James Bloodworth (journalist)

James Bloodworth (born 18 December 1982)[1][2] is an English journalist and writer. He studied politics at Nottingham Trent University[3] and completed a Masters in political journalism at City University in London, where he has lived since 2010.

A former member of the Trotskyist group Alliance for Workers' Liberty,[4][5] he edited the left-wing blog Left Foot Forward from 2013 until 2016. Bloodworth previously wrote a weekly column for the International Business Times[6] and wrote for The Spectator's Coffee House blog from 2013 to 2015.[7] His work has also appeared in The Guardian,[8] The Independent,[9] and The Wall Street Journal.[10] He writes regularly for the website UnHerd.[11]

Bloodworth is the author of The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Biteback Publishing) which was published in 2016.[12][13][14]

Bloodworth's Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain (Atlantic Books) was published in March 2018. To research the oppressive conditions faced by those working in low-paid and minimum-wage jobs, the author spent six months employed in such posts. This included periods working as a care worker in Blackpool,[15] an Uber driver and in the UK packaging warehouse of Amazon. According to one review the book has been praised "across the political spectrum".[16] In May 2019, Hired was longlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing.[17] Hired was also chosen by The Times as its current affairs book of the year 2018.[18]

In September 2018, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted out a video in which Bloodworth drew on his book to criticize Amazon, as part of Sanders' push to introduce a bill that would charge large companies such as Amazon for the federal welfare programs that subsidize their low-wage workers.[19]

He also wrote a piece for The Daily Beast in which he repeated the Fox News claim that Cuba sent troops to Syria to help prop up the Assad regime, a claim which was denied by both the Cuban government and White House Press Secretary Joshua Earnest.[20][21][22]

James Bloodworth described Roger Scruton's book Fools, Frauds and Firebrands as "an impressively lucid take down of some of the most fashionable left-wing thinkers of the past 50 years".[23]

References
  1. @J_Bloodworth (18 December 2013). "I've been denounced by Ceasefire magazine on my birthday as a heinous enemy of the party and the revolution" (Tweet). Retrieved 6 January 2020 – via Twitter.
  2. "The normblog profile 407: James Bloodworth". Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  3. https://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2012/06/the-normblog-profile-407-james-bloodworth.html
  4. "James Bloodworth: A left-wing case against Comrade Jeremy Corbyn". International Business Times UK. 4 August 2015.
  5. "James Bloodworth is wrong about Jeremy Corbyn - Workers' Liberty". www.workersliberty.org.
  6. "James Bloodworth". International Business Times. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  7. "Author: James Bloodworth | Coffee House". The Spectator. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  8. "James Bloodworth". the Guardian. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  9. "James Bloodworth". The Independent. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  10. Bloodworth, James (12 February 2015). "The Race for Britain's Youth Vote". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  11. "James Bloodworth". UnHerd. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  12. Wigmore, Tim (10 July 2016). "Does The Myth of Meritocracy show us how to alleviate inequality?". New Statesman. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  13. Patrikarakos, David (14 July 2016). "The Myth of Meritocracy: 'Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs' by James Bloodworth". Prospect. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  14. Burchill, Julie (11 June 2016). "Tony Blair is top rotter in James Bloodworth's The Myth of Meritocracy". The Spectator. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  15. Bloodworth, James (20 February 2017). "All the horror stories I came across as a care worker were about employers | James Bloodworth". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  16. Cohen, Nick (11 March 2018). "Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  17. "the orwell prize 2019: longlists announced". the orwell foundation. 7 May 2019.
  18. "books of the year 2018: current affairs and big ideas". 23 November 2018.
  19. Burke, Michael (10 September 2018). "Bernie Sanders renews attacks on Amazon, shares video accusing company of 'Orwellian language'". The Hill.
  20. Bloodworth, James (16 October 2015). "Cuba Is Intervening in Syria to Help Russia. It's Not the First Time Havana's Assisted Moscow". The Daily Beast.
  21. "Stories on Cubans in Syria Lack One Thing: Evidence of Cubans in Syria". LobeLog. 22 October 2015.
  22. Peppe, Matt (18 October 2015). "The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria". Information Clearing House.
  23. Bloodworth, James (23 September 2017). "Here's what to read and watch if you want to understand the 'new left'". UnHerd.



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