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I joined the NT precisely because of the Telegraph’s reporting, so that I could vote to keep out the Restore Trust people who are trying to wreck it.

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In America it's tech bros who are trying, successfully, to rig the political and media culture. In the UK, it's hedge funders but the project is the same. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

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According to this piece Jim Waterson is making £20k a month from @londoncentric.media and he deserves every penny of it (I’m a subscriber). www.newyorker.com/magazine/let...

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She has her own thought police now?

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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The @vittles.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social Food Stories award seems like a very good thing fs12.formsite.com/obk2AX/fello...

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Another of those pieces in the right-wing press that tortures statistics to ‘prove’ that London is a terrible place while the racists in the comments chunter about Sadiq Khan www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

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I’ll never understand why companies waste so much time, money and attention on this sort of self-important ‘brand’ stuff. apple.news/ATO7oiqpeQEa...

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Worth fifteen quid of anyone’s money

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Very good on Peter Kyle and @teamlabouruk.bsky.social plans to sell the UK creative industry down the river and line the pockets of tech billionaires www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Every Friday evening of late the underground car park at Sainsbury’s Nine Elms becomes an impromptu roller-skating rink. Probably a couple of hundred skaters this evening.

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This is a really remarkable story from @manchestermill.bsky.social about goings-on at University of Greater Manchester (fka Bolton) manchestermill.co.uk/the-universi...

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The London Library Emerging Writers programme is such a brilliant scheme. If you’re trying to write in any medium/genre, are any age over 18, are in or near London, and aren’t yet professionally published, it’s well worth applying.

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Never underestimate the heavyhandedness of university management but Sunderland uni's decision to gag staff threatened with redundancy is unusually unpleasant. Do consider signing the petition www.ucu.org.uk/article/1381...

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The National Union of Journalists has a useful template letter for anybody considering writing to their MP about the proposed bulldozing of copyright in the interests of AI billionaires www.nuj.org.uk/resource/tem...

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"Older man tries out catwalk trend and is performatively embarrassed" is such a tedious way of writing about men's fashion. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

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I know the greed of landlords is turning all of London into a soulless corporate hellhole but I really don’t want to see the Prince Charles close www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Quartz has begun using generative AI to create news articles based on original reporting elsewhere. A writer from TechCrunch described an AI-written version of their article about how to delete social media accounts as "sloppy" t.co/u5RAHPwu0s

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I was wondering which Telegraph pundit would be first to call for capital punishment but I didn’t expect it to be their recipe writer.

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How it started - how it’s going

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Sun, Times, Telegraph, Mail either ignoring or minimising the Harry libel settlement. The right-wing press is just a self-interested racket.

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What worries me is not government use of AI per se but the slightly credulous way that the government talk about it, which makes me suspect they will be taken for rubes by the tech companies selling their services. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026. Please share!

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Really interesting long essay on Netflix & the streamers. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

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It’s a complete bargain

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Speaking different languages is one of the most admirable and consequential human accomplishments and this is an inspiring story archive.ph/W10Df

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On the AI copyright consultation

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It's been a gala year for The Fence, and here are our 12 most popular pieces of 2024. Kicking off with Gus Carter's dispatch from the London Library: www.the-fence.com/london-libra...

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Enjoying the new issue of @thefence.bsky.social in Bruno’s sandwich bar on Wardour St.

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If you’ve ever wondered why Sam Smith pubs are the way they are, this piece has the answers www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...

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Grotesquely long and skewed “consultation”. Please fill it in anyway

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