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Probably the most important thing I wrote for them this year was my elaborate response to the godawful anti-trans UK Supreme Court ruling, where I took on the larger, poisonous enterprise of so-called "sex-based rights" the danger it poses to liberal democracy writ large:
The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"
"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...
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January 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Probably the most important thing I wrote for them this year was my elaborate response to the godawful anti-trans UK Supreme Court ruling, where I took on the larger, poisonous enterprise of so-called "sex-based rights" the danger it poses to liberal democracy writ large:
Wingnut Welfare: UK Edition
December 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Wingnut Welfare: UK Edition
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Right, like I’m sure there’s theoretically a way this could happen where everyone’s done their Very Important Jobs to the best of their abilities in the circumstances… but I would like to see a longread with diagrams explaining how
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Right, like I’m sure there’s theoretically a way this could happen where everyone’s done their Very Important Jobs to the best of their abilities in the circumstances… but I would like to see a longread with diagrams explaining how
There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I'd be interested to hear more about if that strategy is actually a post COVID one that reflects lessons learned though too. It's forgotten often now, but there was a solid couple of weeks in March 2020 where 'let it rip' really was the policy of the UK government, until it very suddenly wasn't
December 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I'd be interested to hear more about if that strategy is actually a post COVID one that reflects lessons learned though too. It's forgotten often now, but there was a solid couple of weeks in March 2020 where 'let it rip' really was the policy of the UK government, until it very suddenly wasn't
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A Labour Councillor. Labour First. Luke Akehurst. All the hits.
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A Labour Councillor. Labour First. Luke Akehurst. All the hits.
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it has this PKD/David Cronenberg feel to it, the combination of the surreal and the utterly gross
October 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
it has this PKD/David Cronenberg feel to it, the combination of the surreal and the utterly gross
'Neoreaction a Basilisk' by Elizabeth Sandifer features a fun exploration of some of his ideas, would highly recommend
October 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
'Neoreaction a Basilisk' by Elizabeth Sandifer features a fun exploration of some of his ideas, would highly recommend
Orwell was never a Soviet communist - see The Road to Wigan Pier - and went to Spain as a member of the Independent Labour Party, which is why he enlisted in the POUM and not one of the Soviet sponsored militias. Your wider point RE the calibre of Western defectors stands though
September 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Orwell was never a Soviet communist - see The Road to Wigan Pier - and went to Spain as a member of the Independent Labour Party, which is why he enlisted in the POUM and not one of the Soviet sponsored militias. Your wider point RE the calibre of Western defectors stands though
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Sack him. I'm sure he's a nice bloke but he could be a nice bloke as an audit manager at NatWest and do the politics as a hobby. The senior political correspondent of the national broadcaster ought to be doing a better job than this
September 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Sack him. I'm sure he's a nice bloke but he could be a nice bloke as an audit manager at NatWest and do the politics as a hobby. The senior political correspondent of the national broadcaster ought to be doing a better job than this