UK people … here’s a nice thing from my publisher: the Great Big Brian Bilston Bundle Giveaway*. It’s a chance to win copies of my books plus 2 free tickets to a show near you. Alternatively, you could just buy those things. Or even more alternatively, not buy those things at all. It’s completely up…
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Resistance — Yanis Varoufakis with Helen Vatsikopoulos on the people who fought back against fascism Source: ABC Radio National Program: Big Ideas Published: Tue 28 Apr 2026 at 7:00am Play duration: 54 minutes 35 seconds Presented by: Natasha Mitchell Through the stories of five women across three generations of his family, the influential Greek economist, […]
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A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their rule. I call it techlordism. Yanis Varoufakis Tue 21 Apr 2026 22.00 AEST Society & Inequality _Photo: AAP […]
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The writer's new memoir is a feast, exploring how food can be both deeply personal and impacted by forces much larger than ourselves.
It’s publication day for ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’. For those of you who preordered, I hope your copy has arrived and you enjoy reading it. For those of you who, for some strange reason, didn’t preorder, it should be out there in most bookshops for perusal and purchase. But only…
Departing from this amusing yet entirely real vignette, it is worth considering several outstanding and insightful books that thoughtfully engage with various dimensions of this fascinating subject matter: Billig, M. (1995). Banal nationalism. Sage. Bloch, M., & Parry, J. (Eds.). (1989). Money and the morality of exchange. Cambridge University Press. Desan, C. (2014). Making money: […]
A journalist from the Wall Street Journal wrote to me a week ago to ask what the numbers that I use in the opening pages of my book Limitarianism would look like today. In particular, she asked whether I could calculate for her the “lifetime equivalent hourly income” of Elon Musk’s current assets today. Short […]
The Poet Now Standing at Platform 3A The poet now standing at platform 3Ais the delayed 14.30 speaker for the Wits’ End Poetry Festival, calling at: Longwaite; Anguish; Bleakside;Much Wallowing-in-the-Mire; Little Hope; Hangdog Manor; High Dudgeon; Irk; Fuckham; Mope; Doldrum Parkway; Wearyside Central; and Wits’ End. We are sorry to announce this poet is delayed…
The totally ace online booksellers BookKind have chosen ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’ as their Non-Fiction Book of the Month for April. This is doubly good news because every copy sold via BookKind raises money for charity – just select from a range of charitable organisations when you order: https://bookkind.co.uk/book-of-the-month-home/ In…
How the ephemerality of the internet has warped our ability to know who we are.