Freelance journalist and co-founder @projectglitch_. As seen on your screen just now. Ex-WSJ and The Block. Signal: lhm.01 Email: lucyhm1 at https://xitter.cf/t.co/sMp2j7g9yv

Joined June 2009
✨Semi-annual reminder that you can book me to write/edit/blog/report/help with media strategy. 🗞️Updated portfolio here, featuring clips from Channel 4, The Observer, American Banker, Project Glitch, Wired, FT Advisor and others: lucyhm.wordpress.com/
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Former chancellor George Osborne also speaking at DAS the previous week. I've been saying about right wing politicians and crypto.... projectglitch.xyz/p/the-war-…
Replying to @solana
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Former Mayor of London. @BorisJohnson led the country for three years and this city for eight. He’s on stage at Breakpoint, November 15-17.
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*DJ Khaled voice* another one xitter.cf/solana/status/21150664…
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From Deutsche Bank to Number 11. Sir @sajidjavid, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, spent nearly two decades in banking before entering politics. At Breakpoint, he brings both careers to the question of where finance goes next.
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hottest accessory for autumn is actually the DCPS 2026 takeaway coffee mug (IYKYK)
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~~cleansing the timeline~~
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Lucy Harley-McKeown retweeted
His name is Ondřej Surý and yesterday he kinda saved the internet. I called him up to talk about it! theatlantic.com/technology/2…
Explaining to my wife how there's this one guy. And he alone is responsible for most of the world's distribution of PHP. And if anything happens to this guy, that's just it. Everyone is screwed.
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Crazy aging population stats from the ONS today: There were an estimated 645,000 people aged 90+ in the UK in mid-2025, a 55.2% increase since mid-2005 (416,000 people). There were 16,400 centenarians in 2025, up 3.5% since 2024 and +89.8% since 2005 (8,700 centenarians).
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Resilient old ladies: There were 760 people aged 105 years and over in the UK in 2025, an increase of nearly a third since mid-2024 (from 570) as the large generation born immediately after World War One (1919-1920) reach this age. Women made up 88.8% of this age group in 2025.
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Lucy Harley-McKeown retweeted
Every time you go to the post office the person in front of you has a problem that has never happened before in all of history.
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so desensitised to hacks / flaws in code from covering crypto for 5+ years that the PHP bug makes me feel nothing 🙂
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Lucy Harley-McKeown retweeted
it’s been an honor using the computer with you all
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It’s cybersecurity week at the Great British Bakeoff
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The BBC has a fascinating, broken relationship with commercial media - constantly taking its cues from an industry where most of the business models are in a long-term death spiral, and replicating their shoddy content, despite facing none of those constraints itself.
A selection of stories on the front page of the BBC News app this morning.
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had a great time in the US of A (pictured)
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Lucy Harley-McKeown retweeted
Another year wrapped for the #DCPrivacySummit! Three years on and it feels like an institution -- if you were in the room today in DC and enjoyed it you can support us by signing up for our newsletter: projectglitch.xyz If you weren't in the room but want to know about our future events, also sign up! Whatever you do... keep Glitching! 🐈‍⬛
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Lucy Harley-McKeown retweeted
.@therealyingtong explains he real-world limits of techno-solutionism #dcprivacysummit
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Cindy Cohn, former EFF director kicking off the DC Privacy Summit!
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what DC looks like if you go on a slightly jet lagged sunrise run
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Lucy Harley-McKeown retweeted
Last few tickets remaining for the DC Privacy Summit on Thursday! We'll be exploring questions like: --> What does privacy look like when AI agents can act as you? --> Can we avoid digital ID becoming a surveillance tool? --> What are the real limits of techno-solutionism? --> And what happens when crypto, AI, and politics collide? Join the conversation on October 15 luma.com/p60o9q3i
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