Steve Rose
@steverose7.bsky.social
Assistant features editor for The Guardian. Writer on culture high and low, film, TV, architecture, arts, race, environment, tech, etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/steverose
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/steverose
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Here's a bit of hope for you: I spoke to the Youngwilders, who were shut out of climate action and ecosystem restoration (even though they're the ones set to inherit the consequences), so took matters into their own hands. And it's working.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement
At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Here's a bit of hope for you: I spoke to the Youngwilders, who were shut out of climate action and ecosystem restoration (even though they're the ones set to inherit the consequences), so took matters into their own hands. And it's working.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
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Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
RIP UDO KIER, cinema's true prince of darkness, muse to Fassbinder, Warhol, Madonna, von Trier, and many more, but a lovely man - I first interviewed him over 20 years ago and he was delightful.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2002...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2002...
Film: His satanic majesty
Udo Kier pops up everywhere, from blockbuster to art house. But his real love, he tells Steve Rose, is playing antichrists and sickly vampires.
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
RIP UDO KIER, cinema's true prince of darkness, muse to Fassbinder, Warhol, Madonna, von Trier, and many more, but a lovely man - I first interviewed him over 20 years ago and he was delightful.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2002...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2002...
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
Excellent, if appalling story www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Excellent, if appalling story www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
So want this to be true: Timothée Chalamet is secretly masquerading as Scouse rapper EsDeeKid,
www.tmz.com/2025/11/20/t...
www.tmz.com/2025/11/20/t...
Fans Speculate UK Masked Rapper EsDeeKid Is Actually Timothee Chalamet
People are going nuts speculating Timothée Chalamet has been moonlighting as a mysterious UK rapper ... and based on the side-by-side pics, who can blame them?
www.tmz.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
So want this to be true: Timothée Chalamet is secretly masquerading as Scouse rapper EsDeeKid,
www.tmz.com/2025/11/20/t...
www.tmz.com/2025/11/20/t...
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I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
woah!
And there it is.
(I listened to the audio and watched the video myself, and yes, that is *exactly* what the biographer said in this University of Cambridge address.)
(I listened to the audio and watched the video myself, and yes, that is *exactly* what the biographer said in this University of Cambridge address.)
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
woah!
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X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
Come to AI London - even better than the real thing!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Buckingham Palace Christmas market: why tourists flocked there – and found just locked gates and big puddles
The hot spot seemed the perfect place for Yuletide-loving royalists. But, as with the Eiffel Tower in Beijing and some of the most picturesque windmills in the Netherlands, there was much less to it t...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Come to AI London - even better than the real thing!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Good on @stephenkb.bsky.social for calling out Mahmood’s shameful, illogical argument that “we have to be cruel to asylum seekers because people are getting more racist”. Or is it the other way round? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Good on @stephenkb.bsky.social for calling out Mahmood’s shameful, illogical argument that “we have to be cruel to asylum seekers because people are getting more racist”. Or is it the other way round? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
Even if you're not Scottish (like me), watching them getting into the World Cup finals last night — with such cracking goals — is an absolute joy.
youtu.be/73cVhK9qL1o?...
youtu.be/73cVhK9qL1o?...
SCOTLAND 4-2 DENMARK | Scotland Qualify for 2026 World Cup! | World Cup Qualifier Highlights
YouTube video by Scotland National Team
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November 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Even if you're not Scottish (like me), watching them getting into the World Cup finals last night — with such cracking goals — is an absolute joy.
youtu.be/73cVhK9qL1o?...
youtu.be/73cVhK9qL1o?...
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I wrote about ALEX KARP, of Palantir, one of the scariest, but most complex tech figures around — who started off trying to fight fascism but might well be enabling it now.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Fear really drives him’: is Alex Karp of Palantir the world’s scariest CEO?
His company is potentially creating the ultimate state surveillance tool, and Karp has recently been on a striking political and philosophical journey. His biographer reveals what makes him tick
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I wrote about ALEX KARP, of Palantir, one of the scariest, but most complex tech figures around — who started off trying to fight fascism but might well be enabling it now.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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<record scratch>
You may be wondering how I got here. It all started with the first black president.
You may be wondering how I got here. It all started with the first black president.
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
<record scratch>
You may be wondering how I got here. It all started with the first black president.
You may be wondering how I got here. It all started with the first black president.
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Yes, that is her entire job description.
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Yes, that is her entire job description.
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As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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AI peas peas with AI www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
AI peas peas with AI www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Sir Mixalot, the man who put “Baby Got Back” into the lexicon, now admits: his baby never actually got back to him.
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Sir Mixalot, the man who put “Baby Got Back” into the lexicon, now admits: his baby never actually got back to him.
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
Edgar Wright's THE RUNNING MAN is … OK? Lots of lively action and fun but not all that smart or satisfying beyond broad dystopian vibes. And very blokey - v few female characters of substance, and devolves into guys punching and shooting each other - like it could have been made 38 yrs ago. Oh wait…
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Edgar Wright's THE RUNNING MAN is … OK? Lots of lively action and fun but not all that smart or satisfying beyond broad dystopian vibes. And very blokey - v few female characters of substance, and devolves into guys punching and shooting each other - like it could have been made 38 yrs ago. Oh wait…