I wrote about the Joe Lycett 'fake news' stunt and how it draws little attention to the real problems causing the spread of disinformation – but how it is very successful at drawing attention to Joe Lycett newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

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I wrote about the Joe Lycett 'fake news' stunt and how it draws little attention to the real problems causing the spread of disinformation – but how it is very successful at drawing attention to Joe Lycett newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Today is the 50th anniversary of Stephen King's Carrie - I wrote about reading it for the first time in 2024, and why horrors are set in high schools inews.co.uk/culture/books/…

Have spent the last week thinking about this piece of Mary Poppins trivia

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I set up a Substack ages ago and have never actually used it, so I thought I'd kick it off with something uncontroversial: an explanation of what the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 does. jameschalmers.substack.com/p/the-hate-cri…

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Has a British person ever seen a dessert they haven't tried to stick a raisin in

A word so obscure, so difficult to parse that it was in the title of an extremely popular Batman cartoon movie for children

I wrote about why it feels like we're back reliving the superficial vision of 'feminism' that arose in 2014 – and what happens when we keep treating shallow ideas (which were refuted or resolved ten years ago) as radical, nuanced and new newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

I wrote about why it feels like we're back reliving the superficial vision of 'feminism' that arose in 2014 – and what happens when we keep treating shallow ideas (which were refuted or resolved ten years ago) as radical, nuanced and new newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Why does everything currently feel like we're reliving popular feminism from 2014

I wrote about influencer anti-fans – the people dedicated to obsessively bashing the influencers they once loved – and the emotional grey area which arises from the lucrative, feigned intimacy influencers cultivate between themselves and their followers theguardian.com/commentisfree/…