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…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”