The Winter Creativity Grift
A Field Guide to Doing Nothing (Productively) It’s January. You haven’t written anything meaningful in three weeks. Your last “creative session” involved opening a Google Doc, typing the word “Chapter”,…
Designing a Daily-Capable Content System
(Without Burning Yourself Out) There’s a certain kind of advice that sounds motivating until you actually try to live inside it. “Post every day.”“Consistency is king.”“Outwork everyone.” Fine slogans. Terrible…
A Note to Fellow Writers in a Noisy Time
In Five Years, Human-Sounding Writing Will Be the Real Premium The other morning, I sat down to write and realised I could finish the piece in minutes if I wanted…
A Perfectly Normal Weather Event
Your Guide to This Weekend’s Bomb Cyclone So there’s a bomb cyclone coming. Not a metaphorical one. Not a political one. An actual meteorological phenomenon with a name that sounds…
The Real Reason Most People Don’t Make Money on Instagram
(And Why Effort Isn’t the Problem) There’s a quiet frustration that doesn’t get talked about much online. It usually sounds like this… You’re posting consistently.You’ve learned about hooks, reels, captions,…
The Espresso Martini Brownie
A Monument to Our Collective Collapse It is January 25th, 2026. Outside my vaguely damp Spanish retreat, the sky is the colour of unwashed pewter. The staggering optimism of the…
California Didn’t Join the WHO
But What It Actually Did Might Be More Interesting. Right, let’s clear something up before the internet gets any more confused. California has not, despite what some headlines might suggest,…
View from the Cave: The “Board of Peace” and the Art of Geopolitical Gaslighting
Greetings from the depths of Andalusia (Spain). It’s damp, dark, and the bats are currently having a heated debate about ceiling hierarchy, but I can assure you, it makes infinitely…
The Land of the Free (Now Screening With Subtitles)
There was a time when visiting America felt like entering a shared dream. You didn’t need to understand every line of dialogue. The plot carried you. Freedom. Reinvention. The open…
The Great Geopolitical Shuffle
Why Starmer’s Flying to Beijing While Trump Builds Walls So here we are. January 2026. Keir Starmer’s just touched down in Beijing for the first time a British prime minister…