R Freeman

Journalism engineering & development, strategy.
Media law @MediaComGold.

Innovation specialist @BBCBlueroom.

@iamrobf.bsky
My thoughts & mistakes. He/him

[Dr David Whitehouse @drdwhitehouse]

Personally I would have preferred to see the launch and not the reporter watching the launch. It’s not news that the launch is felt as well as seen/heard. Not good when the reporter becomes the story.

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

You see, lawyers are good at the law.

But absolutely *nothing* about them makes them any better than you or the milkman or the PhD student next door or the retired scientist up the road or your hairdresser at deciding the facts.

At deciding if they are sure something happened.

[Sarah Baxter @SarahbaxterSTM]

My colleague Marie Colvin was murdered by the Assad regime in Syria 14 years ago today. Journalism is not a crime. RIP Marie. 💔

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

I could literally reduce the Crown Court backlog in 9 steps starting tomorrow. And precisely none of it would involve tampering with jury trials.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

We are all Zelensky. But no one on Earth has his self-control.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Any land grab by russia would be a colossal defeat for the world democracy and the beginning of World War 3.

The ongoing "negotiations" are based on the idea of how much Ukrainian territory to give to russia. The idea of such appeasement is completely flawed.

1. Ukraine is a sovereign country. What if somebody were to grab a plot of land on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate and open "negotiations" on how much should be kept. What do you think would be Trump's response? Ukraine is a sovereign country and the land belongs to Ukraine.

2. Leaving any territories under russian control means handing millions of Ukrainians over to russian despotism, the repeat of gulag and Holodomor. Russia has clearly stated why they started this war - to eliminate Ukraine. The russian official press agency “RIA Novosti” has explicitly published a program for the complete elimination of the Ukrainian nation as such.

3. Russia always lies and cannot be trusted. Starting with Budapest memorandum, where russia agreed to protect Ukrainian sovereignty, and ending with hundreds of direct lies from Kremlin, such as “we are not going to attack Ukraine.” They lie all the time. So, any guarantees by russia are not worth a dime.

4. Any appeasement of the aggressor justifies future aggression. Have we learned nothing from history? In 1938, British PM Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler, and famously called it "peace for our time." This appeasement of the aggressor led to Czechoslovakia being divided by Germany, expansion of Hitler's aggression, and the beginning of WW2.

Any appeasement of russia today will give permission to all dictators around the world to attack other countries, knowing that eventually, like russia, they will receive something as a reward for their aggression. And this would be the beginning of World War 3.

[R Freeman @robf]

Some 24 hours after having to apologise for repeating internet misinformation without checking the facts ...
Carole Malone credulously retweets internet misinformation (which I think is rather obviously AI seeing as the breed and size of the dog changes during the video)

[Carole Malone @thecarolemalone]

Who does this to a puppy for God’s sake. Thank God for this man

[Inappropriate Gavels @igavels]

“Brush up on your knowledge of the English legal system”

[R Freeman @robf]

@networkrail @LNER After a sterling effort from the @LNER driver we made up 5 minutes and caught the connection in Leeds 🤩

[R Freeman @robf]

For some reason the signaller has put 1b90 (Lincoln) ahead of 1d29 (Leeds) and has ignored several opportunities to get the faster Leeds train ahead.

1d29 due Peterborough at 1950, 1b90 due there 1957, but we wait behind it.
@lner @networkrail #kgx #york #roc

[R Freeman @robf]

@networkrail We are in front. However, 1d29 is now 12mins late and 1b90 is 7mins late. For no reason considering we both left #kgx at within a minute of each other.

I have a connection in Leeds, then the last bus of the evening after that. I hope I make it 🙁

@LNER @networkrail #yorkroc

[R Freeman @robf]

@travelling_wolf I'm unsure what you mean. The signaller had many opportunities on the route to put the faster train ahead of the slower. There were no issues ahead which would have prevented this.

[R Freeman @robf]

@travelling_wolf There is only one panel, in York.

[R Freeman @robf]

@m_in_m @travelling_wolf Yes, I expect ARS is the default, but this is where a human should make sensible decisions. Also there's clearly a role for AI to alert to opportunities to reduce delay.

(also kudos for granting me the consideration that I knew what ARS was 👍)

[R Freeman @robf]

@LNER That's kind of you to let me know. Thank you 👍🙂

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

NEW: Solicitor threatens legal action against victim of Post Office Horizon scandal.

"I do not propose to spend pages writing a history of the work I carried out for you... we both understand the game of law/lawyers and fees."

https://t.co/5HwrF4bDRH

#PostOfficeScandal