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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The Great Replacement conspiracy theory, once relegated to mass shooter manifestos, has become increasingly central to global right-wing politics. My latest ep for the QAA Podcast premium feed explores how a murderous idea mutated to go mainstream. Featuring contributions from @feolski.bsky.social

Photo from anti-migrant protest in the UK. A woman holds a sign saying "Stop the Silent Invasion"

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Two-parter episode coming from me on the QAA Patreon Feed over the next two weeks, about the rise of homeschooling in the UK, and the appearance of some mysterious "awakened" Elective Home Education centres on the scene!

Sign that says "HOPE Community Centre - No Trespass - Strictly by Appointment Only"

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Check out @annieknk.bsky.social ‘s Truly Tradly Deeply podcast on this phenomenon

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I'm back on QAA this week, talking about the YouTubers who travel to London to tell their audience that western civilization is collapsing, and that England's supposedly lawless, multi-ethnic capital city is at the heart of it. The episode is called London Has Fallen.

Picture comparing YouTuber Kurt Caz's use of AI in his video thumbnail compared to the actual shot in the video

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The sixth and final episode of Truly Tradly Deeply is here! Megan and I reflect on the lessons we've learned from the tradosphere: what tradwives get right, where they're going next, and whether we need to be looking for new husbands who own an underground bomb shelter. Listen on CursedMedia.net!

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY is back on cursedmedia.net! In this episode we discuss fertility: giving God your womb, birthrates anxiety, childless cat ladies, and why everyone on the Girl Internet is telling you to get off the Pill all of a sudden:

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Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · 12/11/2025

⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️ In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame. YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...

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lyndsay @magpie.tips · 02/11/2025

This weekend I've been listening to the first 2 episodes of Truly, Tradly Deeply with @annieknk.bsky.social. It's nice to hear two researchers talk on this topic with so much knowledge and authority. Get it from www.cursedmedia.net

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CURSED MEDIA PODCAST NETWORK

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Jake Rockatansky @jakerockatansky.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Annie Kelly has a new miniseries about Trad wives, and the first two episodes dropped today on our new network cursedmedia.net Check it out!! And peep this trailer I made for the occasion!

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

QAA's own Annie Kelly (@annieknk.bsky.social) contributed to this great Al Jazeera report about how conservative women are rebranding right-wing politics for a female audience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtR8...

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All the president’s women: The rise of the ‘womanosphere’ | The Listening Post

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Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

PM says on radio that there are 1m young people on benefits. Presume he meant 1m young people not in education employment or training. Only about half of them claim benefits.

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 23/09/2025

Really proud Fall of Civilizations has been named a Waterstones paperback of the year. Get it at your local Waterstones! LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...

Image of the Fall of Civilizations cover, with Waterstones Paperback of the Year written beside it.

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Excellent timely report from Nuffield Trust on how we meet, or fail to meet, the costs of care. The current approach is over complicated, binary in its approach and discriminates in favour of those who can navigate complex sustems www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/all...

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All or nothing? Access and variation in NHS continuing health care

NHS continuing health care provides funded health and social care support for people with very complex needs outside hospital. Yet our comprehensive new report shows this system is highly inconsistent...

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

What a great loss - such an influential, persuasive, informed - and amazingly generous - man

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

What very sad news, and what an enormous loss to all those thinking creatively about our current challenges. His voice, and his challenge, will be sorely missed www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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David Boyle obituary

Political economist and author who promoted ideas such as time banks and community sharing

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

A lovely thoughtful mediation on the very long tail of grief

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Stephen Unwin @stephenunwin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Proud of this from the great actor (and my old friend) Simon Russell Beale.

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Terrence Higgins Trust @tht.org.uk · 17/06/2025

Read this beautiful tribute and reflection on the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt by @chriscreegan.bsky.social‬. The quilt was displayed in full last week at Tate Modern for the first time this century.

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I couldn't miss the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern

And 30 years on it's time to make my late partner a panel

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

A must read on a subject too often under explored. Powered by love, based on the strongest evidence, drawing widely from every discipline - a book that will inform us all for decades to come. But it is also a joy to read Proud of my brother @stephenunwin.bsky.social

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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Join us in York with our friends @yorklitfest.bsky.social on Wed 28 May for a special event to celebrate the launch of Finding Belle by Reeta Chakrabarti The event will take place @yorkstjohn.bsky.social and tickets are #FREE but must be booked www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/upcom...

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

This is excellent and develops quite a few of the ideas we promoted in #CivilSocietyFutures especially about the power of place

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

@doctoroxford.com you might be interested in this. I argued that kindness is radical, tough and rooted in solidarity. How depressing that #bekind is now deployed to ignore the fundamental power of recognising that emotions are the heart of public policy change carnegieuk.org/publication/...

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Kindness, emotions and human relationships: The blind spot in public policy - Carnegie UK

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

It’s a great book deserving even more coverage

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This will be brilliant. So sorry to be missing it

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Smart Data Foundry @smartdatafoundry.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Speaker Spotlight: Dr. Gemma Cassells will present "Data Are Plural: So Are the People Who Make It Matter. This talk invites us to move beyond the idea of data as a single source of truth and embrace it as a human-centred, collaborative tool for real-world change. 👉 Register bit.ly/3DXfMbZ

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 13/04/2025

Really proud that Fall of Civilizations came in at number 6 on the Sunday Times bestseller list today! Thank you so much to everyone who pre-ordered and helped spread the word.

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 09/04/2025

I'm going to be at Hatchards bookshop tomorrow in London, talking about the release of the Fall of Civilizations book. Come join me! Date: 10 apr • 18:30 Location: 187 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LE

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The Fall of Civilizations - Hatchards Piccadilly

Join Paul Cooper to discuss his new book “The Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline” in conversation with Hetta Howes.

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 01/04/2025

Very excited to announce that Fall of Civilizations has been named a "Book of the month" by Blackwell's bookshop. Just a short thank you video to everyone who has helped make this possible. Pre-order your copy if you haven't already: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

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Birthing the Nation - Sawyer Seminar Series @birthingthenation.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Happening tomorrow! @annieknk.bsky.social joins us for a Digital Sawyer Seminar: 🕘 9–10:30 AM ET | Zoom 🎙️ From Mancaves to Mainstream: The Evolution of the Manosphere Free & open to all — register here: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Supported by the Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminar Program.

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Charlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This is so so true. The community building. The creation of connection. The strengthening of trust. No matter whether they are about housing cats or documenting local history- charities ALWAYS create additional social value.

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This is such an important thread. At its best vibrant civil society is the glue in our fragile world, the social infrastructure, and describing it as a series of services is misleading, and completely misses the point.

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Spot on, Helen. Government has considerable power (both soft and otherwise) to change employer behaviour. This would have been an opportunity - but it would also have required a clear eyed view about the Labour market. Easier to ignore?

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Excellent - the time that we are encouraged to forget

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Thought that it was spring and started excitedly making plans that involve sitting outside

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 13/03/2025

In awe of the cover design on the Polish edition of Fall of Civilizations. Polish readers are built different

The psychedelic cover of the Fall of Civilizations book in Polish

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

So striking that both the PM and S of S describe the NHS as a spender of money, not a steward of prosperity, security and our collective well- being

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Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

More support for people in ill health to stay in work ‘could save UK £1bn’ - this is a great analysis but I’d also add that the current system has such sharp cliff edges that people are actively discouraged from trying to go back to work

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 05/03/2025

There's still time to get one of these limited edition signed copies of the Fall of Civilizations paperback, with exclusive printed page-end designs! We've also partnered with this beautiful independent bookshop that does international deliveries everywhere Link: www.welbooks.co.uk/shop/p/fall-...

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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This evening York is lit up to mark 100 years since our founder, Joseph Rowntree, died 🌃 Rowntree was a confectionery businessman, social reformer and philanthropist. Find out more about him and the centenary here: rowntreesociety.org.uk/joseph-rownt...

A photograph of Monk Bar in York lit up orange against the dark night sky. It is a gatehouse. On the front of the bar is an arch supporting a gallery, and along the gate are 'murder holes' - holes in the bar in the shape of crosses.

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 21/02/2025

I've just been to Clays book printers to sign a thousand of these special edition paperbacks of my book Fall of Civilizations. These are very limited edition!

Me signing my upcoming paperback book: Fall of Civilizations - Stories of Greatness and Decline.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

"If you lived in western Europe, the reality of war was unlikely to be a big feature of your life. This is, historically, unusual. And it was true – though we often bridled against it – because the world’s biggest superpower was committed to defending us. "Well. It was nice while it lasted."

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