Rhys Griffiths

1/10 If the last few days of Iranian strikes on Dubai have proven anything, it’s that a massive number of people completely despise the city and those living there.

And honestly? There are very good reasons to despise them.

A thread on the city of hypocrites 🧵👇

🚄 Train feels the strain as Folkestone passenger numbers soar Plus: Thousands of lorries could be taken off roads and onto rails, and massive town centre regeneration scheme passes halfway mark

In the first of a two-part special report, we reveal results of our survey of rail passengers about the state of services from Folkestone...

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Two bald men have ended their fight over a comb. For now.

And, lo, 400-odd words appeared - as if by some divine intervention - and there was great rejoicing

I dearly wish I could write anything without an impending, immovable deadline. Wednesday Rhys could make Tuesday Rhys very happy indeed, but will he?

As we have now slipped from Wednesday morning into Wednesday afternoon, and the sun is actually shining outside, I worry the answer is no

Multiple times between McLaughlin and Stevens Creek

This says something about my marriage that I won't explain, but it took place within a short distance from Interstate 280

Something very British about our wannabe fascist dictator being the guy who messed up running Southampton football club.

This is absolutely true, and why, in times past places just got abandoned.

The other thing I'd add is that where an answer does exist, its often "high speed travel to big city and lots of housing", and guess what people also don't want.

Yesterday my friend told me about her PHILOSOPHY students all using ai for their assignments and like come the fuck on man you’re in Uni doing the subject thats Thinking about Thinking and u refuse to Think

💷 Restaurant that employed illegal workers is stripped of alcohol licence Plus: Preparations begin for UK Town of Culture bid, and beach moves step closer to bathing water designation following campaign

This week's newsletter is out now...

That app has ruined what little productivity and focus I had left!

AI;DR: Journalism's quislings for AI and why I'll never use AI to write this newsletter The future of journalism doesn't have to be AI-generated; we can and should resist.

NEW | ‘Inspired’ by that editor castigating a journalism graduate for not wanting a job just feeding the AI…

AI;DR: Journalism's quislings for AI and why I'll never use AI to write this newsletter

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/aidr-journ...

If you loved the last conservative government this looks like the team for you

Brilliant stuff, best of luck!

This is why I try to make the @folkestonedispatch.substack.com more about hope and positivity than anger and division. A different lens is possible...

The same people who lord the bravery of the war generation now seek publicity by pretending to have pissed their pants in London at the sight of something totally unremarkable in the hope of scaring people who don't live there - as if competitive wimpering is a vote winner. Absolutely pathetic.

My partner has two passports, and always enters and leaves the relevant country on the relevant doc, this seems to be a mad thing for people to be upset about. You travel, you get a passport, not really difficult to grasp

Sod it, pub?

Mesopotamianpeasantfarmer I. FUCKING. HATE. FARMING. The hunter-gatherers stand around my fields and shout go wheat boy go

The other half of the early agriculture shitpost canon:

At this rate I'm starting to think that the whole 'men thinking about the Roman empire' thing is going to need updating to 'the Third Reich'. Jesus, what a world we appear to be living in...

Not just that, an 'economic migrant'

Ed is live at today's KCC budget meeting. Follow below 👇

Praying Substack hasn't imploded. I'll have to get an actual job

Or you can visit the London Borough of Bexley, which has no dedicated news outlet, where Uncle Clive gets radicalised by Facebook and tries to blow up an ULEZ camera.

With no local news, those in news deserts turn to social media feeds, influencers and gossip research | Feb 10, 2026

A survey taken in August 2025 found that across 206 US counties defined as local news deserts, roughly half of people relied on non-journalistic sources, not news organisations, to get local news localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2026/0...

Can we do this for indy local news, please? 😆

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious