Jolyon has confirmed the worst: he’s leaving Musk’s X. Well, after he’s downloaded an archive of all his own great tweets…
The image based abuse is the last straw. Am requesting an archive and will then deactivate my account.
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) January 6, 2026
Jolyon sent more than 145,000 posts before calling it quits, so that’s quite a large archive. There’s really only one tweet he needs to save:

It’s been a pleasure, farewell. Unless he does a Sopel and returns within 24 hours…
The day after Starmer U-turned and refused to blame Trump for the war Rachel Reeves told the Mirror:
“Obviously no sensible person is a supporter of the Iranian regime, but to start a conflict without being clear what the objectives are and not being clear about how you are going to get out of it, I do think that is a folly and it is one that is affecting families here in the UK but also families in the US and around the world.”