Jack Hillcox

“Journalist”. BuzzFeed once said my tweets were funny. #OSINT enthusiast. Former @CNN & @SkyNews. Views my own, RTs are not endorsements

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

London is such a dangerous, hellhole; so full of ‘no go zones’, that millionaire footballers walk around at 5am.

[Chris Wheatley @ChrisWheatley]

Arsenal fans celebrate the Premier League title win in Uganda 🇺🇬 🐐

[Ayomide @Ayomide24]

I love this football club. Doing the Candy is hilarious 🤣 ❤️

[The i Paper @theipaper]

Ukraine’s “black rain” attacks are bringing the war deep into Russia, targeting oil sites critical to Vladimir Putin’s economy and war machine

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“We spotted nine Polymarket accounts, all connected, who made, collectively,$2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. military operations,” says Nicolas Vaiman, co-founder of the small data analytics firm Bubblemaps.

“And now here's the crazy part: 98% win rate.” https://t.co/T79aYM48ZI

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

No smoking gun, but the preponderance of evidence points to smartphones, not economics, as the culprit for the global drop in fertility:
• In the US and UK, births fell first and fastest in areas that got 4G earliest
• Birth rates were stable in the US, UK and Australia until 2007; in France and Poland until 2009; in Mexico and Indonesia until 2012; in Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal until 2013-15
Each of these inflection points matches local smartphone adoption (see picture).
• The younger the age group, the sharper the drop.
• in-person socialising among young adults is dropping. In SK, by 50% in 20 years
• Sexual dysfunction is higher among heavy social media user
• Effect is largest in culturally traditional societies — Middle East, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa
• Decline holds across countries hit hard by GFC 2008 and those not hit, fast-growing and not growing.
Excellent again @jburnmurdoch.
https://t.co/RYEMXD2bRM

[Jack Hillcox @JackHillcox]

You can read about "Dinner for One" here https://t.co/pawOGl4bLg

[Jack Hillcox @JackHillcox]

Fun fact: #Eurovision hosts saying "same procedure as every year" is presumably a reference to a 90-year-old British sketch that no Brits have heard of, but plays every New Year's Eve across much of Europe

[Jack Hillcox @JackHillcox]

For those who have forgotten https://t.co/Z4EgfVOlUf

[Jack Hillcox @JackHillcox]

Maintain one of the best #Eurovision moments was You'll Never Walk Alone from 2023

[Jonathan Swan @jonathanvswan]

New: Classified military intelligence assessments from early this month show Iran has regained access to most of its missile sites, launchers and underground facilities. Including: U.S. intel assesses Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz, and ~90% of Iran's underground missile sites are "partially or fully operational." w @Adamentous @maggieNYT https://t.co/3R2GEostRh

[The i Paper @theipaper]

Long-range drone strikes have caused apocalyptic scenes at energy sites across Russia, sending skyward towering plumes of smoke that are visible from space, and bringing carcinogenic rain and poisonous sludge to Russian towns and tourist resorts https://t.co/IrCA8tVdBV

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Zack Polanski and his partner called their narrowboat their “amazing home” for three years. He registered to vote there.

If it was his main residence, council tax was due. None was paid.

His team says he stayed there only “occasionally” - if true, there's a very big problem.

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

New: A Washington Post satellite imagery review reveals that Iran has caused far more damage to US military sites than previously reported.

Amid a US imagery blackout, Iran has released more than 100 images of strikes on US bases.

We analyzed them: https://t.co/r68Qpki0TG

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

The @nytimes added 310,000 net new digital subscribers in the first quarter, surpassing 13.1 million total, the largest paid audience in the history of the paper. @katie_robertson https://t.co/xcxr2SBsuz

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Python’s “Marching Up and Down the Square” is pure genius. Michael Palin (83 today) hits notes that only dog whistles and Mariah Carey can match. The “extras” were real Colchester Garrison soldiers, who later said they were “fighting for their lives” not to break. 😂🤣

[Farida Rustamova @faridaily_]

My nerdy calculations now in the Financial Times!

[Mike Scott @IrkthePurists]

It looks like a list of people who’ve signed a misjudged letter in the Guardian.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

The most popular set of views these days is 1) I don’t trust the legacy media 2) I completely trust and will build a new personal philosophy around any vertical video I see.

[Poppy Coburn @kafkaswife]

This is a fantastic and grimly funny piece