Freelance business journalist. Formerly Technology Correspondent at The Times in SF/London, and before that Economics and Property correspondent.
London, England
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Tom Knowles retweeted
This is counter-productive, authoritarian and chilling. The British state should not be in the business of banning commentators and journalists from entering the country, without compelling reason. Finding their views objectionable is nowhere near enough.
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If you listen to one thing today, make it this 60 seconds of commentary on BBC Radio York…
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Waiting For Godot: famously a play about waiting for something that eventually turns up.
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I love these goofy anti-education losers because they think you just rocked up with a chisel at 18 and someone said 'ok so do what you want, enjoy, cathedral there please'. The guilds and apprenticeships were hardcore. It was a degree, as we'd understand it, and highly specialised
"you need a degree to build a house"
Men without degrees 500 years ago:
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The construction of the Cologne Cathedral was done by heavily trained apprentices and master masons. It took multiple generations of highly skilled men, who dedicated their lives to the craft, to build Gothic cathedrals like this one.
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Fox host: I think it is alarming that we have not been able to see or hear from any of the Iranian people. Do they have drinking water, food?
Trump: Do you remember when we had lunch years ago at Trump Tower? You have not changed. You may be even better looking.
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I have huge admiration for Verstappen as a driver. But this is a bad look for him and his team.
Also - a pity that other journalists didn’t leave, or at least question him - or Red Bull - harder on that level of entitlement. It’s not like it was even a particularly nasty question
Max Verstappen made the start of his press conference here in Suzuka today conditional on the absence of The Guardian journalist, Giles Richards.
“I’ll only start when he leaves.”
When questioned by the journalist about the reason, Max said it was because of the question he asked in Abu Dhabi last year
It was Giles who asked Max whether he regretted what happened at the Spanish Grand Prix and if he thought he had lost the championship because of that race.
via: @jucerasoli
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I’ll never understand how displays like this don’t cause people to spontaneously combust with embarrassment.
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NEW: Each day since the start of the war in Iran, U.S. military officials compile a video for President Trump that shows the biggest, most successful strikes on Iranian targets over the previous 48 hours, U.S. officials say.
One described each daily video as a series of clips of “stuff blowing up.”
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The FT's longtime Tehran correspondent Najmeh Bozorgmehr has written an anti-war manifesto that is simultaneously intimate and epic, heart-breaking and hopeful. A reminder how war is an assault on humanity itself.
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One day, Donald Trump will die, and his supporters will try to punish the people who say things like this.
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Sitting in a train rn and I had to bury my face in my jacket to not burst out in laughter and draw any attention to myself bc I was preparing myself for the absolute worst and it still exceeded my expectations 💀
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The replies on this are gorgeous
NOT ONE of these #Manosphere saddos has ever gone down the pub and had a pint. None of them have ever successfully flipped a beer mat and caught it. None of them have ever got the fruity to pay-out
This alone disqualifies them from talking about masculinity. Fucking soft lads…
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Lebanese health officials say that 31 health workers have been killed by Israeli strikes. Israel claimed, without evidence, that Hezbollah has been using ambulances and medical facilities. trib.al/fCBRbFX
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Constitutional law 101: it’s illegal for the government to censor free speech it just doesn’t like about Trump’s Iran war.
This threat is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.
Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.
The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not.
And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters.
The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves.
It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news.
When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media. And we can’t allow that to happen.
Time for change!