Gratuitously sharing this piece I wrote in 2021 about this exact thing! The lack of accountability while making your entire brand – and it is a brand – anti-capitalist anti-colonialist leftism does feel beyond the pale at this point www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

I wrote about what we want from our relationships – in dating, monogamy, even friendship – and the growing number of people not actually seeking real connections, but instead someone to playact a fantasy they learned online: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

It’s also going to be published by One Signal (Simon & Schuster) in the US, and so far has also been sold to Peninsula in Spain. Truly over the moon and if you’re a therapist - call me!

Some thrilling news from me: my debut book TELL ME ABOUT MYSELF, about the rise and impact of psychotherapy on how we see ourselves and each other, as well as my own experience in therapy over the last 20 years, will be published by HarperCollins in 2027 www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...

Some exciting, slightly belated news from me: as of this week I’ve joined the Observer where I’ll be writing across opinion, the magazine and on the new website - alongside some of my favourite editors and journalists. More soon but catch me there from this weekend!

Hello: I'm going to be on 5 Live this morning with Adrian Chiles from 11-12 – talking about Donald Trump, Jeffrey Goldberg, the spring statement and scatter cushions. Tune in!

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People keep sharing this Sam Fender quote from the Sunday Times and while I think there is something in this – it feels bizarre that, in the midst of what is fundamentally a backlash against feminism + LGBT rights, everyone is so eager to dance around the obvious answer, which is primarily misogyny

Whatever you think of Taylor Swift, this is repulsive and you have to think was a deliberate choice from Billboard. Her victim complex is extreme, but you can understand why on some level when even the people literally giving her an award will try to humiliate her in the process

I know this is confirmed by each successively worse Trump appointment, but the discourse amongst liberals is also evidence of how badly we are cooked

Wrote about centrists reeling over this result and why they rarely get these things right: inews.co.uk/opinion/rory...