John Oxley
@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
And many of the policy levers you can pull can help both.
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
And many of the policy levers you can pull can help both.
I can see what he'd get from a 90s character seeking redemption.
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I can see what he'd get from a 90s character seeking redemption.
Can't they just sleep in a drawer? Or go to bed in shifts?
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Can't they just sleep in a drawer? Or go to bed in shifts?
The kicker in this story was that (i) the pupil was the boyfriend of her daughter, who went to the girls school where (ii) the teacher's husband was also a teacher.
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The kicker in this story was that (i) the pupil was the boyfriend of her daughter, who went to the girls school where (ii) the teacher's husband was also a teacher.
Also, if you accept that it was always about race, um, cite some counter examples of the British state dealing well with sexual abuse in that era where that wasn't a factor.
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Also, if you accept that it was always about race, um, cite some counter examples of the British state dealing well with sexual abuse in that era where that wasn't a factor.
Yeah, it was a combo of "What else do you expect from slags from the estates?", general indifference to sex crimes, and a hint of "Young girls do this, the best we can do is make sure they don't get pregnant". Not SYP worrying about looking racist.
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Yeah, it was a combo of "What else do you expect from slags from the estates?", general indifference to sex crimes, and a hint of "Young girls do this, the best we can do is make sure they don't get pregnant". Not SYP worrying about looking racist.
Also a dynamic that runs though a lot of institutional responses to the grooming gangs.
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Also a dynamic that runs though a lot of institutional responses to the grooming gangs.
A girl in my year at the girls school at ~17 started dating a (rich) 40 something year old and it was seen as weird but not pseudo-criminal.
On of our female teachers had an affair with an 18 year old pupil and the whole thing was fairly successfully covered up to the wider world.
On of our female teachers had an affair with an 18 year old pupil and the whole thing was fairly successfully covered up to the wider world.
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
A girl in my year at the girls school at ~17 started dating a (rich) 40 something year old and it was seen as weird but not pseudo-criminal.
On of our female teachers had an affair with an 18 year old pupil and the whole thing was fairly successfully covered up to the wider world.
On of our female teachers had an affair with an 18 year old pupil and the whole thing was fairly successfully covered up to the wider world.
The part of the origin story I can't get my head around is Alan Greenberg going "Oh, that guy who got sacked from my kids school for being crap and creepy, should find him a great job".
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The part of the origin story I can't get my head around is Alan Greenberg going "Oh, that guy who got sacked from my kids school for being crap and creepy, should find him a great job".
Bike shops in the 2010s:
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Bike shops in the 2010s:
Babe, wake up, new "Tonty" just dropped
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Babe, wake up, new "Tonty" just dropped
The UK houses are also generally smaller.
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The UK houses are also generally smaller.
Release the telegrams!
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Release the telegrams!
They wanted to change the name plates.
November 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
They wanted to change the name plates.
So for a lot of people on the Leave side, Brexit was essentially no more than changing the name plates. That was why there was so little interest in what came after, or of the risks.
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
So for a lot of people on the Leave side, Brexit was essentially no more than changing the name plates. That was why there was so little interest in what came after, or of the risks.
I think part of this is a belief in small government moves into a belief that what government does is, basically, immaterial so pursuing performative measures has no risk.
Think this is noticeable around a lot of the right on Brexit and the rest has flowed from there.
Think this is noticeable around a lot of the right on Brexit and the rest has flowed from there.
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I think part of this is a belief in small government moves into a belief that what government does is, basically, immaterial so pursuing performative measures has no risk.
Think this is noticeable around a lot of the right on Brexit and the rest has flowed from there.
Think this is noticeable around a lot of the right on Brexit and the rest has flowed from there.
Yeah, TPUK was I recall largely the freaks of the right who had no idea how to police the weirdness.
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Yeah, TPUK was I recall largely the freaks of the right who had no idea how to police the weirdness.
It's the sort of people that 10-15 years ago the young conservative orgs spent a lot of energy making sure never got to speak to the new people who turned up to stuff.
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It's the sort of people that 10-15 years ago the young conservative orgs spent a lot of energy making sure never got to speak to the new people who turned up to stuff.
Yeah, basically that and they've picked up maybe 2/3 of the young people who used to vote Conservative.
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Yeah, basically that and they've picked up maybe 2/3 of the young people who used to vote Conservative.
The UK version is a woman and she's leaning Green
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The UK version is a woman and she's leaning Green
No, because ultimately he's more interested in hyper Thatcherism for his buddies, and has a sense of what the average voter will tolerate when it comes to ICE-ing their neighbours.
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
No, because ultimately he's more interested in hyper Thatcherism for his buddies, and has a sense of what the average voter will tolerate when it comes to ICE-ing their neighbours.
Agree. I suspect a tendency to project broader agreement on voters he only overlaps with on migration, and might scare the horses with a bunch of social conservative stuff.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Agree. I suspect a tendency to project broader agreement on voters he only overlaps with on migration, and might scare the horses with a bunch of social conservative stuff.