Tom Ough
@tomough
Senior editor at UnHerd; author of book on averting doom; yeoman podcaster (Anglofuturism)
Wokes getting the old gang together to yell "racist!!!" at people. Must be a lovely way of recapturing the spirit of the 2010s. This is like military re-enactment for people with dairy intolerance
Oh look, a terrifically ugly white man has a dismissive opinion of a woman pointing out knee-jerk reflexive racism, I wonder why that could be?
I loved this book. Maybe because I am the comic relief character popping up here and there. But also because it vividly describes a world I have been lucky to be immersed in, the communities of people trying to save the future.
This piece is occasioned by the release – today – of my book, which is temporarily discounted. Waterstones: waterstones.com/book/the-anti-… Amazon: amazon.co.uk/Anti-Catastrop…
As seen in Waterstones Piccadilly. Some of them are now signed. Invest now in a rock-solid long-term asset
How to eke out a few more years of being economically useful, courtesy of @jasonhausenloy and Nicholas Kruus in UnHerd unherd.com/2025/07/has-ai…
Global warming may expose the long-buried volcanoes of Antarctica, sealed for millennia under gargantuan layers of ice. @tomough 👇 buff.ly/vMNPdBG
Slop industrial complex. Happens across media. God forbid someone feels reverent while consuming something rather than titillated. We need better cultural antibodies for this crap
Because children’s books went from this to this
Elite oikophobia doesn’t always have to win. In fact, its victories can still be reversed.
Dresden. Every building pictured dates from the last twenty years, the result of a 2002 municipal referendum in which the city decisively voted in favour of reconstructing its historic centre.
The Yookay regime gets an absolute savaging from @thephilippics in today’s UnHerd. Don’t miss it
‘The UK state is evidently still capable of significant and costly logistical and infrastructural exertions when it comes to causes it deems worthy.’ Is the legitimacy of the British state under threat? @thephilippics👇buff.ly/QDncrAy
Fun article by @tomough about geoengineering, both the standard aerial form, and the more direct geological form. I show up in a cameo quote. (Love how the subtitle accidentally answers the title.) unherd.com/2025/07/are-ea…
Impeccable judgement
A really great interview from the chaps on the Anglofuturism podcast. I feel as though we are looking through the blurry telescope of future possibilities and they are starting to sharpen into focus.
Our best-performing episode, at this stage in its life, so far!
Really, really, really good Anglofuturism podcast with @thephilippics which I am enjoying while drinking a large glass of good working class wine (that's a reference to the content of the episode which I tweet two thirds sarcastically). I have no idea if I agree with it or not!
This piece is occasioned by the release – today – of my book, which is temporarily discounted. Waterstones: waterstones.com/book/the-anti-… Amazon: amazon.co.uk/Anti-Catastrop…
To prevent a super-eruption would require centuries of work, in very dangerous conditions, on a scale far larger than anything ever attempted in geothermal engineering. Should we do it anyway? Read @tomough 👇 buff.ly/vMNPdBG
To prevent a super-eruption would require centuries of work, in very dangerous conditions, on a scale far larger than anything ever attempted in geothermal engineering. Should we do it anyway? Read @tomough 👇 buff.ly/vMNPdBG
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