration over-reach but it won't just fizzle and fade by chance without a coalition to contest, challenge and push it out