Dorian Lynskey
Journalist (Guardian/Observer, MOJO, BBC Culture, the i), podcaster (Origin Story, Oh God What Now?) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
- Are some people obsessed with the Zach Polanski hypnoboobs story trying to discredit the Greens? Yes. But is the story true? Yes. And are there many people who actually like the Greens but distrust Polanski for this and other reasons? Also yes.
- I know the political message is not funny at all but Island of Strangers does sound like a Booker Prize nominee widely acclaimed for its bittersweet polyphonic take on British life
- It must be great being in Reform. Everyone's always talking about you and bending to your will on the level of vibes but you can come up with any old shit as a policy and get away with it. Schrödinger's Reform: simultaneously the next government and outsiders whose policies don't demand scrutiny
- Labour's language of "cracking down" gives away the belief that immigration is akin to crime and the optimal outcome is zero. Good luck with that growth agenda
- Delighted to see Everything Must Go get a mention in @johnharris1969.bsky.social's latest Guardian column about how we respond to the climate crisis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Rewatching Good Bye Lenin! (still fantastic) and looked up the Russian actress who played the nurse. She became one of Russia’s most celebrated actors. Now she’s living in exile in Latvia for opposing the invasion of Ukraine. The story of a generation of Russian artists. A culture gutted.
- Reposted by Dorian LynskeyLatest from me, on common responses to Trumpism & the climate crisis. Quotes Margaret Atwood via Dorian Lynskey's Everything Must Go: "If other people began to discuss it, you tuned them out, because what they were saying was both so obvious and so unthinkable.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
