'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't. 'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't. 'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels Day 6 A for aurora #Grosmont

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels Day 5 for U for umbrella Umbrellas are not guarded

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels Day 4 O for Ocean

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels Day 3 I for IPA A mate of mine fitted a nitrous kit to his FS1-E. Reached 70mph before the engine grenaded.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels Day 2 E for edifice @CorfeCastleUK

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels Day 1 A for Autumn #Grosmont

A yard

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved Day 7 #Grosmont

"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved Day 6 An abomination of a spoon

BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent. The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.

Why is my local gym warning me about chickens?

Perhaps we pay too little for our food and certainly too little attention to its origin

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved Day 5

Old joke, not mine: A Blairite, a Brownite and a Corbynite walk into a bar. ‘Hello, Mr Burnham,’ the bartender says.

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved Day 4 #Grosmont

Prehistoric questions: my SKETCH of a PMQs as old as time.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved Day 3

Orson Welles put it perfectly when he told a class of film students, “I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them. Once they are interested they understand anything in the world.”

Why populism become popular on.ft.com/3WPrxXX

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved Day 2 #Ampleforth

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved Day 1 #Riga

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision Day 7 ER

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision Day 6 The Sopranos

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision Day 5 Casualty

From the always interesting AI Shift newsletter by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @sarahoconnorft.ft.com: AI is maximising job applications and word counts, in vicious circle of doom kind of ways

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision Day 4 The Wire

Come and join us to talk about data, research and evidence-led policy! 📊📈

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision Day 3 The Prisoner “I’m not a number, I’m a free lamb”

Is the challenge the depth of ‘political’ skills @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social ? Should the DG and Head of News feel so exposed? Should the edit, for example, have been picked up (or escalated as a risk) by those further down? Should impartiality, in controversial areas, be evaluated routinely?

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision Day 2 Countryfile #MonandBrec #GlandwrCymru

Oops @attractamooney.bsky.social @data.ft.com

Crisis at the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation!

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision Day 1 Escape to the Country #OffasDyke

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows Day 7 Scotland

Pretty interesting job to run @jrf-uk.bsky.social - social change organisation proposing policy interventions that address poverty; and supporting social innovation. £165k. Based in York starfishsearch.com/jobs/jrf-gro...

That’s better @visitmonmouthshire.bsky.social

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows Day 6 Colombia

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows Day 5 Norway

#fingerpostfriday and another new one erected by #grosmontpathsgroup with the support of #MonCountryside and #RamblersCymru Bit by bit making the local paths easier to find and navigate @visitmonmouthshire.bsky.social @ramblersgb.bsky.social

#grosmontpathsgroup think a stylish cut helps The support of #MonCountryside and #RamblersCymru helps volunteers maintain and improve local paths. Limited resources can go further and landowners and local walkers benefit @visitmonmouthshire.bsky.social @ramblersgb.bsky.social

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows Day 4 King Dick Yeh, right

Out for the Count: my SKETCH of James Cartlidge failing at DPMQs so spectacularly that he managed to overshadow David Lammy's TREASONOUS lack of a poppy.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows Day 3 graffiti #RundālePalace #Latvia