Dorian Lynskey
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
- The worst person you know just made a great point
- EXC: I can reveal the contents of a memo by Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman in January 2025 warning Number 10 it was making a mistake to hire Mandelson - sent to Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney. www.ft.com/content/584a...
- I never knew that Shakespeare was believed to have written revisions to this play, like Tarantino punching up Crimson Tide
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- I just reread a Ta-Nehisi Coates piece from 2018 where he addresses the claim that Trump is too incoherent to have an ideology and responds, no, he clearly has an ideology and it’s white nationalism. It’s only got clearer since then yet some people still insist otherwise
- When you ask the monkey's paw to get you out of trouble for that bad thing you did but don't specify the bad thing
- I've just seen on the Radio 1 playlist that there's a Mumford & Sons single called The Banjo Song. Incredible title, especially given that their former banjo man is now a far right influencer. Serious commitment to reclaiming the banjo
- I spoke to George Saunders about empathy, denial, transcendence, reckoning with the Trump administration and not wanting to be a moral avatar. I recommend subscribing to the Nerve's weekly newsletter for as little as zero pounds
- George Saunders, whose new novel imagines the last hours of an oil tycoon, is struggling to reconcile empathy with opposition in a riven America. He talks to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social about Trump, truth and the joy of reading www.thenerve.news/p/george-sau...
- Gervais’s Law: celebrities should never share their political views except in a sitcom, Netflix comedy special or national arena tour where they can pretend they’re just joking even when they’re clearly not
- The man who kept getting sacked for corruption before being rehired sure was corrupt
- BREAKING on ft website: Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
- The Night Manager: Infinity War
- Relieved to move in circles where I’m not worried that a friend’s name will make a fleeting appearance in the latest Epstein files drop
