Evan Hensleigh
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Special Projects Editor at The Economist. Bad puns on The Internet.
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“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
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Come work for us. The Economist is hiring a Britain political correspondent. Make the sample piece original and Economisty
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
The Economist is hiring a Britain political correspondent
Join The Economist’s Britain team
economist.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Come work for us. The Economist is hiring a Britain political correspondent. Make the sample piece original and Economisty
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
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Ok this (arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...) is an amazing example of the kind of BS hype tech writing we see so much, because even I, a lowly historian, can see the Obvious Problems with 'space data centers' that the article by a journalist at a technical publication failed to ask.
Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this”
“We could see another transformation of what’s done in space.”…
arstechnica.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Ok this (arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...) is an amazing example of the kind of BS hype tech writing we see so much, because even I, a lowly historian, can see the Obvious Problems with 'space data centers' that the article by a journalist at a technical publication failed to ask.
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Banger of an intro paragraph
When I see people write like this about finance, it spurs me to be braver in my own writing.
Very very well done @dsquareddigest.bsky.social
on.ft.com/47ZzGzI The grimdark future of credit risk models
When I see people write like this about finance, it spurs me to be braver in my own writing.
Very very well done @dsquareddigest.bsky.social
on.ft.com/47ZzGzI The grimdark future of credit risk models
September 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Banger of an intro paragraph
When I see people write like this about finance, it spurs me to be braver in my own writing.
Very very well done @dsquareddigest.bsky.social
on.ft.com/47ZzGzI The grimdark future of credit risk models
When I see people write like this about finance, it spurs me to be braver in my own writing.
Very very well done @dsquareddigest.bsky.social
on.ft.com/47ZzGzI The grimdark future of credit risk models
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Help me hire! Know a brilliant Tech Lead looking for work? I need someone great to work with @dhanendran.co.uk and others, to super-charge our efforts to completely transform our content & product data publishing stack.
All to help fight for UK consumers at Which?
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All to help fight for UK consumers at Which?
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
Which? hiring Tech Lead Manager - Publishing Infrastructure in London, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 6:43:10 PM. This role offers a competitive package, hybrid working (1 day a week in the London office…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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September 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Help me hire! Know a brilliant Tech Lead looking for work? I need someone great to work with @dhanendran.co.uk and others, to super-charge our efforts to completely transform our content & product data publishing stack.
All to help fight for UK consumers at Which?
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
All to help fight for UK consumers at Which?
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
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An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
September 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
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We are hiring at The Economist.
This is not just any internship. You will be a paid staff member and writer for 6 months.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
This is not just any internship. You will be a paid staff member and writer for 6 months.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
The Economist’s finance and economics internship
We invite applications for our Marjorie Deane scheme
www.economist.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We are hiring at The Economist.
This is not just any internship. You will be a paid staff member and writer for 6 months.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
This is not just any internship. You will be a paid staff member and writer for 6 months.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
When we first moved to England, we took a flat which immediately suffered a major leak, which the landlord sorted. Then we got our first water bill: for around £27,000.
Mercifully, it was a data entry error. The customer service rep actually laughed when she saw it.
Mercifully, it was a data entry error. The customer service rep actually laughed when she saw it.
sorry I'm clearly late to this but was just checking my account and my yearly Thames Water bill went up by a THIRD last month? I'm now paying 70 quid a month? as a person living alone in a one bedroom flat? what the everliving fuck?
September 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
When we first moved to England, we took a flat which immediately suffered a major leak, which the landlord sorted. Then we got our first water bill: for around £27,000.
Mercifully, it was a data entry error. The customer service rep actually laughed when she saw it.
Mercifully, it was a data entry error. The customer service rep actually laughed when she saw it.
I’ve lived in this country for ten years and am still finding out bizarre and inexplicable things the locals do.
the NYT will get shit for this but they're right, I've noticed it multiple times and discussed it with several immigrant friends, British dishes are so often put out to dry while still a bit soapy, to the best of my knowledge no one else in the world does that, why do you guys do that
Apparently, not everyone (those based in the UK, specifically) rinses the suds off their dishes after washing them. nyti.ms/42jIooE
September 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I’ve lived in this country for ten years and am still finding out bizarre and inexplicable things the locals do.
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What I lived through twenty four years ago today, yesterday. To me it's always yesterday. heatherburns.tech/2023/09/11/t...
The things I learned under the bluest sky – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
heatherburns.tech
September 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
What I lived through twenty four years ago today, yesterday. To me it's always yesterday. heatherburns.tech/2023/09/11/t...
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Is science fiction dead or dying? Some wise words from Ursula K Le Guin to the TLS a decade ago:
August 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Is science fiction dead or dying? Some wise words from Ursula K Le Guin to the TLS a decade ago:
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In 43 states, the highest-paid public employee is a college coach. Yet the athletes propping up the $19bn college-sports industry earned no salary--until this year. My piece on the upending of one of America's strangest economic systems
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
A $19bn industry is about to pay its workforce for the first time
The economics of American college sports have been upended
www.economist.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In 43 states, the highest-paid public employee is a college coach. Yet the athletes propping up the $19bn college-sports industry earned no salary--until this year. My piece on the upending of one of America's strangest economic systems
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
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Me, looking at timestamp: This seems like a long time to get to the joke
Me, watching for 15sec: I am absolutely watching this whole thing
Me, watching for 15sec: I am absolutely watching this whole thing
August 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Me, looking at timestamp: This seems like a long time to get to the joke
Me, watching for 15sec: I am absolutely watching this whole thing
Me, watching for 15sec: I am absolutely watching this whole thing
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NEW
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
27th August 2025 Only good fortune has prevented previous governments from misusing our constitutional arrangements more than they did * The constitution of the United Kingdom provides for two R…
davidallengreen.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
NEW
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
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Frankly it’s also reckless - you have growing numbers of people exhibiting delusional behaviour toward chatbots, and this straight up encourages it.
August 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Frankly it’s also reckless - you have growing numbers of people exhibiting delusional behaviour toward chatbots, and this straight up encourages it.
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This, I think, may end up being an underrated factor. The Trump voters I know - and I do know a few - all voted the way they did assuming Trump II would be a rerun of Trump I, which they understood as 'some bad tweets, but mostly normal GOP policy,' minus the early 'new at this' growing pains.
I do actually think the electorate will respond to the behavior of the Trump administration, presuming the same trends at 2024 or 2020 is very silly because this is a very different government! Extremely different than even Trump I
August 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This, I think, may end up being an underrated factor. The Trump voters I know - and I do know a few - all voted the way they did assuming Trump II would be a rerun of Trump I, which they understood as 'some bad tweets, but mostly normal GOP policy,' minus the early 'new at this' growing pains.
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“We essentially forced data to become the central character in a story we needed to tell ourselves about the world – and before long there was too much investment, too many jobs, and far too many reputations staked on continuing that narrative.” www.jamesrball.com/p/what-if-bi...
What if "big data" just…isn't worth very much?
I'm not saying the emperor has no clothes. I am saying his clothes are cheap, tacky, don't work and are seriously overrated.
www.jamesrball.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“We essentially forced data to become the central character in a story we needed to tell ourselves about the world – and before long there was too much investment, too many jobs, and far too many reputations staked on continuing that narrative.” www.jamesrball.com/p/what-if-bi...
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
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We are seeking a motivated and dynamic graduate or graphic designer to join our video team as a junior motion-graphics designer. Apply by September 1st
Wanted: a junior motion-graphics designer for our video department
Join The Economist
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August 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
We are seeking a motivated and dynamic graduate or graphic designer to join our video team as a junior motion-graphics designer. Apply by September 1st
Out of curiosity, I asked Claude how the case should be decided.
(I’m guessing Anthropic disagrees with its bot.)
(I’m guessing Anthropic disagrees with its bot.)
August 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Out of curiosity, I asked Claude how the case should be decided.
(I’m guessing Anthropic disagrees with its bot.)
(I’m guessing Anthropic disagrees with its bot.)
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Philip K Dick saw it: “Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans”
This 2018 essay is still pretty on target imo www.bostonreview.net/articles/hen...
August 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Philip K Dick saw it: “Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans”