Alex Watson

Used to be on the radio, now creating software that powers it 🎙️ | Scot (mostly) on a rock 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇯🇪

[Alex Watson @imalexwatson]

@myPhilTaylor Good luck to you! 🫡

[Alex Watson @imalexwatson]

Good luck to everyone standing in, reporting on, or exercising their right to vote in Jersey’s general election today. 🗳️

I’m off on holiday so voted early. We’re all agreed that following coverage by the pool would be really sad, right? Definitely won’t be doing that 👀 #jsy26

[Alex Watson @imalexwatson]

Two things can be true:
🫣 Breaking an embargo doesn't make something an exclusive.
😡 Embargoing a story until the weekend, when newsrooms are less likely to have staff available to follow up on it, is really sketchy.

[Lauren The Insider @insiderlauren]

EXCLUSIVE 🚨 I have seen an embargoed government report that national media cannot publish until tomorrow.

Here is what it says….

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor spent years refusing to leave Royal Lodge. While there, he sublet THREE cottages on the estate and kept the income for himself.
Those cottages went vacant in April 2026. Shortly after he suddenly left.

And now? Under the lease’s early surrender clause, he could legally walk away with £301,967.66 in compensation.That’s not all.

The National Audit Office has confirmed that Beatrice, Eugenie and Prince & Princess Michael of Kent have been living in Crown properties at BELOW market rent — as low as 50% of market value in some cases.

Who is paying those rents right now? The KING. Out of his private Privy Purse.

The NAO’s own words: the rent rules have ‘not always been strictly followed.’

This is not a tabloid story. This is the government’s own auditors.
The papers get to run this tomorrow. You’re reading it tonight on my X. Mainstream media is over.

#RoyalFamily #Andrew #RoyalLodge #NAO #Exclusive

[Alex Watson @imalexwatson]

Ofcom is considering using LLMs to analyse/review broadcast content. Potentially a great example of using AI to help humans do more work than they could do previously, but let's see how it's implemented.

[RadioToday UK @RadioToday]

Ofcom is planning to test whether AI can help analyse news content at scale..

https://t.co/Z8IjZNuGza

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

Exclusive @TheAthleticFC

FIFA make last-gasp change to World Cup stadium rules: BANNING fans from bringing refillable plastic bottles, so fans must buy water in stadia

As of May, empty bottles permitted so fans could refill amid heat concerns. Not now

https://t.co/OuyjvgPoxN

[Alex Watson @imalexwatson]

@PaulChuckle2 @mariecurieuk To MBE, to you…

[Alex Watson @imalexwatson]

Great idea! One of many quibbles I have is places you phone that are always “experiencing a higher than normal volume of calls”. If I hear that every time I ring, they aren’t, they just don’t have enough people handling calls.

[quibble @quibbleUK]

Hello, we are Jonathan and Abigail - unashamed pedants who want to bring this affliction to bear on all things public policy and practice.
We believe that details matter, especially in public administration. This is why today we are founding quibble: a campaign to fix the small stuff.
Think, for example, about the cookie banner that we click on every webpage. Each instance is not a big deal, so we just put up with it. But its cumulative impact adds up - on average we press it 5 times per day. The European Commission estimates that it costs EU citizens 343 million hours per year.
And who is there to represent the impacts of seemingly minor issues like this in a systematic way? We want quibble to be the answer. In the case of the cookie banner, lots of advocacy has rightly focused on privacy, but has this meant that user experience has taken a backseat? We believe there are ways to improve user experience without compromising on privacy. We will share more about this soon.
Consider another example. Did you know that in some government-run car parks you can be fined for a minor keying error, such as accidentally typing a zero instead of an “o”? Again, we will come to the detail of this quibble in the coming weeks, but for now just consider again the question: who? Who is there currently to systematically represent the interests of the parker who is given an unfair ticket?
An inherent feature of consumer interests is that those who have them rarely have enough other things in common to make collective organisation and representation feasible. This is the gap that quibble seeks to fill. Now of course excellent consumer interest groups exist. But understandably quibbles might not be at the top of their lists. Our hope is that quibble will be complementary; picking up the bottom-of-the-list issues faced by various groups - the stuff they are almost too embarrassed to raise because they are too small.
We are not embarrassed about detail. If you’ve ever had a splinter, you know small things can have a big impact. This is what quibble is committed to tackling, and our wider hope is that by doing so we will also incentivise policy makers to be even more careful about detail.
Check out our website here, including our first four campaigns: https://t.co/gZiqqHbhIL

[Alex Watson @imalexwatson]

@darkcobbett I wonder what gems of knowledge I'd possess if that space wasn't taken up by "Is it a dolphin in a bathtub?" and "Oh my god, the DAILY MAIL!"

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

Laura Kuenssberg's 'frankly, I'm sceptical' face is rather wonderful

[Al Murray 🇺🇦 @almurray]

How can you not love this scandal?

[Alex Watson @imalexwatson]

Probably not the intended takeaway from the article, but I’d welcome other publications using Harry Hill-esque asides at the end of each paragraph.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Unite Union Under Scrutiny for Supporting Controversial Jersey Political Party https://t.co/SsPwvCAKn7

[Alex Watson @imalexwatson]

Painfully accurate depiction of the joys of vox popping on Sky News

[Alex Watson @imalexwatson]

You know you’ve spent too much time on the internet when a random speed sign is enough to make you think “do that TWICE”

[WhoRemembersPod @whorememberspod]

Still the best accidental Brent of all time

[Michael Simmons @Simmons__]

The best jokes often write themselves

[Alex Watson @imalexwatson]

@myPhilTaylor I can’t remember how I first discovered Citymapper but it’s my go-to whenever I travel

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

This is the final CBS News Radio broadcast, aired between 11 p.m. (the top of the hour is first) and 11:30 p.m. (the final special report).

After 99 years on the air, CBS Radio News has ended.

(Captured by @TheDeskDotNet)

[Alex Watson @imalexwatson]

When your boss has a professional comms team, and you have a spad with Canva

[Mike Tapp MP @MikeTappTweets]

Delivering!

More to do.

🫡

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Labour MP Josh Simons will resign to trigger a by-election in Makerfield to give Andy Burnham a route back to Parliament

[Alex Watson @imalexwatson]

@seannhickey

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

Imagine if Keir now appoints Angela to Health - and then everyone merrily carries on like this was all a bad dream.