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David S. Moon

@daimoon.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in Politics, teaching and writing about politics, ideology and pro-wrestling, with a bit of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 when I can. https://www.davidsmoon.co.uk

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David S. Moon@daimoon.bsky.social · 18m ago

“journalism being very like professional wrestling with a lot of people putting on exaggerated personalities to have staged fights with other people with whom they get on perfectly well backstage.”

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 1h ago

NEW | A longish essay. Give it a read… ‘I MIGHT GET A CLIP OUT OF IT’: LEWIS GOODALL, ANDY TWELVES AND THE DARK FUTURE OF TV NEWS Our media is already like bad professional wrestling; making news more about personalities will only make that worse. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/i-might-ge...

Nick Garland@npjgarland.bsky.social · 2w ago

Late to it, but this by @daimoon.bsky.social is very good. As with @profafinlayson.bsky.social's work on reactionary digital politics, it's v clarifying on how ill-equipped contemporary liberalism is for fighting enemies who reject its basic conception of politics. renewal.org.uk/articles/in-...

In defence of paranoia: rethinking politics after the Epstein Files

A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

renewal.org.uk

David BASTARDspan@davidbix.com · 2w ago

Judge's ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#114 in Doe 1 v. World Wrestling Entertainment, LLC (D. Maryland, 1:24-cv-03487) – CourtListener.com

MEMORANDUM. Signed by Judge James K Bredar on 10/19/2026. (kk5s, Deputy Clerk) (Entered: 10/19/2026)

storage.courtlistener.com

POST Wrestling@postwrestling.com · 2w ago

Judge denies WWE and McMahons’ effort to throw out ring boy lawsuit on U.S. constitutional challenge to Maryland Child Victims Act www.postwrestling.com?p=142478

David S. Moon@daimoon.bsky.social · 3w ago

The book “Gold Warriors” argues that Yamashita’s Gold was recovered following WW2 and became part of a slush-fund for covert anti-Communist action. It’s a bold claim they originally backed-up with a CD-Rom full of official documents, photographs, scans of maps, etc that it is impossible to find now.

Image of the first edition of the Seagrave’s book “Gold Warriors” with the accompanying CD-Rom
Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 3w ago

A new thing that I hate: I’m reading a book right now that uses endnote citations, and directs the reader to SCAN A QR CODE to access the endnotes.

David S. Moon@daimoon.bsky.social · last mo.

His description of pro-wrestling as being “in the business of bullshit” feels destined for wider citation.

David S. Moon@daimoon.bsky.social · last mo.

It will be interesting if John Cena’s unequivocal defence of his “love” for Vince McMahon & minimisation of accusations against him as just “not [being] perfect” is sustainable with his generally positive image & reception. People seem unclear how to react to it. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

David S. Moon@daimoon.bsky.social · last mo.

It will be interesting if John Cena’s unequivocal defence of his “love” for Vince McMahon & minimisation of accusations against him as just “not [being] perfect” is sustainable with his generally positive image & reception. People seem unclear how to react to it. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

‘It’s OK to love somebody when they’re not perfect’: how John Cena conquered Hollywood – and why he refuses to abandon Vince McMahon

By embracing the role of amiable lunk, the wrestler turned actor has become an unlikely, and very modern, leading man. But does his relationship with the WWE, and its controversial former owner, risk ...

theguardian.com

David S. Moon@daimoon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Or, as I wrote elsewhere: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

He was also responsible for producing and presenting the television show Reslo (Wrestling), which aired weekly from 1982 to 1995 on the Welsh-language broadcaster Sianel Pedwar Cymru (S4C). Notably, Reslo was the only British wrestling show to feature women wrestlers, whose inclusion was otherwise banned on TV outside of Wales – a point actually highlighted by Michael Cole during the Clash at the Castle broadcast. After ITV cancelled World of Sport in 1985, Reslo became the sole British pro-wrestling show on terrestrial television, underscoring its unique popularity in Wales.
David S. Moon@daimoon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Recent BBC archive footage from 1965 on the ‘controversy’ around women’s pro-wrestling. Fun fact; while Women’s wrestling was kept off TV in England as ITV refused to show it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, in Wales, ‘Reslo’ on S4C 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 regularly showcased women’s wrestling until the show ended in 1995 youtu.be/twgelvu6xVE?...

David S. Moon@daimoon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Recent BBC archive footage from 1965 on the ‘controversy’ around women’s pro-wrestling. Fun fact; while Women’s wrestling was kept off TV in England as ITV refused to show it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, in Wales, ‘Reslo’ on S4C 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 regularly showcased women’s wrestling until the show ended in 1995 youtu.be/twgelvu6xVE?...

1965: Is Women's Wrestling Wrong? | Tonight | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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