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Bet365 founder Denise Coates was paid roughly £287 million ($388 million) in 2025, retaining her title as one of the world’s best-paid executives even as her gambling empire’s earnings slumped. Read more: bloom.bg/4aZbQFK
📷: Bet365/PA Media
📷: Bet365/PA Media
1/ Denise Coates earned £287 million last year from Bet365. This isn’t a story about one woman’s fortune. It’s a diagram of how late capitalism actually works.
A senior US official shares a post mocking the Downing Street Chief of Staff. Britain’s public silence speaks volumes. 👇👇👇
December 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A senior US official shares a post mocking the Downing Street Chief of Staff. Britain’s public silence speaks volumes. 👇👇👇
Melvyn Bragg bids his farewell.
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Melvyn Bragg bids his farewell.
🧵 1/ The Death of Digital Sovereignty: The US just sanctioned the CEO of an organisation set up by Keir Starmer’s chief of staff. The charge? Supporting laws that regulate American platforms.
December 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🧵 1/ The Death of Digital Sovereignty: The US just sanctioned the CEO of an organisation set up by Keir Starmer’s chief of staff. The charge? Supporting laws that regulate American platforms.
Reposted by Adrian Monck
1/ Denise Coates earned £287 million last year from Bet365. This isn’t a story about one woman’s fortune. It’s a diagram of how late capitalism actually works.
Bet365 founder Denise Coates was paid roughly £287 million ($388 million) in 2025, retaining her title as one of the world’s best-paid executives even as her gambling empire’s earnings slumped. Read more: bloom.bg/4aZbQFK
📷: Bet365/PA Media
📷: Bet365/PA Media
December 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
1/ Denise Coates earned £287 million last year from Bet365. This isn’t a story about one woman’s fortune. It’s a diagram of how late capitalism actually works.
1/ Denise Coates earned £287 million last year from Bet365. This isn’t a story about one woman’s fortune. It’s a diagram of how late capitalism actually works.
Bet365 founder Denise Coates was paid roughly £287 million ($388 million) in 2025, retaining her title as one of the world’s best-paid executives even as her gambling empire’s earnings slumped. Read more: bloom.bg/4aZbQFK
📷: Bet365/PA Media
📷: Bet365/PA Media
December 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
1/ Denise Coates earned £287 million last year from Bet365. This isn’t a story about one woman’s fortune. It’s a diagram of how late capitalism actually works.
Want some politics with your mince pies? 🥧 🎅 open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
What COVID Actually Proved About Democracy
The pandemic wasn’t a stress test. It was a warning.
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Want some politics with your mince pies? 🥧 🎅 open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
Secure the borders…
The proliferation of illegal firearms from the U.S. has fueled a spike in gun violence in Canada, where most guns used in crimes are smuggled across the border.
Guns from the United States are Pouring into Canada, Fueling a Spike in Gun Violence
The proliferation of illegal firearms from the United States has fueled a spike in gun violence in Canada, where most guns used in crimes are smuggled across the border.
nyti.ms
December 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Secure the borders…
The US has Europe’s back.
Donald Trump has named a special envoy for Greenland, underscoring his determination to take control of the vast Arctic island from Denmark - rpts @richardmilne.ft.com www.ft.com/content/8c0e...
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The US has Europe’s back.
What they don’t tell you on LinkedIn: How to get a job in the Chinese Communist Party 7thin.gs/p/china-comm...
How to Get a Job in the Chinese Communist Party
3.72 million applicants. 40,000 positions. One professor's survival guide.
7thin.gs
December 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
What they don’t tell you on LinkedIn: How to get a job in the Chinese Communist Party 7thin.gs/p/china-comm...
Censorship at CBS. Bill Owens’s resignation was the loudest signal you can get. What will the rest of CBS News do? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News postponed a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about El Salvador’s CECOT prison one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Censorship at CBS. Bill Owens’s resignation was the loudest signal you can get. What will the rest of CBS News do? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The Nazi Knockout Advent Calendar really delivered 🎄
🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor
December 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The Nazi Knockout Advent Calendar really delivered 🎄
Cool initiative run by an ex-journalist - helping prisoners needs your help gofund.me/183a2221e
Donate to A Reading and Writing Group for Inmates, organized by Scott Wilson
For the past 18 months, I have met weekly with a group of inmates at the Santa Ba… Scott Wilson needs your support for A Reading and Writing Group for Inmates
gofund.me
December 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Cool initiative run by an ex-journalist - helping prisoners needs your help gofund.me/183a2221e
“The Baltics think they’re first.”
December 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
“The Baltics think they’re first.”
Turns out Britain’s prisons really are full of immigrants www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Foreign prison officers get visa exemption to prevent UK jail chaos
The Chief Inspector of Prisons earlier warned of a ‘devastating effect’ if a solution was not found
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Turns out Britain’s prisons really are full of immigrants www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
End of the post WW2 order... Japan edition.
🧵☢️🇯🇵 1/ A top Japanese official just said Tokyo should possess nuclear weapons.
This is someone inside the Prime Minister's Office responsible for security policy.
The remark was off-the-record, but it got reported anyway. Here's why it matters. 🧵
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
This is someone inside the Prime Minister's Office responsible for security policy.
The remark was off-the-record, but it got reported anyway. Here's why it matters. 🧵
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
首相官邸筋「核兵器持つべきだ」 安保担当、非公式取材で - 日本経済新聞
高市政権で安全保障政策を担当する官邸筋は18日、「私は核を持つべきだと思っている」と官邸で記者団に述べ、日本の核兵器保有が必要だとの認識を示した。発言はオフレコを前提にした記者団の非公式取材を受けた際に出た。同時に、現実的ではないとの見方にも言及した。非公式取材で記者団から核保有に対する考えを問われ、官邸筋は核保有が必要だとした上で「最終的に頼れるのは自分たちだ」と説明した。一方「コンビニで買
www.nikkei.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
End of the post WW2 order... Japan edition.
The owner of Unherd, The Spectator and GB News kindly shares his views on Brexit with FT readers. www.ft.com/content/42b3...
The Brexit implementation fiasco
It is not too late to reverse bad policy but that requires good governance
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The owner of Unherd, The Spectator and GB News kindly shares his views on Brexit with FT readers. www.ft.com/content/42b3...
🧵☢️🇯🇵 1/ A top Japanese official just said Tokyo should possess nuclear weapons.
This is someone inside the Prime Minister's Office responsible for security policy.
The remark was off-the-record, but it got reported anyway. Here's why it matters. 🧵
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
This is someone inside the Prime Minister's Office responsible for security policy.
The remark was off-the-record, but it got reported anyway. Here's why it matters. 🧵
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
首相官邸筋「核兵器持つべきだ」 安保担当、非公式取材で - 日本経済新聞
高市政権で安全保障政策を担当する官邸筋は18日、「私は核を持つべきだと思っている」と官邸で記者団に述べ、日本の核兵器保有が必要だとの認識を示した。発言はオフレコを前提にした記者団の非公式取材を受けた際に出た。同時に、現実的ではないとの見方にも言及した。非公式取材で記者団から核保有に対する考えを問われ、官邸筋は核保有が必要だとした上で「最終的に頼れるのは自分たちだ」と説明した。一方「コンビニで買
www.nikkei.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🧵☢️🇯🇵 1/ A top Japanese official just said Tokyo should possess nuclear weapons.
This is someone inside the Prime Minister's Office responsible for security policy.
The remark was off-the-record, but it got reported anyway. Here's why it matters. 🧵
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
This is someone inside the Prime Minister's Office responsible for security policy.
The remark was off-the-record, but it got reported anyway. Here's why it matters. 🧵
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
How irresponsible to organise this in the world’s most dangerous city
December 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
How irresponsible to organise this in the world’s most dangerous city
Reposted by Adrian Monck
It’s rare that I share the same content on LinkedIn and Bluesky but this popped into my inbox this morning and really grabbed my attention. Great and extremely thought provoking writing from @amonck.bsky.social
Make sure that you read to at least point 4 before reacting…
7thin.gs/p/future-204...
Make sure that you read to at least point 4 before reacting…
7thin.gs/p/future-204...
The Future Has a Flag
Superintelligence, undersea cities, and a 2049 vision you weren't expecting
7thin.gs
December 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It’s rare that I share the same content on LinkedIn and Bluesky but this popped into my inbox this morning and really grabbed my attention. Great and extremely thought provoking writing from @amonck.bsky.social
Make sure that you read to at least point 4 before reacting…
7thin.gs/p/future-204...
Make sure that you read to at least point 4 before reacting…
7thin.gs/p/future-204...
The Future Has a Flag
open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
The Future Has a Flag
Superintelligence, undersea cities, and a 2049 vision you weren't expecting
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Future Has a Flag
open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
They might want to add another name to the list.
Britain will investigate how hostile states like China and Russia are financially interfering with U.K. democracy and elections, ministers have announced.
Britain vows to tackle foreign meddling in politics after Reform’s Russia bribes case
Ministers launch a review into foreign financial inference in Britain after a senior Reform UK politician was jailed for taking pro-Russia bribes.
www.politico.eu
December 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
They might want to add another name to the list.
🧵1/ THE RETURN OF CLASS: A new NBER paper from Oded Galor and Daniel Wainstock shows that 96% of US income inequality occurs within ethnic groups, not between them. The class divide inside each community dwarfs the gaps between communities. www.nber.org/papers/w34558
www.nber.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🧵1/ THE RETURN OF CLASS: A new NBER paper from Oded Galor and Daniel Wainstock shows that 96% of US income inequality occurs within ethnic groups, not between them. The class divide inside each community dwarfs the gaps between communities. www.nber.org/papers/w34558
The Kids Online Safety Act passed the Senate 91-3, then died in the House. Tech lobby beats democratic consensus.
https://7thin.gs/p/who-governs-truth
https://7thin.gs/p/who-governs-truth
Who Governs Truth?
Musk, Zuckerberg, and the fight for Europe's information space
7thin.gs
December 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The Kids Online Safety Act passed the Senate 91-3, then died in the House. Tech lobby beats democratic consensus.
https://7thin.gs/p/who-governs-truth
https://7thin.gs/p/who-governs-truth
You, an idiot: the NSS is a disaster
Me: a sophisticated contrarian…
Me: a sophisticated contrarian…
The new national security strategy gets much right and a couple of big things wrong, writes columnist Matthew Kroenig.
Two Cheers for the National Security Strategy
Trump’s new document gets much right and a few things wrong.
foreignpolicy.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
You, an idiot: the NSS is a disaster
Me: a sophisticated contrarian…
Me: a sophisticated contrarian…