Samuel Earle
@swajcmanearle.bsky.social
Writer + PhD student at Columbia Journalism School
Author of Tory Nation (Simon & Schuster 2023)
Email: s.wajcman.earle[at]gmail.com
Author of Tory Nation (Simon & Schuster 2023)
Email: s.wajcman.earle[at]gmail.com
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Opinion | The Insidious Joviality of Nigel Farage
www.nytimes.com
My essay on Nigel Farage 2.0, what he learned as Trump's apprentice, and his gleeful forecasts of violence - for @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
America's answer to Zac Polanski - what a success story
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
America's answer to Zac Polanski - what a success story
Mamdani's campaign has beeen the greatest example of the Stuart Hall line: "politics doesn't reflect majorities, it constructs them"
But Mamdani's father also chose a perfect poem when he dedicated his book to him
But Mamdani's father also chose a perfect poem when he dedicated his book to him
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Mamdani's campaign has beeen the greatest example of the Stuart Hall line: "politics doesn't reflect majorities, it constructs them"
But Mamdani's father also chose a perfect poem when he dedicated his book to him
But Mamdani's father also chose a perfect poem when he dedicated his book to him
Ann Coulter NOT a fan of me - though unclear what she made of the piece
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
October 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ann Coulter NOT a fan of me - though unclear what she made of the piece
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Reposted by Samuel Earle
This is great. Come for the Farage profile, stay for the drive-by on the PM. "Labour’s dour and directionless year in power, defined by a centrism of the blandest variety, has led Mr. Starmer’s approval ratings to reach record lows in record time..."
My essay on Nigel Farage 2.0, what he learned as Trump's apprentice, and his gleeful forecasts of violence - for @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Opinion | The Insidious Joviality of Nigel Farage
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is great. Come for the Farage profile, stay for the drive-by on the PM. "Labour’s dour and directionless year in power, defined by a centrism of the blandest variety, has led Mr. Starmer’s approval ratings to reach record lows in record time..."
My essay on Nigel Farage 2.0, what he learned as Trump's apprentice, and his gleeful forecasts of violence - for @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Opinion | The Insidious Joviality of Nigel Farage
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My essay on Nigel Farage 2.0, what he learned as Trump's apprentice, and his gleeful forecasts of violence - for @nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Reposted by Samuel Earle
"This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t."
haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
October 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t."
haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
great episode
I was delighted to speak to Alan Finlayson for the @lrb.co.uk's On Politics. We take on the digital right (and online left), the champions of inegalitarianism, print and social democracy, Farage as influencer and... whether the internet is just right-wing.
October 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
great episode
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if you want a picture of the future, imagine your own face staring back at you from the chumbox, forever nymag.com/intelligence...
October 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
if you want a picture of the future, imagine your own face staring back at you from the chumbox, forever nymag.com/intelligence...
Paul Marshall and GB News aren't mentioned in this but their involvement is key - look where the meeting between Farage, the anti-abortion group (ADF) and Trump's team happened: Marshall's private member's club at UnHerd (1/3)
October 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Paul Marshall and GB News aren't mentioned in this but their involvement is key - look where the meeting between Farage, the anti-abortion group (ADF) and Trump's team happened: Marshall's private member's club at UnHerd (1/3)
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I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
"The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and ideas that have led to mass shootings."
Banger from @embits.bsky.social
Banger from @embits.bsky.social
‘Putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket and watching UFC seems to build gender solidarity. It remains unclear whether young men will do better under Trump, but at least they will feel pandered to.’
Emily Witt on Andrew Tate and the manosphere: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Witt on Andrew Tate and the manosphere: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere
The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and ideas that have led to mass shootings."
Banger from @embits.bsky.social
Banger from @embits.bsky.social
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Reposted by Samuel Earle
It's hard to explain how delusional it is to believe that there is some magic level of anti-migrant policy that this government can hit that will somehow neutralise this issue.
Opinion: The past decade was a masterclass in how to misread a nation. If Sir Keir Starmer doesn’t want to gift Britain to Reform, he needs to prove fast that he can be tough and effective on immigration on.ft.com/47dejup
August 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It's hard to explain how delusional it is to believe that there is some magic level of anti-migrant policy that this government can hit that will somehow neutralise this issue.
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Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
August 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
Further evidence for the giant void at the heart of Keir Starmer - from @trillingual.bsky.social's long read
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
August 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Further evidence for the giant void at the heart of Keir Starmer - from @trillingual.bsky.social's long read
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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“It’s clear what Farage gets from this – the good graces of a US president who wants to be king and prizes sycophancy in his court above all – but the benefits to UK voters are naught”
V good on the US-lite con that is Reform and its idiotic policies of prejudice
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
V good on the US-lite con that is Reform and its idiotic policies of prejudice
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Will Nigel Farage’s attempt to copy and paste Trump’s policies work in the UK? | Samuel Earle
The Reform leader is trying to import Doge’s cuts to spending and ‘DEI’. It’s clear what he gets out of it – not so much the British voter, says author Samuel Earle
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:20 AM
“It’s clear what Farage gets from this – the good graces of a US president who wants to be king and prizes sycophancy in his court above all – but the benefits to UK voters are naught”
V good on the US-lite con that is Reform and its idiotic policies of prejudice
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
V good on the US-lite con that is Reform and its idiotic policies of prejudice
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Rhetorically, this was among the less-remarked gifts of this campaign: to see and speak to working people in both the bonds of universality and with the dignity of specificity."
A great (and even euphoric) essay on Mamdani
A great (and even euphoric) essay on Mamdani
“The campaign’s climax, for me, came with Zohran’s Whitmanic walk down the length of Manhattan on the Friday night before Election Day.” @cgvanderburg.bsky.social on Mamdani’s New York:
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
A Knock at the Door | Colin Vanderburg
I think of the people I met on canvasses. The older Polish woman in Greenpoint who took a thick stack of Zohran flyers to give out to all her friends. The hijabi Indian American mother and daughter wh...
www.nplusonemag.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Rhetorically, this was among the less-remarked gifts of this campaign: to see and speak to working people in both the bonds of universality and with the dignity of specificity."
A great (and even euphoric) essay on Mamdani
A great (and even euphoric) essay on Mamdani
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Farage's 'leftwing' pose is flimsy – but so are Labour's own governing fantasies | Samuel Earle
Farage's 'leftwing' pose is flimsy – but so are Labour's own governing fantasies | Samuel Earle
The country’s most talented opportunist says Reform is the ‘party of the workers’. He’s claiming territory Starmer thought he could abandon, says author Samuel Earle
www.theguardian.com
June 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Farage's 'leftwing' pose is flimsy – but so are Labour's own governing fantasies | Samuel Earle
This Tory attack ad on Farage is kinda giving him exactly the image he wanted this week...
May 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This Tory attack ad on Farage is kinda giving him exactly the image he wanted this week...
this is basically bullying
April 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
this is basically bullying
we used to be a country
December 2, 2024 at 4:13 PM
we used to be a country
Re-posting my recent essay on polling for @nybooks.com on why whether the polls were "right" this election is less important than how they've hollowed out our understanding of politics and democracy
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Problems with Polls | Samuel Earle
Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.
www.nybooks.com
November 13, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Re-posting my recent essay on polling for @nybooks.com on why whether the polls were "right" this election is less important than how they've hollowed out our understanding of politics and democracy
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
so this is where we rebuild jerusalem
November 13, 2024 at 8:35 PM
so this is where we rebuild jerusalem