Dr Emily Elizabeth Hoyle

Predicting the future is easy when you have the wealth to invent it. I watched Elon Musk’s recent interview with The Economist, I'd heard his AI predictions before, delivered in a room full of men at a obscure London conference in 2019. Read it here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/i-can-see-...

So the Tory plan to cut recorded pollution incidents, like sewage spills by water firms, is to scrap the agency doing the recording...

The Tories are hoping to get elected on a policy to replace our vital natural spaces with water guzzling poison spewing data centres.

Executives happily automating their days with AI. New hires confronting bro culture. Women in tech have a lot to say—and they told it all to WIRED.

For the people at the back, drag is Political! Effective! Cultural important!

Strangely I read Bad Blood by the investigative journalist who exposed Elizabeth Holmes' fraud when I attended a conference on Transhumanism a decade ago. I wrote about both of these things on Substack, you can read them here: emilyehoyle.substack.com

www.reuters.com/legal/govern... Trump bought as much as $50,000 worth of shares and ​sold as much as $15,000 in Elon Musk's SpaceX in July, ‌according to a public financial disclosure.

"So, to the person who says it's a snowflake generation, just try living 24 hours as a 16-year-old." Its about time we assumed collective responsibility for the environment we've created for children www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today at the edge of Cornwall I observed a sleeping seal (through binos). In Boundaries of Care and the Art Survival I discuss @susanrichardson.bsky.social's Where The Seals Sing and how I was left bereft at the human harm to our native flora and fauna. emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/boundaries...

Less: ChatGPT More: Researching amidst the flickering lanterns of an old-fashioned library in Prague during a raging thunderstorm with the help of a library ghost.

Something I've learnt from studying the collective imagination of the ultra-wealthy is how their extreme anxieties about their mortality leads them to a place the rest of us find horrific.

"The act of protecting a tiny black bird that weighs roughly a pound reminds us that we are not the only species that lives and grieves on this planet. We are a companion species to grebes and all other forms of life on Earth." (Gifted article) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o...

In Boundaries of Care and the Art of Survival, I reflect on Caroline Walker's Mothering exhibition from the perspective of a childfree millennial navigating today's intense cultural discourse on reproduction. Read it here for free: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/boundaries...

I'm so pleased that Kate O'Flynn won the Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series for her portrayal of Patricia in Widow's Bay.

‘At a time when many policymakers are concerned about strengthening public control, humanities and social sciences research is central to ask questions about how and in whose interests technology is being developed, how it can be adopted, deployed and governed’ ukri.substack.com/p/why-ai-wil...

The fact something as fundamental and superb as the RNLI is a charity is one of the most magical and strange things about Britain. You can support them here. rnli.org/support-us/g...

Look, if I were in the middle of denying I'd participated in a straw donor scheme to launder illegal political donations from inadmissible donors, I probably wouldn't want to be caught on camera setting up a different straw donor scheme to launder illegal political donations from inadmissible donors

With the passing of Gloria Steinem her legacy feels extra prominent given the erosion of equal rights and the backlash to progressive politics. When friends and students experience their own feminist awaken I often quote Steinem, "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

The lead performances in the new Hulu series Furious, are outstanding but Quincy Tyler Bernstine as Nora deserves all the rewards. I will actually miss her character now I've finished the series.

Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.

I’m sick of the bad guys winning all the time.

This is where we are: a tech billionaire who, as an undergrad writing in the Stanford Review, "blasted a student movement to raise custodians' pay, warning it 'destroys incentive for them to improve themselves,'" is now a chief architect of a homelessness policy built around punishment and coercion.

REMEMBER WHEN… A rich guy put some money into a startup electric car company… Then forced out the founders and passed the company off as his own creation.

Given the BBC headline today citing Reform UK's press release this unfortunately remains relevant.

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

Musk thinks he can predict the future. In my most recent piece I examine how his vision of the future as a transhumanist utopia crashes into his defence of the British far right. Read the full thing here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/i-can-see-...

This is fine... "Britain on fire" "Heatwave devastation" "Inferno" "Houses burn and train derails on hottest day" "Rampant wildfires engulf streets of family homes" "Record 2.5m trips to A&E" "Temps hit 38.1C as fifth heatwave peaks" "Britain in meltdown"

Removing the reductions in pay for farmers who don't meet environmental measures is not the correct move. Agriculture is a driver of climate change. Fields of dead grass with sheep clinging to the tiny amounts of shade under a few trees is not good for animals and it's certainly not good for us.

No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places

The heartbreaking loss of Jason Arday feels stark on the same day Nigel Farage lied about a credible threat at the declaration. The way these two figures have been treated by the press in the so-called culture wars not only exposes how racism functions but how one sided this war is.

It's so blazingly obvious that this is true. A university lecturer being fired for plagiarism would not be national news >99% of the time. It was inflated into one this time purely because it fit into racist "culture war" narratives about "DEI".

Jason Arday's utterly sad death holds a stark mirror up to the dehumanising political-media-societal culture we are in – one we must all be honest about being complicit in – which forgets there is a human being at the centre of a story, a case study, an issue, a scandal. It is dehumanising.

Jason Arday’s death is an absolute stain on this country. I feel devastated for him, his family and for people of colour in this country. There’s too much to say about it but there are human consequences to the culture war. When a person becomes the culture war. He was failed.

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

He was always going to win Clacton. But now the Farage circus is over, it’s crunch time for the clown. New episode linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

The people's bin.

When my friend complained to the BBC about what he perceived to be unfair coverage of Reform, they replied "Reform UK are “making the political weather”" without any acknowledgement their play a part in blowing the gales.