Oh, oh, oh, oh, You are listening to upstream. I'm Dela Duncan and today I'm wondering if you can describe your

background for our listeners and how you came to do the work that you do.

Right, well I mean I come from Northern Ireland, moved to London and 96, and I spent a lot of time just doing random jobs, market research, all the rest of it.

But through my blog, I was noticed by a publisher who asked me to write a book about the pro-war liberals and I did a reasonable job and that enabled me to get further writing.

So that's how I got into it.

And after that I started doing a PhD at the London School of Economics.

And your latest blog post, I believe, on the blog which is called Lenin's Tomb.

You wrote about the recent shootings by Omar Matine at the Pulse Night Club

and how, or in general about by Omar Matine at the Pulse Night Club,

and how, or in general about shootings

and how some people can look at gun control

as one of the main reasons and other people

have written a lot about

masculinity but you wrote about something not talked about as often you

read about the role of inequality in social competition I'm wondering if you can

explain what you mean by that yeah well I think you could even include toxic masculinity in that as a part of that.

So I mean, first of all, talk about inequality.

In the abstract, it means nothing, but concretelyly it means inequality between men and women it means

inequality between different social classes it means inequality that is organized racially

and the evidence suggests that where there is more of this kind of inequality, there's more violence.

And where that's linked with widespread gun ownership, you're going to get more gun violence.

So that's just reflecting on what the research tells us and I'm

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