Alev Scott

Thinking about the time our high school English teacher gave us a poem to analyse When we finished she told us it was Donald Rumsfeld’s WMD press conference, and that was the class

@SoVeryBritish (Good arbitrage tip - save up your reward coffees for airport use, btw). I once asked someone at Toblerone what the weird airport thing is. It just happened really early and mushroomed from there.

I don't understand how Grammarly thought they could get away with this.

She really is brilliant at this.

Grok is actively misleading X users and I've lost count of the number of times this has happened. The videos of a boulevard in Tehran on fire that it says are from the 2017 LA fires have in fact all been filmed in Tehran tonight and can be easily geolocated and confirmed.

this right here is the reason China stays quiet on Iran everyone losing their mind asking where is Beijing while the US & Israel are bombing a major chinese energy partner and the answer is so brutal in its simplicity that most analysts miss it completely, the empire is eating itself alive and China is already building the replacementt America just dragged the entire Middle East into a war for Israel & now Saudi arabia, UAE, kuwait & qatar are sitting in a room discussing pulling out of US contracts & canceling investment commitments the Gulf states, the literal foundation of the petrodollar, the system that has kept the US dollar as world reserve currency since 1974 actively discussing the exit and Beijing did absolutely nothing to make that happen…Washington did it to itself but here's what people miss: china saw this coming years ago and already laid the tracks, literally the belt & road Initiative has quietly wired 150 countries into c’hinese infrastructure, ports, railways, highways, fiber optic cables, power grids…while the western media barely covered it Saudi Arabia started selling oil to China in yuan in 2023, that alone should have been front page news for a month, the BRICS just expanded to include Saudi arabia UAE and Iran in the samea bloc, China built CIPS as a direct alternative to SWIFT so the entire non western world can settle trade without ever touching the dollar, every single one of these moves was made before a single bomb fell on Iran and then there's Africa…the youngest continent on earth, median age 19, projected to reach 2.5 billion people by 2050, the largest workforce the planet has ever seen & China understood 20y ago that whoever builds Africa's infrastructure owns the 21st century, while the US was spending 4 trillion dollars destroying Iraq & Afghanistan China was building railways in Kenya, dams in Ethiopia, ports in Djibouti, highways in Nigeria, tech hubs in Rwanda, stadiums, hospitals, government buildings, telecom networks powered by Huawei across the entire continent.. & they did it without firing a single bullet, no regime change, no sanctions, no lectures on democracy, just concrete steel, fiber optic and longterm contracts so when people ask why China stays silent on Iran the answer is that silence is the strategy, every war America fights for Israel costs trillions, destabilizes energy markets, alienates Gulf partners and pushes the entire Global South closer to a system Beijing spent two decades building the gulf states pivoting right now has zero to do with ideology, Washington turned their entire neighborhood into a warzone to serve Tel Aviv's regional strategy & then asked them to keep buying treasury bonds with a straight face….the math just stopped working and when the math stops working loyalty stops too beijing's silencee on Iran is the most patient & most devastating move on the board, China is watching america dismantle its own hegemony in real time while quietly inheriting every alliance washington burns, it just has to keep building & keep quiet Napoleon said nver interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake, Xi turned that into a 50y doctrine & right now it's paying off faster than even beijing expected

Thank you @hannahsbee !

This is a Gaza style warning from the Israelis to Lebanese in the southern suburbs of Beirut. People are rushing to leave.

So he's flat out telling us that we're in a war with Iran because Israel forced our hand. This is basically the worst possible thing he could have said.

The country’s largest IVF company released its first financial accounts. The private equity owned firm has half a billion in debt with no current positive cash flow. Tomorrow’s column: afr.com/rear-window/be…

Video shared on social media shows the moment a falling missile crashed and exploded in a residential area in Doha, Qatar. It happened as Iran was firing retaliatory strikes at US bases in the Middle East following American and Israeli attacks this morning.

The regime in Teheran 🇮🇷 is abhorrent. The attack is still a clear violation of international law. You don’t become a saint because of the sin of others.

Which also reminds me it’s the one week anniversary of this surreal but glorious double spread and accompanying caption..

Loved my chat with @ManveenRana for @thetimes podcast on #CashCow and the ethics of the fertility industry - thanks for having me on! open.spotify.com/episode/0Q6XeB…

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

So…apartheid.

CASH COW by Alev Scott is out today with @HarperCollinsUK! "A powerful, intimate and disturbing exploration of the hidden markets built on women’s bodies. (This) will change the way you think about family, fertility and the future." - Peter Frankopan waterstones.com/book/cash-cow/…

Serendipitously coordinated with the @BBCWomansHour studio aesthetic and with @claremcdonnell1 herself! And you can listen back on @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b… @HarperCollinsUK

.@AlevScott is discussing Cash Cow, her exploration of the commercialisation of motherhood on @BBCWomansHour around 10.45 this morning. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…