Indulged in some client journalism today James O'Brien

Interview on PoliticsJOE tomorrow

Unfortunately my job at VICE is among those affected by layoffs.

I built and led VICE World News + VICE News socials, TikTok (3.6M) & IG (3M).

In our last month my team and I brought in 160M+ views.

If you want to grow your socials and get into vertical video please reach out.

Babe wake up new pronunciation of Tánaiste just dropped x

Hi David. If you’d bothered to watch the video you’re tweeting about you’d know it was me that quoted that exact statistic and not the caller.

So no, I clearly don’t think referencing them is racist.

Best to get the facts right, isn’t it?

I am afraid that if you call in to the radio to tell me black people are more culturally inclined to stab each other then I will be calling you a racist 🤷‍♂️

'There's more of a culture in the black community to use knifes than in the white one...'
'So you're a racist then?'

Oli Dugmore and caller Kevin engage in a heated disagreement over ways to tackle knife crime in the UK.

doomed whaling voyage

I met the concerned Londoners determined to get rid of Sadiq Khan at the last anti-ULEZ protest before the mayoral election

my sign is vital
my hands are cold
and i’m on my knees
looking for the answer

“It’s horrible, it's outrageous. It's a sin, as my mother would have said

“There will always be an immigration policy in most countries, but we've got to get a humane one.

“It's also useless.”

Mick Lynch pulls apart the Tories’ Rwanda deportation scheme.

An email from a young journalist who watched our session at journalism festival (sharing with her permission).

This person clearly cares a lot about journalism - she watches web streams of media talks. It's pretty sad that this is how our industry makes her feel.

I went to Whitehall to meet the English patriots celebrating St George’s day

This man in Workington, the whitest place in England, told me exactly how he feels about immigration

I've officially been @PoliticsJOE for one whole year today 🎉

In that time, we've recorded over 100 episodes of the PoliticsJOE podcast, I've produced interviews with the likes of Yanis Varoufakis and Žižek, vox popped, and received a promotion!

Huge thanks to colleagues (and,

Looking forward to debating populism’s threat to democracy with Nancy Pelosi at the Oxford Union.

Info: cherwell.org/2024/04/15/exc…

Holiday reads. Some interesting interviews coming.

Sauron had a lot of problems, but he knew how to manage a wetland. The Dead Marshes were one of the environmental gems of Mordor, and an impressive nature-based solution to help remediate the environmental damage caused by the corpse issue after the Battle of Dagorlad

I wrote for The Times and The Sunday Times about whether 1,000,000 men in Britain are taking steroids because they suffer from body dysmorphia - or if something else might going on thetimes.co.uk/article/how-st…

Yesterday we spoke to PoliticsJOE on #InternationalRomaniDay about the importance of celebrating Roma and Romani cultures, histories and languages and tackling the widespread discrimination faced in all aspects of life by the communities.

'It is framing our sexuality in a really particular way that isn't about what bodies do and what pleasure is.'

Dr Fiona Vera-Gray explains how porn reinforces deep rooted misogynistic tropes.