In 2023 i pitched a bunch of editors a longform on Farage as the most important figure in Brit politics since Blair. The gen response was we’re tired of Farage, no one cares. Soon his party will top opinion polls

“We just clean out the whole thing”. For those who think Trump means peace for Gaza, this is what he just said should happen

it happened - Reform ahead of Labour in YouGov poll

The Russian-born CEO styles himself as a free-speech crusader and a scourge of the surveillance state. Here’s the real story behind Pavel Durov’s arrest and what happened next. wired.trib.al/t2hWpo8

ICYMI amid a few events stateside: my deep-dive into the case against Telegram/Durov for WIRED Belated thanks to Raphaël MAILLOCHON Stéphane Duguin Eva and many others for speaking

Year of the snake lol

RFK Jr epitomises the dangerous new “diagonalism” at the heart of Trump’s coalition Me for The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I had been reporting on Querdenken and similar movements for years, without knowing that William Callison and @zeithistoriker had coined the term diagonalism, popularised by Naomi Klein in her excellent Doppelganger. Def read their work to learn more!

RFK Jr was just confirmed as Trump’s health secretary. Here’s my take

New from 404 Media: anyone can push updates to the Doge.gov site. Two sources independently found the issue, one made their own decision to deface the site. "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN." 404media.co/anyone-can-pus…

There's literally no plan to stop this other than promoting Labour deportations with sky-blue colour scheme

doesn't seem dumb to me. lesson is if they committed crimes, hurry up and prosecute

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and Elon Musk are set to launch a $300m partnership via Grok that caps off a long tech bromance. My piece for the The Observer on Sunday observer.co.uk/news/business/… Additional reporting Gabriel Thierry pic.x.com/hemTf9ylKh

"Iran is the main source of regional instability" - not sure how many Europeans would agree with this rn

ISIS, Al-Qaeda...and a group that spray-painted some planes. We need to stop pretending our politics is polarised when there's clearly now an authoritarian consensus

Hilarious to say faith schools should be banned, except Christian ones because, well, they're all right! I went to Catholic primary and secondary schools, when i arrived at university i realised I'd never had a non-Catholic friend

Very happy to see my latest piece out on Jacobin magazine on the "Big Tech Deep State". The governmental security apparatus and Silicon Valley are becoming ever more closely integrated and this raises major concerns for the future of our democracies. jacobin.com/2025/07/big-te…