Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

As an early reader (1988) of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death, it's depressing in the extreme to see so much of what he warned against coming true. The more often he's cited-as in James B's excellent piece below- the more rubbish modern life feels (even though a lot of it really isn't)

Infotainer and flimsy debater Charlie Kirk, who didn't deserve a hair of his head to be harmed, himself inspired violence and championed the gun that killed him. He leaves no body of work. By @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social

A good piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social on Charlie Kirk, “a hero to a subdivision of a subliterate generation in a subliterate nation”: open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...

Relevant piece given the news >> 'Fighting the Enlightenment?': What Do Danny Kruger's New Conservatives Really Want? – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/02/22/f... @adambarnett.bsky.social

'The platform remains a basic video streaming service masquerading as a university' rudevulture.com/jordan-peter...

Charlie Kirk’s ‘message and legacy will live on for countless generations to come,’ said Trump. Will it? I must’ve missed the great body of work he left behind. In reality, like all of these inflammatory ‘influencers’, he’ll be forgotten a short while after he stops posting.

“Though we continue to use the same well-worn labels - debate, democracy, free speech, et cetera - their meaning has been utterly transformed by the constraints of the medium.” @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social

The meaning of Charlie Kirk: against insipid revisionism open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...

"There will never be a Palestinian state. This place is ours," Netanyahu said during a visit to the Maale Adumim settlement in the West Bank where thousands of new housing units would be added. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Charlie Kirk’s ‘message and legacy will live on for countless generations to come,’ said Trump. Will it? I must’ve missed the great body of work he left behind. In reality, like all of these inflammatory ‘influencers’, he’ll be forgotten a short while after he stops posting.

The chief operating officer of Turning Point UK was recently filmed making a Nazi salute in Portsmouth. Worth remembering amid all the retrospective sanctification of Charlie Kirk for ‘promoting healthy debate‘ etc

Unconvinced that every minor British poster needs to put out a press release about the passing of a low brow American influencer

These same American clowns want to lecture Europe on ‘free speech’

Seems Charlie Kirk has died

If the people in charge of Labour can’t see what a bad look it is that one of their own was best pals with the world’s most notorious peadophile, it should be very very obvious that they’re going to lose the next election

We had an insightful evening with James Bloodworth, delving into the 'manosphere' and how it operates - a sales funnel for opportunists and grifters - the deeper one went, the life style being sold shifted from impressing women to ultimately impressing other men. @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social

This is tonight in Brighton if you're around. Come and here me talk about the manosphere and get a signed book www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lost-boys-...

This is tonight in Brighton if you're around. Come and here me talk about the manosphere and get a signed book www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lost-boys-...

TOMORROW NIGHT - Don't miss it. Tix Link in comments @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social @atlanticbooks.bsky.social

Coming to Brighton on Tuesday for the Lost Boys book tour. Tickets can be purchased at the following link @brighthink.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lost-boys-...

Political reporters like "drama". That's why they like the Reform circus just like they were excited by Brexit. What they don't want is to report the dull grind of serious policy.

Coming to Brighton on Tuesday for the Lost Boys book tour. Tickets can be purchased at the following link @brighthink.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lost-boys-...

Because they agree with the content of what she said, not merely with her ‘right to say it’

Absolute dregs of society/‘residue of all classes’ etc.

‘To defeat the Russia-China authoritarian axis, the liberal democratic world must win the battle for global public opinion, by showing the world that our value system is better than theirs. We cannot do this while we collude in Israel’s genocide.’ greatersurbiton.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/t...

I’ve been away on a short holiday in Lisbon so haven’t written anything new this week. Instead, you can read a free extract from my book Lost Boys. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...

I’ve been away on a short holiday in Lisbon so haven’t written anything new this week. Instead, you can read a free extract from my book Lost Boys. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...

Join us in Brighton on Tuesday 9th September as James Bloodworth discusses his new book, Lost Boys, and his personal journey into the manosphere. Not to be missed - ticket link in comments @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social @atlanticbooks.bsky.social

Fly tipping in Haringey is out of control. This was tonight in Coppetts Road. Full removals being dumped in the middle of the street. It happens because there’s no deterrent. I’ve seen people doing this and given car registration to Haringey council but they do sweet FA.

Fly tipping in Haringey is out of control. This was tonight in Coppetts Road. Full removals being dumped in the middle of the street. It happens because there’s no deterrent. I’ve seen people doing this and given car registration to Haringey council but they do sweet FA.

I don’t think people like this have been radicalised (they were racist all along) so much as they simply feel less ashamed about it. Control of the media by racists - (X), GB News - is part of why.

Typical Arteta bottle job. Love it #lfc

ICYMI. Alan Rusbridger. Matthew Goodwin could - who knows? - be Home Secretary in a Reform Government. @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social looks into his journey from studying the far right to joining it. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos...

The chap featured in this story claims to want to protect women from cultures that dont respect them. Yet his own X feed suggests that’s his own culture news.sky.com/story/our-co...

London’s SUVs now take up the same space as the entire borough of Kensington and Chelsea, with more than 800,000 registered in London alone. Madness. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Ah the old post-retirement wisdom again 🥱

Clever. Now all the self-perceived ‘alphas’ will demand to pay top whack

‘There would be many such dots to connect over the course of the book, and this is where Lost Boys excels. Bloodworth seamlessly links the loosely connected beliefs that comprise the right-wing value system.’ lareviewofbooks.org/article/only... @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

Good piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social on some of the people who are “concerned” about asylum seekers: www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/going-afte...

They didn't attempt a violent coup because of the left. They aren't destroying US science & academia because of the left. They're not embracing open racism & nazi ideology because of the left. They are adults, making choices, doing things of their own volition, and they bear the responsibility.

‘There would be many such dots to connect over the course of the book, and this is where Lost Boys excels. Bloodworth seamlessly links the loosely connected beliefs that comprise the right-wing value system.’ lareviewofbooks.org/article/only... @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

‘[Sandro Castro is] the inherited face of a ruling class that co-opted the language of social justice to establish its own dynastic privilege.’ english.elpais.com/internationa...

When it comes to Lucy Connolly I think the ‘free speech’ stuff is mainly side show. I think her call to burn asylum seekers alive resonated with a disgustingly significant number of people on the right

The original tweet

The Telegraph is a demented spiral of radical oneupmanship. Who can pen the most frothing disaster scenario? Who can demonise the most anodyne of political moderates? Who can run the most bonkers PR for motley bigots and criminals?

Never been impressed by Ian Leslie. Maybe he’s better on the Beatles, who knows

Had this during an LBC debate recently. ‘You have to respect public opinion’ etc. I actually said, I’m a journalist, I’m not running for office, I have to do no such thing