James Bloodworth
James Bloodworth is a journalist and author of Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain. @J_Bloodworth
Torn in the USA
Purpose, identity and social status, how this book reveals the three things lacking on the shop floor at Amazon
The uniquely British thing about the Labour Party
The left shouldn’t leave the people’s patriotism behind
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged