I’ve been a consumer of the work of YouTuber Jeremy Hambly aka The Quartering for a long time now. I’ve been impressed with his coverage of culture and media issues as well as his pieces on US politics.

However like other Youtuber’s he’s come to realise that having all or most of his eggs in the one YouTube basket is dangerous. At any time the YouTube management can conjure up a new rule or surrender to a leftist outrage mob and get videos taken down, restricted and demonetised. Any reporting that content creators like Mr Hambly does has to be undertaken with one eye always turned towards YouTube’s increasingly erratic censorship policies.

But, as has been the case with many other creators, he’s had to find new outlets for his work in the Alt Tech field, which is good and praiseworthy but also has the downside of having work only on display because of the whims and policies of other entities and individuals. Mr Hambly is trying to solve that problem by creating his own website called Publica.

Mr Hambly is working with well known commentator Sydney Watson to bring reportage and commentary of a similar sort to that which is found on Mr Hambly’s and Ms Watson’s YouTube channel but on a platform that Mr Hambly and Ms Watson can control and curate themselves. What has drawn me to this Publica site is not just Mr Hambly’s and Ms Watson’s reputation and popularity but also their acknowledgment that although all individuals at Publica have personal biases, they will do their utmost to be as neutral as they can, which in the American context where media is even more polarised than that of the UK, is something to be admired in my view.

The site is very much in its early stages at the moment and there is full functionality on the site from what I can see. At present there is a limited stable of writers but I suspect that if this idea takes off then more writers will be engaged. At the time of writing the majority of bylines are attributed to Ms Haley Kennington, Will Kingston and Adam Coleman. All these writers seem to be interesting ones. Ms Kennington’s CV includes Daily Caller, American Thinker, Big League Politics, Info Wars and working for the local press, whilst Mr Kingston and Mr Coleman have found their work published by a number of outlets including the Australian Spectator and New York Post respectively.

I’m going to put Publica on my ‘read’ list as those behind the outlet and those who are currently writing for it have, as far as I can make out, solid reputations for professionalism no matter what publication they are working for. The Publica site says that they are going to cover stories with nuance and I’m always in favour of stuff that has as bit of nuance to it and is not shouty shouty for either side. I’m going to give Publica a try and I believe that there might be others who might want to do that as well. I don’t suppose that I will agree with everything on the site but then it would be worrying if I did agree with everything published by any outlet.

Congratulations to Mr Hambly and Ms Watson on getting this site off of the ground.