Rob Watson

Creative Director @WeAreRaw & host of the 'Do Good Podcast'

[Rob Watson @Rob_Watson_]

New podcast out with Erica Komisar on what children really need & the irreplaceable role of mothers.

Her insights challenge the status quo and remind us of the profound power of presence, sacrifice, and love in raising emotionally healthy children.

👍

https://t.co/8pV2afC2CI

[James Delingpole @JMCDelingpole]

As ever, the brilliant Miri AF is first out of the blocks to tell it like it is: Henry No Whack [They have to tell you] is another psyop

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear.

It migrated inward.

Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space.

That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons.

So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public.

The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it.

The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open.

The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility.

That is the trade.

A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation.

This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question.

The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults.

It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation.

The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.

[Rob Watson @Rob_Watson_]

@ohnyzen @CA75253969 @BGatesIsaPyscho Gregory Lessing Garret's Substack discussed this https://t.co/wvuhMtPSla

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

We are overstimulated and we don't even notice. Netflix while eating. Reels in the bathroom. Music while cooking. Podcasts on walks. We consume by default, not by intention. You keep filling every gap, then wonder why you feel foggy and unmotivated. Boredom and silence are the real growth drivers. They give you space to think and create. That's when solutions show up for problems that have been stuck for months. Leave some room.

[Raw @WeAreRaw]

New project: creating @chesterzoo digital magazine for their members.

We had a blast working on this over the past 3.5 years.

https://t.co/DuHEOMvcjM

[Rob Watson @Rob_Watson_]

@maltburger85 @BGatesIsaPyscho which JRE epsiode out of interest?

[Queen Natalie 👑 @TheNorfolkLion]

OK M&S just dropped something actually genius: their new 'Only… Ingredients' range 😍

Everyday staples like baked beans, sausages, burgers, ketchup, yoghurts, cereals... made with 3–8 recognisable ingredients MAX. No weird additives, no artificial colours, no preservatives, no ultra-processed nonsense. Just proper food, back to basics. 👏🏻

[Rob Watson @Rob_Watson_]

@elonmusk Just like you, Elon

[أبو عمّار @MaajidNawaz]

A quite unbelievable and, frankly, stupid line of defence from Petey.

His innocence until proven guilty granted, but this line is simply dumb.

It assumes that male pedophiles don’t also procure underage boys for gay men.

[Rob Watson @Rob_Watson_]

Celebrating New Year on January 1st, in the dead of winter, has felt off with me for quite a while - turns out 1st April used to be day... https://t.co/hJVbM0RL0B

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

How the City of London is not part of the UK.

For those who have not seen this before it’s important you watch and listen. The City of London, Washington DC and the Vatican City all have special status. This gives special rights and protections to those in these areas.

The speaker is Professor Richard Werner.

One if not the most important video in the history of the 20 century!

[Clare Wills Harrison @AwakenedOf]

This is a long 🧵 on digital ID in the UK, but I hope people read it because it seems there is a fundamental misunderstanding as to what digital ID actually is. Some people think it's only anything with new biometrics, others think it's just "Britcard" & others think it's

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[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I am actually a huge fan of the BBC or at least what it used to be. This recent scandal and the new information that is being revealed about BBC bias on other matters such as immigration, gender ideology etc explain very clearly why our country is where it is.

The simple fact is that journalists, civil servants, politicians, activists, comedians and other cultural and political commentators live in a bubble in which they are not only naturally insulated from the views of the man or woman in the street, they are also deliberately insulating themselves from the views of the plebs whom they despise and look down on.

On every common sense issue (illegal immigration is wrong, men can't become women, lying about Trump & Farage is wrong, no matter how much you hate them, Net Zero is economic suicide etc) they have taken the wrong side every single time. But not only were they wrong, they gaslit everyone else into believing we were the immoral ones for being right.

This isn't about the BBC, it's about the entire social milieu in which smugness and certainty have triumphed over curiosity and humility.

This is the truth about why Britain is where it is: the people who are meant to lead us do not serve the people, they serve themselves.

This is a rotten way to do politics, to debate ideas, to run a country. Is it any surprise that the wealthy (who can leave) and the young (who are flexible enough to leave) are fleeing in their droves?

People don't like to hear it but it is true: Britain has slipped into an economic, cultural and demographic crisis from which it will be nigh on impossible to recover. Our GDP per person is lower today than it was in 2008. Our cultural and political debates are phony. We argue about what a woman is while our country is going bankrupt. The best and brightest leave while the government stuffs hotel after hotel with illegal immigrants at our expense.

Britain has one electoral cycle left to change course. We won't survive 5 more years of elite failure after this useless Government limps out of office. We're running out of road.

[Rob Watson @Rob_Watson_]

Watch out for the sneaky stealth taxes in the upcoming budget. Good insight here in how they keep shafting us year after year 👇👇👇

https://t.co/0DrvQDslUy

[Róisín Murphy @roisinmurphy]

The mob is out in force. The more I see of this cruel “activism,” the more convinced I am that I do not want them anywhere near me or my music, however that may affect my career. I won’t be held to ransom—no more blackmail. What I see more than anything is a spoiled and entitled childishness. I am not interested in being their “mother” or “queen”; these babies need to grow up and allow artists like myself the dignity of opinion and the space and freedom to create. Or let them have AI pop star avatars that never question them. Let the music industry do its worst; let it continue to infantilize and exploit them. Let them have a hologram, perfectly designed for an insular, echo-chamber culture. Perhaps I’ve lived through the last moments of the best period in popular music and, in fact, it’s over—or at least it is at the beginning of the end. If that is so, I have nothing to lose.

Just for the record, I have zero hate toward trans people; I do not deny anyone’s existence. The post that has caused such frantic panic among the trans activist mob is a graph that shows a steep decline in trans and non-binary identity in young people over the past few years in the USA. My declaration “it was never real” refers to the contagion that was undoubtedly aided by the submission of the media, captured medical institutions, and social media derangement. Recently, this wilfully blind and irresponsible behavior has been curtailed to some degree, as more and more people affected by it stand up and demand a long-needed audit of trans ideology, which continues to stamp its boot across anyone who decries its negative consequences. Children, families, women, and gay people have all been adversely affected by the insane belief that one can change sex—the core hallucination of this destructive and insidious movement—while bad faith actors have lined their pockets.

The arts as a whole are a shadow of their former free and inclusive selves. I’ve had the most free and fun time possible making the music I believe in over the past 30 years. If being a compassionate artist is to be my downfall now, then so be it. I know in my heart that one day, I will be remembered as a brave person, both morally and artistically uncompromising. In the long run, that will be my legacy.

[Pavel Durov @durov]

I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.

Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.

What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.

Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).

Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.

A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.

We’ve been fed a lie.

We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.

By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.

So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

It’s now 27 years since I was made redundant and given a few grand. I decided that if I was careful, I could live off the money for 6 months trying to become a comedian before I had to get another job. I was 37. Worth a punt.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Neil Oliver: "And so, back, one last time, to digital ID and why I say it won't work. It won't work because it's not built and never was intended to make any of us safe but, on the contrary, to make the oligarchs safe, safe from us. It won't work because in the end, as always, it's only about money, money taken from us the many and seized by them the few."

"It won't work because, on account of their hubris, the oligarchs have actually revealed to us what they're all about. Bad actors, bad scripts, bad special effects, disastrous production values all round. Digital ID won't work because the sales pitch is supposed to be able to make this country and the people living in it safe."

"But too many people see that the directors of the disastrous bad acting have nothing but contempt for this place and for this people. Too many see that those who loathe us and our ancient homeland, those who would replace it and us with something without meaning, just a stepping stone to money and control, those that are committed to a new world order in which the mass of us are nothing more than captive slaves, captive to an anti-human ideology. Too many people see it."

"Digital ID was supposed to be their grand finale, the big finish, but it's never about what they say it's about. Bad actors, the lot of them, acting in bad faith and with malice in mind. I'm telling you now, on account of all I've just said, digital ID, it won't work."