Sam Jeffers

Loads of people near me (where you really do need a car per adult) clearly paying more for cars combined than their mortgage.

Yes. And at the same time it's incredibly depressing to watch videos of students leaving a Michigan football game unable to verbalise why they won't be voting for Abdul El-Sayed.

Big loss. Rest of World regularly produced the most interesting and original tech reporting.

Fascist-curious Western Europeans need to ask themselves why people are choosing to kick the "strongmen" out.

Reading the quote tweets of this post is a clear signal of how bad a lot of the American part of this website is. Conspiracist rubbish. Sorry guys, but it's true. Text based social media is dead in America.

Michael Carrick closes his eyes and thinks of Tuesday.

Looks like Pedro Sanchez's luck is running out here too. PP and Vox both up since he called the early election.

Younger folks don't know the rules of the Big Purchase.

You know what's difficult? Remembering all the websites you have.

You love to see it.

Doesn't Kaplan leaving Meta before the midterms seem like a pre-emptive "we need someone new for the hearings" move?

I declare an interest, but the new Hot Chip single is a real banger. youtu.be/I4f5T7IyA20?...

I hope he gets better, and that someone one day finds a better way of writing about a virus affecting the legs.

Huge if true. (A really smart politician might choose to do it the same day as the next election...)

One of the most satisfying parts of our work @whotargets.me is being able to support election accountability work in so many countries, languages and contexts. In a given week, we might be doing that in 5-6 countries. Really interesting and fun.

Republicans spent just $160,000 on ads mentioning Donald Trump last week, while Democrats spent $7,000,000. It's a clear sign the president's own party considers him a liability in the midterms.

“ recent research by the Nobel laureate economist Daron Acemoglu and colleagues shows what tends to happen when you put an M.B.A. in charge. In both the United States and Denmark, firms that appointed managers with business degrees cut wages and reduced labor’s share of income.”

“Again and again, I have watched students abandon their altruistic intentions, instead becoming consumed by whether to choose careers in consulting or finance and who will land a summer internship at McKinsey or Goldman Sachs” (💯) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

Just got the voice note from hell.

Not sure how many people watched the ITV doc on racism in Reform last night (500k?), but they've bought 20m impressions of ads on Facebook this week, with a combined reach of 13.5m accounts.

The US does also need people prepared to read the advertising policies of the companies they want to pay to run ads with. ads.tiktok.com/resources/he...

Did you know that Luton Airport is owned and ultimately operated by the council? Because you can absolutely tell.

Definitely passing a law that airports can only charge average local prices and romping home in the election with 527 seats.

Got rizzed up by Livvy and now this.

New post - on how the Republicans, through a lack of campaign practice and competition, might be messing up in Texas. fulldisclosure.whotargets.me/p/the-americ...