Turi Munthe

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🚨Some GOOD media news: We're using the money we raised last year to double the size of our team by the end of 2024, hiring journalists in Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool and... London. Yes, the time has come - as reported by today's @FT.

@liverpoolpost Loved this. Congrats

‘Cavafy’s verse is free, simple, and universal’ livpost.co.uk/p/in-search-of…

Once those have been eliminated, their extraversion predicts very long lives, because there’s a correlation between optimism and health, and extraverts are the great optimists. more here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11374751/

Because nunneries are places where extraverts have to sublimate the parts of their personality that most present them to risk. Nuns aren’t really allowed to go motor-bike racing or bungee-jumping or all-night raving - they have to rein in their riskiest or risqué-ist desires.

The personality trait that predicts lower life expectancy is extroversion. Extroverts like risk, they like parties, they're more likely to drink, smoke, sky-dive etc... EXCEPT in one beautiful instance. In a convent, extravert nuns are the nuns who live the longest. Why?

🚨 OK, I need your help. Andy Burnham's advisor Sacha Lord is threatening to sue @ManchesterMill. So we're publishing the document at the heart of the story - and asking for your help with a 'community fact-check'. My editor's note. Pls share. manchestermill.co.uk/p/sacha-lord-i…

@buttonslives @IonaItalia You mean the first, no?

@IonaItalia Doesn’t help that antisemitism is baked into the second most widely practiced religion in the world.

I rarely get hate on here, except occasionally from H*ndu nationalists. Even when I post nude pics of my ageing body, people are lovely. But right now, my DMs are stuffed with the vilest antisemitic stuff from people who assume I'm Jewish. I am sickened. What is happening?!

@VodafoneIT Mi hai dato un numero di telefono nuovo senza cancellare i vecchi dati... Vedo TUTTO le vecchie compre del utente precedente su Amazon

Some very exciting news...🚨 We've raised money from a group of readers and supporters, including ex-NYT CEO Mark Thompson and longtime Mill members like @turi and @DianeCoyle1859. It means this model can now expand - more journalists, more cities. theguardian.com/media/2023/aug…

@nathanbenaich Same as this one?

Guess what website this is...

@jonjalex @LargerUsNetwork I’ll take it. He’s morally objectionable but he’s hot. 😂

@LargerUsNetwork Great stuff - although I have to apologise to @turi as that photo did make me think for a second that you’d got Lance Armstrong on the board… 😬😂

We’re absolutely thrilled to share that we have some excellent new faces joining our Board. The field of candidates was truly brilliant and we were a little overwhelmed by the calibre of people who wanted to support us on our journey. (1/7)

In 1750, France had a population of 25M and were the China of Europe. If the French had continued growing at the same pace as the rest of Europe, they'd be 250M today. Why they stopped, and what the consequences were, are fascinating. @gguillaumeblanc worksinprogress.co/issue/frances-…

@hugorifkind Primacy of human freedom over personal conviction beautifully embodied by @timfarron who has also written about the tensions there. I think it’s the very foundation of liberalism.

It's also completely possible to vote against the preferences of your own faith if you think the freedom of others is more important. And if you don't think that, then that's the problem.

It's not about religion. Kate Forbes' political problem is that she has censorious social views at odds with most other people's social views. I'd imagine an atheist, ban-the-family liberal in politics would have similar problems, although I can't offhand think of any.

@astridchuu @Uriel061061782 🥺

@Valen10Francois Still proving the failure of that moderating influence of Rome all those centuries ago is playing out?

Which alcohol do you prefer? Brittany: Yes

Startling polling from @Unherd, on the eve of the 3rd anniversary of Brexit. In all 650 UK constituencies apart from three (all in Lincolnshire), more people now agree than disagree that Brexit was a mistake. Biggest movement in left leaning areas. britain.unherd.com/?mc_cid=ae794f…

New paper! Here's the one-minute version. There's a puzzle I've been thinking about for a long time. Wealthy countries tend to be happier...

@jbenton Feels just like blogging did 15 yrs ago. Everyone and their grandmother launched one, until they all collectively realised much more was being written than being read. Same for all new UGC formats? I say this as someone who launched a pod during lockdown and has now stopped ;-)

New by me —> Where did all the new podcasts go? The number of new podcasts launched fell by nearly 80% between 2020 and 2022 — and seems to still be dropping. Has podcasting moved from a gold rush to a mature market? niemanlab.org/2023/01/where-…

@summerbrennan Just put in the UK and spectacular @JBoorstin