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Emily Lawford
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Online editor at the New Statesman
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Well this is rather delicious from @emilylawford.bsky.social on being mansplained to about the roots of sexism by the Revolutionary Communist Party
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"I don't know if you've heard of the beginning of the oppression of women," he began. I said I hadn't. This delighted him. "In the early days, as Engels said, everyone 'lived frivolously' - everyone fucked." He looked wistful. "It was only with the start of class society we started producing a surplus, and men wanted to pass their surplus on to their children. So they couldn't let women sleep around." It all came down to who's inheriting your wealth. "You have to know your children are yours." He shook his head. "It blew my mind." The idea that class is the root of sexism - as opposed to, say, I don't know, men - is the sort of thing revolutionary communists like.
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Very funny report of the 'Battle of Ideas' by @emilylawford.bsky.social

Particularly entertained to read some definitely accurate pronouncements from Reform's in-house genius James Orr, and that an English civil war is still just around the corner.

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On the front line in the Battle of Ideas
At the free speech festival, people were prophesying a race-fuelled civil war
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October 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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I went on a Border Force patrol with immigration minister Mike Tapp for the New Statesman

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October 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Really happy to have signed with @annapallai.bsky.social. Hopefully exciting projects ahead
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July 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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With the pressure to be political at Glastonbury in front of a sea of Palestine flags, it was almost odd when some artists avoided the topic, writes @emilylawford.bsky.social.
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Bob Vylan, Kneecap and the politics of Glastonbury
The police have got involved after this year’s festival. Here’s what it was like to be there
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July 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Our summer double issue has just hit newsstands! Here’s a preview of what’s inside... 🧵

For our cover story, @oliverbullough.bsky.social details how water privatisation has left us with leaky pipes, sewage spills and rivers not fit to swim in: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
July 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Thrilled to be selected as a winner of this year’s 30 to Watch award!
May 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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"In the pod, there’s a red button. This is what you’d press to die. What a crazy way to go, is all I can think. Nitschke’s face looms outside the plastic windows"

A fantastic piece by @emilylawford.bsky.social from our new issue @prospectmagazine.co.uk

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My appointment with Dr Death
Philip Nitschke facilitated the world’s first legal assisted suicides in the 1990s. But is he the best advocate for the cause he so believes in?
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May 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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For our new magazine, I profiled Philip Nitschke - aka “Dr Death” - who facilitated the first ever assisted suicides in the 1990s and has spent the rest of his life inventing new ways to die www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
May 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I reviewed Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World - where all babies are conceived by IVF and pretty much no one has sex - for The Times www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
‘Fictosexuality’ and artificial wombs — our dystopian future
In her novel Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, the author of the bestselling Convenience Store Woman, imagines a sexless society where all babies are conceived in laboratories
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April 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I’ve finally bitten the bullet & started a #substack! I’ll write pieces related to Byzantine studies & history, reviews, tips+tricks, and art. This first essay is personal, outlining some feelings about Doing History. #historybluesky #byzantinebluesky
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Bad History
A short meditation on living the past.
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January 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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If you’re watching Netflix’s Adolescence, it’s a great time to revisit @emilylawford.bsky.social’s deep dive into the radicalisation of young men in the online “manosphere” from our November 2024 issue.
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The incel trap
Angry and lonely young men can easily enter a web of hatred against women online. Is there a way out?
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March 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I reviewed Róisín Lanigan's funny and haunting book about the horrors of renting in London www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
March 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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This never happens. The @prospectmagazine.co.uk paywall is down until 7pm GMT tomorrow, so head over our site to read for free

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February 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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For Prospect, I interviewed Ingrid Newkirk, the founder of Peta, about why she's happy to be disruptive for animal rights: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
Peta founder Ingrid Newkirk: ‘The press wants something sexy’
The campaigner on her favourite stunts—and why she’s still fighting for animal rights
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January 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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“In a group that’s supposed to be for discussion of the rights of men, they spend 90 per cent of the time talking about what women are doing”, said Harry.

@emilylawford.bsky.social met some incels and men’s rights activists
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The incel trap
Angry and lonely young men can easily enter a web of hatred against women online. Is there a way out?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 22, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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Co-hosting the @prospectmagazine.co.uk pod with @ellenhalliday.bsky.social has been one of the most unexpected (and fun) parts of my now not-so-new job, and our final episode of the 2024 was particularly fun to put together /1

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Predictions: the biggest stories of 2025 | The Prospect Interview
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December 18, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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What happens when you die, but have no one to pay for your burial? Beautiful piece about public health funerals, or 'paupers' funerals', and how budget cuts mean councils are struggling to provide: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
The decline of the pauper’s funeral
When a body is found alone at home, with no known relatives, a small team of local authority officers intervene. Their task—balancing dignity in death...
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December 16, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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As parliament prepares to debate assisted dying, I spoke to Dame Esther Rantzen about what feels different about this campaign: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
Esther Rantzen: ‘I’m not seeking to shorten my life, only my death’
The assisted dying campaigner on the bill before parliament, joining Dignitas and disappointment with Wes Streeting
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November 28, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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Is our assisted dying bill the first step on a slippery slope to murder? Mark Mardell examines how the law changed in Canada: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Does Canada’s assisted dying slippery slope end in murder?
Canada legalised assisted dying for those with a ‘reasonably foreseeable’ death in 2016. Its law has changed a lot since then
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November 25, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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Lovely interview with an end-of-life doula—who helps people in their final days—by @aliciamargclegg.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
How an end-of-life doula makes dying easier
Hermione Elliott wants to retrieve society’s forgotten death know-how
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November 20, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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November 19, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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While you’re in the mood for new things, subscribe to Lightbulb 💡, the free newsletter I write for @prospectmagazine.bsky.social.

Every weekday lunchtime I provide a rundown of our latest stories, plus musings on my favourite things (mince pies, Paddington).
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November 15, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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On Tuesday, Mark Mardell launched Prospect's assisted dying blog. During this week, he's spoken to doctors and campaigners, and examined the upsides and potential pitfalls. Read the blog here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
Will the new assisted dying bill become law?
The strictest safeguards in the world—or too much, too late?
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November 15, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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Hello newcomers to Bluesky! I send out a weekly(ish) email on the backlash against feminist progress. It's free! Why not sign up? thebacklash.substack.com
The Backlash | Alona Ferber | Substack
Notes from this moment in the struggle for gender equality. Click to read The Backlash, by Alona Ferber, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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November 13, 2024 at 7:23 PM