Kelechi
@engelsbeauvoir.bsky.social
Finally left X! Here to reconnect with interesting folk from there & hopefully restart on a new footing. I plan to do some writing very soon.
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When I stop laughing I'll provide some insightful analysis.
BREAKING Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership.
She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
January 15, 2026 at 11:16 AM
When I stop laughing I'll provide some insightful analysis.
I believe there was a highly motivated GC group present at the venue (for a GC event) who decided to march into the loo to harass them. These aren’t regular people.
This apparently happened at the Leicester Square Hippodrome the other day. Note how a voice off says something about the Supreme Court.
Yep, this is where we are right now. Sigh.
Yep, this is where we are right now. Sigh.
January 14, 2026 at 11:05 AM
I believe there was a highly motivated GC group present at the venue (for a GC event) who decided to march into the loo to harass them. These aren’t regular people.
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TBH, I'm more intrested in a social media ban for MPs.
Many Labour MPs back an Australian led ban on social media for under 16s.
The UK Government should give it full consideration.
The UK Government should give it full consideration.
Sensible safeguarding
January 14, 2026 at 9:55 AM
TBH, I'm more intrested in a social media ban for MPs.
I’m not getting the disproportionate focus on the harms to children from social media. How about that adults in government still using very problematic platforms like X?
Wes Streeting asks US expert Jonathan Haidt to address officials on social media ban for under-16s
Wes Streeting asks US expert Jonathan Haidt to address officials on social media ban for under-16s
Exclusive: Health secretary issues invitation in push for UK to consider copying landmark restrictions in Australia
Wes Streeting has asked Jonathan Haidt, a bestselling author and high-profile advocate of banning social media for under-16s, to speak to his officials in his push for the UK to consider following a landmark ban in Australia.
The health secretary has invited Haidt to address an event with staff, charities and MPs after the prime minister, Keir Starmer, said he was open to stricter limits for young people. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:04 AM
I’m not getting the disproportionate focus on the harms to children from social media. How about that adults in government still using very problematic platforms like X?
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EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK"
The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
January 9, 2026 at 2:20 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK"
The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
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Nigeria’s big tax gamble: great in theory but people are already checking their pockets | Cheta Nwanze
Nigeria’s big tax gamble: great in theory but people are already checking their pockets | Cheta Nwanze
If this reform succeeds it will be a blueprint for African self-reliance. But the state has failed to deliver the most basic services for decades. No wonder Nigerians are suspicious
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Nigeria’s big tax gamble: great in theory but people are already checking their pockets | Cheta Nwanze
Excited to read this from Mark Fisher.
January 9, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Excited to read this from Mark Fisher.
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Finally got round to reading Balko's take down of an attempt at casting doubt on Chauvin's conviction by Coleman Hughes writing in the Free Press. The coda includes a response-to-a-response by Weiss and Hughes. Balko is very thorough and persuasive.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...
The retconning of George Floyd
Bari Weiss's Free Press is the latest outlet to tout a conspiratorial documentary alleging that Derek Chauvin was wrongly convicted. It's all nonsense.
radleybalko.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Finally got round to reading Balko's take down of an attempt at casting doubt on Chauvin's conviction by Coleman Hughes writing in the Free Press. The coda includes a response-to-a-response by Weiss and Hughes. Balko is very thorough and persuasive.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...
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Listen back: Chase Strangio ’10, co-director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project, joined the Interesting Times with Ross Douthat podcast to discuss policies and attitudes toward young people who want to transition. @aclu.org @chasestrangio.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | The Shifting Politics Around Transgender Rights
The A.C.L.U. lawyer Chase Strangio joins Ross Douthat to discuss policies and attitudes toward young people who want to transition.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Listen back: Chase Strangio ’10, co-director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project, joined the Interesting Times with Ross Douthat podcast to discuss policies and attitudes toward young people who want to transition. @aclu.org @chasestrangio.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Today on Volts: I've got a nerdy one for you! I talk with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about the epistemic crisis & its roots in social identity. He explains why factchecking & media literacy classes will never solve misinformation -- why something deeper & stronger is required.
The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers
Political scientist Samuel Bagg explains why social identity is at the root of the misinformation crisis -- which calls for something deeper than factchecking.
www.volts.wtf
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Today on Volts: I've got a nerdy one for you! I talk with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about the epistemic crisis & its roots in social identity. He explains why factchecking & media literacy classes will never solve misinformation -- why something deeper & stronger is required.
I completely missed this news. RIP :(
In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).
In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987-2025) - Historical Materialism
‘Our subjective horizon is the optimism of the intellect; our objective, structuring condition is pessimism of the will. Without optimism of the intellect, we have the party without the people. Withou...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
December 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I completely missed this news. RIP :(
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We will never know *how much* this is attributable to Labour's decision to track not tackle Reform's rhetoric of hate on immigration. But that Labour *helped* render these views acceptable cannot, surely, be doubted.
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
We will never know *how much* this is attributable to Labour's decision to track not tackle Reform's rhetoric of hate on immigration. But that Labour *helped* render these views acceptable cannot, surely, be doubted.
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We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
Harrison Pitt accuses the King of treachery. Pitt is a Senior Policy Fellow for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, who also regularly co-hosts podcasts with his ally Tomlinson (who advocates banning all ethnic and faith minorities from public office). Like Lowe, Pitt is keen to dissolve boundaries/norms
December 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
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This is a real tweet.
December 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is a real tweet.
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There are many postliberal reactionary types preempting this already. Some of their solutions will involve explicitly arguing to roll back women’s rights. Self styled “reactionary feminist”, Mary Harrington, has been explicitly arguing along these lines for a while.
December 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
There are many postliberal reactionary types preempting this already. Some of their solutions will involve explicitly arguing to roll back women’s rights. Self styled “reactionary feminist”, Mary Harrington, has been explicitly arguing along these lines for a while.
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There is no such thing as "toxic masculinity" because there aren't degrees of a constructed hierarchy to keep women inferior to men. There isn't a polite way of doing that, the system is a binary & is itself the problem.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Boys to learn difference between porn and real life to tackle misogyny in England’s schools
Teachers to be given extra training as Keir Starmer warns ‘toxic ideas are taking hold early and going unchallenged’
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
There is no such thing as "toxic masculinity" because there aren't degrees of a constructed hierarchy to keep women inferior to men. There isn't a polite way of doing that, the system is a binary & is itself the problem.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Amia Srinivasan: The Impossible Patient
YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB)
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December 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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📣 The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is calling for evidence on drug use in LGBT+ communities, including chemsex. This will help shape national policy and future services. If you have lived or professional experience share your thoughts here:
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Drug use in LGBT+ communities and chemsex
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is reviewing the evidence of drug use in LGBT+ communities and in the context of chemsex in the UK.
www.gov.uk
December 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
📣 The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is calling for evidence on drug use in LGBT+ communities, including chemsex. This will help shape national policy and future services. If you have lived or professional experience share your thoughts here:
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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With £1,000,000 now spent Allison Bailey loses again.
December 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
With £1,000,000 now spent Allison Bailey loses again.
One thing I’ve been surprised by is that some people actually enjoy being in hostile volatile environments because they would otherwise be bored. I just don’t get it.
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
One thing I’ve been surprised by is that some people actually enjoy being in hostile volatile environments because they would otherwise be bored. I just don’t get it.
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"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
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Practicing peace is hard. It means practicing justice and it means not indulging an understandable desire for revenge. This is hard. But practicing peace is practicing survival for our species and our ecosystems.
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Practicing peace is hard. It means practicing justice and it means not indulging an understandable desire for revenge. This is hard. But practicing peace is practicing survival for our species and our ecosystems.
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Home Office urged to be transparent about deaths of asylum seekers in its care
Home Office urged to be transparent about deaths of asylum seekers in its care
Campaigners call for quarterly data to be published in line with other departments instead of FoI route
Human rights and refugee campaigners are calling on the Home Office to be transparent about the numbers of asylum seekers who die in its care by publishing quarterly data as other government departments do.
The only way to obtain data about asylum seeker deaths is via freedom of information (FoI) requests to the Home Office, which officials do not always comply with. However, the NHS produces regular figures about deaths in hospitals and the Ministry of Justice does so with deaths in custody. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Home Office urged to be transparent about deaths of asylum seekers in its care
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I thought I'd share a full draft of a paper I've been working on on FWS and "biological sex". papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I thought I'd share a full draft of a paper I've been working on on FWS and "biological sex". papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....