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Journalist and developer; Working with @unredacted_uk; Author of Sports Geek, (2016); Ex @FT, @newsweek. Sport, data, politics: that's me.

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Seb Payne flounders in the femosphere

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By Rob Minto Verified
| Substack
A cartoon of a shouting woman, courtesy of chatGPT. Sebastian Payne is a right-wing commentator / journalist / think tanker who rarely gets into too much trouble - but his latest piece for The Times - “Never mind the manosphere — meet the angry young women” - is as every bit as odious as those of his more rough-and-tumble peers.
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Forget the polls, follow the money

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By Rob Minto Verified
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One of the best rules of journalism is to "follow the money". When it comes to elections, that rule is often overlooked. We follow the quotes, the outrage, and the polls. But what does the money tell us? On Tuesday the United States will vote in the Most Consequential Election in History (TM). Of course it’s always consequential. There are huge issues at stake. This time, it's not much of an exaggeration to say that democracy itself is on the line.
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Grab and go

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By Rob Minto Verified
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The most interesting part of the lyrics of the Smiths song “Shoplifters of the world” is not the chorus, but this bit: “I tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began” Teenagers and Kendall Roy might shoplift out of boredom, but if that’s the case there’s a lot more boredom going round. On Thursday October 24th, the next edition of crime statistics will be released.
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