Katie Bevan

words in @dazed @thetimes @ft

[alth0u🧶 @alth0u]

i wish Plato were alive to see this

[Katie Bevan @katebevan_]

Careful research ought to be undertaken before you embark upon a listening bar crawl in London. How well do you know your friends? How well do your friends know you? How well do you even know yourself?

https://t.co/ae8YVweCjE

[Katie Bevan @katebevan_]

I saw ROSALÍA last night in a sold out O2 arena. Finding a last minute ticket was near impossible. I think that confirms that audiences do, in fact, want art to challenge them. My story for Dazed from December: https://t.co/vmecrZrxWi

[Will Lloyd @Will___lloyd]

Feature writing at its very, very best

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

National politics is yet to comprehend the scale of revolt, in both senses, among young people.

Live streamed massacres, stolen futures, landlordism, (and the rest) are all a potent catalyst.

This exhaustive and subtle reporting by @emilylawford does such a good job of highlighting the radicalism, and contradictions, of a new generation. You've got to read it.

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

ANGRY YOUNG WOMEN by @emilylawford and @Scarlett__Mag

It was a Wednesday night and seven members of the University of Leeds’ feminist society had invited me to join their book swap. I asked how they felt about the young men they knew. “I don’t care for them,” said a girl called Ruby imperiously. “They’re not bad people, but they refuse to call out their friends who make other girls uncomfortable. They’ll laugh at jokes that are sexist, racist, homophobic, they don’t care about political issues… I don’t think they like women a lot.” If a man is attracted to you, she said, he might talk about things like toxic misogyny. If he doesn’t fancy you, he won’t bother. “I feel like a lot of it is quite sexually motivated with men.”

I asked if they’d consider dating a man with different political views. They all immediately said no. “I don’t think I’d even be friends with one,” said one girl. “They don’t see you as human.” Only one woman, Evelyn, admitted to having male friends (though she was worried this made her a “pick me”, trying too hard for male attention). Evelyn was concerned about what the men she knew were watching online. “The stuff that’s being said about women is crazy,” she said. “They’re getting all these reels, talking about, like, bad stuff about women. And I get reels of women saying bad stuff about men. I try to think, not all men are like this, but…”

On the internet, women and men have never been more alienated from each other. While the toxic, often hard-right politics of the manosphere have been exhaustively documented, the new generation of female influencers are nearly as extreme – just on the other side of the political spectrum. The “femosphere” spans a range of tones: there are misandrist dating coaches who urge women to reject men altogether, and more explicitly progressive content creators who cover global and domestic politics.

Exclusive polling by Merlin Strategy for the New Statesman reveals that young women, aged between 18 and 30, are by far the most progressive demographic in the UK. Young women are 26 percentage points less likely to feel positively about capitalism than young men, and much less likely to feel the economy works in their favour. Gen Z women are more likely to support causes such as feminism, environmentalism and anti-racism than young men. They also feel much more negatively towards young men than young men feel about them.

I spent the last few months in search of the new left-wing young women. It wasn’t difficult – they were everywhere. But it all felt impossibly bleak. They weren’t excited about their futures. They didn’t like the men they knew, or the idea of those they didn’t. Men were just a threat who had the potential to harm or trap them. This will almost certainly make relationships harder: fewer than half of young women feel men understand them. Young women are much less likely than men to date people who disagree with their politics. People will get lonelier, and angrier. Young women are twice as likely to not want children as young men. And it’s getting worse. Women under 25 are most likely to believe things are “stacked against me, no matter how hard I try”.

A significant majority of young women feel isolated from the rest of the country. The two main political parties aren’t reaching out to them specifically. Many women told me they feared a Reform government pressuring them to have babies. Many say they will vote for the Greens in the upcoming local elections, but few seem to believe that will make a difference. They don’t feel represented by mainstream politics, and they don’t think anyone cares.

Cover art by Carl Godfrey

[molly @angelinrealtime]

job importance gap relationship

[Sarah Jones @onesarahjones]

"removing writing from reporters' workloads" is an apocalyptic phrase

[Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi]

I'm a week late to this, but damn it's so good

[Andrew Hilary🇵🇸 @AndrewHilaryUS]

I think for Valentine’s Day I’m gunna go grocery shopping and then go see a movie alone. Might kms too who knows

[DP¹⁶ 🌍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (🇨🇼🇭🇹🇵🇹🇳🇴🇧🇷🇯🇵) @DP1605_]

The rain taking a break on Valentine’s Day is funny

[re: emma @evemmore]

mixing friend groups for my birthday makes me feel like graham norton

[Hamza Shaban @hshaban]

This gets at a bigger idea that separates journalism from Big Tech & the obsession over data collection. The entire point of a newspaper is curation. Story judgment. Discovery

Endlessly chasing data signals as a roadmap is what got us the ubiquitous algorithmic feed of CONTENT

[Don Van Natta Jr. @DVNJr]

Firing a reporter via email while she’s in a war zone risking her life for her readers is a despicable, disgraceful act.

[Katie Bevan @katebevan_]

For my latest Substack, I wrote about my exhaustion with ‘Cool Girl’ content: https://t.co/0w19EqRPTf

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

Rachel Reeves should be very careful arguing only graduates should pay for their degrees

Would be a lot of cold pensioners without our generation’s taxes. I don’t make much use of the nuclear deterrent either

Education is a public good, not a commodity

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

me on hinge explaining my type

[Tom Nuttall @tom_nuttall]

absolutely iconic

[Vittoria @vitt2tsnoc]

SORRY CAN WE PLEASE ALL PAUSE AND TAKE A MOMENT FOR THIS INSANELY EXCELLENT OUTFIT, STEPHEN MOST FASHIONABLE TRAITOR OF ALL TIME. #TheTraitorsUK