Oliver Bullough
@oliverbullough.bsky.social
Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
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I've got some events lined up for publication week of Everybody Loves Our Dollars. You should come, and indeed you can book tickets! geni.us/OliverBullough
I didn't listen to much of the speech so no hot takes but I did think the boob hypnotism jokes were quite funny.
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I didn't listen to much of the speech so no hot takes but I did think the boob hypnotism jokes were quite funny.
Don't worry, OBR, no one's noticed. Style it out.
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Don't worry, OBR, no one's noticed. Style it out.
A new study finds that about half of the physical variation seen in modern dogs existed during the Stone Age. n.pr/3MmIfM2
The origins of your dog's unique look may be older than you think
A new study finds that about half of the physical variation seen in modern dogs existed during the Stone Age.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Considering how hard it is to get a dentist appointment these days, I think we could do with more sugar tax, not less.
www.nihr.ac.uk/news/sugar-t...
www.nihr.ac.uk/news/sugar-t...
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Considering how hard it is to get a dentist appointment these days, I think we could do with more sugar tax, not less.
www.nihr.ac.uk/news/sugar-t...
www.nihr.ac.uk/news/sugar-t...
I've got some events lined up for publication week of Everybody Loves Our Dollars. You should come, and indeed you can book tickets! geni.us/OliverBullough
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I've got some events lined up for publication week of Everybody Loves Our Dollars. You should come, and indeed you can book tickets! geni.us/OliverBullough
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This piece on Kenyans abused in Saudi Arabia, and government complicity, is a shocking read. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This piece on Kenyans abused in Saudi Arabia, and government complicity, is a shocking read. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...
I really wish there was a setting on social media to separate comments by what they refer to, so I could screen out all the shouting from America and hear the whispers from everywhere else.
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I really wish there was a setting on social media to separate comments by what they refer to, so I could screen out all the shouting from America and hear the whispers from everywhere else.
Somewhere David Milliband, in full armour like the old man in The Last Crusade, is waiting by the phone.
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Somewhere David Milliband, in full armour like the old man in The Last Crusade, is waiting by the phone.
Been thinking of the Noah Smith/Heathrow thing this morning. People say he hates Britain, but there is an implicit admiration of the best traditions of UK journalism in getting a 2,000 word think piece dissecting a whole country's future out of spending 90 minutes in one of its airports.
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Been thinking of the Noah Smith/Heathrow thing this morning. People say he hates Britain, but there is an implicit admiration of the best traditions of UK journalism in getting a 2,000 word think piece dissecting a whole country's future out of spending 90 minutes in one of its airports.
British "patriots" assaulting the BBC to gain approval from American fascists is just fucking weird on a deep level.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
British "patriots" assaulting the BBC to gain approval from American fascists is just fucking weird on a deep level.
Roll up! Excited to be hosting a new kleptoscope at London's Frontline Club, with Sue Hawley, of @spotlightcorruption.org, Jess Garland of @electoralreform.bsky.social and @liambyrnemp.bsky.social. We'll be talking about how to save democracy from big money.
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Kleptoscope: Big Money in Little Britain
How to protect our democracy?
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November 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Roll up! Excited to be hosting a new kleptoscope at London's Frontline Club, with Sue Hawley, of @spotlightcorruption.org, Jess Garland of @electoralreform.bsky.social and @liambyrnemp.bsky.social. We'll be talking about how to save democracy from big money.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kleptoscop...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kleptoscop...
People who believe in democracy really need to relearn how to tell people that don't to fuck off.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
People who believe in democracy really need to relearn how to tell people that don't to fuck off.
If social media companies are actively making choices about what kind of political content to highlight, then how are they different from traditional media companies? And so why aren't they liable to being sued for libel, etc, in the same way?
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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November 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
If social media companies are actively making choices about what kind of political content to highlight, then how are they different from traditional media companies? And so why aren't they liable to being sued for libel, etc, in the same way?
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Not really the main issue from Caerphilly, but I'm fascinated by the continued existence of zombie parties. What motivates someone to stand for UKIP in 2025, presumably in the full knowledge you're going to come last?
October 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Not really the main issue from Caerphilly, but I'm fascinated by the continued existence of zombie parties. What motivates someone to stand for UKIP in 2025, presumably in the full knowledge you're going to come last?
It's the final battle between good and legitimate concerns.
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
It's the final battle between good and legitimate concerns.
Yes, he's a vile person objectively stoking the flames that are burning the world, but he also makes us money, so let's split the difference and go with "neutrality".
www.ft.com/content/8e6d...
www.ft.com/content/8e6d...
October 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Yes, he's a vile person objectively stoking the flames that are burning the world, but he also makes us money, so let's split the difference and go with "neutrality".
www.ft.com/content/8e6d...
www.ft.com/content/8e6d...
So refreshing to see the previously unexplored subversive potential of a very rich person owning a media outlet, and content producers giving him what he wants.
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October 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
So refreshing to see the previously unexplored subversive potential of a very rich person owning a media outlet, and content producers giving him what he wants.
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How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?
October 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?
Not many things make me feel sympathetic to Trump but I wouldn't wish one of Putin's crazy-Facebook-uncle rants about Yaroslav the Wise on anyone.
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www.ft.com/content/7af3...
October 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Not many things make me feel sympathetic to Trump but I wouldn't wish one of Putin's crazy-Facebook-uncle rants about Yaroslav the Wise on anyone.
www.ft.com/content/7af3...
www.ft.com/content/7af3...
I'm a huge fan of this headline.
October 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I'm a huge fan of this headline.
Has anyone read anything comprehensive/interesting about the circular investment thing going on with AI? i.e. "Nscale buys Nvidia to build data centre for Microsoft, which invests in OpenAI, which invests in Nvida, which invests in Nscale" as in this article.
www.ft.com/content/7fa4...
www.ft.com/content/7fa4...
UK data centre start-up Nscale strikes $14bn Microsoft deal in push for IPO
Nvidia-backed AI cloud group secures huge new contract as chief executive eyes public listing in ‘back end of next year’
www.ft.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Has anyone read anything comprehensive/interesting about the circular investment thing going on with AI? i.e. "Nscale buys Nvidia to build data centre for Microsoft, which invests in OpenAI, which invests in Nvida, which invests in Nscale" as in this article.
www.ft.com/content/7fa4...
www.ft.com/content/7fa4...
Looking like Chelsea FC? So, previously owned by a Russian oligarch, but now in hock to American hedge funds?
October 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Looking like Chelsea FC? So, previously owned by a Russian oligarch, but now in hock to American hedge funds?
St Paul's Letter to the Californians, ch.8 v.2: "yay, verily, is it not written that efforts to impose democratic oversight o'er tech megascalers shall be a sign of the impending rise of Satan, whose minions shall wear pigtails and miss school?"
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Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
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October 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
St Paul's Letter to the Californians, ch.8 v.2: "yay, verily, is it not written that efforts to impose democratic oversight o'er tech megascalers shall be a sign of the impending rise of Satan, whose minions shall wear pigtails and miss school?"
bsky.app/profile/wash...
bsky.app/profile/wash...