A closer look

The UK economy is quite literally being propped up by people paying to see feet on the internet. The parent company of OnlyFans generates such absurdly high levels of revenue that its corporate tax contributions routinely run into the hundreds of millions. At a time when traditional British industries are crumbling and austerity rules, the nation's coffers are quietly being kept afloat by the booming digital thirst-trap economy. Rule Britannia, indeed.