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Writer, the Wrong Side of History substack

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1Jun 11, '25One of my favourite facts came up in conversation last night. First class men were more likely to die on the Titanic than third class women or children139×2.2M13k1.3k2.6k
2Nov 5, '25'The British suspect is the son of a senior Hamas official'79.4×1.3M6.6k1.2k384
3Apr 26, '25Need to update this to include India/Pakistan64.9×1M4.9k153619
4Sep 2, '25Graham Linehan's arrest is not an isolated incident.44.7×706k2.6k594286
5May 2, '24Like a dog returning to its vomit, I have voted Tory again38×600k1.1k6156
6Feb 11, '23Where is the moral outrage about Britain’s grooming gangs? | The Spectator37.4×591k3.6k99181
7Jan 2, '25I’m a friend (and admirer) of Tom Holland, so not an impartial commentator, but the criticism he’s received today is totally unwarranted. He was describing the motivations of those35.6×563k1.9k119249
8Sep 25, '226% of Americans think they could beat up a grizzly bear. Further proof of the Atlantic voyage selecting for optimism35.3×034k3k1.3k
9Oct 10, '23Have to admit I'm more shocked and disturbed by what happened in Israel than probably anything in my life. Far crueler and bestial than 9/11 or even Paris. A little window into gen33.1×523k5.8k792101
10Aug 11, '24I find this sort of stuff so funny27.4×432k1.7k40163
11Jun 12, '25Britain is host to 280,000 OnlyFans creator accounts, the highest concentrations in the world, meaning that '4 per cent of young British women are selling their wares on OnlyFans'.26.4×417k1.9k228418
12Apr 11, '25The Rest is History 1066 series has reinforced my belief that we should build a gigantic statue of Harold Godwinson in the centre of London - what do you think? 👇26.2×413k1.8k90173
13Jun 3, '25Horrific22.6×357k4.8k477298
14Jan 18, '23If you steal a bike in London, and it's reported, you have a less than 2% chance of being identified and precisely 0% chance of going to jail. And there is no one you can vote for 22×347k1.6k17738
15May 15, '25I imagine an AI of British soldiers coming back to life to see Britain in 2025 would have a rather different tone21.7×342k10k392682
16Apr 22, '25Martyn's Law eroding civil society, as predicted by many15.8×250k1.4k188143
17Oct 8, '23Last year the CPS dropped all charges against men accused of driving through north London shouting 'F*** the Jews... F*** all of them. F*** their mothers, f*** their daughters.'13.8×218k1.9k52251
18Feb 13, '24Same judge who imprisoned a man for 20 weeks for sending racist messages in a private WhatsApp chat13.8×218k1.6k317109
19Sep 25, '24The transport minister of Singapore is paid £800,000 a year, because LKY thought he wouldn't get talented people into government otherwise, and didn't want politicians captured by 13.4×212k1.7k229212
20Jan 9, '25I genuinely don’t understand what they’re trying to do here12.6×200k2.3k19480
21Apr 5, '25Lucy Connolly's punishment for this - 31 months in prison - is genuinely tyrannical12.5×197k3.9k698159
22Apr 21, '24I find that clip really interesting as an example of 'permission structures', a change in the social environment that allows people to openly laugh about something they previously 12.2×193k1k98340
23Jul 5, '24Campbell is wrong and Dorries is right, grammatically. So you'd say, for example, 'less than a handful of WMD were found' and 'fewer than one million Iraqis died'12.1×192k1.7k25175
24May 21, '25Like with Manchester and 'Martyn's Law', another example of campaigners pushing for legislation which completely misses the problem12×189k1.5k15767
25Apr 29, '23Interesting how community notes seem far more effective than most fact-checking or 'misinformation' teams. Anonymity is really beneficial when it comes to taboo subjects that can b11.8×187k1.4k13735
26Mar 11, '25It's an insane system10.8×171k2.4k257147
27Oct 17, '23This conflict is extremely dangerous, it has the potential to destabilise the Middle East and to cause carnage in Europe. I have no idea who did this, but if it turns out Israel di10.8×170k1.1k22238
28Aug 3, '24Tricolours and Union Jacks on the same side of a Belfast protest10.1×159k1.4k12388
29Jun 7, '25Curious wording for a British Airways in-flight map 🤨10.0×158k3.8k169103
30Feb 10, '25One of the very notable changes of my adult life is how much more rubbish there is; not just in urban areas by even by the side of quiet country roads9.9×156k2k14594
31May 2, '25Victory for the candidate who wants to end '“free mixing” between men and women.’9.6×151k1.6k130199
32Mar 22, '25'Did you see the Poland-Lithuania match last night?' 'No, who were we playing?”9.1×143k2.4k15057
33Mar 13, '25There's obviously something going on here9.0×143k1.5k23759
34Sep 1, '2368 churches were burned down or vandalised after these allegations were made8.3×131k1.2k27660
35Dec 16, '24The July 21, 2005 London Underground massacre was averted because the guy in charge of mixing the bomb had got an F in GCSE maths and got the proportions wrong8.2×129k1.8k143191
36May 16, '25Before the Industrial Revolution given names in England still clustered in regional patterns - curiously the old borders of Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia are still obviously visib8.1×128k1.8k134494
37Feb 25, '24BBC News is *still* leading on Lee Anderson and the narrative that the problem facing Britain is islamophobia in the Tory party. Yesterday’s bulletin didn’t even mention that femal8.0×127k2.1k43332
38Aug 18, '24In Colditz some French officers demanded (successfully) that Jewish compatriots be segregated. The British, outraged, invited them to dinner in solidarity, led by future Tory MP Ai8.0×126k1.4k268191
39Apr 5, '25Something very odd going on at the BBC and suggestive of a huge generational shift7.5×119k2.3k19877
40Feb 28, '25The similarities with a rather controversial French novel do stand out7.4×116k2.6k135235
41Oct 12, '23Pathetic worthless cowards6.9×109k1.1k16111
42Sep 8, '25Disturbing post about the activities of Hope Not Hate. This looks like clear criminal behaviour, and the police won't respond to any inquiry6.6×105k2k376222
43Jan 12, '25Always felt strange that the government appointed an 'anti-corruption minister' who was a niece of the ruler of one of the most corrupt countries on earth6.0×95k2.5k31042
44Aug 15, '25Quite clearly Lucy Connolly would also have been cleared by a jury - had she been given bail, she would have been pleaded not guilty and avoided prison. The question remains why sh6.0×94k2k22446
45May 21, '25The British were still freeing slaves in Oman until the 1960s5.8×92k2.5k291182
46Oct 18, '2431 months in jail for a tweet, even one inciting violence, is totally disproportionate. It is tyrannical5.8×92k1.8k22538
47Jun 12, '24Odd that no one seems to have been charged over this5.6×88k1.2k16938
48Oct 4, '24'Mauritius walks away smelling of roses and a few millions richer in its pocket, as are its lawyers. As for Britain, it has just announced that it is run by the world’s most gullib5.5×87k2.3k463132
49Mar 16, '22Whenever I now read about a woman committing a horrific crime, especially the sort of crime women almost never commit, I just start at the end of the article5.5×04.9k1k117
50Nov 6, '24Polls suggest Kamala is down -20 in counties where Labour activists canvassed. Could be crucial5.4×85k1.5k11233
51Feb 14, '25Great speech. Vance really is impressive5.3×84k2.1k14151
52Feb 15, '25One day, it will be funny looking back on this5.1×80k1.5k16090
53Aug 13, '24An 11-year-old girl comes to London on holiday and is stabbed eight times while walking around Leicester Square. Horrific4.9×77k1.1k10424
54Nov 7, '25The sporting Englishman hands himself in 🫡4.8×75k1.5k3566
55Oct 6, '24Everyone deserves a 173rd chance4.6×73k1.5k16834
56Oct 20, '20Almost no one ever talks about the great covid realignment, completely forgotten to time4.6×03.8k845276
57Oct 2, '22List of nicknames used by Donald Trump4.6×04.7k400208
58Mar 3, '22The common American idea of the French as dainty weaklings, rather than the most militaristic and belligerent country in western Europe, is v strange4.5×04.7k349125
59Nov 25, '22This was hilarious4.4×04.3k33956
60Jul 1, '20'Half of you don't even have a college education'4.2×03.1k618142
61Nov 13, '24There's a big gap in the market for a think-tank or organisation which campaigns entirely for this man4.2×66k1.5k7475
62Jun 29, '24Why exactly? Didn't Azerbaijan just engage in the ethnic cleansing of 100,000 Armenians?4.1×65k1k11336
63Sep 5, '25Anarcho-tyranny is when people are sent to prison for making jokes in a WhatsApp group while others escape jail altogether after putting a complete stranger in intensive care in an3.9×62k1.4k191147
64Aug 24, '17Seems a bit cruel3.7×03k1k0
65Oct 17, '24Low trust society latest. It was only 8(10?) years ago you could just wander into the British Museum3.7×59k1.1k14649
66Nov 3, '22'Around 10 per cent of Germans support the restoration of the royals' but 'among those under 34, that number is nearly one in five.'3.5×02.8k352319
67Feb 19, '25What did Jack Bennett write to Jess Philips that warranted six months in jail? None of the reports actually print it3.4×54k1.2k21150
68Apr 3, '20Don’t know who did this3.3×02.5k83437
69Apr 24, '25A cheerful Albanian dad in my daughter's class once joked that it was a great place to take the family on holiday: 'it's very safe - all our criminals are here now!'3.3×52k1.8k121100
70Mar 16, '25Art nouveau football stadium3.2×50k1.6k76162
71Jan 8, '25Britain's Chernobyl3.2×50k1.4k237220
72Mar 31, '25The Sentencing Council only dates back to 2010, and its precursor to 2003. They could just... abolish it?3.1×50k2.6k32631
73May 30, '25Almost 10 million views on this now. Powerful stuff3.1×49k1.5k15814
74Oct 1, '25I think this magic word is losing its power3.1×49k1.6k6224
75Feb 22, '25This is what I'd go for too. Classic, sophisticated3.1×48k1.1k4333
76Sep 23, '20Really don't think it's wise for a member of the British royal family to speak out about American politics. He's not American, and it's really none of his business2.9×02.3k34518
77Jan 9, '25Can someone get Elon interested in the Chagos Islands please2.9×45k1.6k11816
78Sep 11, '22Denmark's centre-left government signs deal with Rwandan to transfer asylum seekers2.7×02k71643
80May 27, '25The king of England making a land acknowledgment2.5×40k1.2k3138
82Jan 22, '25Blaming Amazon for the Southport massacre feels like the sort of displacement activity that has become depressingly familiar. Questions need to be asked about why someone with a lo2.5×39k1.1k13418
83Apr 10, '25There are going to be so many horrendous police scandals in the coming decade involving corrupt/incompetent officers recruited to 'represent the community'2.5×39k1.6k14752
84Mar 31, '22This is an absurdly harsh punishment: six weeks in jail for a tweet, in a country where violent offenders are regularly spared jail2.3×02.1k33855
85Feb 11, '21To quote Churchill, 'By God, man, it makes you proud to be British'2.2×02.1k29631
86Jun 9, '20So many people feel deeply depressed, angry and scared about what is happening to England right now. Our history is being erased before our eyes and no one has the strength of will2.0×01k2569
88Dec 8, '22Spain has lost a million young people in a decade1.8×01.6k27877
89Dec 7, '22Higher salary than the prime minister of Britain1.7×01.7k156117
90Mar 29, '20great idea. let's fly 90,000 people over from eastern Europe in the middle of a lethal pandemic while keeping millions of healthy young people here imprisoned in their homes1.5×01.1k3371
91Jan 16, '22The Tate seemed to have hired the staff at Teen Vogue to write the notes for the Hogarth exhibition1.4×01.2k16883
92Nov 20, '22Would love to have a mayor of London - apparently one of a handful of global top tier cities - who didn't just repeat every single American political meme like he was governor of s1.3×01.5k16424
93Dec 20, '20This is the bleakest-sounding programme in the world1.3×01.2k16511
94Jun 23, '20Four years ago today1.3×01.3k22927
95Apr 12, '22Most People Rejected His Message1.3×01.3k14574
96Oct 5, '20This is just what an upmarket hotelier should look like1.3×01.1k11328
97Jul 7, '22the main thing is that he left with his dignity. cant take that away from him1.1×01.2k985
98Mar 2, '20Not sure they really thought this one through1.0×01k1447
99Nov 18, '20The worst weasel word in the Discourse today is 'controversial'. It means 'idea or person we deem beyond the pale'. It might apply to an opinion shared by 60% of the population, or0.9×01k11612

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