Come In Pink by Martyn Bey – Available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble

The New Yorker: Shouts & Murmurs / A Critic at Large

The Rhinestoned Raconteur: Martyn Bey’s High-Camp Hegemony By Steff Griffiths

There is a particular kind of London air, one part diesel exhaust, two parts rain-dampened pavement, and three parts unearned audacity, that seems to breathe through the lungs of Lloyd Jones, the “velvet-voiced narrator” of Martyn Bey’s Come In Pink. Jones is less a protagonist and more a sentient pashmina, a “chiffon-wrapped time traveller” who claims to have provided the lavender soap for Pontius Pilate.

Continue reading →

Come In Pink by Martyn Bey

By Florence la Galesa

In Come In Pink: The Fragility of Postmodernity, Martyn Bey has written a novel that behaves like a drag revue in a philosophy department: sequinned, self-aware, intermittently profound, and constitutionally incapable of lowering the lights. It is at once a campus satire, a political fantasia, a queer picaresque, and a baroque meditation on what the author calls “the fragility of postmodernity.” If that sounds like a mouthful, it is because Bey has never knowingly left a mouth unfilled.

Continue reading →

Come In Pink by Martyn Bey

By Vanessa Bell

To Begin At The Beginning – What To Say

To Begin At Tn the kaleidoscopic whirl of Martyn Bey’s Come In Pink: The Fragility of Postmodernity, we encounter a narrative that sashays defiantly between the sequined excesses of camp and the shadowed precipices of existential doubt. Published in 2025, this debut novel, framed as a “memoir” narrated by the irrepressible Lloyd Jones, arrives like a feather boa flung across the staid tables of contemporary fiction. Bey, a literary renegade with roots in Istanbul’s labyrinthine streets and Notting Hill’s velvet parlours, channels a voice that echoes the mischievous ghosts of Oscar Wilde and Kenneth Williams, while nodding to Orhan Pamuk’s intricate tapestries of memory and myth. Yet beneath the sparkle lies a poignant interrogation of postmodernity’s brittle facade, where truth fractures like a disco ball underfoot.

Continue reading →

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Madrid, Wednesday 25th February 2026

Prometheus Unhinged: A Vital Wake-Up Call in the Age of Digital Feudalism

In an era where our every scroll, like, and share feeds the insatiable algorithms of Silicon Valley overlords, a bold new talk show has emerged as a beacon of unflinching critique. “Prometheus Unhinged – Social Media Is Amoral, Depraved and Degenerate,” hosted by Martyn Jones of Goodstrat and broadcast across a consortium of global media outlets including the BBC, RTVE, CNN, and FT Weekend, is no mere panel discussion. It’s a razor-sharp dissection of the chasm between social media’s utopian promises and its dystopian realities. Launched on February 25, 2026, this episode – available at goodstrat.com – assembles a formidable roster of journalists and commentators to expose the platforms we inhabit as nothing short of modern feudal empires. Far from the finger-wagging moralism that plagues much tech commentary, this is witty, acerbic, and profoundly humane, reminding us why independent voices matter in a world dominated by billionaire whims.

Continue reading →

Prometheus Unhinged – Social Media Is Amoral, Depraved and Degenerate

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Madrid Wednesday 25^th February 2026

Martyn Jones: Welcome to this week’s In The Frame, brought to you by the BBC, TVG, ETB, RTVE, NRD, CNN, S4C, FT Weekend and RTE.

This week’s panel consists of Annie Tusk, senior correspondent at The Guardian, Sir Afilonius Rex, Jilly Penn, columnist of the Financial Times, Martyn Jones of Goodstrat, the highly respected Alice Sauzgatillo of Spain’s RTVE, the veteran great, King Larry, and Juliette Brioche of LeCanard Enchainé.

Our theme for today is centred on the promise and realities of social media, including LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Truth Social, BlueSky, and many more.

My first question goes to Sir Afilonius. Sir Afi, what, in your opinion, are the key differences between the promise of social media in terms of freedom, liberty, and democracy, and the present realities of companies such as X, Facebook, and Truth Social?

Continue reading →

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Madrid, Wednesday 25th February 2026

Sir Afilonius Rex: Welcome to this week’s Fundamentals in Focus, brought to you by the BBC, RTVE, NRD, CNN, S4C, FT Weekend and RTE.

This week’s panel consists of Annie Tusk, senior correspondent at The Guardian, Jilly Penn, columnist of the Financial Times, Martyn Jones of Goodstrat, the highly respected Alice Sauzgatillo of Spain’s RTVE, the veteran great, King Larry, and Juliette Brioche of Le Canard Enchainé.

The questions for today are:

1. What do we mean by doing things deliberately?
2. What should we mean by doing data deliberately?
3. How can we ensure that rigid adherence to what we consider to be deliberate data capitalism is its downfall?

Continue reading →