Fabulous podcast episode on #HettyGreen @simonjackbbc.bsky.social @misszing.bsky.social - one of the unsung female entrepreneurs, merchants, bankers & investors who feature in my forthoming book #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power. Listen back here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
Selena Gomez: Actress, singer, beauty mogul 🎧 From celebs and CEOs to sport stars and tech titans,
@simonjackbbc.bsky.social and @misszing.bsky.social
find out how the world's billionaires made their money and then judge them. Are they good, bad, or just another billionaire?
Text reads: OPINION It’s easy to laugh at Just Stop Oil – it’s harder to admit they were right. Photo of Just Stop Oil protest
Just Stop Oil showed us that some people were not just going to give up and roll over
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Fucking yes, exactly.
Thank you Kat!
A feminist's perspective on the recent Supreme Court ruling – this week in my column for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/opinion/defi...
Congrats Matt – very well deserved!
This is it. I am very confident that I worked with and commissioned more trans people at VICE than the vast majority of British editors. If they aren't passed the mic, how are they going to be able to accurately represent their lives and counter falsehoods?
I wrote this last year about single-sex spaces and the mythology around ~protecting women~ when more than 90% of sexual assault is perpetrated by someone already known to the victim.
I still stand by every word of it.
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The climate crisis is spiralling and it’s easy to feel powerless. But who’s lying, who’s profiting and who’s paying the price? @mikebernerslee.bsky.social joins @misszing.bsky.social to explain why honesty might just be our best weapon.
Listen here ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
Where's the deep state when you need it
Text reads: PERSPECTIVES 01 Millennials are realising children are just not worth it – emotionally or financially Zing Tsjeng. Graphic of couple holding phone and baby
The fundamental problem is even finding a suitable relationship in which to raise a child, writes @misszing.bsky.social
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A blocked vacuum cleaner led to a billion-dollar idea for British inventor Sir #JamesDyson. After studying art, then reinventing the wheelbarrow, Dyson struck gold with his iconic bagless vacuum, but only after years of effort. Presented by @simonjackbbc.bsky.social and @misszing.bsky.social
#MarthaStewart is the original #lifestyle #influencer and the #US’s first self-made female #billionaire.
@simonjackbbc.bsky.social and @misszing.bsky.social take a look at how Martha Stewart made her fortune.
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Gen Z's shift to the right baffled pundits – but should we have seen it coming? Trend forecaster Sean Monahan joins @misszing.bsky.social in The Bunker to unpack what is behind the political pivot of the TikTok generation.
Listen here: linktr.ee/bunker_pod
Opinion | Even if Labour managed to singlehandedly frogmarch every single undocumented person onto a Boeing 737 to nowhere, it wouldn’t do a thing to assuage the economic stagnation causing hardship among voters
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 BAFTA Bonanza 🎬🏆 What will happen to the boomers' cash? 💰👴🏻 Plus – Should we all aspire to be kept women? 💅🏼🤑
Join @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social @misszing.bsky.social and Jacob Hawley here: linktr.ee/papercutsshow
Billionaires keep getting richer while the rest of us struggle. We're told they should be praised as disruptors, philanthropists, and visionaries – but are they actually part of the problem?
@misszing.bsky.social & @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social try to answer that question here: linktr.ee/bunker_pod
Another brilliant podcast, I heard the Peter Thiel one by accident and loved it, went back to the beginning of the series and working my way through - fascinating and great presenters. Running theme is morality of philanthropy in a democracy - morality full stop.
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It's so easy to give into climate despair, but profiling this woman for British Vogue an absolute injection of hope for me. Monica Feria-Tinta is a superstar eco-barrister forcing countries to recognise the rights of nature www.vogue.co.uk/article/moni...
Interesting series by @simonjackbbc.bsky.social & @misszing.bsky.social . Here's the background to #TikTok .
To me, it explains why voters often pick the weirdest candidates...the section on numbers of people loving short-form video shows that no-one *reads* anymore?
Photo of two women with a baby. Text reads: OPINION I'm a single in a relationship recession – but please don't feel sorry for me
Opinion | I know broody singletons – of all genders, not just women – who would like a sprog
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I'm on tonight's News Quiz at @bbcradio4.bsky.social! Listen out at 6.30pm as my teammate Nish Kumar makes a bunch of jokes about Luigi Mangione that absolutely will not be broadcast on radio – thank you to host @zaltzcricket.bsky.social for having me 🎤
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Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg has sounded the death knell for all diversity initiatives
In a world where misogyny is rewarded with another four-year term in the White House, huge companies like Meta can choose to bend the knee or buck the trend
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The definition of "hiding in plain sight"
I think a lot of these posters are now pushing this kind of retrograde hate bait because they're making money from it on X. In reality they would chop off their left foot to touch the inside of Sydney Sweeney's elbow
The grad trainee programme at the FT is extraordinary. We train you for THREE years you get decent money and an overseas placement. I've seen other news trainee schemes and this one is exceptional.
It's open now. Pls share with anyone you know who would benefit d/l 14/1/25 www.ft.com/content/314f...
Calling it now - 28 Years Later is going to be one of the films of the year. Hope you're ready for a thousand "What This Movie Tells Us About Modern Britain" op-eds youtu.be/mcvLKldPM08?...
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