Tom Nicholas

Early Access: "The Trans Debate": How the Media Promotes Transphobia

NB: Apparently some folks have been struggling to get the version of the video that I uploaded directly to Patreon to work. Sorry! So, here’s a link to a version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OOSINFjLmnk

Hey everyone!

Here it is! My latest video!

This time around, we're looking at the so-called "trans debate" and the manner in which the media's current framing of discussions surrounding tr...

BONUS VIDEO: How Landlords Ruined Everything

Hello!

And here it is! As mentioned in the most recent edition of The Friday Update, a bonus video!

Last week, I made the decision to make a short video to tie-in with the fact that, this Sunday, I'm going to be running the London Marathon.

I'm running the marathon in aid of a UK housing charity, Shelter, and am obviously keen to raise as much money as possible. And, I realised that nothing was going to compare in terms of reach to me making a video and posting it on my main...

A Surprise Bonus Video! | The Friday(ish) Update

Welcome to a slightly truncated edition of The Friday Update, in which I give a little insight into what I've been up to for the last seven days.

What have I been up to this week?

Okay, so it's been a couple of weeks since I last wrote one of these update posts. I can only apologise to those of you that enjoy reading them and hope that you'll forgive me. Because, I do have a pretty good reason...

A couple of weeks ago, my...

A Week of Ups and Downs | 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, I’ve come within shouting distance of finishing the script for my next video. I’ve had some real ups and downs with my feelings towards it (there was one day when I really just wanted to throw the computer out the window!) but I’ve very nearly got a...

Reminder: August 2022 Patreon Q&A Submissions

Hey everyone!

I hope you're all having a great week so far!

This is just a reminder that, very soon, I'm going to be putting together another Q&A video.

If you've got anything you'd like to ask related to a recent video, my process or anything else you want to hear me talk about then drop it below!

These are always great fun to make. Thanks so much to everyone who's sent a question over already—and I'll look forward to anymore that might come through!

Cheer...

Writing Continues... | 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’m not gonna lie, this week has been fairly uneventful. I’ve spent most of the time at my desk, working away on the next video.

The writing hasn’t always gone easily. As you’ll perhaps have noticed from watching my video, a lot of my work is quite narrative-ba...

A Slightly Different Research Process… | 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?

Well, given how late my last Friday Update was, it’s not actually been that long since I was last writing to you all! And, with me having spent most of that time with my head down writing the next video, it’s not been all that eventful. Nevertheless, I wanted to...

August 2022 Patreon Q&A Submission Post

Hey everyone!

It's been a couple of months since we last did a Q&A and so I thought I would open the doors once more to questions from you all!

As ever, these Q&A videos are your chance to ask me pretty much anything (within reason, haha).

You might have watched one of my videos recently and have some thoughts about an aspect of the topic that I didn't manage to cover in that video that you'd like to hear me speak a little more about.

Or, perhaps you'd like to ...

My next video is about... | 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?

Okay, so this is a preeeeeeetty late Friday Update this week (I mean, we’re halfway to the next one already…) for which I can only apologise; things have been busy!

This week, I’ve been powering-on with work on my next video which is… goi...

No More Elon Musk! | 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, my latest video is out which means I don’t have to think about Elon Musk again for a little while!

In truth, I’d been keen to make a video about the emergence of the public sphere for a long, long time and had been waiting to find some way of making it appealin...

Video: Why Elon Musk Couldn’t Save Free Speech

Hey everyone!

For those who haven’t seen it yet, my latest video about Elon Musk, Twitter and “Free Speech” is now available to watch on YouTube!

This has been a really ambitious project and so it’s so nice to finally have it out there.

Let me know what you think!

Tom

Premiere: Why Elon Musk Couldn't Save Free Speech

Hey everyone!

I'll be premiering my latest video, currently titled "Why Elon Musk Couldn't Save Free Speech" at 19:30 UK time this evening.

It's a truly epic video that uses the saga of Elon Musk trying (and then pulling-out of) buying Twitter as a jumping-off point to talk about freedom of speech, the "marketplace of ideas", social media content moderation and much more.

I've put a lot of work into it and I really hope you'll get something out of it!

If you happen to ...

Final Touches | 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 has been a slightly new experience for me. As I mentioned in my previous video, for my current video, I decided to hire a freelance editor to take some of the strain off the editing process. This meant that, while I sourced much of the archive/stock footage for the...

A Very Busy 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?

So, it’s been a little while since I last wrote a Friday Update. I can only offer my sincerest apologies for this, it’s been a pretty hectic few weeks. While one of those weeks was a holiday (which was wonderfully relaxing and rejuvenating!), I’ve also had a f...

It All Takes Shape! | 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?

Over the past week, the structure of my video has been really taking shape. The reading and research phases are now well behind me and all my focus is on honing the “flow” of the video to ensure I’m introducing each of the ideas in an entertaining and app...

Elon Musk’s Frozen Peaches | 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, I’ve been beginning to make some real strides in writing my upcoming video about Elon Musk, Twitter, online freedom of speech and the public sphere. As I wrote in my last update, I already had a few snippets down on paper but, now that I’ve had a bit more ti...

My Next Video is Going to Be About… | 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?

So, I guess time to let you all in on what the topic of my next video is going to be! And... *drumroll*... I’m going to be returning to talking about our good old friend Elon Musk.

Or… kind of.

As usual, I’m going to be using Elon Musk’s current (potentia...

Sponsor me to run the London Marathon?

Hey Everyone!

A slightly different post today...

As some of you may have seen on my YouTube community tab or Instagram page, later this summer, I'm going to be running the London Marathon to raise money for a UK-based charity called Shelter.

Those of you that keep up-to-date with my Friday Update posts will know that I've been doing a lot of running over the past 12 months and finding it a real boon to my mental health (and physical health, I guess—it's not like g...

Post-Release Week Fun! | 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?

So, it’s actually been a couple of weeks since I last wrote one of these update posts. As sometimes happens, last week I was so caught-up in making the final touches to my video Think Tanks: How Fake Experts Shape the News and so needed to put my focus into that. ...

Video: Think Tanks: How Fake Experts Shape the News

Hey all!

For those of you who have yet to see it, my latest video about how right-wing think tanks shape the news is out for everyone to watch on YouTube now!

It’s had a really great launch so far with some really lovely and inquisitive feedback!

I hope everyone‘s having great weekends. And thanks as ever for your generous support!

Tom

Editing, Editing, Editing! | 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?

This week has been all about editing! Since filming my upcoming video the previous week, I’ve been spending my time trying to bring the script to life on the screen through archive footage and animation.

It’s been relatively straight forward this time around b...

April 2022 Patreon Q&A

Hey everyone!

Here is the April 2022 Patreon Exclusive Q&A!

Apologies that it’s taken me a while to post, it’s been uploaded and ready to go for a few days now but I’ve had my head buried so deep in editing that I kept not getting round to it!

Some fantastic questions as ever—I always really enjoy doing there.

I hope everyone’s having a great week.

Thanks as ever for your generous support,

Tom

April 2022 Patreon Q&A

Hey everyone!

Here is the April 2022 Patreon Exclusive Q&A!

Apologies that it’s taken me a while to post, it’s been uploaded and ready to go for a few days now but I’ve had my head buried so deep in editing that I kept not getting round to it!

Some fantastic questions as ever—I always really enjoy doing there.

I hope everyone’s having a great week.

Thanks as ever for your generous support,

Tom

Filming Done and onto Editing! | The Friday(ish) Update

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

As a quick update, the April Patreon Q&A has now been filmed and edited—I just need to find a moment to upload it and make a thumbnail etc., which I’m planning on doing tomorrow!

What have I been up to this week?

This week, I made the very final touches to the script for my...

Nearly There! | 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.

I hope those of you who celebrate have had/are having a great Easter, Passover and/or Ramadan! And, to everyone else, I hope you had a great week!

What have I been up to this week?

I was really hoping that this week’s edition of the Friday Update was going to begin with me telling y...

An Unforeseen Twist! | 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.

Just as a reminder if you’ve yet to see it, I recently put out a submissions post for my next Q&A. There’s some great questions already but, if you’ve got anything you’d like to add, then do drop it in the comments to either that post or this one. I’m planning on filming it towards the end of this week....

April 2022 Patreon Q&A Submission Post

Hello all!

It's been a couple of months since we last did a Patreon Q&A and so the time has come once more for you to ask me questions and for me to try and put together some semi-coherent answers!

Feel free to ask about anything and everything. Whether it relates to one of my videos, my process for creating videos, a topic I've not touched on before. As long as it's not what my PIN is!

I always look forward to making these, the questions are always fantastic.

It l...

Writing Underway! | 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.

Just as a heads-up, I’ll be releasing a submission post for the April 2022 Patreon Q&A on Wednesday so keep your eyes peeled and, if there’s anything you’d like to ask, just drop it in the comments to that post!

What have I been up to this week?

This week, I’ve been continuing work...

Revealing What My Next Video is About! | 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, it’s a couple of weeks into work on my next video, which means it’s time to reveal what my next video is about!

My next video is going to focus on Think Tanks: supposedly “independent” organisations which conduct “research” into various aspects of soc...

From One Project to the Next! | 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?

This week, my time has been split between tying up some loose ends related to How Big Pharma is Extending the Pandemic and beginning work on my next video.

With regard to the former, I’ve been keeping a slightly closer eye than usual on comments for thi...