Backsliding in the USA, giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

From #trainline this morning. Note the use of ‘occasionally’.

For those joining Bluesky from the Bad Place: welcome. Yes, you could/should have made the decision sooner, but it is never too late to make a good decision. And there is a lot on this site which will remind you of the Bad Place before it was bad.

I enjoyed writing this ‘The Life of a Song’ piece for @financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com (3 Jan 2026) about ‘Trust In Me’ from The Jungle Book, www.ft.com/content/c1f7... #shermanbrothers #gracejones #veronicaswift #siouxsie #halwillner #hollycole #junmiyake #scarlettjohansson #selenagomez #disney

Latest ‘Books received’, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/bo...

Robert Reich on the 6 Jan 2021 riots, robertreich.substack.com/p/the-most-s... @rbreich.bsky.social

Common sense from Baldur Bjarnason, from his article ‘The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con.’ softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme... #BaldurBjarnason #artificialintelligence @baldurbjarnason.com

Good read: John Lanchester reviews four books about tech, the spectre of ‘AI’ and the strange men behind them.

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Latest Landscape newsletter, mailchi.mp/3594d31f5955... @designmuseum.bsky.social @johnlwalters.bsky.social @rustyegan.bsky.social

Yes, please.

Read the latest Eye newsletter, mailchi.mp/eyemagazine/... @typetogether.bsky.social @johnlwalters.bsky.social

Obviously, people will say this is Panglossian nonsense… .. I prefer, “factual” as.ft.com/r/f040c3e5-9... The UK economy is not nearly as bad as you’ve been told

The Life of a Song: my article about the Beatles’ ‘Day Tripper’, www.ft.com/content/2aab... www.ft.com/the-life-of-... @financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com

Good programme about the traitor Nathan Gill, podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @theguardian.com With @lukeharding1968.bsky.social and @helenpidd.bsky.social

The latest Reith lecture is well worth listening to, www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... The notorious bit of BBC censorship doesn’t make a huge difference: it is clear from the lecture what he thinks about Trump, whether we’d been informed about the cut or otherwise. #moralrevolution

Farage et al really mustn't be allowed to walk away from this scandal, and its wider implications: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fergus McCreadie at Union Chapel last Thursday. #londonjazzfestival

I implore someone, anyone, in the media… Do your job And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly: …what were the motivations behind this?

The digital version of our Nathan Gill timeline is now online ⬇️⏳ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Book your tickets for #TypeTuesday, ‘Light Fantastic’, on 25 November 2025 with Kate Dawkins and Michael Collins, bit.ly/TypeTuesday52

Latest newsletter, mailchi.mp/eyemagazine/... #graphicdesign #photography

Here’s my review, ukjazznews.com/kurt-elling-... @seb-scotney.bsky.social

But surely not ‘deeply shocking’ …

Read the latest newsletter. mailchi.mp/eyemagazine/... Come to Type Tuesday on 25 November, with Kate Dawkins and Michael Collins. #graphicdesign #recordphotography #spectacle #projectionmapping

Good to hear Kurt Elling and the Yellowjackets last night, playing the music of Weather Report at Cadogan Hall. #efglondonjazzfestival #jazz

David Allen Green: The BBC is right not to pay damages to Trump

Mike Gibbs celebration – report by John Watson for UK Jazz News, ukjazznews.com/honorary-doc... #doctorhonoriscausa #michaelgibbs #mikegibbs

Great day in celebration of Michael Gibbs’s honorary doctorate at Birmingham Conservatoire. Friends, family, staff, students and lots of music inc. a terrific student big band at the Eastside Jazz Club. Big thanks to Ed Puddick. #doctorhonoriscausa #jazz #jazzcomposition #michaelgibbs #mikegibbs

The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change. It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far. Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards

Panorama should just re-edit the programme. Removing the edit Trump complains about. Replacing it with the last 1 minute 16 seconds of his speech, unedited. In which he repeats exactly what Panorama put in the edit. From 69:36 to 70:52. www.marketwatch.com/video/trump-...

‘The ouroboros of hype’ My review for @eyemagazine.bsky.social Packed with information, The AI Con pours cold water on ‘AI’ hysteria, while drawing attention to the tech’s environmental and ethical implications. www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th... @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social

Imagine my surprise … @financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com

‘The ouroboros of hype’ Packed with information, The AI Con pours cold water on ‘AI’ hysteria, while drawing attention to the tech’s environmental and ethical implications. Review by @johnlwalters.bsky.social @emilybender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...

Ewan Bleach with his Fleeting Paradise Orchestra – album launch at Sands Films in Rotherhithe. Wonderful.

Action is stronger than feeling, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/ac... ‘Doing the Work’, the 2025 St Bride Foundation design conference, brought some dynamic new personalities to the foreground. Report by Anoushka Khandwala. Conference curated by @gregbunbury.bsky.social #graphicdesign #illustration

The latest Eye newsletter, mailchi.mp/eyemagazine/... #typography #graphicdesign #visualculture

Farage: epic grifter

Design history in Ankara, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/te...

New on the Eye blog, review of The AI Con by @johnlw ‘The ouroboros of hype’, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...

Marc Andreessen is the business idiot’s business idiot.

What a thrill to hear the Northern Spy / @bandcamp.com ‘listening party’ for Disquiet by The Necks.

Always acknowledge the gift of a book before there has been time to read it; if you wait you have to commit yourself to an opinion. —T. S. Eliot

Choice quote: ‘He’s not a grifter, he’s three anxiety disorders in a trench coat.’

Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson Helen Morgan: "Nigel Farage wants to impose Trump's dangerous anti-science agenda here in the UK. Peddling this kind of nonsense is irresponsible and wrong. "It seems Farage would rather see pregnant women suffer in pain than stand up to his idol Donald Trump."

BBC Radio 3 Sunday Morning Now Playing Pamela Harrison & Hiroaki Takenouchi Chiddingstone Cherry Pickers (Anderida, No 4)

New Eye newsletter, mailchi.mp/eyemagazine/...

Another HP review, from July 2016, londonjazznews.com/2016/07/22/r... @barbicancentre.bsky.social #UKjazznews #HermetoPascoal