Scott Hames

people online are constantly saying shit like "the average person is now post-literate and returning to medieval peasant mindset" while neglecting the corollary, namely that our elite aristos are once again scrying for angels, summoning demons, distilling elixirs of eternal life, etc.

Two dudes whom despite their best efforts have no power in Canada.

Imagine you're at a writers' retreat with the lads and you're all showing off a draft after dinner and then your mate's girlfriend goes here is the novel Frankenstein which I just wrote

Find yourself someone who loves you as much as Vladdy hates the Yankees

It may destroy the global economy but it’s still kinda fun to take a tiny active role in the bursting of this bubble in Bartleby fashion

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

So if I’ve grasped the galaxy-brained strategy here, it’s:
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer

it's whatever 'this is fine' is in gaelic

you can learn plenty about Scottish politics just by placing the graphs and images from this report side by side www.sfc.ac.uk/publications...

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Yep since 2019 we’ve paid £10-£15k in visa fees including around £5k to the NHS during which time my wife had no access to public funds and was paying income tax and NI like everyone else. Stop pretending it isn’t already a massive rip off and overwhelmingly net positive for the country.

Headline saying "Supporting Reform's racist policy does not make voters racist, says Rachel Reeves".

Analytic philosophers - this is it, this is the moment that the grounding literature actually becomes relevant to something.

‘World-class research capacity at risk from cuts to staff time’ - Research Professional News University leader warns institutions rowing back on research time could lead to “tipping points”

‘World-class research capacity at risk from cuts to staff time’.

University leader warns institutions rowing back on research time could lead to “tipping points”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

2025, So Far I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

It seems that Kaleb Horton has passed away. A devastating loss. One of the best writers of this generation. Kaleb was a friend for ten years and in all our conversations I was trying to convince him how good he was, something he seemed to know but also never fully believe. I am going to go cry now.

The Future Of Podcasting Is Here, And It Sucks | Defector This week, Left Of Dial published its Essential Listening Poll, a compilation of the 100 best podcasts of all time, according to industry creators, writers, and scholars (Disclosure: I was invited to ...

There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry.

[gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

Re the new Reform pledge, a sports writer has already got to the heart of the matter better than the politics commentators www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Please pray for the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team. Do it instead of a loved one if necessary.

It doesn't make up for all of the bad stuff of course, but being the first generation of parents who can tell their kids that things were better back in their day, dadgummit, and actually be right about it is weirdly satisfying.

Too much American news the past few weeks. Once in a while is fine.

Humanities and arts degrees disappearing in parts of UK Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns

'As universities close courses and departments in response to financial pressures...students in parts of the North, South West and East of England, as well as large areas of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, are losing access to social sciences, humanities and arts (SHAPE) courses.' 1/2

Patricia Lockwood Goes Viral The writer’s new novel, “Will There Ever Be Another You,” is a singular account of losing her mind, body, and art to COVID—and of trying to get them back.

Patricia Lockwood’s new book explores illness. Getting sick, she said, thrust the questions that lurk at the heart of all novels, and all lives, to the center of hers: “What is the performance of a self? What is a person? What am I?”

Ewan Gibbs · Goodbye to Grangemouth Any form of ‘just transition’ – managing the move to a greener economy while also protecting workers and...

I’ve written for @lrb.co.uk on the closure of Scotland’s last oil refinery at Grangemouth by Petroineos and the unjust transition in British manufacturing. A committed workforce was betrayed by multinational employers as governments failed to meet their promises.

"Are asylum seekers the biggest political issue in Britain?" Asks radio 4. "We interview man who is determined to make it the biggest issue in Britain. And make it a headline every morning until it definitely is"

‘To be a true Jacobin, a man must be a good hater; but this is the most difficult and the least amiable of all the virtues: the most trying and the most thankless of all tasks’ (Wm Hazlitt)

Exactly this - we are at a dangerous cusp where appalling people have crawled out of the woodwork and values-led pushback is vital. But the most hostile anti-migrant voices remain a tiny minority, given a platform because they reflect the obsessions of our hateful media

Sally Rooney Dares The British Government To Follow Through | Defector There is a long history of people being weird about Sally Rooney: Her books are too Marxist or not Marxist enough; she glamorizes thinness, stigmatizes BDSM, and promotes unhealthy age-gap relations; ...

good explainer if you’re confused why some people are calling for Sally Rooney to be charged as a terrorism supporter

Showing children of the future the unacceptable hair rendering on the left to explain why we had to get rid of the rainforest.

Desperately trying to flush my hardback copy of Intermezzo down the toilet as the police kick in my front door

this is free to watch online, starts at 5pm