Oliver Bullough
@oliverbullough
Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
After careful consideration, I've concluded that the magnifying glass is the most useless tool on a Swiss Army Knife.
Not really relevant to Soho residents' objections to people standing up in pubs but I stayed in an airbnb in Soho in February, and the flat downstairs had this on the door.
The UKFIU has about 200 employees, so that's 4,300 SARs to read per person, or 11.7 every day of the year, assuming none of them have any time off. Funnily enough, therefore, not many of them get sent on to law enforcement to be checked, since not many of them get read in the first place.
Back in 2016, the average cost to the government for running a by-election was almost 230K. Since Farage has "won the lottery", as he put it, perhaps he should volunteer to pay this entirely unnecessary expense that he's decided to foist upon us. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
Poor Anthropic. Imagine having your intellectual property illicitly extracted, what kind of company would even do that?
He lost more than Warren Buffett owns, in a day, and yet is still a trillionaire. This not a healthy situation.
I'm a big fan of this hallucination... bsky.app/profile/apar...
John Cassara wasn't taking any prisoners in his evidence to the House of Representatives financial services committee. docs.house.gov/meetings/BA/...
Hi James, great to hear from you. If you'd waited to read the book before getting in touch, you'd have noticed I credited you as having been the first person to make this point, and that I even made reference to the fact that I hadn't been born yet when you made it. Cheers.
I am unreasonably triggered by the fact people keeping saying Game of Thrones has a "king of the north". FFS, it's "king in the north". Come on, this is important.
Continuing my land-quality obsession. Here's a detail of the land-quality map, alongside a detail of the same area on a 1637 map of Radnorshire. See the circle with "Hereford Part" that's the only grade 3 bit of land in the whole county and they've given it to England.
Grade one is best agricultural land, grade five is worst. Red is cities. Orange is mountains, mostly.
My land-value-based nationalist conspiracy got a surprising amount of love, so here's the whole of Wales. It's such a cool map, whether or not it has a greater significance.
Yellow is Grade 4 ("poor quality"), green is grade 3 ("good to moderate". I don't think it's a coincidence the border follows the line where they divide so closely, and there are even plenty of Welsh place-names in the yellow bit of south-western Herefordshire.
These are the UN population pyramids (they're called "pyramids" but don't look anything like pyramids any more) for China now, and for 2100.
This is an incredible statistic. The world is going to look unbelievably different surprisingly soon. www.ft.com/content/3e5c...
I did a book event at Cover to Cover in Swansea last night, and quite a dramatic drive between Penderyn and Merthyr on the way home.
The Beautiful Game gets more beautiful by the day. www.ft.com/content/234f...
That's just reminded me of Gryzlovman, and yet another reason to be grateful for the Wayback Machine!
Seems odd to me but, since you're offering, I'll have number two on the back and sides and a bit off the top please.
Just in case btw that anyone else (like this commenter under the article) thinks Everybody Loves Our Dollars, my latest book, is a big love letter to fiat currency, I'd like to point out for the record that it's about why money laundering is bad and how we should be fighting it better.
I reviewed Rory Carroll's A Rebel and a Traitor for the Guardian. It's fascinating, and I'd recommend it. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...