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Subjects
3855 links · +3 new in 30 days
Blogs linking here
48since Sept 2020
Posts we hold
19 Sept 2026Saturday, 19 September 2026
Last post
Oct 2026last cited 10 Oct 2026
On record since
Last 7 days
1
Last 30 days
4
Last 90 days
5
New in 30 days
3
In the directory
No. 2,601
Links in 90 days
5

Blogs citing it

Ranked by how many of their posts link here.

Blogs citing ian-leslie.com, page 1
#Blog Posts Links
1jmarriott.substack.com77
2onlydeadfish.co.uk66
3austinkleon.substack.com44
4Austin Kleonaustinkleon.com22
5webcurioswebcurios.co.uk22
6driverlesscrocodile.com12
7adliterate.com11
8afterbabel.com11
9arnoldkling.substack.com11
10blog.georeactor.com11

Posts counts the posts that link here; links counts every link. A blog counts once as a citing blog either way. Atom feed of new citing blogs

Blogs linking here per week13 Oct 2025 to 5 Oct 2026
Blogs linking here per week, 13 Oct 2025 to 5 Oct 2026: 52 weeks, peak 2 a week, latest week 1

1 last week · peak 2

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Blogs linking here per week, week by week
Week of Value
13 Oct 20251
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27 Oct 20251
3 Nov 20250
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1 Dec 20250
8 Dec 20251
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22 Dec 20250
29 Dec 20250
5 Jan 20260
12 Jan 20261
19 Jan 20260
26 Jan 20260
2 Feb 20261
9 Feb 20260
16 Feb 20261
23 Feb 20260
2 Mar 20261
9 Mar 20260
16 Mar 20260
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6 Apr 20261
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27 Apr 20260
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1 Jun 20261
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31 Aug 20260
7 Sept 20261
14 Sept 20261
21 Sept 20260
28 Sept 20262 (still settling)
5 Oct 20261 (still settling)

Words they link it with

The words citing blogs put inside the link, ranked by how many different blogs used them.

The most used link texts for ian-leslie.com
Words Blogs Links
ian leslie66
64 reasons to celebrate paul mccartney34
tiktok, as the writer, ian leslie puts it is “rocket fuel for populists”24
the death of scenius22
the ruffian22

The top 5. The owner of ian-leslie.com sees every phrase after claiming the blog.

Most cited pages

Pages on ian-leslie.com, ranked by how many different blogs link to them.

Most cited pages on ian-leslie.com, page 1
#PageBlogs
164 Reasons To Celebrate Paul McCartney/p/64-reasons-to-celebrate-paul-mccartney (opens in a new tab)5 blogs
227 Notes On Growing Old(er)/p/27-notes-on-growing-older (opens in a new tab)4 blogs
3Stories are bad for your intelligence/p/stories-are-bad-for-your-intelligence (opens in a new tab)3 blogs
4Why Is TikTok Such Rocket Fuel For Populists?/p/why-is-tiktok-such-rocket-fuel-for (opens in a new tab)2 blogs
5Curious/curious/ (opens in a new tab)2 blogs
627 Takes On What It Means To Be a Serious Person/p/27-takes-on-what-it-means-to-be-a (opens in a new tab)2 blogs
7Against Introspection/p/against-introspection (opens in a new tab)2 blogs
8NEW POD: Jasmine Sun On How AI Will Change Writing and Work/p/new-pod-jasmine-sun-on-how-ai-will (opens in a new tab)2 blogs
9The Death of Scenius/p/the-death-of-scenius (opens in a new tab)2 blogs
10The Potency of Jokes/p/the-potency-of-jokes (opens in a new tab)1 blog

Sites ian-leslie.com cites

89 sites linked from its posts; the ones linked from the most posts come first.

Sites that ian-leslie.com links to
Site Posts linking
Mozilla Datayoutube.com13
en.wikipedia.org11
x.com7
amazon.co.uk7
Guardian Digital Blogtheguardian.com5
bbc.co.uk4
Financial Timesft.com3
twitter.com3
academic.oup.com3
dwarkesh.com3

Recent posts

All 48 posts, by year
The most recent posts on ian-leslie.com
Post Original
Why Does Every Society Invent the Same Things?19 Sept 2026Read at ian-leslie.com (opens in a new tab)
Seven Rules of Good Conversation12 Sept 2026Read at ian-leslie.com (opens in a new tab)
Why I Won’t Reply To Your AI-Generated Email5 Sept 2026Read at ian-leslie.com (opens in a new tab)
The Petty Status-Seeking of Great Geniuses6 Jun 2026Read at ian-leslie.com (opens in a new tab)
Pain Is a Mind Game16 May 2026Read at ian-leslie.com (opens in a new tab)
Against Introspection21 Mar 2026Read at ian-leslie.com (opens in a new tab)
A Deep Dive Into 'I Feel Fine'21 Feb 2026Read at ian-leslie.com (opens in a new tab)
Bodies Behaving Badly14 Feb 2026Read at ian-leslie.com (opens in a new tab)
The Stamina Gap10 Jan 2026Read at ian-leslie.com (opens in a new tab)
5 AI Failure Modes Shared By Humans25 Oct 2025Read at ian-leslie.com (opens in a new tab)

Publishing habit

Counted from the 45 posts we hold with a date, in UTC.

Posts in the last 12 months
10
Usual gap between posts
5 weeks
Most posts on
Saturday (58%)
Comebacks after 6 months or more of silence
3 (latest Apr 2024)
First published
21 Sept 2020
Feed
ian-leslie.com/feed/ (opens in a new tab)
Posts per week13 Oct 2025 to 5 Oct 2026
Posts per week, 13 Oct 2025 to 5 Oct 2026: 52 weeks, peak 1 a week, latest week 0

0 last week · peak 1

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Posts per week, week by week
Week of Value
13 Oct 20250
20 Oct 20251
27 Oct 20250
3 Nov 20250
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17 Nov 20250
24 Nov 20250
1 Dec 20250
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29 Dec 20250
5 Jan 20261
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27 Apr 20260
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25 May 20260
1 Jun 20261
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29 Jun 20260
6 Jul 20260
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27 Jul 20260
3 Aug 20260
10 Aug 20260
17 Aug 20260
24 Aug 20260
31 Aug 20261
7 Sept 20261
14 Sept 20261
21 Sept 20260
28 Sept 20260 (still settling)
5 Oct 20260 (still settling)
Month
Posts
Nov 2025
0
Dec 2025
0
Jan 2026
1
Feb 2026
2
Mar 2026
1
Apr 2026
0
May 2026
1
Jun 2026
1
Jul 2026
0
Aug 2026
0
Sept 2026
3
Oct 2026
0
Weekday
Posts, all time
Monday
6
Tuesday
9
Wednesday
1
Thursday
2
Friday
1
Saturday
26
Sunday
0

Similar blogs

Blogs that link to the same sites as ian-leslie.com, weighted toward rarely cited sites, blended with blogs whose recent posts are about the same things. Blogs on both lists come first. For blogs whose posts read like this one's, see More like this.

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48 posts on record from ian-leslie.com, cited by 38 other distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 16 October 2026).