Craig Snelgrove, PhD
@cls84.bsky.social
Dog loving leftie writer. PhD in Creative Writing.
Author of Young Mancunians
Find me at https://craigsnelgrovephd.substack.com/
Author of Young Mancunians
Find me at https://craigsnelgrovephd.substack.com/
Honing in on the platforming of Nick Fuentes, and where the platforming of extremism sits within the commodification of free speech.
Nick Fuentes and the Platforming of Extremism:
Free Speech as Commodity Fetishism
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December 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Honing in on the platforming of Nick Fuentes, and where the platforming of extremism sits within the commodification of free speech.
With Young Mancunians being reissued under Cooper Lee I’m once again on the lookout for anyone who would be interested in reviewing it for me? It is a short story cycle consisting of 213 pages, so not heavy going really. Looking for honest reviews for Goodreads and will send reviewers the ebook.
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
With Young Mancunians being reissued under Cooper Lee I’m once again on the lookout for anyone who would be interested in reviewing it for me? It is a short story cycle consisting of 213 pages, so not heavy going really. Looking for honest reviews for Goodreads and will send reviewers the ebook.
November 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
With Young Mancunians being reissued under Cooper Lee I’m once again on the lookout for anyone who would be interested in reviewing it for me? It is a short story cycle consisting of 213 pages, so not heavy going really. Looking for honest reviews for Goodreads and will send reviewers the ebook.
Young Mancunians reissued under Cooper Lee Press, an independent publishing house set up by me. Worth a shot, I suppose.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919345213
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919345213
Amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Young Mancunians reissued under Cooper Lee Press, an independent publishing house set up by me. Worth a shot, I suppose.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919345213
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919345213
I watch Scotland play football just to hear that anthem sung. Wish the English had a song about kicking out a monarch and his army.
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I watch Scotland play football just to hear that anthem sung. Wish the English had a song about kicking out a monarch and his army.
Talking short fiction (and my book) on Hannah's Bookshelf last week.
Also enjoyed the Apocalypse Books segment on Hannah’s show. Check it out to find out what I chose!
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Also enjoyed the Apocalypse Books segment on Hannah’s show. Check it out to find out what I chose!
www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Book...
Hannah's Bookshelf with special guest Craig Snelgrove - 15/11/2025
This week, my guest is the wonderful Craig Snelgrove.
Craig is a writer from Manchester and a PhD in Creative Writing. His PhD consisted of the short story cycle entitled Young Mancunians, accompanie...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Talking short fiction (and my book) on Hannah's Bookshelf last week.
Also enjoyed the Apocalypse Books segment on Hannah’s show. Check it out to find out what I chose!
www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Book...
Also enjoyed the Apocalypse Books segment on Hannah’s show. Check it out to find out what I chose!
www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Book...
craigsnelgrovephd.substack.com/p/dreams-und...
Reviewing Laila Lalami's The Dream Hotel and looking at the similarities and contrasts with Philip K. Dick's The Minority Report
Reviewing Laila Lalami's The Dream Hotel and looking at the similarities and contrasts with Philip K. Dick's The Minority Report
Dreams Under Watch: Lalami, Dick, and Futures of Pre-Crime
The Minority Report and The Dream Hotel
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November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Reviewing Laila Lalami's The Dream Hotel and looking at the similarities and contrasts with Philip K. Dick's The Minority Report
Reviewing Laila Lalami's The Dream Hotel and looking at the similarities and contrasts with Philip K. Dick's The Minority Report
Call me crazy, but I just have this nagging feeling that the Prince Andrew coverage of last week is being swept away by the BBC news of today and that it’s a bit dodgy.
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Call me crazy, but I just have this nagging feeling that the Prince Andrew coverage of last week is being swept away by the BBC news of today and that it’s a bit dodgy.
6th Jan, 2021 was almost 6 years ago. We all know what Trump said and what he was claiming. It doesn't matter what bits were put in and where for a BBC documentary, it was clear how Trump's words could have fired up an angry mob.
Sounds like the BBC is under attack to me.
Sounds like the BBC is under attack to me.
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
6th Jan, 2021 was almost 6 years ago. We all know what Trump said and what he was claiming. It doesn't matter what bits were put in and where for a BBC documentary, it was clear how Trump's words could have fired up an angry mob.
Sounds like the BBC is under attack to me.
Sounds like the BBC is under attack to me.
1st chapter in my serialisation on free speech:
"Free speech has been utterly bastardised, no longer referring to protection from state interferences, but protection for those in power, and for those who benefit most from the social hierarchies of Western society, from social consequences."
"Free speech has been utterly bastardised, no longer referring to protection from state interferences, but protection for those in power, and for those who benefit most from the social hierarchies of Western society, from social consequences."
Chapter One
The Fetishisation of Free Speech
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October 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
1st chapter in my serialisation on free speech:
"Free speech has been utterly bastardised, no longer referring to protection from state interferences, but protection for those in power, and for those who benefit most from the social hierarchies of Western society, from social consequences."
"Free speech has been utterly bastardised, no longer referring to protection from state interferences, but protection for those in power, and for those who benefit most from the social hierarchies of Western society, from social consequences."
First in a series on understanding short fiction begins with the big man himself - James Joyce and the mysterious ending of ‘Sisters’.
Understanding Short Fiction #1
James Joyce's 'Sisters'
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October 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
First in a series on understanding short fiction begins with the big man himself - James Joyce and the mysterious ending of ‘Sisters’.
The free speech brigade who were in uproar about Lucy Connolly are curiously quiet about this.
Afghan man jailed for five years for TikTok threat to kill Nigel Farage
Fayaz Khan, 26, was also sentenced at Southwark crown court for entering the UK illegally on a small boat
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The free speech brigade who were in uproar about Lucy Connolly are curiously quiet about this.
theexistentialreader.substack.com/p/an-introdu...
Working on a new book - Free Speech as Commodity Fetishism (working title). I'm fed up with actors like Musk, Trump and Farage using free speech to defend hate speech.
Here's the introduction!
Working on a new book - Free Speech as Commodity Fetishism (working title). I'm fed up with actors like Musk, Trump and Farage using free speech to defend hate speech.
Here's the introduction!
An Introduction to the Ontological Transformation of Free Speech
*The third edition of The Existential Reader magazine has become a short book.
theexistentialreader.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
theexistentialreader.substack.com/p/an-introdu...
Working on a new book - Free Speech as Commodity Fetishism (working title). I'm fed up with actors like Musk, Trump and Farage using free speech to defend hate speech.
Here's the introduction!
Working on a new book - Free Speech as Commodity Fetishism (working title). I'm fed up with actors like Musk, Trump and Farage using free speech to defend hate speech.
Here's the introduction!
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October 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Thanks for all the really amazing support from Question Time tonight!
You heard it several times (including even from Reform!):
@greenparty.org.uk are surging.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
#BBCQT
You heard it several times (including even from Reform!):
@greenparty.org.uk are surging.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
#BBCQT
Had a great chat on All FM yesterday afternoon about my book Young Mancunians, short fiction, and a bit of poetry as well! Really pleased with the reception to the book so far!
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The Sunday Tea Show with Ruth - Sunday 05 October 2025
Listen to 'The Sunday Tea Show with Ruth' broadcast on all fm 96.9 on Sunday 05 October 2025.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Had a great chat on All FM yesterday afternoon about my book Young Mancunians, short fiction, and a bit of poetry as well! Really pleased with the reception to the book so far!
www.mixcloud.com/allfm969/the...
www.mixcloud.com/allfm969/the...
One of my friends said my book, Young Mancunians, is better than Dostoevsky. Of course, that's an outrageous statement, but I'm running with it anyway.
Young Mancunians - out now.
"Better than Dostoevsky" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Young Mancunians - out now.
"Better than Dostoevsky" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Young Mancunians: Amazon.co.uk: Snelgrove, Craig: 9798299201482: Books
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September 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
One of my friends said my book, Young Mancunians, is better than Dostoevsky. Of course, that's an outrageous statement, but I'm running with it anyway.
Young Mancunians - out now.
"Better than Dostoevsky" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Young Mancunians - out now.
"Better than Dostoevsky" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A piece on British identity in 2025
The Flags Return
The Union Jack, St. George's Flag, and British Identity
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September 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A piece on British identity in 2025
@ofcom.bsky.social I'd like to make a complaint here as it seems that Richard Tice MP is misleading the public in a way that could cause potential harm to audiences.
Richard Tice doubles down on questioning the safety of paracetamol, and wants to "shine the spotlight of the disinfectant of sunshine on the issue"
September 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
@ofcom.bsky.social I'd like to make a complaint here as it seems that Richard Tice MP is misleading the public in a way that could cause potential harm to audiences.
Someone should tell Richard Tice that a head of state doesn't have the freedom to lie. Claims made by, say, the US President have to be as factual as possible. Stating on live TV that Tylenol can cause autism is not protected under "free speech".
Richard Tice doubles down on questioning the safety of paracetamol, and wants to "shine the spotlight of the disinfectant of sunshine on the issue"
September 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Someone should tell Richard Tice that a head of state doesn't have the freedom to lie. Claims made by, say, the US President have to be as factual as possible. Stating on live TV that Tylenol can cause autism is not protected under "free speech".
In the Name of Political Violence: A History of Incendiary Language from the MAGA Base and MAGA Affiliates Accompanied by Calculated Gross Hypocrisy
Part 3 - Pete Hegseth, Elon Musk, Mecha Hitler, and RFK Jr
Part 3 - Pete Hegseth, Elon Musk, Mecha Hitler, and RFK Jr
In the Name of Political Violence:
A History of Incendiary Language from the MAGA Base and MAGA Affiliates Accompanied by Calculated Gross Hypocrisy
theexistentialreader.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In the Name of Political Violence: A History of Incendiary Language from the MAGA Base and MAGA Affiliates Accompanied by Calculated Gross Hypocrisy
Part 3 - Pete Hegseth, Elon Musk, Mecha Hitler, and RFK Jr
Part 3 - Pete Hegseth, Elon Musk, Mecha Hitler, and RFK Jr
Just a long list of quotes to look at in response to the current lies and hypocrisy around an imaginary American “radical left”.
In the Name of Political Violence:
A History of Incendiary Language from the MAGA Base and MAGA Affiliates Accompanied by Calculated Gross Hypocrisy
theexistentialreader.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just a long list of quotes to look at in response to the current lies and hypocrisy around an imaginary American “radical left”.
Feel compelled to share this - a piece I wrote last week in response to an absurd eulogy by Konstantin Kisin
On Konstantin Kisin's Eulogy to Charlie Kirk
A Comment on Stupidity in Political Discourse
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September 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Feel compelled to share this - a piece I wrote last week in response to an absurd eulogy by Konstantin Kisin