Fred Skulthorp

Fred Skulthorp is a writer living in England. His Substack is Bad Apocalypse

The private police patrolling London

14 Dec 2024

Rural England vents anger at farmer protest A broad coalition of the shire attracted surprisingly large numbers to the capital

19 Nov 2024

Is Jeremy Clarkson the new Nigel Farage? Reform UK's spirit of revolt risks being lost to professionalisation

11 Nov 2024

Labour targets Nigel Farage in TV appearance crackdown The Government is seeking to tighten rules on second jobs

14 Sep 2024

Levelling up was always just a marketing ploy Labour has officially scrapped the project

09 Jul 2024

Steven Bartlett’s AI plan will ruin publishing Flight Books attempts to bring social media virality to the written word

30 Jun 2024

The populist battle for Ashfield

11 Jun 2024

Labour’s ‘fake news’ plan won’t help children Maths and history lessons will be used to tackle conspiracy theories

10 Mar 2024

The battle for Zone 6’s soul

01 Mar 2024

Tucker Carlson: shadow statesman or David Icke conspiracist? No one can predict what the former Fox News host will say next

23 Dec 2023

The BBC has chosen the misinformation market over Newsnight The corporation is pivoting to the performative journalism of BBC Verify

30 Nov 2023

The resurrection of Cornish mining

15 Nov 2023

Carol Vorderman is taking the Tucker Carlson route The TV mathematician is quitting the BBC to spend more time on social media

09 Nov 2023

The Starmer glitterbomber I knew My university contemporary is part of a generation of performative protestors

11 Oct 2023

Should we feel sorry for David Beckham? A Netflix series depicts the footballer as a victim of the scandal-ridden Noughties

05 Oct 2023

Meanwhile, the Lib Dems sing songs by the sea The party's conference is full of nostalgia for the pre-2016 world

26 Sep 2023

Jonathan Pie won’t save Radio 4 There is nothing fresh about the sweary character's smug, pious anger

31 Aug 2023

Will Britain ever build beautiful?

15 Aug 2023

Is the ‘disinformation epidemic’ fake news? At a Cambridge summit on the topic, there's very little self-criticism

28 Jul 2023

TfL’s campaign against sexual violence won’t work, maaate A new poster series will make a nice artefact in decades to come

20 Jul 2023

Westminster has failed Selby

18 Jul 2023

Levelling up died in Teesside

02 Jun 2023

The Blue Wall is crumbling

25 Apr 2023

Japan will ignite the depopulation bomb Demographers have a different kind of catastrophe to worry about

15 Apr 2023

Why migrants are fleeing Albania

08 Dec 2022

Poundbury and the English apocalypse

25 Nov 2022