HeyJaredStephen Daisley
Writing about politics, society, ideas, and movies. Major focuses: UK politics, the constitution, Israel, antisemitism, gender, and freedom. Culture is ‘the great help out of our present difficulties‘.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Sep 19, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 6, 2026
Latest issues
Passport to Piddington (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Ticket Stubs is a movie column reviewing new and not-so-new releases, Hollywood classics, nostalgic trash, and more obscure cinematic fare. This is Ticket Stubs #21.On September 15, 2026, the Oxfordshire village of Piddington voted in a symbolic referendum to declare independence from the United Kingdom. The quaint insurrection was prompted by the British government’s plans to locate 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby. Residents voted 285 to 26 in favour of secession. While there is no chance of l
Has anybody seen my Hal? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Ticket Stubs is a movie column reviewing new and not-so-new releases, Hollywood classics, nostalgic trash, and more obscure cinematic fare. This is Ticket Stubs #20.September 2 marks the birthday of Hal Ashby. Not a landmark — the director would have been 97 — but as good a reason as any to revisit the work of a gifted 1970s filmmaker who died too soon and whose movies are still too little seen. We consider his first three features: The Landlord, a satirical drama about race and class; <stro
Raptors and rednecks (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Ticket Stubs is a movie column reviewing new and not-so-new releases, Hollywood classics, nostalgic trash, and more obscure cinematic fare. This is Ticket Stubs #19.The recent deaths of Sam Neill and Brenda Fricker sent me back to Jurassic Park and My Left Foot, while the publication of J.D. Vance’s latest book, Communion, prompted me to take a look at the movie adaptation of his first offering, Hillbilly Elegy. <
Too Liddle, too late (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Rod Liddle was a rarity in the world of British journalism in that he could write. I mean really write. The way Orwell and Chesterton could write, and Auberon Waugh and Christopher Hitchens too. The way Mark Steyn wrote in his prime (his interview with Monica Lewinsky’s dress was more Swiftian than Swift) and the way Julie Burchill continues to write because Julie would want me to make it clear that, like Miss Jean Brodie, she is still in her prime.Hardly anyone writes like that anymore. Stylish
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.