Your privacy choices

We use analytics to improve Pollar and, with your consent, marketing tools (Meta, X) to measure our ads. You can change this anytime in Settings.

Privacy policy
Pollar
HomeAskLiveBriefOriginalsSearchMapMarketsNotificationsFor You
ThreadsMarkets
NewsroomSupport Pollar
Privacy

Kate Davies

screenwriter

  • Jul 28

    Netflix overtakes BBC as UK viewers' first choice for TV, Ofcom report shows

    For the first time, more UK viewers tuned to Netflix first than the BBC in 2025, with 26% choosing the streamer against 25% for the national broadcaster, driven by hits like KPop Demon Hunters and Adolescence.

Reader-supported

Free to read, and staying that way

No ads. Membership keeps Pollar independent.

from$2.99/mo

Support Pollar
Membership

Members don't see this panel.

  • Supporter$2.99/mo
  • Founder$6.99/mo
Support Pollar

Today’s Brief

Ceuta's warning surfaces, aide resigns

Houthis squeeze oil routes as officials confront AI misuse, border failures and inflation

The day’s hardest news ran through chokepoints, both physical and institutional. Houthi gains near Bab el-Mandeb and strikes on Saudi infrastructure jolted oil markets, while documents in Spain and disclosures from Anthropic showed officials learning, again, that warnings age badly when ignored.

Read the Brief

Live now

All live coverage
  • Houthi advance on Yemen's Red Sea coast

    Take control of Moca, Hays, and Red Sea islands including Zuqar and Hanish as Brent crude rises to $104

In the spotlight

All threads

Other · Updated 2m ago

Demography and migration

New Swedish poll and analytical framing of Ceuta as hybrid attack add political context but no discrete policy event.

HomeBriefThreadsAsk
Categories