Hey all!
Anyone looking for a little Sunday evening watch? (Or, you know, whatever-day-and-time-it-is-where-you-are watch?)
Here's my latest piece which, as things stand, I'm calling Why Political Debate Sucks Now.
It's a little reflection on the public sphere, the internet, positioning, and "context collapse"; ideas I...
2025-10-26 17:04:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
I write this whilst taking a few moments out of the final editing push on the second of the "monologue" videos I've been experimenting with lately.
The idea behind the format w...
2025-10-24 15:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
It's been a reasonably quiet week this week as myself and the whole team have had our heads down working on the next run of videos. But there's still been a lot going on...
My ...
2025-10-17 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
This week saw another surprise video, in the form of an interview with Kerry Moscogiuri from Amnesty International UK.
Regular readers of this little update will have noticed t...
2025-10-10 14:06:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Another surprise extra video!
I've mentioned a few times lately that I've been looking at piloting an interview series. The plan is to sit down with experts, power-holders, and critics of power to tap their knowledge and experience.
The hope is that this might help us cover some additional topics while allowing you to ...
2025-10-08 15:23:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends!
Feast your eyes on my latest video: Why University Feels Like a Scam Now.
It's been a big ol' production to bring together. Filmed on-location in Cambridge, and featuring a stellar group of interviewees, it's an attempt to understand what's gone wrong with university (if anything has gone wrong) and w...
2025-09-30 16:22:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
This week, we've been out on the road again!
The last couple of videos have been filmed fairly close to home. This was partly because that made sense for those videos—the Ube...
2025-09-20 09:44:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
So, I missed last week's Friday Update, but I think I had a good excuse. Because, as many of you will now have seen, I was making an extra video!
When I released my vi...
2025-09-11 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
How about a surprise bonus video for a Wednesday morning (or, I guess, Tuesday night, depending on where you are in the world?).
This is an experiment with a slightly different format than usually. A little bit quicker and more "monologue"-y than anything we've made for a while.
Nevertheless, this is an extra rather th...
2025-09-10 08:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
So! After a couple of week’s silence whilst I was on paternity leave, I’m now back at work! And everything’s a little bit different...
I’ve not quite managed to shift b...
2025-08-31 18:02:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Here's my latest video, currently titled The Men Who Broke British Politics (although, as ever, we might tweak that should it not prove the most clickable title!).
It's a dive into the intertwining careers of Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer, the two competing strands of politics they represent, and how both have broug...
2025-08-24 21:20:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
No baby!
I was fairly sure when I wrote last week’s instalment of The Friday Update that it would be my last for a fortnight or so.
After many, many months of ...
2025-08-01 17:19:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
No baby!
My weeks are a bit strange at the moment.
As many of you know, my wife and I are currently expecting a baby and, when that happens, I’m planning on taking a co...
2025-07-25 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
On today's clip, we're look at why the British Right is obsessed with American politics.
Enjoy!
Or you can watch on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tomnicholas2-the-americanization-of-the-british-right?r...
2025-07-24 16:16:11 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's stream clip, we're talking about a wealth tax. Is it going to happen? Should it happen? Would it be successful at tackling extreme wealth inequality?
Enjoy! And thanks as ever for your generous support!
Or watch on ad free on Nebula here: 2025-07-22 07:19:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Here's my latest little video, which I've tentatively titled How Silicon Valley Monopolized the World.
Hopefully, it's a fun, energetic look at how Uber (and other platform companies) enter new markets—in real time!
Let me know what you think, and thanks as ever for your generous support!
Tom
2025-07-21 10:58:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.This week
The past couple of weeks have been pretty hectic as we’ve been putting the final touches to the next video.
Given the piece is about Uber, we spent Thursday and Frid...
2025-07-19 07:38:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Donald Trump is coming back to the UK for an unprecedented second state visit.
How do we think it's going to go down?
2025-07-16 13:14:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The first clip from this week's live show is a dive into the rise (and fall?) of Keir Starmer.
It's something we might dedicate a whole main channel video to at some point in the near future. But let me know if that's something you'd like to see!
2025-07-08 07:27:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.This week
This past week has been a week of impossibilities.
Last Thursday, my editor, Georgia, approached me with what she called an “ethical dilemma”.
See, she’d p...
2025-07-04 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
Wow. What a week.
When I wrote and posted the last edition of the Friday Update, I was feeling pretty sheepish.
Our last video, Wetherspoon: Inside Britain...
2025-06-27 16:25:53 +0000 UTC View PostHi Everyone,
I've been trying to keep up with replying to everyone's comments on the video post below, and on the YouTube video, but it's been nearly impossible to do so, and I thought I'd do a quick note so you know I've not just ignored you all!
Whether you've just signed up, or opted to stick around, I wanted to say a massive than...
2025-06-23 12:40:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone!
As I mentioned in the last edition of The Friday Update, we're putting out a Patreon/support drive video today.
With the cost of everything going up over the past year or so, and ad revenue very much not doing so(!), things have been looking a little bit precarious.
My hope is that we might be ab...
2025-06-22 16:02:15 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
This week’s Friday Update is a bit of a heads up…
Over the past seven days or so, we’ve been putting together a video which we’re hoping might serve as the bas...
2025-06-20 16:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post
British politics is going a bit retro as 2000s-style Islamophobia makes a bit of a come back.
Nebula link: https://nebula.tv/videos/tomnicholas2-britain-is-getting-more-right-wing
2025-06-20 13:27:15 +0000 UTC View Post
One mostly for my fellow UK-ians here, but perhaps of interest to those of you watching elsewhere too!
In this week's stream, we had a little look at the identity crisis in the Green Party of England and Wales...
Nebula subscribers can watch here: 2025-06-18 17:13:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
Hopefully now most of you will have found the time to sit down and watch my latest video: Wetherspoon: Inside Britain’s Most Controversial Pubs. Which has been oddly contr...
2025-06-13 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all!
I'm very proud to share my latest video with you all. And, this time around, we're going to the pub.
Or... lots of pubs.
Continuing my informal series in which I investigate various different British institutions (which last time involved a trip to the House of Lords), I decided to make a little film about the Great ...
2025-06-08 16:50:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.
It’s been a while since I wrote here. For which I can only apologies. We’ve been very, very busy.
Over the past month, we’ve been making a big push to get ahead ...
2025-06-06 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
200s-style trash reality TV is making a comeback on YouTube. And I'm not a fan.
2025-06-06 07:30:34 +0000 UTC View Post