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JEMIMA KELLY The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, one of Substack’s biggest names, makes between $80,000 and $160,000 a month in subscriptions to his newsletter. … Substack, a newsletter platform whose model is based on paid subscriptions, is flying particularly high. It announced on Tuesday that it was raising a further $65m from investors, in a round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz that will reportedly value it at $650m. Established in 2017, Substack now has more than half a million subscribers — double what it had in December. And some of its bigge...

Let's talk about the grand Slate Star Codex brouhaha. A lot of people have already written about this. Here is the original New Yorker essay from last June is probably the best “neutral” piece that has been written yet; If you do not know anything about Slate Star Codex or why so many people are writing about it now, start there. Sebastian Benthall's commentary is also a very good middle ground analysis.[4] I am sure there has been a great deal of debate on twitter as well. I have not read it and thus cannot link to it: I unfollowed everyone on Twitter except a handful of newspapers an...

Residents in Clifton have been left disgusted after fly-tipping in the village has escalated. Allerdale councillor and Clifton resident Peter Gaston said the problem has got worse over the last two or three years. He said: "It's not acceptable. It's just laziness, people would rather dump it on their own doorstep than take it to the tip." Problems have arisen at an area on private land between The Gables to Stoneycroft. A chain link fence was smashed down in order to dump waste at the site. Councillor Gaston said he didn't think it was fair for the landowner to have to face the prob...

Feb 3, 2021 Shortly after President Joe Biden spoke of uniting the country last week, Will Wilkinson of the Niskanen Center think tank quipped on Twitter, “If Biden really wanted unity, he’d lynch Mike Pence.” The joke — in case it doesn’t sound funny to you — being that Pence is now hated on both the left and the right. Wilkinson quickly lost his job. And the reaction was predictable: Fox News reported the tweet at face value. Reason magazine condemned “cancel culture.” And other public intellectuals on Twitter fretted that if it can happen to Wilkinson, “it can ha...

REJECTED: Alan Smith, Labour (left) and Will Wilkinson, Independent Councillors in Allerdale have rejected a proposal that would have seen their allowances increase by £100 a year, in light of the pressures being faced by residents due to the Covid-19 pandemic. At their full council meeting on Wednesday evening, Allerdale Council members unanimously agreed not to adopt the increase to their basic allowance, which had been recommended by an independent panel. Executive member for policy, governance and people resources, Conservative Marion Fitzgerald explained that the independent panel...