Tom Nicholas

We'll Always Have Paris | The Friday Update

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 another whirlwind week in the life of Tom Nicholas!

First and foremost, the last seven days has seen us putting the final touches to my upcoming video, which is currently titled: I Met The World’s Most Controversial Climate Activists.

This video is a little bit different to anything I’ve made b...

My Next Video... | The Friday Update

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 guess it’s time to reveal what my next video is about! And, it’s one which has the potential to be pretty controversial.

So here goes. My next video is about…

...drumroll please...

…Just Stop Oil.

If you’re not in the UK, and perhaps less familiar with their work, Just Stop Oil are ...

An INCREDIBLE Filming Trip | The Friday(ish) Update

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.

First, A Little Update…

First off, a little apology. As some of you will have seen from the recent update I posted, there was recently some illness in my family which rocked us all a little bit. Posts here have thus been a little sparse whilst I took some time to be with my loved ones.

Thanks so mu...

A Quick Update

Hi Everyone!

A quick note to apologise for the lack of Friday Updates (and posts generally!) over the past few weeks.

I've recently been away filming my Nebula Original documentary Boomers, which I cannot wait to tell you more about!

More importantly, on return from my filming trip, we've had some serious illness in my family which has been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. Normal updates will resume shortly (I'm hoping next week!), but I've been sl...

Video: How Britain Became a Poor Country

Hey Everyone!

Happy Monday and Happy New-Video-Release Day too!

About five weeks ago, as we began work on a completely different project, Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister of the UK, announced a general election.

And, as someone who makes video about politics on the internet and is British, it felt like it would be a bit weird if we didn’t make anything to coincide with it.

So, we paused work on the other (very exciting!) project we’d just begun, and pivoted all our ...

Deadline Pressure | The Friday(ish) Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

Anyone who read last week’s edition of the Friday Update will know that I spent a bunch of last week in Italy with some friends.

Well, this week it’s been back to reality. Which was initially a bit of a bump. On my first day back, I tried to walk to...

A Change of Scenery | The Friday Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

These past seven days involved a pretty radical change of scenery!

An old friend of my wife’s was getting married in Sorrento in Italy.

And, not wanting to miss out, we teamed up with a bunch of other good friends to book a villa near the Amalfi Coast to go t...

Election Fever! | The Friday(ish) Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

The last fortnight has been a bit of a whirlwind.

Having just released my latest video about British cities going bankrupt, we were about to start work on a veeeeeery exciting video about disruptive climate action.

(I actually spent a bunch of time with Just St...

A New Video Has Appeared! | The Friday(ish) Update

A very late posting this one! I wrote the post and completely forgot to actually post it! So, enjoy, last week's Friday Update!

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.

What have I been up to this week?

We released a video!

On Thursday evening (UK time), my latest video Why British Cities Keep Going Bankrupt...

Video: British Cities are Going Bankrupt

Hey all!

Here it is! My big documentary about why British cities are going bankrupt.

This has been a big undertaking. We've thrown aside the usual video essay format for a four-day road trip, interviews, vox pops and more.

The hope was not only to be able to dig a bit deeper into the topic at hand, but also to make the piece slightly more engaging than it otherwise might've been.

I really hope you enjoy it! And I can't wait to hear what you think!

Lastly, it's wo...

Cities and Edits | The Friday Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

You might know that the video we’re releasing next focuses on British cities going bankrupt.

Over the last few years, a number of local city and county councils here in the UK have issued what’s called a Section 114 notice; effectively announcing th...

Making Movies | The Friday(ish) Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

In some regards, this week has been fairly normal; in others wildly different.

Because, this week, I’ve been primarily focused on my upcoming film Boomers.

For those of you who don’t know, Boomers is a project I’m working on for Neb...

ROAD TRIP!! | The Friday(ish) Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

The past week has been a rollercoaster!

At 4am on Monday morning, Georgia (my editor) and I met in a car park in Plymouth in order to embark on an epic adventure around England.

Our objective was to shoot my next video, which focusses on how (and why) British c...

A Rough Couple of Weeks | The Friday Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

It’s been a rough couple of weeks.

I guess I should start with an apology for missing an entry in The Friday Update last week. It had been a hectic seven days and it ended up being the one thing that had to slip from my agenda to stop my brain from being c...

Video: Vape-o-nomics: The Explosive Geopolitics of Elf Bars

Hey all!

Look! It's a new video!

In this second instalment in my Vape-o-omics trilogy, we're looking at what the rise of disposable vapes such as Elf Bars can tell us about current economic tensions between the US (and Europe) and China.

Putting the final touches to this video over the past week has been really tough. There's some incredible map-based graphics in this one but our computers did not like trying to render them!

As such, we've spent days and days ...

Jumping Back in at the Deep End! | The Friday Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

So… I am officially back from honeymoon and busy, busy, busy putting the final touches to our next video!

In many regards, it’s been quite handy that I’ve not yet 100% managed to wrangle my body clock back to UK time. Because, with lots of filming to get done t...

I'm Back!

Hey Everyone!

The day before yesterday, I arrived back in Plymouth after a 27-hour journey home from Tokyo.

My wife and I have had an amazing two weeks travelling around Japan, seeing some incredibly beautiful sights and meeting some wonderful people along the way.

From temples and shrines to gachapon machines and Tokyo Disney to sashimi and seabream, Japan really is a country of clashes and counterpoint.

This was absolutely a trip of a lifetime overflowing with memori...

行ってらっしゃい! See you all soon!

Hey all!

Just a quick note to let you know I'm about to head off to Japan for a couple of weeks with my wife for our honeymoon!

As such, the Friday Update will go on a brief hiatus, as will the streams (although I'm fairly sure I gave good notice on both those fronts! You'll all be glad for me shutting up about it!).

Equally, if anyone tries to get in touch with me, I'm unlikely to reply until I get back. Thanks in advance for you patience.

Most of you will kn...

Stream Success! | The Friday Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

I thought I’d use this week’s Friday Update to talk about something slightly different: and that’s the bi-weekly Twitch stream I recently started.

I don’t write much about the stream in these updates as I gather most of you are here for my “main ch...

Last Week of Term! | The Friday Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

I’ve come to think of this week as the “last week of term”. Regular readers of the Friday Update might be used to me writing about how busy I’ve been over the past seven days.

This week brings a slightly different angle to the business though…

Vape-o-nomics 2 is Go! | The Friday(ish) Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

Happy Sunday! I may not have managed to get this out on Friday this week but Monday to Sunday is at least progress!!

This week has been another of what I sometimes refer to as our “changeover weeks”.

With the first instalment of Vape-o-nomics out t...

We Released a Video (and then it got demonetised...) | The Friday Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

Welcome to another edition of the Friday Update; which, yet again, is coming to you on a Monday!

I know… I know… I will aim to get things back on track in the coming weeks!

I have a good excuse though, because over the past few days, we’ve been w...

Video: Vape-o-nomics: Why Everything is Addictive Now

Hello wonderful Patreon supporters!

I hope you've all had a fantastic weekend and have exciting weeks to come.

I'm super excited to share with you my latest video: Vape-o-nomics: Why Everything is Addictive Now.

As I've mentioned in my weekly blog, The Friday Update, this is the first in a three-part trilogy in which I use the rise of disposable vapes as a jumping-off point for exploring various trends and tensions within contemporary capitalism.

In t...

We've Been Filming! | The Friday(ish) Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

First off, apologies about a slightly belated Friday Update this week (in that it’s now next week); filming one video whilst trying to get the script for the next one finished has kind of taken over my life a little! I was up until 4am last Friday trying to poli...

It’s All Going Up in Vape! | The Friday Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

This week, work on our upcoming trilogy of videos has really felt like it’s picked up steam.

For those of you who aren’t either regular readers of these updates (or viewers of my Twitch streams), we’re currently putting together a three part mini-series which a...

Excited For The Year Ahead | The Friday(ish) Update

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday(ish) Update, in which I give a little insight into what I’ve been up to for the past seven days.

What have I been up to this week?

2024 is properly here!

I had a pretty stumbling start to the year. My wife’s birthday is in early January which means we often take a bit of time off work to celebrate. This helps to ensure that her birthday doesn’t get entirely overshadowed by Christmas(!) ...

Looking Forward to 2024! | The Friday(ish) Update

This week’s entry into the Friday Update is another slightly irregular one. Not only because it’s a slightly bit late (which, let’s be honest, happens fairly regularly!) but because I wanted to take the opportunity of the New Year to say a few thank yous and do a bit reflecting on the last 12 months.

2023 has been a pretty massive year for myself and the videos I make. And, whether you’ve been watching my stuff for several years, or if you’re completely new round thes...

(Not) The Friday Update: Happy Holidays Everyone!

Hi all!

Just a note to say there won't be a Friday Update this week as I'm trying (and, to be honest, completely failing) to take some time away from work for Christmas.

Whilst there will be another before the end of the year, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for a marvelous 2023!

You're support through Patreon has enabled me to make some videos I'm really proud of.

And I can't wait to tell you about some of the INCREDIBLY EXCITING plans I ha...

Video: Why YouTubers Hold Microphones Now

Hey everyone!

Here it is! My latest video!

As regular readers of the Friday Update will know, it's a fun little exploration of a trend which has gripped YouTube over the past year: YouTubers holding microphones.

I wanted to use a dive into what at first glance might seem like a fairly trivial little trend as a jumping-off point for exploring the state of the platform at the end of 2023/beginning of 2024.

It's intentionally a bit more lighthearted/lower-stakes ...

New Video Coming This Weekend! | The Friday(ish) Update

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.

What have I been up to this week?

It’s release week!

We’ve got a new video lined up to be released this Sunday: a fun little exploration of the changing face of YouTube through the recent trend of YouTubers holding microphones.

That means that this week has largely consisted of myself and G...