How do you fix a world where Musk can spend $44bn buying and using up Twitter? And even turn a profit after the election result? What is left of the media - or democratic politics - given influence can be bought at this scale?

Is there any alternative answer to super progressive wealth taxes?

In a story sent out to newsrooms around the world, AP calls puberty blockers a 'common approach' to treatment for trans kids and highlights how the UK ban goes against 'standards held by medical groups elsewhere, including the European and World Professional Associations for Transgender Health'

Oh look, Trump lied. And voters fell for it.

Just like clock work...To its critics, this seems like a betrayal of the sacred mission of social media. But BS users have a simple response:

“I didn’t join this app to argue. I joined to enjoy myself. If I wanted endless debates, I’d go to a family dinner.”

Read: open.substack.com/pub/quietpar...

I was asked (repeatedly, aggressively) on the other platform for my lawyery views on Allison Pearson’s story.

I declined to comment because Ms Pearson is a famously unreliable narrator of events, and I wanted to wait for independent evidence.

Alas for Ms Pearson…