this image is a pretty good litmus test for politics - do you regard this man with respect or disgust ?

My latest for openDemocracy - how US anti-abortion cash, disinformation and tactics have come to Britain, with reproductive rights a new front in the hard right’s culture wars opendemocracy.net/en/us-anti-abo…

i do sometimes think about the time a man, at an invite-only press event, at a political conference, asked me 'if i followed politics'

Great to see my worst ever job interview recorded for posterity!

For The New Statesman, I reviewed a book I did not like.

newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/04/…

Swift this Swift that what about a Swift one with your mates :)

i'd like to bring back 'stepping out' as a term/ phase of relationships (file under: we all need to be more interwar)

This is genuinely horrifying. If my 6 year old is anywhere near a camera at the moment he likes to take photos of his bum. He's 6! Bums are funny! Please don't let your small children on social media for the love of god

These tragic deaths of transgender teenagers with suspected autism expose how real young people are living - and sometimes dying - due to decrepit state services amid a ferocious debate. My ⁦i newspaper⁩ column following the Cass review inews.co.uk/opinion/deaths…

Entirely agree - I wrote about this here: newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

A searingly accurate review from Morgan.

One to read if you too think that there are good and bad ways to engage in politics, that 'stan' culture shouldn't apply to politicians, or if you're still scarred by 'horny for Nandy' circa 2020.

So the Conservatives have been waging their campaign against Angela Rayner while knowing - and yet doing nothing about - this?

this guy has been an mp the whole time ???

An entertaining review of a book that sounds deeply cringe

morgan The New Statesman I cackled

'Another thinkpiece on OpenLabour and the soft left, God the discourse will be unbearable'

You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn

‘Engaging with politics as if participating in a fan culture is also detrimental to our national political conversation.

This was a view I came to in 2020, during the last Labour leadership race, witnessing sexualised “fan” content being made about the Wigan MP Lisa Nandy.

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