The Most Dangerous Lie We’re Telling Ourselves
There is a strange stillness to the world right now. Not peace. Not calm. Something closer to exhaustion. Everywhere you look, the map is on fire. Ukraine grinds on in…
The EU–Mercosur Trade Deal
Substance, symbolism, and what it quietly tells us about the world we’re building On paper, it sounds enormous. And technically, it is. The European Union has agreed a sweeping trade…
The Truth About Making Money Online
(And Why Everyone Lying To You About It Is Also Broke) I’m tired. Tired of the screenshots. Tired of the Stripe dashboards showing £47,000 in revenue (but never the refunds,…
Why Your AI-Written Content Still Needs You
(And Why That’s Actually Good News) Let’s get something out of the way immediately: I’m not here to tell you that AI is the death of creativity, the end of…
The Problem With Men
There’s a man sitting in the GP’s waiting room, and he’s doing that thing men do when they’re pretending everything is fine. You know the one. Legs spread wide. Phone…
X as a Free Speech Haven?
Let’s Talk About What’s Actually Happening There’s a narrative doing the rounds right now, and it goes something like this: X (formerly Twitter) has become the last bastion of free…
Your RICE Is Undercooked: Why Data Beats Vibes Every Time
RICE is only as good as the numbers you feed it. And if those numbers are based on hunches, gut feelings, or a slightly delusional belief in your own brilliance……
The Quiet Familiarity
On Working in Tandem With a Machine That Learns You I’ve noticed something happening. Not all at once. Not with fanfare. Just gradually… almost politely. Over time, and with a…
Venezuela Isn’t a Headline… It’s a Slow Human Emergency
There are crises that explode into view… and then there are the ones that never quite end. Venezuela belongs firmly in the second category.Not a breaking story. Not a sudden…
Fuck the Hashtags… Get Your Voice Out There
At some point, without really noticing when, we handed the steering wheel to the algorithm. We didn’t mean to. It happened gradually… a tweak here, a “best practice” there, a…