Finally Patrick Gathara breaches @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

My god. Richard Madeley opines on the BBC Charter Review. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Coming up soon, @ajordigital.bsky.social’s #Festival3i - a great insight into the incredibly energetic Brazilian #journalism ecosystem: festival3i.org/festival/fes...

The @london.gov.uk survey on #AI and #jobs is available for your feedback... www.london.gov.uk/talk-london/... #London #employment

From the Trust for Civic Life's new briefing on "What local communities are telling us about digital tools, AI, and novel civic tech": trustforciviclife.org/wp-content/u...

This was less than a month ago: theconversation.com/south-africa...

A message from @bechamilton.bsky.social on her latest update to "The Trump Administration’s Use of State Power Against Media: Keeping Track of the Big Picture." Read the update: www.justsecurity.org/112792/trump... youtube.com/shorts/bXRJ8...

The State Media Monitor releases its 2026 analysis on Eastern Africa: statemediamonitor.com/2026/05/stat...

Now's the perfect time for a Bela Tarr/Theo Angelopoulos marathon, with noise-cancelling headphones, in an underground bunker, for possibly the next three months.

“The web was smaller and more manageable then, of course, so this became a part of many information workers’ toolsets.” (Prepare to lose Google Alerts.)

cc #journalism

How can public confidence in UK democracy be restored? Join @pollycurtis.bsky.social, @mds49.bsky.social and Sue Tibballs to discuss what works to restore confidence in democracy, at our free, online conference on 24 June. Sign up 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....

The last week has been absolutely

So maddening to see - the devastating impact of cuts on the independent and exile media of Burma/Myanmar, just when they are needed most. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/running...

At @thersaorg.bsky.social for @carissaveliz.bsky.social and Roger McNamee’s conversation:

My and Jane's little film SCALA!!! is now FREE to watch for 14 days via this link, thanks to our lovely distributors, the BFI. And it has a terrific intro by Kermode too. player.bfi.org.uk/subscription... But do consider taking out a BFI player subscription too!

@sallyhayd.bsky.social‘s My Fourth Time, We Drowned was a brilliant and worthy and sobering @orwellprize.bsky.social winner. This one looks to be similarly needed: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Every day‘s a school day, especially when you can’t sleep: punchng.com/the-challeng...

A Confederacy of Dunces The Trial The Hour of the Star

To watch later… youtu.be/TLL3ZcLs79A

I went to see #Tricky at Troxy last night. While the set was ‘only’ an hour, it culminated in his incredible live version of Vent. The gig made me go do two things: 1. 12 pages of the samples he used in his music: www.whosampled.com/Tricky/

Londoners, have your say. Join the State of London Debate 2026 on 3 June, 7:30–9pm to ask questions and hear from Deputy Mayors on issues from transport to housing, safety and the environment. Free to attend - register now:

Londoners will always reject those who seek to divide our communities. My statement on today’s events:

This week I loved listening to BBC R4’s Uneasy Listening on Cage, Feldman and Stockhausen - and really enjoyed Prof Laura Tunbridge’s contextualisation: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I’m halfway through the #FelaKuti podcast - it is, as everyone says, quite brilliant. Listening to Dele Sosimi in the first episode as I walked round Sainsbury’s yesterday, I was literally crying. That episode alone validated my lifelong love of those long, repetitive loops, cycles & spirals. But…

A #documentary screening community in #Japan: madegood.com/en/

Good episode of Top Comment for those interested in #epistemicsecurity: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

LipSlut's new product, Male Tears, is a lip oil whose colors -- "Kevin" and "Jake" -- are named after "our biggest fans," who sent emails saying "you are absolutely NASTY disgusting people" and "you liberal asshole filth." lipslut.com/products/jake

Standards commissioner's page has finally updated, confirming that Farage is under investigation

Bending the LLMs: open.substack.com/pub/endhitz/... (via LinkedIn…)

State media is a component of LLM training data. A new Nature study says this material is laundered into what presents as objective chatbot text. LLMs also give more pro-regime answers when prompted in the official language of low-press-freedom countries than in English.

“there was a shift to manufacturers calculating the amount of room you take up on the floor [rather than weight], But they assume the shape of a person is an oval rather than a circle. They have completely failed to recognise that if obesity is increasing then so is the amount of room you take up.”

For the immigration lawyers out there: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Fact-checking a growing archive of predictions from the Simpsons: www.springfieldoracle.com

just back from the most wonderful intimate concert by #DeryaYildirim in the beautiful #ChurchOfSound. Genuinely exceptional.

If you are in or near London, they are having a mini-RightsCon at Newspeak House! 🙌🎉 We can just DO things… together. luma.com/dhw92dsa

Why does the BBC do research into AI? BBC R&D explains: youtu.be/e2vDsbTTvcY?...

This feels like a positive use of LLMs, perhaps in a setting where there is vile and toxic discourse and a character limit (in both senses): arxiv.org/abs/2510.20075

Thinking back to a previous generation of rethinking of PSM's role - Mira Burri's paper on 'public service navigators': ijoc.org/index.php/ij... #publicservicemedia

💥 We have Circuit 07 FINALISTS! 💥 You've never heard "climate stories" like these, promise. All respond to the theme "Trash or Treasure" and were chosen from 97 (!) submissions from 15 (!) countries. And you can listen to them all right now at www.xmtr.fm 🎧

Interesting that the @theguardian.com is looking for a Dep Ed of Community Journalism: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

"If "software ate the world," as Marc Andreessen cooed back in 2011, then what it's shat out since then is what we're living in now, and it's awful." @audreywatters.bsky.social I don't read 2ndBreakfast regularly, but given this arresting turn of phrase, I should.

As someone who shares a birthday with #KarlMarx and who loves John Boorman’s Zardoz, I’ve often wondered about this, and finally bothered to google it today:

Food prices will be 50% higher by November then they were in 2021, when the cost of living crisis began. I went to North Shields in 2022 to see the impact. 4 years on I’ve been back to see how the same people are coping. What I found was deeply worrying. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gIjF...

This reminds me that I ran a panel in 2017 at @journalismfestival.com featuring not only @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social, but @journalismnews.bsky.social, and, representing @mediagazer.com, the peerless #LyraMcKee: www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...

Why I am reading this instead of being asleep I don’t know, but now you are too, and good luck all of us: ringmast4r.substack.com/p/we-may-be-...

i too am really bad at keeping a journal: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

FFS @ox.ac.uk/Oxford Union: www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2607486...