The Squid: Ethos
~ “Free speech, free love, free markets” ~
(Clementine Fox and Freddie Hollander, 2020)
The Squid is a vibrant forum for the 2020s, where nothing is quite as it seems. In a society ravaged by Covid-19, Brexit, and the looming threat of same-sex Strictly Come Dancing pairings, The Squid will be a radical new voice.
We will ink truth into darkness.
About the editors
Freddie Hollander, an Exeter graduate and regional hockey champion, is a vocal advocate for a fairer, more equal, more egalitarian, more just, more equitable society (without raising any taxes).
After extensive study of modern Scandinavian politics, Freddie has been drawn to a range of questions closer to home: Can’t Labour just be sexy Tories? Can I keep my (three) black friends as I drift closer to the right? If I’m straight, why do I wank thinking of Tony not Cherie? These ponderings and more have informed Freddie’s world view.
Since his graduation in 2016, Freddie has been a fixture in British political thought. Who could forget the time he spent in Westminster, furiously tweeting at a short but safe distance from Brexit protests. Or his time in Westminster, furiously tweeting at a much safer distance from the Black Lives Matter protests.
If Freddie could be summed up in one word it would be “integrity”. Or maybe “change”, “hope” or even “sexual”. The latter is only part of what Clam saw in Freddie, as they seek to forge a new strain of political thought. A new politics where left is right and right is righter.
Clementine Fox graduated from St Andrew’s University in 2017, having read for an upper second in Art History. It was during her Masters at Cambridge University (Girton College), on the intersection between feminism and Napoleonic Studies, that she first became galvanised to the political cause. Shocked by the rising levels of homelessness in Cambridge city centre, Clementine (or Clam to her friends) looked to Ancient Greece, and inspired by the Emperor Nero (as well as the Caffe!), she single-handedly led a campaign to implement hostile architecture in the town centre in an effort to discourage the homeless. Her revolutionary suggestions for the updated town planning, and specifically the introduction of metal spikes and intermittent water sprinklers, led to the levels of homelessness in Cambridgeshire decreasing by nearly 7%.
Since graduating from Cambridge, Clam spent 6 months working at Grazia, where she specialised in foreign news, before leaving to set up her own business, an Onlyfans account called Mass-Debate, a sex-positive third-wave-feminist subscription pornography channel, which doubled as a political think tank to voice her topical musings.
Due to low ratings, Clam abandoned Mass-Debate, and founded The Squid with her erstwhile beau, the metropolitan Freddie Hollander. This is her first editorial experience (bar a brief period working for Varsity’s Fashion section in Michaelmas).
