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The end of politics and the grind

Of course he’s on LinkedIn

3 min readApr 26, 2023

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Screenshot of a LinkedIn Live event with UK Prime Minister Rish Sunak from April 2023

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King Kong is a business movie, like the Big Short and that one about Beanie Babies

The real monster in this movie is the entrepreneur.

7 min readMar 5, 2024

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Long shot of the top half of the Empire State Building against a cloudy sky. King Kong falls from the very top, bouncing on the way down.

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Final act for the streamers

Netflix introduced ads and now Amazon Prime too. It’s your fault.

2 min readJan 5, 2024

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Final act for the streamers

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The posh media and the establishment will never understand ‘working class golf’

Broadcasters, journalists — please stop trying to explain darts.

4 min readJan 5, 2024

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A dart against a white background with the word ‘Nuke’ on the flights — indicating that this is the sponsored tie-in product of darts player Luke Littler

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A Musk spaceship will be a Musk workplace

I suppose if you went to Mars on one of Musk’s starships — at least on one of the first few missions — you’d probably be an employee of a…

2 min readJan 24, 2023

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a group of smiling mostly-male Twitter employees gathered around their new boss Elon Musk at a late-night code review. Musk and others are doing a thumbs-up.

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Smart technologies for disciplining the poor

(updated on 5 January 2024)

7 min readJan 23, 2023

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A row of gas meters, black and white photograph by MIKI Yoshihito

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Reverse redistribution

During the pandemic in the UK, innovators and opportunists improvised bold new ways to move money from the state into private hands—it was…

4 min readJan 4, 2023

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Baroness Michelle Mone taking her seat in the British House of Lords in October 2015

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From the other end of the modern

Italo Svevo and Adam Tooze (and Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng)

4 min readOct 4, 2022

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Black and white photograph of the facade of a residential building in Trieste, windows, shutters, shadows — by Russell Davies

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Monarchy: to care or not to care?

Less than half of gen-z in Britain thinks we should keep the monarchy.

6 min readSep 24, 2022

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Monarchy: to care or not to care?

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Ten times the Labour party stood behind striking workers in Britain

Actually, there aren’t any. Sorry.

8 min readAug 22, 2022

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Trade union members on a RMT picket line in the UK in 2022 — photo courtesy the RMT

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Grizzled web old-timer (some say just grizzled), a trustee at the brilliant Poppy Academy Trust in the UK, a crummy poet and a volunteer at Watford Refugees…

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