THE JOURNEY CONTINUES! ✨

EMI MARTÍNEZ, THE WORLD NUMBER ONE

ok wow I have wanted a reporter to write about this for YEARS theverge.com/c/24070570/int…

What if we built a fake Downing Street, convinced Liz Truss she was PM again, and aired it Truman Show-style on ITV?

My pushback on this is, of course, that business actually does choose (parts of) the North and the Midlands over London (especially) and South England generally. But then it's the UK state the chooses to invest in South East England. Over time this becomes self-fulfilling.

my therapist just told me that the NYT word games app is becoming a problem for many of her patients, including me

The cheaper the brand, the more polyester they use

I value Brummie art, but who else does? | Stewart Lee theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Unironically this dumb meme helped me through one of the worst times of my life

A well good read from my former colleague and local legend Kirsty Bosley theguardian.com/culture/2024/a…

NEW: my column this week is about the coming vibe shift, from Boomers vs Millennials to huge wealth inequality *between* Millennials.

Current discourse centres on how the average Millennial is worse-off than the average Boomer was, but the richest millennials are loaded 💸🚀

the eclipse has hit the reflections on my disco ball

England's greatest composer (Elgar), its greatest novelist (Eliot), its greatest scientist (Darwin), its greatest playwright (Shakespeare), 3 of the great 20th C poets (Larkin, Auden, Hill) + the first useable steam engine, the jet engine, the modern bicycle & the first plastic

ChatGPT hallucinates. Self-driving cars crash. Amazon is abandonning its 'just walk out' checkouts.

What if AI is overhyped? ft.com/content/648228…

I see Birmingham’s legendary Island Bar is being replaced truly an end of an era

I wrote about what the Tories have done to the place
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Applejuiceification and the illusion of choice: a short thread

nothing worse than getting a little sun and feeling better and realizing I have the mental complexity of a daisy

the right people will stay btw

how life feels now that the sun sets at 7pm