Is it even worth it for Nigel now? The thing he wants is the headlines of the defection. He hasn’t got those now. Does he really want to share screen space with someone almost as desperate for attention and screen time as he is?

Sport England Chair, Chris Boardman explains further why we have suspended using the social media platform X. Read the full article on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/people-before-platforms-why-sport-england-suspended-its-nctwe

FFS. We have actual experts in the UK who are on top of the UK www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

"AI hallucination" is going to become the new "I was hacked"...

One of my few “must listens”, it generally makes me feels slightly better about the world, even if it is only because it alleviates the “I can’t be the only one, surely…” feeling that the news/communication modes engenders in me. But mainly, listen because it’s funny and informative.

The state of America. ‘The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the independent nonprofit organization that distributed federal funds to PBS, NPR, public media programming+more than 1,500 public media stations across the country for nearly 60 years, voted Monday to dissolve itself.’1/

Asking people, again, to pay me for the work that was commissioned, written and published in November. It’s illegal to make us wait this long and I‘m too old to be begging like this. So if anyone dares to give writers shit for monetising their Substacks - it’s better than begging the broadsheets…

100% this, on the grounds that the best time to do this was any time in the last 18 years but the second best time is now

Tristan Kirk, who won the Paul Foot Award in 2024, has joined PA Media in the newly-created role of courts editor after nine years at the Standard as courts correspondent. He will continue to cover major cases himself and support PA reporters across the UK.

First morning meeting CANCELLED. Thank you 2026!

I know most individuals don't care about the analytics of their posts but I'm pretty sure a lot of organisations/media are staying on X rather than joining Bluesky because they can't measure engagement and are expected to report back on this. Could @bsky.app add analytics options to lure them over?

So much truth. And controversial view: for me one of the key differences between radio programmes and podcasts is that radio programmes rarely make me shout GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER IN THE PUB I WASN’T THERE

podcasts

Forgot to put “the confidence of the former No 10 adviser” on my Christmas list again

But more importantly; govts are more easily derailed by other people’s agendas *when they don’t have a clear & well communicated sense of their own agenda + robust policy to achieve it*. Fix that instead of whinging to the Times.

Leaving aside the behaviour of others, Mr English is not in a position to lecture anyone on ensuring that children are "taught correctly about our history", or indeed people of any age, or the history any other nation Liberals need to stop promoting slop farmers, its self comforting, self harm

Just some of those we lost in 2025. The gaps are there for us to remember those close to us. Wishing us all a better 2026. x

The New Years Honour list is like Christmas/New Year/Birthdays all rolled into one for UK LinkedIn. Good* that receiving it in the name of the Empire doesn't seem to be a barrier to any of them. *hypocritical from most of them

Hello. Work Ray here, with 7 reasons why you need content designers on your product team. 1. Content design makes your product or service more usable. It reduces ambiguity and confusion and helps people find out what they need to know, or complete their task, more easily.

This x 1,000,000

In a nutshell: inclusion for one is inclusion for all. Often providing a service you either a) didn’t plan to provide b) didn’t even think about

If you're struggling to get engagement, this might be one reason why.

by far the funniest use case for AI is “I use it for powerpoints because I hate making them and nobody looks at them” because it kinda sounds like the real workflow savings would be to stop making powerpoints

With Walliams and Salt Path documentary happening in same week, big publishers’ due diligence teams have some tough questions to answer.

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

God bless these guys. Miss you.

Yep. Joyless. That AI vid of a crow sliding down a roof is precisely what prompted me to post this bsky.app/profile/rhod...

This is so funny…

You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.

Simply not the case. This the fifth or sixth article on the speech and it’s usual to discuss what public figures wear on the fashion pages (if it was only story & front page, would be different). She has talked about her brooch before herself. As misleading as “mainstream” coverage could be.

100% correct.

At long last, a positive shared vision for railways in the North. 🙌🏻 #BeeNetworkRail will be a game-changer for GM. 🐝

So that was reason for the timing of the Gullis defection.

“Good idea, poorly executed” could be this government’s strategic tagline.

“I’m only watching/listening because she’s awful” . Yes, because advertisers famously only pay if the consumer is clicking approvingly.

Previous RT: delighted to see Misha Glenny as new IOT presenter. Really excellent choice.

Brilliant choice of Misha Glenny for In Our Time! He interviewed me at the Vienna Humanities festival a few weeks ago and he had the perfect wide-ranging interests and intelligence. As a fan of IOT I am cheering. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

Today's @liverpoolecho.co.uk front page

Ooh, boy, this is AWFUL.

I’m sure Andreas Whittam Smith would have wanted people to struggle to read his obituary in The Independent using a smartphone

Don’t forget to buy a book for Christmas, as present or to read amzn.eu/d/3ODCwjv

Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.

All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence. 1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget. 2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.

It does feel like half the stories in the UK press only make sense if you follow Enoch1488, a peadophile on twitter who they have decided is the voice of True Working Class Brits

Absolutely fantastic piece of writing.

When did broadcasters stop mentioning which party select committee chairs represent when interviewing them? If you didn’t know, you’d think they were independent commentators, and they’re just not. I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.

Editorial meeting: “Reader’s Wives sounds a bit provincial and Daily Star. What can we call it to appeal to Guardian readers in Chiswick?” Answer:

Post Mortem, by Private Eye’s Richard Brooks, chronicling how the Post Office scandal and cover-up developed and later unravelled, is on sale now at all good bookshops. ➡️ Available at: www.private-eye.co.uk/books