“It didn’t matter to Mr. McGee what they wrote, as long as they wrote something. Each time a premium user — who pays at least $8 per month for special features — interacted with his posts, he earned a little bit of money under X’s revised revenue program.”
Great piece by the NYT on the crappy economics of being a toxic right-wing influencer on X. Delightful read.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/t...
This week I spoke to John*: a specialist doctor in his seventies, who spent more than 40 years working for the NHS in various cities around the UK, before moving to Dubai six years ago. Read to the end for BBC habits, a Blackpool analogy and Brexit blues. leavingbritain.substack.com/p/why-john-l...
Why YOU are leaving Britain (or at least thinking about it) leavingbritain.substack.com/p/why-you-ar...
Why I left Britain (again): leavingbritain.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
The Baby Gap: Politicians want more children. Their policies are failing @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/2f4e...
Glad to see this warning from Joe Biden in his final address to the nation:
“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead”
Currently hedged across Threads, Bluesky, Notes and X, waiting for the tech bro Hunger Games to finish playing out.
Revisiting this theme (in more ways than one) www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as leader of Reform UK, saying he doesn’t “have what it takes.”
This is genuinely funny.
Any woman who has ever received online abuse has some understanding of what Jess Philips is now exposed to, but it is on an entirely different level.
It is dangerous to her safety.
Yes, it is diplomatically “delicate”. But if you do nothing it is an admission of your own impotence.
A capitulation.
Everyone is so sick. I am recovering from 10-day bronchitis, my partner is now down. Everyone I know who’s got on a plane in the past fortnight is coughing. Is there a shadow pandemic happening? Or just regular seasonal stuff?
I knew that by going to the UK in the week before Christmas I would get sick. I joked about it every time I had one drink too-many, stood outside a pub in whipping rain, and/or had someone cough in my face. But I had forgotten what it was like to be down this bad. Dubai has turned me soft.
Tues: Christmas turkey
Tues: Christmas sandwiches
Weds: Leftover roast bowl
Weds: Turkey tacos
Thurs: ✨Rest day✨
Fri: Leftover potato Tortilla and turkey
And who knows what the weekend may deliver
In case you missed it, a Telegraph columnist is calling for the UK to join a federal superstate with a single currency and free movement of people.
Daring to open X these days is like staring into the abyss
Now THIS is smart:
Tokyo plans 4-day working week in effort to boost births on.ft.com/3ZwEDdv
America appoints its very own Margarita Simonyan (presides over Russia Today)
Could the Meta problems today across WhatsApp/instagram be our first big Bluesky kumbaya moment
If you follow me back I’ll send you something pertinent on dm!
Absolutely. And those at the lower percentages, accuse those at the higher percentages of “virtue signalling”
Half of all TV coverage of Muslims in the UK was broadcast by the far right channel GB News, new research shows. And it was all negative.
“The findings demonstrate an “excessive” focus on Muslims bordering on an “obsession”, according to a new report by the Centre for Media Monitoring.”
So horrified by the details of the Gisèle Pellicot case and yet they keep coming.
The 50 men accused in mass rape of Gisèle Pelicot www.bbc.com/news/article...
Some mild relief
I've written a long profile of Douglas Murray for Prospect. Saving the west, one polemic at a time www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos...
This piece is all killer no filler
This is a story-and-a-half.
What is it with the broligarchy and breeding.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Relatable
