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Ben Sutherland

@bensutherland.bsky.social

Screenwriter and Late Editor at The i Paper.

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Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This Amazon user review of MattGPT's book is 👌🏽 "The writing is aggressively mediocre. There is not a single sentence in this book that will stay with you. Not one image, not one idea, not one moment of genuine insight. Goodwin writes like a man terrified that clarity might expose him."

1.0 out of 5 stars Suicide of a Nation: A Complete Waste of Paper Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2026 Format: Kindle Edition Let’s be clear about what this book is. It is not analysis. It is not scholarship. It is not even a coherent argument. It is anxiety dressed up in a suit and pretending to be serious. The logic collapses on page one and never recovers. Goodwin builds his entire case on the oldest and laziest trick in bad writing. Take a complicated thing, strip out everything that makes it complicated, and then act shocked at how simple it turns out to be. A first year student would get this handed back with red pen all over it. The evidence is a joke. Sources are cherry picked with surgical precision to exclude anything that disagrees. Entire fields of research including sociology, economics, history are casually ignored because they had the nerve to reach different conclusions. This is not how thinking works. This is how a man who has already made up his mind pretends he hasn’t. The writing is aggressively mediocre. There is not a single sentence in this book that will stay with you. Not one image, not one idea, not one moment of genuine insight. Goodwin writes like a man terrified that clarity might expose him. The prose is bloated, the chapters are repetitive, and the conclusion says nothing that the introduction didn’t already say badly. But the greatest failure of this book is its profound lack of curiosity. It looks at a complex, messy, beautiful world full of difficult questions and sees only something to fear. That is not the mark of a thinker. That is the mark of someone who stopped thinking and decided to start selling instead. Suicide of a Nation is not dangerous because it is radical. It is dangerous because it is lazy. And laziness, dressed up as common sense, is how bad ideas spread. A embarrassment from start to finish.
Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Very funny - the BFI has acquired the Daily Star's lettuce/Liz Truss video for the national archive, because it is a significant piece of British content that deserves preservation www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...

Daily Star's 60p Lettuce Liz that lasted longer than Truss immortalised by BFI

The lettuce livestream has been acquired by the British Film Institute’s National Archive as part of a digital collection featuring 400 significant pieces of British online video content

dailystar.co.uk

Dave Lee@davelee.me · 11mo ago

Frightening. We know *nothing* about the shooter. "They are at war with us", "we are watching what they say", "rats". Just a desperately sad day on many levels.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Jesse Watters goes full bloodlust in response to Charlie Kirk's death: "Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us. And what are we going to do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate? ... This is a turning point. And we know which direction we are going."