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#1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Not an American.
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"This joke has stayed with me because “private” does, in fact, sound fancier than “general”. It’s not remotely obvious why the ranks should be that way round." Some etymology: how did the army get its ranks?

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

you must accept the fact that the vast majority of people who are against Trump in this country will look at you like you have two heads if you start pontificating on the leftist versus liberal distinction at them

submitted 7 hours ago • 23 comments

Bluesky feels incredibly busy and vibrant to me….becuase I follow a lot of people. Which you have to do here if you want to see a lot of action, because *the site has no central algorithm.* A startling number of professional tech writers still don’t seem aware of this basic aspect of Bluesky.

submitted 17 hours ago • 88 comments

"The third possible reason for Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland is that it looks really big on the map." Second edition of my new coumn for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social concerns Greenland www.thenewworld.co.uk/jonn-elledge...

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

hope the new Spaceballs is an unflinching look at the mechanisms of fascism and the moral compromises of resistance

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Still wondering about that preposterous 25 May Telegraph story about “investment bankers” Al and Alexandra Moy and their children Ali, Harry and Barry? @privateeyenews.bsky.social has more! ”We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can't go on five holidays”

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

good idea, this. I approve

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

"This joke has stayed with me because “private” does, in fact, sound fancier than “general”. It’s not remotely obvious why the ranks should be that way round." Some etymology: how did the army get its ranks?

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Thread. I *worry* about this stuff. But I *suspect* that what will happen is nowhere near as apocalyptic as this sort of thing. Most people who want to work in the arts have *never* been able to make money. It's always been a thing where only a small fraction of those who want to are able to.

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202... 💥 EXC: For my first edition of the New Statesman as editor, I went on the road with Keir Starmer, discovering a man far more emotional than I expected, struggling to articulate his deepest feelings — and those of the country he leads👇

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

"The third possible reason for Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland is that it looks really big on the map." Second edition of my new coumn for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social concerns Greenland www.thenewworld.co.uk/jonn-elledge...

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

You: “We don’t know if the BBC even want to make and show Doctor Who.” CBeebies, intellectuals: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

submitted 20 hours ago • 15 comments

She's right. But the problem is she is not serious, and she is not on the centre-right. Indeed, she is so unserious that 'where on the political spectrum is Kemi Badenoch?' is actually a very difficult question to answer, it's like having to adjudicate 'how bacon is a table?'

submitted 20 hours ago • 37 comments

😡 I will not be doing any future talks etc at universities unless paid one month in advance, cash, in a brown paper bag, delivered directly to my cat. I have had it with deliberately evasive processes. I can be all lalala about his bc I'm an ageing prof. But others really depend on being paid. 😡

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

It's ok, she's "getting better every week".

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

"Perhaps I’m being naive. Perhaps I’ve got my head so far into the sand I’m about to meet the cast of Dune. But my many nightmares about the future just don’t currently include being bankrupted by an artificial knock-off of myself." Some thoughts on AI.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

"The writer is not an incidental part of the writing." I, a hostage to fortune, wrote about AI

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"The writer is not an incidental part of the writing." I, a hostage to fortune, wrote about AI

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I learn from Henry Scampi's school's Instagram that he is now in what looks like an abusive relationship with a sheepadoodle named Doofus. Well I never www.instagram.com/stories/jonn...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment