Mad how everyone on Bluesky spends their time screaming at the New York Times over screengrabs of headlines but no one screams at them over the decision to end the online acrostic crosswords.

Shocked to hear of the death of Rachel Cooke at 56 — I didn’t even know she was ill. I always enjoyed reading her reviews and features: she brightened any page of the paper.

"while his beard is highly impactful in the public domain it does not always present a positive image of the hirsute"

I love British media stories but honestly I cannot follow this one anymore, the most cursed transaction in media history. on.ft.com/47XChZc

you would honestly think after years of interviewing other people that, when interviewed about my little publication, I might not fall into the trap of blurting out something like this that could be used as the pull quote

Unexpected crossover of the week: a video of Rupert Lowe going viral across school WhatsApp groups after making the case for term time holidays.

Rachel Reeves is setting the Cycle to Work scheme on fire as part of the war on salary sacrifice policies! on.ft.com/4oKXNrC

I don’t want to talk about the fact that Michael Wolff once wronged me. It’s water under the bridge, stuff happens. I wish nothing but the best to the secret advisor to a convicted sex trafficker and paedophile

London's enormously delayed new Docklands Light Railway (DLR) trains have been immediately withdrawn because of issues one of them had with stopping in the rain.

All news is local: the Airbnb where the woman hiding with £5bn in bitcoin was arrested was a 70s semi in a suburb of York. www.yorkmix.com/watch-the-mo...

This is more believable than a lot of insider westminster coverage

I really like the Oxford Clarion which doesn’t get enough mentions when people write about local news startups.

Let us simply not check that figure after they stuck most of the BBC in the US behind a paywall a few months ago to increase revenue at the expense of British soft power and influence.

This x100000! Eeveryone in the news media lurches towards takes like "trust in news can revive the BBC!!!" and ignores the fact that trust is completely useless and abstract if no one is watching/listening/reading in the first place.

At an event where a speaker said: "The moment you are transparent with your trust and safety rules, you give a guidebook to your enemies on how to game them." Which feels pretty much where the BBC has ended up! All this focus on being open and transparent just gives levers for opponents to pull.

If, as several people are suggesting this morning, the DG and News CEO were prevented from issuing an apology re Panorama last week by the board, it seems extremely urgent that the chair of the board clarify what happened

I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.

The whole “yeah I guess you’d just wave this merger through then” shrug of a reaction to this proposal is pretty damning about the state of traditional uk broadcasters… (alternatively, someone bungs up the deal out of muscle memory and continues to ignore the internet)

Can someone clip up that "oh fuck" from Nick like it's still 2014 Twitter.

I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.

Sky / ITV merger on the cards... ISkyV? SkiTV? What's the betting on how many UK broadcasters are left by the end of the decade. BBC and one/two others?

When I open Facebook now there's always an uncanny valley AI slop video at the top of my feed. And it usually is good enough to make me stop and watch it while my brain works out why it's uncanny. And it'll have a few million views and a top comment like this.

This is absolutely brilliant, not least because of the incompatible underlying tension between a gaming-addicted king’s insane personal architecture designs and the fluid mechanics of sewage.

If anyone is interested in what Transport for London’s own in-house pay-per-mile scheme might have looked like, all the leaked details here. Have lifted this out of the paywall in case it helps anyone writing about today’s Treasury briefings/leaks… www.londoncentric.media/p/london-roa...

The news that fans of the late Zambian president Edgar Lungu are singing David Baddiel/Frank Skinner's "Three Lions" because they want his body to come home from South Africa to Zambia is the funniest story I've read today: www.wsj.com/world/africa...

A friend in the north east said there's a row of shops near him that shuffles between various owners selling knock-off cigarettes. And one legit taxpaying holdout shop that differentiates itself with a big sign outside saying "CHEAPEST LEGAL FAGS IN GATESHEAD".

Met the former editor of the York Evening Press last night, who said in the mid-90s he had 85 people working directly for him, including nine staff photographers. All that to serve a city and surrounding area of about 200k people. Local news was wilddddd.

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

The rebrand really is somehow even worse in the flesh, is someone doing some elaborate short selling / asset stripping scam here.

Kings Cross is full of police sent to reassure passengers after Saturday’s attack but people don’t want reassurance they just want a bloody seat because the LNER train north is full. (Yes I know this is a bit of an “and everyone cheered” post but tired of the “no one will travel again” posting.)

The cool thing about this is it incentives “real” news orgs to write stories with headline keywords that might be found by people googling for more info after being primed by the insanity!

Lollll three bylines for a national newspaper to recreate (including the exact same restaurants!) what me and a student reporter managed a month ago: www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch... Just rip off our original and give us a buried credit in paragraph 19, we won’t be offended!

A mixed bag of news in your inbox! *Why “admin charge” could replace “service charge” on your London restaurant bill *The missing link between London snail farms and western government contracts awarded during the Iraq war *RIP KINGDOM OF TREATS www.londoncentric.media/p/admin-char...

Apropos of absolutely nothing... I was looking at Chicago Bears NFL team trying to relocate from their really cool downtown stadium to some suburb. And it's just such a perfect example of the weird size and sprawl of US cities... it's the equivalent of Liverpool building a new stadium in Manchester!

All in favour of shared spaces that get people out and about and it you’re going to burn money on gambling then yeah, better to do so with a friendly person on hand. But still some incredible “men’s mental health” lobbying against a gambling tax in the Sunday Times. www.thetimes.com/article/f115...

the assumptions made about the target audience by making the first two items "OnlyFans' and 'child support' are kind of incredible

The next screen grab on this thread is perfect.

If you've been tempted by a London Centric subscription... you've only got a few hours to sign up and be entered in the draw to win the most excruciatingly laboured physical metaphor of the year! www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...

The fun thing about having a small team working with you is you can say "hey you're spending this week digging for stolen mobile phones in London flowerbeds, I promise you it's a thing". www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...

This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?

I’d been hearing about so many issues/cock-up/mistakes on this very specific licensing issue in Southwark that I’d been trying to find a way into the story for the last few weeks. Guess the chancellor has given me the top line…

This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Never felt as old as trying to watch a popular Twitch streamer reading out my reporting. Objectively understand this is the only way to make a mass audience consume information but the editing completely fries my brain. youtu.be/O-FBnUDWLSI?...

London Centric’s reporter on the ground suggests the Northern Line (broken by a mysterious signalling fault all week) has been unfucked.

Rachel deserves a nomination just for having to sit at my kitchen table for six months.

One of the most brutal things with public Spotify play counts are the bands you convinced yourself are “big in their own way” or “well known among everyone I know” and then it says something like “4,900 monthly listeners”.

Yes but in French, how did he say it.

If you found a stolen Android phone with a disabled SIM card (still present in the phone) what would you do to unlock it / find the owner / do anything productive to return the device to its owner?

Yessssssssss absolute nonsense love it. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

If you're a bit odd and want to listen to me talk media ownership in York next month and try to work up a theory about the Fruit Pastilles > Paul Marshall pipeline then that is a thing you can do. www.rowntreesociety.org.uk/centenary-ev...