Heidi Blake

That is a great question and something I often ask myself. Like, I kind of constantly try to find a story that is slightly less unwieldy and then get drawn into these, like, naughty morasses and think, why do I do this to myself? But I don't know. I just...

There's something that sort of activates in me where I feel like there is a kind of concentration of power in the hands of a person or people who are abusing it. I don't know. I kind of reach a certain level of outrage and it spurs me on to really want to get to the bottom of something. But also, this is so fun because this is kind of not an outrageous thing.

There's something that sort of activates in me where I feel like there is a kind of concentration of power in the hands of a person or people who are abusing it. I don't know. I kind of reach a certain level of outrage and it spurs me on to really want to get to the bottom of something. But also, this is so fun because this is kind of not an outrageous thing.

There's something that sort of activates in me where I feel like there is a kind of concentration of power in the hands of a person or people who are abusing it. I don't know. I kind of reach a certain level of outrage and it spurs me on to really want to get to the bottom of something. But also, this is so fun because this is kind of not an outrageous thing.

This is just an intriguing, like, why the hell don't we know what this pool looks like? Come on, guys. Like, what are they hiding? What is so secret about this pool? This is crazy.

This is just an intriguing, like, why the hell don't we know what this pool looks like? Come on, guys. Like, what are they hiding? What is so secret about this pool? This is crazy.

This is just an intriguing, like, why the hell don't we know what this pool looks like? Come on, guys. Like, what are they hiding? What is so secret about this pool? This is crazy.

With the reporting I did on the Dubai royal family, they've just had hundreds and hundreds of people pass through their employment, and actually that means it's not very difficult to find some people among them. Especially, you know, if you make it a numbers game and you just approach a ton of people, some of them are going to feel like talking to you.

With the reporting I did on the Dubai royal family, they've just had hundreds and hundreds of people pass through their employment, and actually that means it's not very difficult to find some people among them. Especially, you know, if you make it a numbers game and you just approach a ton of people, some of them are going to feel like talking to you.

With the reporting I did on the Dubai royal family, they've just had hundreds and hundreds of people pass through their employment, and actually that means it's not very difficult to find some people among them. Especially, you know, if you make it a numbers game and you just approach a ton of people, some of them are going to feel like talking to you.

I am literally going on LinkedIn. You're going on LinkedIn. That is literally what I'm doing. Yeah, LinkedIn is amazing. And this, I feel like this is one of those things where like, you know, magicians should never reveal their secrets because like, it's LinkedIn. That's the secret. Really? It's unbelievably good. Yeah, because what you can do is,

I am literally going on LinkedIn. You're going on LinkedIn. That is literally what I'm doing. Yeah, LinkedIn is amazing. And this, I feel like this is one of those things where like, you know, magicians should never reveal their secrets because like, it's LinkedIn. That's the secret. Really? It's unbelievably good. Yeah, because what you can do is,

I am literally going on LinkedIn. You're going on LinkedIn. That is literally what I'm doing. Yeah, LinkedIn is amazing. And this, I feel like this is one of those things where like, you know, magicians should never reveal their secrets because like, it's LinkedIn. That's the secret. Really? It's unbelievably good. Yeah, because what you can do is,

I mean, this is obviously like a totally unintended consequence of LinkedIn, but everybody is on LinkedIn and everybody has put their whole professional history on LinkedIn. So you can go on there and you can say, show me everybody who has previously worked at Buckingham Palace. And it will give you hundreds and hundreds of results. And then you can filter those.

I mean, this is obviously like a totally unintended consequence of LinkedIn, but everybody is on LinkedIn and everybody has put their whole professional history on LinkedIn. So you can go on there and you can say, show me everybody who has previously worked at Buckingham Palace. And it will give you hundreds and hundreds of results. And then you can filter those.

I mean, this is obviously like a totally unintended consequence of LinkedIn, but everybody is on LinkedIn and everybody has put their whole professional history on LinkedIn. So you can go on there and you can say, show me everybody who has previously worked at Buckingham Palace. And it will give you hundreds and hundreds of results. And then you can filter those.

So I took the liberty of doing this just to see what we would find. Thank you. No, I mean, you know, you guys could do it yourself. It's kind of amazingly easy. But so you can put in Buckingham Palace or the other way they describe it is the Royal Household.

So I took the liberty of doing this just to see what we would find. Thank you. No, I mean, you know, you guys could do it yourself. It's kind of amazingly easy. But so you can put in Buckingham Palace or the other way they describe it is the Royal Household.

So I took the liberty of doing this just to see what we would find. Thank you. No, I mean, you know, you guys could do it yourself. It's kind of amazingly easy. But so you can put in Buckingham Palace or the other way they describe it is the Royal Household.

And if you do that, you have hundreds of results. You have a summer warden, a sous chef, butlers, junior footman, a building surveyor. There's a guy who was the marshal of the diplomatic corps. But then, this is when I got excited, then if you add the search term swimming pool, there are three people who are specifically talking about having worked in and around that swimming pool.