Ian Dunt
@iandunt.bsky.social
Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
My optician did a new bells-and-whistles eye test on me today and the photos are eerily beautiful, like an alien landscape.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My optician did a new bells-and-whistles eye test on me today and the photos are eerily beautiful, like an alien landscape.
Amazing. Brave new world.
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Amazing. Brave new world.
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
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This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This feeling is called hope: Three lessons from a week of progressive victories iandunt.substack.com/p/this-feeli...
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This feeling is called hope: Three lessons from a week of progressive victories iandunt.substack.com/p/this-feeli...
If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
This year's Batman annual still remembers who the heroes and villains are, even if everyone else has forgotten
October 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This year's Batman annual still remembers who the heroes and villains are, even if everyone else has forgotten
This, from the leader of the opposition, seems like a pretty clear case of contempt of court to me
October 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This, from the leader of the opposition, seems like a pretty clear case of contempt of court to me
Really important piece
October 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Really important piece
Fuck winter, I hate it iandunt.substack.com/p/today-it-r...
October 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Fuck winter, I hate it iandunt.substack.com/p/today-it-r...
Chatting Trump, Musk and the radicalisation of the right with @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
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October 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Chatting Trump, Musk and the radicalisation of the right with @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
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The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...
The ability to discuss Brexit without fear is nothing less than the ability to discuss objective reality inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...
October 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The ability to discuss Brexit without fear is nothing less than the ability to discuss objective reality inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...
One of the things I love about London is how inconquerable it is. There's just too much of it to ever believe you'll discover it all. I first stumbled on this mosaic a few months ago, about a minute's walk from the flat I've lived in for 8 years.
October 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
One of the things I love about London is how inconquerable it is. There's just too much of it to ever believe you'll discover it all. I first stumbled on this mosaic a few months ago, about a minute's walk from the flat I've lived in for 8 years.
It's not just Badenoch or Jenrick. The entire British conservative project is dying iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
October 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It's not just Badenoch or Jenrick. The entire British conservative project is dying iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
'How the fuck have you done this again?'
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
'How the fuck have you done this again?'
Not for the first time, I have locked us out of the flat.
October 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Not for the first time, I have locked us out of the flat.
Tonight, 10:30pm, Sky News.
Also I have a massive spot, so I am seriously relying on the missus and/or the Sky make-up artists, to make it dissappear. If they fail, I'm completely fucked.
Also I have a massive spot, so I am seriously relying on the missus and/or the Sky make-up artists, to make it dissappear. If they fail, I'm completely fucked.
October 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Tonight, 10:30pm, Sky News.
Also I have a massive spot, so I am seriously relying on the missus and/or the Sky make-up artists, to make it dissappear. If they fail, I'm completely fucked.
Also I have a massive spot, so I am seriously relying on the missus and/or the Sky make-up artists, to make it dissappear. If they fail, I'm completely fucked.
My cure for the state of the world is to buy a dog, secure matching furniture, and then occasionally go and look at him during the working day to remind yourself that everything might be OK.
October 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
My cure for the state of the world is to buy a dog, secure matching furniture, and then occasionally go and look at him during the working day to remind yourself that everything might be OK.
Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
October 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
God I love Saturday mornings. What else could you want.
September 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
God I love Saturday mornings. What else could you want.
Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea
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September 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea
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Holy fucking shit. I haven't been nominated for an award since I was eight. www.societyofeditors.org/events/media...
September 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Holy fucking shit. I haven't been nominated for an award since I was eight. www.societyofeditors.org/events/media...
IT'S HERE. I am legit overjoyed to be unleashing this shit on the world: Origin Story Season 7 has arrived.
For the first time, we're doing an entire season as one story.
This is the history of socialism, from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall
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For the first time, we're doing an entire season as one story.
This is the history of socialism, from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall
linktr.ee/originstoryp...
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
IT'S HERE. I am legit overjoyed to be unleashing this shit on the world: Origin Story Season 7 has arrived.
For the first time, we're doing an entire season as one story.
This is the history of socialism, from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall
linktr.ee/originstoryp...
For the first time, we're doing an entire season as one story.
This is the history of socialism, from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall
linktr.ee/originstoryp...