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Alex Turner
7 min readSep 14, 2022

If I can’t afford something anymore, I cancel it.

I’ve lost my favourite magazine subscriptions, gym subscriptions, wine subscriptions, and even coffee subscriptions (jokes, of course I haven’t cancelled coffee. I’m not a maniac).

It’s the first rule of Personal Finance. Don’t spend more than you make.

Yet I’m sitting here, freezing my breasticles off, wondering how I’m going to pay my energy bills this winter, literally having a mental breakdown every 5 minutes wondering how anyone making any less than my comfortable salary is going to pay their bills this winter, watching the Tories do everything they can to make it worse, and now we have the Queen’s funeral to pay for too.

Some estimates put this at £6 billion.

£6 BILLION.

RIP the Queen, but when she lies in state for the next four days in Westminster Hall, the coffin will be topped with the Imperial State Crown, orb and sceptre — the crown itself has an estimated worth somewhere between £3 billion and £5 billion.

Um.

As 9 million people face fuel poverty this winter, these numbers are making me nauseous.

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