Dorian Lynskey
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social
Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Eve Barlow collecting hatreds like they’re Pokemon
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Eve Barlow collecting hatreds like they’re Pokemon
I would love to ask the new editor of Question Time how booking Goodwin, an extreme racist who openly fosters division and civil unrest, fits into his vision of “community and shared expression”
November 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I would love to ask the new editor of Question Time how booking Goodwin, an extreme racist who openly fosters division and civil unrest, fits into his vision of “community and shared expression”
And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to…
November 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to…
This kind of paragraph is why I like working with @iandunt.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This kind of paragraph is why I like working with @iandunt.bsky.social
Four more establishment-faced British character actors: Nicholas Farrell, Alexander Petrie, Alex McQueen and Donald Sumpter. You could put them all in your fictional 1980s Tory cabinet
October 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Four more establishment-faced British character actors: Nicholas Farrell, Alexander Petrie, Alex McQueen and Donald Sumpter. You could put them all in your fictional 1980s Tory cabinet
Who is the quintessential establishment-faced British actor? The one you most associate with royals, ministers, judges, top civil servants, miscellaneous toffs, etc. I suggest Pip Torrens, Rupert Vansittart, Roger Allam or Alex Jennings
October 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Who is the quintessential establishment-faced British actor? The one you most associate with royals, ministers, judges, top civil servants, miscellaneous toffs, etc. I suggest Pip Torrens, Rupert Vansittart, Roger Allam or Alex Jennings
What is the point of words?
October 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What is the point of words?
This is the usual sulky-baby nonsense but what a delicious treat it would be if the mad authoritarian racists just… left
October 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is the usual sulky-baby nonsense but what a delicious treat it would be if the mad authoritarian racists just… left
I wrote my dissertation on Heart of Darkness and it still floors me this time around. It feels like the twentieth century awakening, like a box of horrors opening. “Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.”
October 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I wrote my dissertation on Heart of Darkness and it still floors me this time around. It feels like the twentieth century awakening, like a box of horrors opening. “Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.”
This is just terf wishcasting. Nobody’s making this show www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
This is just terf wishcasting. Nobody’s making this show www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Journeys that sound like Wayne’s World jokes
October 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Journeys that sound like Wayne’s World jokes
The New York Times: “thousands” of protesters across the entire US
The NYPD: 100,000 in New York City alone
The NYPD: 100,000 in New York City alone
October 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The New York Times: “thousands” of protesters across the entire US
The NYPD: 100,000 in New York City alone
The NYPD: 100,000 in New York City alone
October 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Connections catering to a very particular kind of person today
October 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Connections catering to a very particular kind of person today
Maybe it’s not just the money, it’s also the hubris
October 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Maybe it’s not just the money, it’s also the hubris
Apparently this is happening in Merseyside. I applaud the choice of decoration
October 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Apparently this is happening in Merseyside. I applaud the choice of decoration
Children’s books are so middle class these days
October 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Children’s books are so middle class these days
Weird piece. He explains all the many fundamental problems and then pulls back into groundless optimism at the very end
October 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Weird piece. He explains all the many fundamental problems and then pulls back into groundless optimism at the very end
Normal stuff from a normal newspaper
October 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Normal stuff from a normal newspaper
Great response to people who don’t read fiction
(from The Assistant by Bernard Malamud)
(from The Assistant by Bernard Malamud)
September 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Great response to people who don’t read fiction
(from The Assistant by Bernard Malamud)
(from The Assistant by Bernard Malamud)
Best plant name ever
September 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Best plant name ever
I think I know what it will look like if the SWP have any influence
September 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I think I know what it will look like if the SWP have any influence