Andrew Doyle

My book “The End of Woke” is now out in the US! 🥳🇺🇸 A Spectator and New Statesman book of the year. “Doyle writes beautifully, trenchantly, near-irrefutably” – Richard Dawkins “Thought provoking and entertaining. Andrew Doyle’s intellect dazzles” – Jimmy Carr Link below! ⬇️

@FruttoDelBosque I doubt his imagined future is actually very likely. But a world in which art can flourish and isn’t strangulated at birth is a worthy dream.

@andrewdoyle_com My opinión is beyond Wilde. Is about the effect of his imagined future... taking the decadent movement in wich Wilde thinking is framed. ( I'am a defender of decadentism by the way.)

Did Oscar Wilde predict the age of AI? My latest post is now up! Link below. ⬇️

@FruttoDelBosque I think Wilde’s overt rejection of parasitism makes it difficult to suggest that parasitism is the goal.

@andrewdoyle_com No... it is a personal comment.

@FruttoDelBosque That’s not Wilde’s argument, of course.

@andrewdoyle_com Of course. A new decadent androgyne... who doesn't work, who lacks of energy. Parasitic aesthetes only interested in personal fulfillment . Beautiful, apathic and frail. H.G Wells saw this new decadent in the image of the Elois from his novel "The Time Machine".

@Positality Indeed.

@andrewdoyle_com For a less optmistic view: "The Machine Stops" - E.M. Forster (1905)

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I have received information re claims made by one Hayden against, by my count, 32 individuals & 5 corporates or unincorporated associations. If you are one of the 37 &/or have faced civil legal claims instigated by Hayden, please contact me asap, as my work has started. Thank you

Dear Irish Times You didn’t ask me on but discussed me and my work in detail so let me assist on the question posed in your heading and a few other gaping holes. 1. I am the CEO of an organisation called @TheCountessIE. We incorporated a number of years ago. I am one of three directors. 2. We weren’t “involved in a failed Referendum” but this description from @IrishTimes is quite the tell. For us as grassroots leaders of a No/No campaign that spanned 30 locations over 7 weeks, this was a landslide victory. We view the 73.9% who voted to retain A41.2 as our constituency. 3. Our constituency do not want men in female spaces or services, prisons or shelters, sports or quotas. They know a man cannot be a woman and equality is predicated on certain accommodations like single sex spaces which provide safety, dignity and privacy for women and girls. They do not want their children indoctrinated into gender, or any other ideology at school. Far from being a twitter constituency as you describe, they are the majority. 4. Our advocacy stopped the Government removing the word woman from Maternity legislation. Our advocacy stopped the rollout of mixed sex toilets in schools. Our advocacy helped defeat the planned collapse of the gender ground and transposition of hate speech. 5. We have evolved to address the impact of immigration which like trans, is a sacred pillar of the new left that the electorate were not allowed to vote on. We observe how the media behaves the same way with regard to each of these issues. 6. We are alive to, and well versed in, the use of an ad hominem response because we dare challenge the narrative. 7. We know we represent the majority and will continue the work. 8. The work has been recognised globally. @TheCountessIE has addressed/briefed the UN alone three times, the EU parliament, Houses of Parliament, US Assistant AG among others. 9. Thank you for the ongoing coverage of the issue at hand which is the risk presented to women and children by the policy of housing unscreened male migrants en masse in residential areas. Le meas, Laoise de Brún BL

Went down the rabbit hole on this. Your brain treats a physical book like a landscape. It builds a spatial map of the text, the same way it maps trails, rooms, and city blocks. When you scroll on a phone, that map breaks apart. Seven large-scale research reviews and direct brain scans confirm what you already feel. A 2023 study in PLOS ONE attached brain-activity sensors to children’s heads while they read the same text on paper and on screen. Paper reading produced fast brain waves, the pattern linked to focused attention. Screen reading shifted the brain into slow waves, the pattern linked to mind wandering and daydreaming. Same kids. Same words. Measurably different brain states. A separate 2022 study from Showa University in Japan scanned the front of the brain, the area that manages focus and comprehension, during phone versus paper reading. Smartphones sent that region into overdrive, meaning the brain was straining just to keep up with basic processing. Paper reading produced a moderate load that triggered natural deep breathing, which helped regulate brain function and sustain focus. The phone suppressed that breathing pattern entirely. Since 2017, researchers have published seven major reviews combining hundreds of individual studies. Six of seven reached the same conclusion: people understand less on screens. A 2018 review of 54 studies and 170,000+ participants, literally titled “Don’t throw away your printed books,” found paper outperformed screens across the board for non-fiction. A 2024 follow-up with 49 more studies confirmed it. The gap has grown steadily every year since 2001. Being a “digital native” doesn’t help. The best explanation is how your brain tracks where you are. Your short-term memory can only juggle about 7 things at once. A physical book gives you constant location cues: the weight shifting from right hand to left, where a paragraph sits on the page, how thick the remaining pages feel. Your brain hands off the “where am I in this text?” job to those physical signals, leaving more room for actually understanding what you’re reading. On a phone, every screen looks identical. Your brain has to track position and process meaning at the same time, and something gives. A Norwegian eye-tracking study analyzing 25,000+ individual eye movements found screen readers processed text more shallowly. The students had no idea they were reading differently. In 2019, nearly 200 reading scientists from 30+ countries signed an open letter warning that screen reading was degrading deep comprehension. Since then, Scandinavian countries, among the most digitized school systems on Earth, have started putting physical books back in classrooms.

Aye, such a "formidable voice" that the BBC first silenced her and then bullied her out. Save us your crocodile tears

A perfect example of a genuinely antisemitic comment, and not criticism of the Israeli government or its actions. This is blood libel antisemitism straight out of the Middle Ages. What’s Kneecap’s next tweet: Jews drinking blood for Passover? And coming from a music band who became famous by supporting Hezbollah, the terrorist organization that killed 12 Druze children by launching a rocket directly at a playground, that’s rich.

The Free Speech Union is bringing a judicial review against Communities Secretary Steve Reed, challenging his decision to impose an official definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ (Islamophobia). This is a Muslim blasphemy law by the back door, which will silence legitimate criticism of Islam and prevent people from speaking out on issues such as the grooming gangs scandal. The proposed definition is vague and subjective, and liable to be weaponised to shut down lawful debate about Islam, Muslims, and Islamic practices and history. Adopting such a definition — let alone appointing an Islamophobia ‘Tsar’ — breaches the ‘occupying the field’ doctrine in public law. Our lawyers have sent a Pre-Action Protocol letter setting out why the definition is unlawful, and have asked the Government to pause both its rollout and the appointment of the ‘Tsar’ until the case is resolved. Judicial reviews against Secretaries of State are costly, but this is a fight we must win. Blasphemy laws were abolished by Parliament in 2008 — let’s keep it that way. Read our letter and support our crowdfunder 👇

When the dialect of your local town needs its own grammar publishing:

Excellent piece on the futility of “unconscious bias training”.

The smartest age in life may be 55 to 60 – not in your 20s. Raw cognitive abilities, such as processing speed and memory, often peak early in life. Athletes typically hit their prime before 30, mathematicians make major breakthroughs by their mid-30s, and chess champions rarely stay dominant past 40. However, a new research reveals that overall psychological functioning—including personality traits, judgment, and emotional intelligence—peaks much later, between ages 55 and 60. A study analyzing 16 key traits across the lifespan found that conscientiousness peaks around 65, emotional stability reaches its height near 75, moral reasoning deepens in older age, and the ability to avoid cognitive biases may improve into the 70s or 80s. When combined into a single index, these traits suggest the mind is most balanced in the late 50s, blending experience, emotional steadiness, and sound judgment. This may explain why many top leaders and thinkers achieve their greatest impact in midlife. ["Worried about turning 60? Science says that’s when many of us actually peak." The Conversation, 14 Oct 2025]

@leemalcolmson @afneil Which proves the folly of dismissing arguments based on perceived “alignments”. The genetic fallacy is a common trap.

@andrewdoyle_com @afneil We agree on that.

Just an everyday tale of infrastructure in the UK — how to spend £179m on not building a tunnel.

The fact that a community note on X more accurately states legal reality about Web censorship than the entire Westminster political apparatus is the reason that the UK and EU want to censor X.

@leemalcolmson @afneil Nothing nasty about arguing that taxpayers’ money ought not to be wasted.

@andrewdoyle_com @afneil I’m open to a well reasoned argument anytime, a broken clock … etc etc it’s the other nasty shit they peddle that can get in the bin.

@leemalcolmson @afneil You too. And well done for publicly agreeing with someone “aligned to the Daily Mail”. A first step away from tribalism.

@andrewdoyle_com @afneil Enjoy the rest of the afternoon, the sun is out👍