Oracle just hired a new CFO who will get a total pay package that could reach nearly $30 million. This comes immediately after Larry Ellison's company fired 30,000 workers.

Flown out?

This week’s cover story 👉 SIGN OF THE TIMES | Frances Kelly is arrested for breaking Britain’s dumbest law 🔗 Read the full story: buff.ly/BE58Wag 🗞️ Get your copy from a local newsstand from Thursday 2nd October

Loving this BofE Canadian government crossover episode

Lest we forget. JD Vance too.

I met my younger self for a coffee today and he told me to do one... he had way better things to do than listen to some old guy.

This week's Magazine Diaries newsletter is out...

I interviewed Hearst UK CEO Katie Vanneck Smith. We spoke about Tortoise and the Observer, all things magazine membership - belonging, branding and bundling - and the importance of publishing teams.

Adding the Seer thing to the Traitors final destroyed a great season. Lost interest after Charlotte inevitably went. Stopped caring who won. Disappointing.

The broader narrative of politics is no longer really between left and right. It's sensible and stupid, and the stupid side is winning the fight.

I'm not a joiner, but I've just signed up to the Patreon for the Origin Story podcast from @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social . Stumbled across it in November and have binged pretty much every episode. And now I get to hear them give the @dailymail.co.uk a kicking a week early.

I was on @charlotteahenry.bsky.social's Addition podcast chatting on about how passion is a great starting point, but profit is where the rubber really hits the road.

The Big Issue’s shift from street paper to campaigning digital title

It's that time of the holiday season when I need to take a break from the Christmas playlists and get back to normality for a wee bit.

Conde going in the opposite direction from The Atlantic with Wired UK, but at least there are no layoffs being reported.

It's beginning to look a lot like I've started playing Christmas songs 🎄

Last call for our Media Voices Pod in a Pub livestravaganza tomorrow! If you're around in London and fancy getting a pint and taking part in a live recording of an episode Media Voices, there are one or two tickets still available here: voices.media/podinapub/

Twitter is an absolute toilet these days, but I miss having somewhere to post proper random nonsense. LinkedIn just doesn't feel like the right place to post about chair dancing to The Sisters of Mercy's 'Lucretia My Reflection' 🖤