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2025: The Year We Got Used To It
Gay Christmas, On-Call Rotas, and Other Festive Traditions
Reform UK Doesn’t Just Have a Racism Problem - It Has a Racism Infrastructure
Won’t Somebody Please Think of Belgravia?
The Violence Isn’t Imported. It’s Domestic.
Six Months In: A State of the Bear Update
Debunking Benefit 4: The £1 Billion We “Saved” by Walking Away from Environmental Power
Brexit: How We Found Ourselves Outside the Tent, Getting Pissed On
Why the UK Is So Weird About Inheritance Tax
Saturday Long Read: The NHS is Collapsing and Labour is Running out of Excuses
Debunking Benefit 3: The Multiverse Where Britain Randomly Volunteers to Underwrite the EU
Debunking Benefit 2: Why Keeping 100% of Not-Very-Much Isn’t a Benefit
My “One Day I’ll Use This” Resignation Letter Just Got Used
Debunking Benefit 1: No, We Didn’t Get the Same Trade Deals "For Free"
The 75 Brexit Benefits: A Reckoning Begins
The Farage Tax: What The UK Pays For One Man's Ego
Collectivising Surrey: A Tragedy in One Act
The Punishment Model of Government
Reform UK Unveils Budget Written Entirely in Crayon
The Hostile Environment 2.0 Patch Update
November Admin Update: Fifty Months and 900 Posts
An Island of Strangers, Led by a Party of Strangers
Trumplethinskin Goes After the BBC - Because Facts Keep Hurting His Feelings
The Night I Got Gently Radicalised at the Tabernacle by Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey
"Should These People Exist?" Live on the BBC at Ten
This Week, I’m Handing Over the Mic
The Beeb Bleeds, the Telegraph Cheers, and Trump Claps From the Balcony
A Socialist in New York and a Green in Britain Walk Into a Polling Booth
The X-periment: Sky News Proves Elon’s Algorithm Does Pick a Side
Right-Wing America Has a Total Breakdown Over Brown Mayor, Film at 11
Why I Now Own £500 Picture of Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage vs The Bond Market: Round One (He Lost)
Movember: Great Moustaches, Terrible Mental Health Infrastructure
Something hopeful, and something truly dreadful.
No, Sarah Pochin - There Aren’t “Too Many” Brown People on TV
Nigel and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week
Bearly Newsworthy: Issue Three
Friday Q&A With The Bear: Part Two
Foreigners Are Claiming Benefits! (And Other Things That Happen When They Live and Work Here)
"They Will Also Need to Go Home"
Lest We Forget - But Not Like That
Bearly Admin: Four Months In, A Small Pause for Breath (and Thanks)
The Revolution Will Be Organised
The Telegraph’s Week-Long Anxiety Attack Over the Price of Mansions
The Ceaseless Snip-Snip-Snip of a Dying State
The False Dichotomy of Brains Vs Hands
Short Back, Sides, and a Web of Deceit
Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)
Project 2025: The Manual for Making America Obey Again (Part 1)
The Tories Are Not Okay - And We Urgently Need Them to Be
Not-a-Podcast: The Bear Speaks at his Laptop Again
DEEP DIVE: How Does Reform Show Its Racism? Let Me Count the Ways
Labour’s Existential Crisis, Live From Liverpool
Autumn Rhythms With a Touch of Politics
Why I can't Back Labour Anymore
Reform UK Sounds More Like Fox News Than a British Political Party
Sharia in London? An FAQ for the Terminally Gullible
Planning for 2029: The Next Three and a Half Years Start Today
Note to Self: Don’t Publish on the Tube
Nigel Farage Wants to Tear Up Indefinite Leave to Remain - and Deport Legal Migrants in Britain
Andrea Jenkyns’ £147k Inbox and the Vanishing of Reform’s Shiny New Toy
The Effluent Hits the Fan: Free Speech, Fascism, and Funding Imbalances
Pressing Pause (Just for a Few Days)
What Happened to Shame in Politics?
Should People Be Arrested for Calling Anti-Vaxxers... Anti-Vaxxers?
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
From Promises to Collapse: The Measurable Damage Brexit Caused the NHS
Farage’s Reform UK: Pints for Votes, Champagne for Cash
From Gumtree to Tunbridge Wells
Nan’s Not Bankrupting Britain (But Politicians Might Be)
Disappointed, Proud, Sad: Watching Angela Rayner Resign
“Putin-Loving Imposter”: Raskin Finally Calls Farage What He Is
Enough Platitudes: Starmer Must Confront Racism With Courage, Not Flags
Competence Doesn't Trend - Labour's Reshuffle and the Risk of Managerial Politics
Chaos, Cupboards and Cat Sneezes at Six on a Sunday Morning
Leaving the ECHR Won't "Take Back Control" - It Will Hand Your Rights to Politicians
Ignored by the Media: Why the Lib Dems and Greens Can’t Get a Look-In
Reform’s Big Immigration Reveal: All Pyrotechnics, No Policy
How “Racist” Became the Dirtiest Word in Britain
Parkinson’s, Whisky, and the Emotional Admin of Distance
Not so much "Pro-Open-Borders" as "Pro-Not-Treating-Migrants-Like-Shit"
Rupert Lowe vs. Thirty Children
Appeasement 2.0: Now With More Self-Tan
Birmingham Didn’t Ban Your Flag - They Just Need to Change the Lightbulbs
The Bear Mask Comes Off (Sort Of)
In Defence of Geoff from Defra
The Great British Fear Factory
Muscle Memory Doesn’t Work on Politics
Sir Michael Take, MP for Common Sense and Conkers
A Dispatch from Dalmatia about Dispatches from the Dubai Diaspora
Sunday Check-In: Biceps, Basements and a Bit of Byzantium
Flamingos, Fannywobbles and Farewell for Now
Number 10’s Only Stable Resident
I’m Not Racist, Just Concerned
Three Days to Go (And a Face You’ve Never Seen)
Melktert, But She’s Seen Some Things
Saturday FAQ: "Nobody Voted for Mass Migration"
One Month In: Metrics, Melk Tert, and Mild Existential Purpose
The Spectacular Cognitive Collapse of MAGA
From Myth to Market: How the Right Is Prepping You to Sell Off the NHS
The Year of Doing Scary Things
Malva Pudding for People Who’ve Had a Week
The Truth Behind the £25K Benefits Panic
Voluntary Tax? That’s Not How Any of This Works.
Custard on Meat and Other Hills I’m Willing to Die On
This is (nearly) 40: A Gay Pride Survival Memoir
No One Is Safe. Not Even Here.
I Meant to Say Something Profound About Milestones
Whatever You Do, Don’t Make Them Uncomfortable
Sunday’s Child Is Full of Sweat
They're Paying for TV Licences for Migrants! (Except They're Not)
The Five Faces of a Medical Misinformation
Cutting Backwards: The Policy That Forgot the People
This Is Not a Breakdown, I Just Forgot the Spring Onions
“Remember ’76?” Isn’t a Climate Argument
This Substack Is Going Paid - But Not Like That
FAQ: Abortion, Decriminalisation, and the Law
One Step Closer to Doing This Full-Time (Maybe)
Show Your Working: A Challenge to Reform UK
The Emperor Is Naked and They Love Him More for It.
If the Apocalypse Had Hit the Jubilee Line, I Feel Like I'd Have Noticed
Your Nan’s Cold Because a Nurse Got Universal Credit. Apparently.
What the Liverpool Incident Tells Us About the New Culture War
You Wanted Sovereignty. This Is What It Looks Like.
A Longer Wait, A Higher Bill - and a Question We’re Still Not Asking
The Problem with Being the “Good One”
Nigel Farage Has a Slogan. Britain Needs a Plan.
How to Spot a Visa Panic in the Wild
The Glorious Past Wasn’t That Glorious - And It’s Not Where Our Future Lives
Mark Carney Showed Us How to Beat Trumpism. Will Anyone in the UK Pay Attention?
Postcards from Sicily: Granita, Gentrification and the Gay Monks of Catania
I Think I Might Be a Conservative
Apologies for the Radio Silence - But It’s for a Good Reason
A bit of News about Bear Necessities of Politics and Power