Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I'm halfway through The Great Dictator, btw, and it's absolutely stellar. Cartland was born in 1901, so she became an adult just as the male population of Britain was vastly reduced, and many of the remaining men were deeply traumatised. (Reposted because I typo-ed 1931 before.) 4362 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026That was my error -- already corrected yesterday and noted at the bottom of the piece. 100 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This was El-Sayed speaking at the data center press conference at The Barn in Saline, Michigan. The town board voted against the project (which is for Oracle/OpenAI) and the developers sued. The board folded. The Barn will bring in millions in property taxes but it's torn the community apart. 060 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Half of the Republican attacks on El-Sayed paint him as a rabid Islamist who wants to institute Sharia law. (The other half imply that he’s a cheesy and effete Millennial, another Democratic soy boy clowning for the camera.)" 2100 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Genuinely the most unforgettable place I have ever visited, and a really sobering reminder of how much ecological devastation humans have brought to basically everywhere else. Preserve the Galapagos at all costs! 1180 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 06/01/2026And here are the pictures of RFK's funeral train that hang outside Newsom's office. www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/pol... 2222 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 06/01/2026And here's the picture that his social media team have on their office door, of Newsom being prayed over by Kid Rock, Tucker Carlson and Hulk Hogan (RIP): 1222 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 06/01/2026As a DVD extra, here is the Marie Antoinette picture posted on X by Newsom: 45117 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Do you think criticisms like these ones are useful to reflect on? I’m not sure I get a lot from them other than “some people disagree with your views”, which I already know. 4140 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Oh, really? Pretty much anything I post attracts replies like this. I’ll just block these people and move on, but it definitely makes me wonder if this is a place worth spending time in. 7220 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Err… I have expressed this, several times. On Strong Message Here and Page 94, and in the Atlantic, for eg here. 910 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Yeah, it's just a floating oh-boo-the-bad-guy which relies on the intended audience not actually reading my work. This is literally the only thing I've ever written about Joe Lonsdale, which I don't think you could call an unstinting endorsement of his politics 290 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Yeah, I really went easy on Louis CK here. There’s no way you actually read the piece, is there? (Or, I’m guessing, any of my articles on the Epstein case.) 5200 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 14/09/2025I was initially resistant to this — a panto! Groundbreaking! — but its sheer demented energy is incredibly appealing. I hope Cole Escola plays Mary when it transfers to London. Jinkx Monsoon was good but a bit bellowing. 1160 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Believing that women deserve single sex sports and spaces is not a “right wing thought”, nor is skepticism of puberty blockers. It’s the majority belief in the British population. Telling 80% of the population they’re far right is a poor political argument. 1144 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Some of these people *are* trans. They just don’t agree with the prevailing orthodoxy. One of the most blocked people on Bluesky is Brianna Wu, a trans woman with mainstream Dem voter opinions. 21162 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 07/09/2025This is the NYT article I was quoting on Giorgia Meloni's hobbit cosplay: www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/w... 4205 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Celebrated the UK launch of The Genius Myth by talking about Milton, Mahler & Musk with @aiannucci.bsky.social - probably the best set of audience Qs I've ever had, too. (My rule when picking a book topic is "what will be interesting to talk about for weeks on end?") uk.bookshop.org/a/6497/97817... 1776 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025It literally was the bisexual flag the Conservatives complained about, not the Pride flag. Do some research before being a self-righteous pillock on the internet next time. Here's the press release: 160 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 15/06/2025It was SO far away from what I actually wrote I went back and looked at the text to check my Tyler Durden-esque alter ego hadn't secretly slipped in a bit about Shakespeare being shit and also not Shakespeare. 4184 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Here is a tiny sample of the response I got this week for writing an article arguing that the Trump administration's trans policies were cruel. Go look under the post if you want the full experience. 351 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Are you in Bath or near Bath? It's the first stop on my book tour for The Genius Myth, so you can catch me before I become dissolute and jaded: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/... 7838 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 04/06/2025"Everything written in 1641 will agree with everything else written in 1641, that's just science" 090 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 04/06/2025You think I'm being mean? Hang on until he explains his plan to replace democracy with city-state dictators, kept in check by a committee of airline pilots with keys to the nukes 7555 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Fans of Maurice Glasman not being allowed to have sex with his wife will enjoy his cameo: 1312 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 31/05/2025From 2023 onwards, Alex Thompson of Axios (one of the book's co-authors) wrote a series of stories about all the accommodations the Biden team were making: sneakers, shorter walks, limited schedule from 10am-4pm. 1132 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Here's the full list of events for The Genius Myth, with some bonus London dates: Orwell Festival www.orwellfestival.co.uk/booking/p/be... Dr Johnson's House www.drjohnsonshouse.org/post/helen-l... Sekforde with @jamesomalley.co.uk takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/new-event-... 391 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 27/05/2025I'm doing some events around the publication of The Genius Myth this summer, each of them alongside someone with different expertise. Starting with . . . June 17 Conway Hall, London Intelligence Squared, in conversation with Armando Iannucci www.intelligencesquared.com/events/the-g... 56210 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 22/05/2025They are the richest, mostly because of housing wealth. See the ONS figures below. And don't be a prick about my weight. It doesn't help your argument. 110 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 22/05/2025You say "triple whammy savings blow", I say "cor, pensioner incomes are higher than you intuitively expect" 1313726 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 13/05/2025The ragging on the media for a "cover up" is pretty unfair, IMO -- Alex Thompson wrote multiple stories on the issue for Axios, and the NYT did too. (I wrote about it for the Atlantic in Feb last year, and Mark Leibovich did for us in *2022*). But this graphic still makes me laugh. 3200 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 19/04/2025I've just gone and stood in the spot at Kinkakuji (Golden Temple) in Kyoto where you now line up with all the other tourists for a photo. On the left: me, 2013 On the right: me, 1579 4660 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 19/04/2025The point about trans men on female wards is not necessarily correct. Para 221 of the judgement explicitly allows service providers to exclude those who present as male from female-only spaces if women might have a "reasonable objection" to their presence. 130 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Assassin's Creed: Shadows might be the most beautiful game I've ever played. Blah blah blah stealthily stabbing people yes, but the FOLIAGE? Masterful. 6800 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I’m not talking about a rise in GRCs, I’m talking about Stonewall’s move from using “gender reassignment” as the PC to “gender identity” in its advice to companies, and its huge expansion of the “trans umbrella” once it became trans inclusive in 2015. 110 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I find this unbelievably grotesque. Visually it’s so strongly reminiscent of a concentration camp — the bunks, the lack of clothing, the skinniness of some of these guys. Imagine doing a thumbs-up in front of that. 2938067 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025ha, I confess I did pop over to spend some time in your peaceful mentions vs mine. 7455 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 15/04/2025So @aiannucci.bsky.social and I are doing an Intelligence Squared event to talk about genius: June 19, Conway Hall in London. Tickets below. Use my special Bluesky follower code GENIUS25 for 25% off. Rest assured we will be making these faces throughout. www.intelligencesquared.com/events/the-g... 5708 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I’ve been doing this for five years now, and I STILL haven’t come up with a single funny answer to the caption competition. Will I finally break my duck this time? (No.) Have I Got News For You, tonight, 9pm, BBC One. 71183 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025If only there was an upcoming book that addressed this very question. 290 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I think about this guy — who resigned the day Elon Musk turned up at Twitter with his henchmen to sack the place — a lot. Smart people often think they’re immune to being gullible. But they’re not. (Source: Character Limit) 720346 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The fact that it’s unusual for the same person to *write* and direct (and exec) a whole season of a TV show is pretty well-established: enough for it to be a point in Kelefa Sanneh’s very good profile of White. Most creator-directors (like everyone else) have writers’ rooms these days. 130 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025There’s no line in Jane Austen I think about more than this. 315511 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025THE GENIUS MYTH will be published simultaneously in the U.S., where the cover will feature this adorable dodo. Pre-order the U.S. edition here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803542... 4412 0
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Cover reveal! THE GENIUS MYTH takes you from Renaissance Florence to a Space X launch in Florida — via Francis Galton’s cake trick and the drama of high IQ societies. It’s my attempt to understand what it means to call someone a genius. Pre-order here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/442983... 2231135 0
