Julia Unwin

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I'm back on QAA this week, talking about the YouTubers who travel to London to tell their audience that western civilization is collapsing, and that England's supposedly lawless, multi-ethnic capital city is at the heart of it. The episode is called London Has Fallen.

What a lovely tribute to an extraordinary man who made such a huge impact. A true privilege to have known him

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The sixth and final episode of Truly Tradly Deeply is here! Megan and I reflect on the lessons we've learned from the tradosphere: what tradwives get right, where they're going next, and whether we need to be looking for new husbands who own an underground bomb shelter. Listen on CursedMedia.net!

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TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY is back on cursedmedia.net! In this episode we discuss fertility: giving God your womb, birthrates anxiety, childless cat ladies, and why everyone on the Girl Internet is telling you to get off the Pill all of a sudden:

⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️

In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
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Thank you !

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This weekend I've been listening to the first 2 episodes of Truly, Tradly Deeply with @annieknk.bsky.social. It's nice to hear two researchers talk on this topic with so much knowledge and authority. Get it from www.cursedmedia.net

Annie Kelly has a new miniseries about Trad wives, and the first two episodes dropped today on our new network cursedmedia.net

Check it out!! And peep this trailer I made for the occasion!

Truly, Tradly, Deeply — Inside the Tradosphere with Annie Kelly (E345) Annie Kelly has spent most of 2025 investigating the online world of so-called “traditional wives” or “tradwives.” On this episode she sits down with Travis, Jake, and Julian to talk about her new six

I returned to QAA this week to talk about my upcoming miniseries about tradwives!

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YouTube video by Al Jazeera English All the president’s women: The rise of the ‘womanosphere’ | The Listening Post

QAA's own Annie Kelly (@annieknk.bsky.social) contributed to this great Al Jazeera report about how conservative women are rebranding right-wing politics for a female audience.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtR8...

PM says on radio that there are 1m young people on benefits. Presume he meant 1m young people not in education employment or training. Only about half of them claim benefits.

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Really proud Fall of Civilizations has been named a Waterstones paperback of the year. Get it at your local Waterstones!

LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...

All or nothing? Access and variation in NHS continuing health care NHS continuing health care provides funded health and social care support for people with very complex needs outside hospital. Yet our comprehensive new report shows this system is highly inconsistent...

Excellent timely report from Nuffield Trust on how we meet, or fail to meet, the costs of care. The current approach is over complicated, binary in its approach and discriminates in favour of those who can navigate complex sustems www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/all...

Never more relevant

An amazing book that illuminates well our rather fragile present

Well said - let’s hear more of this

What a loss - a remarkable woman

What a great loss - such an influential, persuasive, informed - and amazingly generous - man

Again and again, we are shocked by the treatment of learning-disabled people. Yet we never learn from the past | John Harris A landmark book exposes the history of loathing that underpins scandals like Winterbourne View. It has received next to no attention, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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David Boyle obituary Political economist and author who promoted ideas such as time banks and community sharing

What very sad news, and what an enormous loss to all those thinking creatively about our current challenges. His voice, and his challenge, will be sorely missed www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

A lovely thoughtful mediation on the very long tail of grief

Welcome to the July Edition of Data For Good News, the monthly newsletter from Smart Data Foundry. We've got some big updates and announcements this month! Our friends at Smart Data Research UK have launched a new Fellowships fund, offering up to £200k for research projects which use smart data in ...

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Great to see this newsletter from @smartdatafoundry.bsky.social demonstrating the very many ways in which data that is not normally available can illuminate long standing social and economic challenges

Proud of this from the great actor (and my old friend) Simon Russell Beale.

Stephen Unwin (@stephenunwin.bsky.social) Director, Writer, Teacher, Campaigner. Founded ETT. Opened the Rose. Laughing Boy, All Our Children, Poor Naked Wretches, Beautiful Lives. http://www.stephenunwin.uk/

Full house for the launch of this wonderful book by @stephenunwin.bsky.social interviewed by the powerful advocate @johnharris1969.bsky.social (who has also written a brilliant book )

I couldn't miss the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern And 30 years on it's time to make my late partner a panel

Read this beautiful tribute and reflection on the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt by @chriscreegan.bsky.social‬.

The quilt was displayed in full last week at Tate Modern for the first time this century. 

Such terribly sad news - she will be sorely missed

A must read on a subject too often under explored. Powered by love, based on the strongest evidence, drawing widely from every discipline - a book that will inform us all for decades to come. But it is also a joy to read Proud of my brother @stephenunwin.bsky.social

Join us in York with our friends @yorklitfest.bsky.social on Wed 28 May for a special event to celebrate the launch of Finding Belle by Reeta Chakrabarti

The event will take place @yorkstjohn.bsky.social
and tickets are #FREE but must be booked
www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/upcom...

This is excellent and develops quite a few of the ideas we promoted in #CivilSocietyFutures especially about the power of place