New paper 📣. W/@JessicaRingrose @cambazogluidil @Betsymilne_ We talked to boy’s (aged 13-14) about misogynist Andrew Tate, to explore his appeal. We found Tate’s content plays on boy’s fears about their masculinity and future in a confected gender war

Oh dear, they really are getting themselves in a pickle, aren’t they.

you can laugh all you like at my job title, I honestly don’t care - it’s an amazing job, hugely rewarding, puts food on the table, and every day I make small and big differences to an ancient discipline, my students’ lives, and society - I’m so happy to have it as a career 🙏😊

Thank goodness the media understand that someone mixing up the name of the chess award they won when they were 13 is much more worthy of investigation than someone doing Nazi salutes and saying "Hitler was right" to Jewish pupils.

sorry just saw this

As a neuroscientist, here are 7 ways to trick your brain into doing difficult things: 1. Shrink the task to just two minutes. Your brain resists big commitments. So don't make one. - "Work out" → do one exercise. - "Clean the house" → pick up three items.

The Budget. Reeves never once said she was going to raise income tax, she even denied it on BBC 1!, It was the media that said that she would. Now they are upset she hasn't raised income tax. It's just fake rage and designed to get the frothy mouthed slack jawed idiot brigade

What an ugly time this is. Trans women banned from everything. Zero resistance from a cowardly wet Labour Government, chasing Right Wing votes. Racism for trans people. ⁦@Keir_Starmer⁩ ⁦@bphillipsonMP⁩ ⁦@wesstreeting⁩ . Fuckers.

The desperation of the right wing media to slate Rachel Reeves …

How many trans girls were even part of girlguiding? When has this ever caused a genuine issue?? This just feels like giving into bigots making up problems, and further alienating a marginalised group.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, OBR official tells MPs https://t.co/VIus1p959r

In 2012, I was diagnosed w/ AIDS and feared imminent death. Today I toured an HIV Cure research laboratory live on TikTok and shared the hope for a cure with our community. And until a cure comes, I’m thankful for the medication that keeps me alive and healthy.

Tax: UK total tax take in 2021: 33.5% of GDP. That’s the 3rd lowest in the G7, and below both the G7 average (36.3%) and OECD average (34.1%). OECD “tax wedge” for an average worker: UK 29% vs US 30%, France/Italy 47%, Germany 48%. Ours is even lower than the US'. (3)

Growth: UK was the fastest-growing G7 economy in the first half of this year. IMF & OECD both forecast the UK to be the 2nd-fastest growing G7 economy in 2025, behind only the US (and even faster than the US if you discount US public spending in data centres). (2)

I successfully prosecuted 1000s of men for rape They were all documented & vetted They didn’t come by boat & live 4 to a room in hotels They live in every town & city 88% of them are white If you ONLY care about the black/brown perps then you don’t really care about women & girls

I’m not just practising. I’m getting quite good at it.

It should be clear enough.!

the existence of Tate Logic is yet more proof that we need to teach critical thinking via philosophy and other humanities disciplines

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise https://t.co/AfwPdlw1S4

Pro-Russian commentators are so pissed at the fact that Ukrainian society is now pretty accepting of gays. Congrats to this lovely couple in Kyiv 🌈 🇺🇦

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1