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I'd never really thought explicitly about writing, how I do it, and why I do it, til this conversation with @catherinedevries.bsky.social Who makes it sound like I've thought it all through much better than I have... catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
Etched in Marble: Anand Menon on Clear Thinking, Public Writing, and the Joy of Being Useful
Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I'd never really thought explicitly about writing, how I do it, and why I do it, til this conversation with @catherinedevries.bsky.social Who makes it sound like I've thought it all through much better than I have... catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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EVENT | The UK-EU ‘reset': Six months on
Join us! Professor @anandmenon.bsky.social and Sir Ivan Rogers will explore the UK's new 'deal' with the EU and how much progress has been made on it. @jillongovt.bsky.social and @calummillerld.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/six-mo...
Join us! Professor @anandmenon.bsky.social and Sir Ivan Rogers will explore the UK's new 'deal' with the EU and how much progress has been made on it. @jillongovt.bsky.social and @calummillerld.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/six-mo...
October 31, 2025 at 9:25 AM
EVENT | The UK-EU ‘reset': Six months on
Join us! Professor @anandmenon.bsky.social and Sir Ivan Rogers will explore the UK's new 'deal' with the EU and how much progress has been made on it. @jillongovt.bsky.social and @calummillerld.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/six-mo...
Join us! Professor @anandmenon.bsky.social and Sir Ivan Rogers will explore the UK's new 'deal' with the EU and how much progress has been made on it. @jillongovt.bsky.social and @calummillerld.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/six-mo...
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"It is striking that Calgie’s apology went down far worse with the population of X than his original offence. Perhaps the conservative soul has changed. But if the right’s problem is ideological hygiene, then perhaps it’s because it’s swimming in an open sewer."
The British right is swimming in an open sewer
We are drifting into territory that once would have seemed extreme
www.newstatesman.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"It is striking that Calgie’s apology went down far worse with the population of X than his original offence. Perhaps the conservative soul has changed. But if the right’s problem is ideological hygiene, then perhaps it’s because it’s swimming in an open sewer."
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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It's worth adding that Hamit Coskun is an asylum seeker - what Jenrick would call 'an illegal immigrant' - and one who has self-evidently 'got into trouble with the law in our country'.
But to Jenrick, Coskun is clearly the right sort of 'illegal immigrant' in the right sort of trouble.
But to Jenrick, Coskun is clearly the right sort of 'illegal immigrant' in the right sort of trouble.
October 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It's worth adding that Hamit Coskun is an asylum seeker - what Jenrick would call 'an illegal immigrant' - and one who has self-evidently 'got into trouble with the law in our country'.
But to Jenrick, Coskun is clearly the right sort of 'illegal immigrant' in the right sort of trouble.
But to Jenrick, Coskun is clearly the right sort of 'illegal immigrant' in the right sort of trouble.
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“MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live will all stop broadcasting after 31 December, the BBC understands.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
MTV to axe its music TV channels in the UK
The broadcaster will stop showing music videos in December, but its main channel will remain on air.
www.bbc.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live will all stop broadcasting after 31 December, the BBC understands.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Lol US vs UK libel law.
Judge Jeannette Vargas said the lyrics in Lamar’s Not Like Us, which refers to Drake as a “certified paedophile”, were a matter of opinion, which could not be “actionable defamation”.
on.ft.com/4ojA6pH Judge throws out rapper Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar ‘diss’ track
on.ft.com/4ojA6pH Judge throws out rapper Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar ‘diss’ track
Judge throws out rapper Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar ‘diss’ track
[FREE TO READ] Jeannette Vargas’s judgment says ‘Not Like Us’, which calls the Canadian singer a paedophile, was a statement of opinion
on.ft.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Lol US vs UK libel law.
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Well played, @theguardian.com
You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Well played, @theguardian.com
You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc
October 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc
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Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost
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I dialled in from Manchester to discuss the state of the right with @psurridge.bsky.social @timbale.bsky.social and Tim Montgomerie (also in Manchester - even though he is now in Reform) for @ukandeu.bsky.social Utterly fascinating (TM @anandmenon.bsky.social) - watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivRL...
UKICE Lunch Hour: the state of the right
YouTube video by UK in a Changing Europe
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I dialled in from Manchester to discuss the state of the right with @psurridge.bsky.social @timbale.bsky.social and Tim Montgomerie (also in Manchester - even though he is now in Reform) for @ukandeu.bsky.social Utterly fascinating (TM @anandmenon.bsky.social) - watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivRL...
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My column in tomorrow's paper:
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong
A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model
www.ft.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My column in tomorrow's paper:
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This book is essential. It's like tearing off a set of blinders. You won't look at economics or politics the same way again.
Excellent review of @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social's latest book: "The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters", by @theboysmithy.ft.com @financialtimes.com
Only a new approach to measurement will enable the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.
archive.ph/I8lbh#select...
Only a new approach to measurement will enable the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.
archive.ph/I8lbh#select...
May 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This book is essential. It's like tearing off a set of blinders. You won't look at economics or politics the same way again.
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I feel obscurely like this headline will get me lynched? But nonetheless, @amyhoggart.bsky.social was kind enough to interview me about what I think about Stuff
The left-wing politics of Jonn Elledge
I would like a more radical Labour prospectus, but you do have to win an election.
amyhoggart.substack.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I feel obscurely like this headline will get me lynched? But nonetheless, @amyhoggart.bsky.social was kind enough to interview me about what I think about Stuff
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Now it's the professors using ChatGPT. Students aren't happy about it.
I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors.
Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors.
Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
May 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Now it's the professors using ChatGPT. Students aren't happy about it.
I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors.
Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors.
Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
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Starmer's language was deplorable.
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Starmer's language was deplorable.
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
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Yvette Cooper repeatedly refused to give a straight answer just now on Today to straight Q “Will councils get more money to pay care workers more?” She repeatedly committed to higher carer pay but wouldn’t commit to money so councils can fund it. Think that speaks volumes about the mess we are in.
May 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Yvette Cooper repeatedly refused to give a straight answer just now on Today to straight Q “Will councils get more money to pay care workers more?” She repeatedly committed to higher carer pay but wouldn’t commit to money so councils can fund it. Think that speaks volumes about the mess we are in.
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"Even if it does work as a strategy for winning the next election, there’s a question: why bother?"
A bit by me on the sheer, infuriating pointlessness of a Labour leadership that sees governing in a progressive way as a distracting from fighting the next election.
A bit by me on the sheer, infuriating pointlessness of a Labour leadership that sees governing in a progressive way as a distracting from fighting the next election.
The government is stuck in campaign mode
Even with a large majority, policies are decided on popularity not principle.
www.newstatesman.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"Even if it does work as a strategy for winning the next election, there’s a question: why bother?"
A bit by me on the sheer, infuriating pointlessness of a Labour leadership that sees governing in a progressive way as a distracting from fighting the next election.
A bit by me on the sheer, infuriating pointlessness of a Labour leadership that sees governing in a progressive way as a distracting from fighting the next election.
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In the last 2 weeks, the EHRC said trans people stop using their preferred toilet & the PM's spokesperson suggested that trans women are not women by law. Several organisations have fallen in line behind them.
But each of these statements is wrong.
iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
But each of these statements is wrong.
iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case
What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next.
iandunt.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
In the last 2 weeks, the EHRC said trans people stop using their preferred toilet & the PM's spokesperson suggested that trans women are not women by law. Several organisations have fallen in line behind them.
But each of these statements is wrong.
iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
But each of these statements is wrong.
iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
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Just because Reform gain seats and Labour lose doesn't mean Labour needs to regain votes lost to Reform to hold onto seats. Movement to/from Labour in local vs general elections is pretty common on the 'progressive' side
Conservatives seem set to lose around 20-30% of their votes to Reform. While Labour likely to see many of those who moved to them at a general election move back again for locals. Unpredictable effects for individual seats.
May 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Just because Reform gain seats and Labour lose doesn't mean Labour needs to regain votes lost to Reform to hold onto seats. Movement to/from Labour in local vs general elections is pretty common on the 'progressive' side
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Trump's descent into fascism is worse than we could have predicted inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
Trump's descent into fascism is worse than we could have predicted
The situation is far, far worse than we anticipated
inews.co.uk
April 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Trump's descent into fascism is worse than we could have predicted inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
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I love this* by my old colleague @lexytopping.bsky.social on the journalist who had a curiously successful run of interviews with Tom Cruise, Barack Obama, and George Clooney for tiny regional UK publications.
*If you read it you can imagine the legals on it.
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
*If you read it you can imagine the legals on it.
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
April 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I love this* by my old colleague @lexytopping.bsky.social on the journalist who had a curiously successful run of interviews with Tom Cruise, Barack Obama, and George Clooney for tiny regional UK publications.
*If you read it you can imagine the legals on it.
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
*If you read it you can imagine the legals on it.
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
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It is this, not arguing, but also this Labour party has been strikingly reluctant to occupy the commanding heights of the discourse. The last government made a bunch of attempts to embed right wing bias in institutions and processes; this government is content to leave them all in place.
The EHRC was captured by transphobes under the Tories and Labour could have appointed a new head but they did not, because they are also transphobic. Bigoted shits, the lot of them.
April 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It is this, not arguing, but also this Labour party has been strikingly reluctant to occupy the commanding heights of the discourse. The last government made a bunch of attempts to embed right wing bias in institutions and processes; this government is content to leave them all in place.
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getting a bit tiring to think "ah yay, the worst people you know are having a great day" several times a week, every single week
April 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
getting a bit tiring to think "ah yay, the worst people you know are having a great day" several times a week, every single week