Ian Silvera

Edit Tech, Power & Media 🤖📰, looking at tech innovation, its impact on media and politics, and how policy-makers deal with it all. #PUSB

[Ian Silvera @ianjsilvera]

Prompted by the now viral The Lost Generation essay from Jacob Savage in Compact, which painfully lays bare Hollywood’s discriminatory practices under the banner of the optic-inducing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion framework, I wanted to find out how men were consuming, embracing and rejecting content. 👇

[Ian Silvera @ianjsilvera]

Death, taxes and by-elections in Clacton

Cc @Michael_Heaver & @DouglasCarswell

https://t.co/KXSCtrDSsD

[Ian Silvera @ianjsilvera]

. @Simmons__ , on Reality Check, reflects a lot of sentiment in the City when he predicts Burnham could be in a lot more trouble than Starmer quicker because of the fiscal legacy and economic environment he’s inherited.

[Ian Silvera @ianjsilvera]

England Rugby trying to channel Harry Kane in South Africa right now

[Ian Silvera @ianjsilvera]

@ThatCovPod Not-Sky Blue Army?

[Bron Maher @Bron_Maher]

Private Eye publisher Pressdram Limited has published its accounts for the year up to the end of September:

- Revenue was just under £11m, up 2% year-on-year
- Operating profit was £133,449, nearly double 2024's
- Profit after tax was £308,739 vs a £74,230 loss the year before

[Brendan Chilton @BrendanChilton]

Ten yeas ago today in the early hours my good friend and late Chairman @John_Mills_JML who sadly passed away last year, celebrating the contribution our campaign @labourleave made to the EU Referendum victory. 10 years on still a fantastic achievement and great day.

[Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey]

NEW: The man tapped to be Andy Burnham's chief economic adviser is calling for billions more borrowing to pay for infrastructure.

The plans can be paid for within the existing fiscal rules, and would be done through an independent body.

https://t.co/C4W5Kn4vwB

[Ian Silvera @ianjsilvera]

What the markets thoughts of Keir Starmer's premiership

[Ian Silvera @ianjsilvera]

@SkyBluesSteve He’s been clear throughout, hospitality needs improving

[Mark Kleinman @MarkKleinmanSky]

Exclusive: Channel 4 is close to an agreement with the government to allow it to access the remaining half of a £150m borrowing facility as the state-owned, commercially funded broadcaster grapples with a steep downturn in the TV advertising market. https://t.co/DBKgNLKAIT

[Ian Silvera @ianjsilvera]

@richardmarcj But, Richard, what about the 100-day plan?

[Ian Silvera @ianjsilvera]

Two media narratives being pushed after Makerfield:

1. Where’s the plan, Andy?
2. Restore’s challenge to Reform (after Reform actually played this by-election down)

[James Heale @JAHeale]

As I say in the piece, a poor night for Reform. But the unique circumstances of this contest - with Burnham riding both the ‘anti Starmer’ and anti Reform’ horses - will be difficult to replicate if he suffers the same problems as Starmer in office.

[caroline wheeler @cazjwheeler]

Exclusive interview: Andy Burnham has vowed to keep the state pension triple lock untouched, insisting Labour must honour its manifesto promise to millions of pensioners at a moment of collapsing public trust.
The Mayor of Greater Manchester claims tearing up the manifesto commitment would be a “very damaging thing to do” - defying a growing chorus of voices, including Labour’s own cost of living tsar, calling for it to be ditched.
In a further message to the country’s pensioners, he also said the growing number of older people being drawn into paying income tax through frozen tax thresholds — so-called “fiscal drag” – was an issue that needs “looking at”.
“What I have heard on doorsteps is pensioners saying … the freezing of the personal allowance has dragged more and more pensioners into tax,” Burnham said. “So, I do think you need to look at that issue as well.”

https://t.co/TglKMjTfj5

[Michael Savage @michaelsavage]

CBS News to hire Sky News presenter Trevor Phillips as global correspondent

British journalist to become one of most prominent appointments made by embattled editor-in-chief Bari Weiss

https://t.co/X4YssobxAH

[Ian Silvera @ianjsilvera]

A broadside not just against Number 10, but Whitehall at-large: "The same instinct, that serious problems can be managed rather than faced..."

https://t.co/AKEcgea9kR

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

We owe those who serve the UK the kit to do the job and the loyalty to stand by them when it's done. We are failing on both.

I’ve spent my whole time in government making that case. Number 10 will not listen, so I am resigning as Minister for the Armed Forces.

Letter to the PM below.🫡🫡🫡⬇️⬇️

[Ian Silvera @ianjsilvera]

@tomhfh Remember this well, having been at that media opp. At the time, VL were refusing to mention immigration. Grassroots Out/Leave.EU/Farage were a lot more aggressive with the externally-facing media tactics

[Ian Silvera @ianjsilvera]

Good luck to Benchstrength-backed (Ford Foundation, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Churchill Asset Management, Bank of America, Citi Impact Fund, General Catalyst et al) Zeteo.
https://t.co/sXKNJav3tf

[Zeteo UK @zeteouk]

“We need independent media in the [UK]... now more than we’ve ever needed it before.”

@mehdirhasan speak with Zeteo UK Politics Editor @ShehabKhan about what’s broken in British journalism, why he left corporate media, and why the UK needs an independent news outlet.

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

Andy Burnham may put a happier face on Labour’s policies, but his fantasy economics may make them worse https://t.co/Wp0jZAWLVP

[Ian Silvera @ianjsilvera]

Further proof that @AlistairCarns’ drone thesis is the right one to pursue

[Bron Maher @Bron_Maher]

Big news: YouTube is working on integrating its platform with publisher paywalls, according to its vice president for Europe - a move that could fundamentally reshape the news industry’s relationship to the traditionally free-to-air streamer