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James Bloodworth

@jamesbloodworth.bsky.social

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Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/ Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1786499797/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · Aug 25

‘There would be many such dots to connect over the course of the book, and this is where Lost Boys excels. Bloodworth seamlessly links the loosely connected beliefs that comprise the right-wing value system.’ lareviewofbooks.org/article/only... @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

Only by Being Terrible Do They Avoid Being Comic | Los Angeles Review of Books

Sarah AlKahly-Mills explores James Bloodworth’s “Lost Boys: A Personal Journey Through the Manosphere.”

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 1d

Just what is drawing young men to this space? Just how do these ideas intersect with extreme politics, conspiracy theories, and Christian Nationalism? And if young boys are in crisis, just how can we support them?
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‘It’s important not to belittle young men’: Red pills, ‘god pills’, and the manosphere | Interview with James Bloodworth

With more young men than ever drawn to Internet subcultures that preach misogyny, racism, and extreme politics, we spoke to the journalist and author of Lost Boys, James Bloodworth about the…

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 1d

In a new interview on the Humanists UK website, author @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social discusses 'redpilled' young men, 'god pills' and born-again 'pickup artists', Andrew Tate, Donald Trump, and the heady world of online misogyny known as the manosphere.

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 1d

‘If you are a billionaire buying a media organization, you could not find a more eager servant than Weiss, someone blissfully captured by the richest people alive…She has a cop's heart and a tadpole's brain.’ defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 2d

Syrian refugee stabbed to death in street after walking past woman www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Syrian refugee stabbed to death in street after walking past woman

Ahmad Al Ibrahim, 16, had been living in Huddersfield for just a couple of weeks when he was fatally stabbed in the neck in broad daylight by Alfie Franco, 20, Leeds Crown Court heard.

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 2d

Had an equally marvellous time interviewing Simon Hall for his excellent new book ‘Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World’.

James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 3d

Had a marvellous time talking about Lost Boys at the @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social yesterday with Sally Johnson. Thanks to the organisers and those who braved the weather to turn out for a packed event.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage

Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 3d

Israeli bulldozers in West Bank carve up hopes for Palestinian state www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Israeli bulldozers in West Bank carve up hopes for Palestinian state

As U.S. President Donald Trump announced a plan this week to end the Gaza war and suggested a possible path to a Palestinian state, Ashraf Samara in the Israeli-occupied West Bank watched bulldozers around his village help bury his hopes for statehood.

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 3d

How I feel reading a Gurwinder tweet

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 4d

Astonishing how far being mediocre will get you if you’re reactionary enough

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 5d

Sold out before Nick Clegg, but not like Nick Clegg

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 5d

Sold out before Nick Clegg, but not like Nick Clegg

James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 5d

Sold out before Nick Clegg, which is the main thing 💅🏻

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 7d

Incredible

James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 7d

“Milei is the template” - Kemi Badenoch.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 8d

This is so good. Just read it. Absolutely nails the attempts by James Lindsay and co to scurry away from their arguments.

James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 8d

There's no 'woke' right. New essay by me on the horseshoe theory's bastard offspring: www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/there-is-n...

There is no ‘woke' right

horseshoe theory's bastard offspring

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 7d

thanks paul

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Paul Evans @pauliewaulie.bsky.social · 7d

This, from @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social is very good. The hysteria has to be seen to be believed.
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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 8d

There's no 'woke' right. New essay by me on the horseshoe theory's bastard offspring: www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/there-is-n...

There is no ‘woke' right

horseshoe theory's bastard offspring

www.forthedeskdrawer.com

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks Ben

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 7d

What drives young men into the 'manosphere'? Journalist @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social takes us on a personal journey through these online subcultures. Our annual #HolyoakeLecture, 4 December in Manchester humanists.uk/events/holyo...

Lost boys: a personal journey through the manosphere, with James Bloodworth | Holyoake Lecture 2025

In an era of profound social and political shifts, old certainties about masculinity have been swept away, leaving a vacuum that, for some, has been filled by a sprawling and sinister collection of…

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 8d

There's no 'woke' right. New essay by me on the horseshoe theory's bastard offspring: www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/there-is-n...

There is no ‘woke' right

horseshoe theory's bastard offspring

www.forthedeskdrawer.com

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · Feb 6

Attempting actual engagement with an Aris Roussinos take is very much like playing chess with a pigeon, but about 98% of the change has already happened and the only thing left to do is probably for the anti-Americanism/Pro-Europeanism to really bite

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Sep 7

The online right trying to bring this level of overt racism into mainstream media and politics is a central test of the next couple of years.

For Britain, this is racist remigration over-reach but it won't just fizzle and fade by chance without a coalition to contest, challenge and push it out

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 13d

This is a "conversation" that is about as relevant or as useful to Labour as a Liberace impersonator communing with Liberace's ghost on a Ouija Board might yield valuable insights on how Mozart ought to be conducted.

Flyer for

"Labour Future
Paul Embery
Lord Glasman
Paul Embery & Lord Glasman in Conversation
Labour Party Conference
Hampton by Hilton | Liverpool City Centre
Tuesday 30 Sept | 4-5:30pm"

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