Lee Marlow

@leemarlow.bsky.social

Underwhelmed writer & journalism lecturer. * Politics/writing/music/football/weary scepticism & endless griping * #lcfc 🦊

Saw these on my dog walk this morning. Just like this, open, Inviting, like an apparition, with a lighter, too, all good to go. I stopped smoking 21 years ago and I still dream about them. Walked on. Didn’t have one. (Would probably have had one if they were Marlboro Lights, tbqhwy.)

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It’s almost like this policy of posting any old nonsense, chasing clicks, chasing trending themes with baseless stories was doomed to fail. Still, I expect the directors - who talk of good journalism as they make journalists redundant - trousered a fortune for overseeing this failure.

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 2w ago

Reach is “moving away from volume” in its editorial output to focus on original content as results for the first half of 2026 showed traffic and revenue down Reach has set its “near-term focus” on digital subscriptions, “quality video” and AI licensing deals pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-m...

The World Cup arriving in a Louis Vuitton case. Nicole Scherzinger miming. Robbie Williams singing about the majesty of FIFA in sparkly tracksuit bottoms. Tom Cruise making a nonsensical speech. Absolute arseholery. Game’s gone.

It's a deeply depressing indication of where we are as a species that Elon Musk became the first ever trillionaire in the same week as he used his social media platform to incite race riots on the other side of the planet