Sophie Gilbert

new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped

Gosh the FT pays well

100 Notable Books of 2025

Girl on Girl is a New York Times notable book of 2025! I'm so happy I can't write my Stranger Things review. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

The Pig Is in the White House This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.

Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

50 notable works of nonfiction from 2025 The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

Also Washington Post! Sorry if all this self-promotion is unseemly but writing books is horrible and I may never get to do this again so here we are www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

This is such an embarrassing time to be alive.

It matters if the president is a bad person

If I could tell you how many women journalists I've known over the years who work so hard despite repeated sexual harassment and discrimination and then to live in a time when the president is openly calling a reporter piggy and that woman probably got paid a lot for that stupid book. I can't.

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.

The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.

The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.

Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.

A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro

www.propublica.org/article/andr...

Best of 2025 | Kirkus Reviews

Also a Kirkus best nonfiction book of the year 😭https://www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2025/nonfiction/books/

A discussion sparked by a piece whose opening argument was that Larry Summers was the tragic, rational victim of a feminized woke mob

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?

Congratulations to our authors! 🎉🎉🎉

Check out the full list: time.com/collections/...

@sophiegilbert.bsky.social @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social

Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.

GIRL ON GIRL made Time's list of the must-read books of 2025! time.com/collections/...

When Your Husband Spends $300,000 on DraftKings Four women on how sports gambling turned their relationships upside down.

Are women ruining marriage? (By changing the passwords on their bank accounts when their husbands gamble away their retirement?) www.thecut.com/article/draf...

What Did Men Do to Deserve This? Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”

This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Once again, we need to define what “feminism” is here. Not everything any woman ever does—not even in the political realm, and not even concerning gender—is “feminism.” Opposing the rights of women as a class to equal status and dignity is in fact called “antifeminism.”

YouTube video by BBC Studios Women: Know Your Limits! Harry Enfield - BBC comedy

Serious discourse in 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37...

Between this and All's Fair women are having a rough week

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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

No, Women Aren’t the Problem America is rapidly becoming the manosphere, but, sure, let’s go after the “feminization” of culture.

A recent essay, “The Great Feminization,” posits that the growing influence of women is harming U.S. institutions. @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues that the real problem facing American culture is quite different:

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

This is what national failure looks like. small children worried about secret police.

My go-to lunch is a can of butter beans, pan fried till crispy, a can of tuna, thinly sliced red onion left to sit a minute in red wine vinegar, and olive oil. Add arugula if you're fancy.

Sending strength to anyone whose kid keeps trying to hit the high A in Golden

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)