co-CEO Burlington Media Unicorn @briefinglegal @lpmmag @lsn_team Proud manager of 2 small cost centres Husband to awesome @charlottecw Born 326ppm it’s now 423
I think it’s time to leave Twitter. It sucks now. @elonmusk is a modern day Lord Copper. He’s a massive wanker, utter narcissist and capitalist arse. I’d rather have Rupert Murdoch run it. This platform is now a significant part of the problem, and is just … it’s just awful
The idea that the BBC is a waste of money, can get fucked. Our publicly owned broadcaster is the ONLY thing we do better than anyone else in the world. 'In Our Time' on Radio 4 alone is worth the licence fee.
@BBCNewsnight Victoria Derbyshire and Nick Watt, killer duo. Derbyshire has been an absolute shot in the arm for NN. Still the best news show going even after everything that’s been done to it
@IanDunt Wow Ian you’re miles off on this. Banning smoking in the street? That’s authoritarian and you might as well just ban smoking (and perhaps we should). But banning it in commercial spaces that other non-smoking customers have to share? Just dealing with an anti-social behaviour.
If I wanted leverage for a peace negotiation with Russia and I’d lost 20% of my country, the smartest move before walking to the table would be to take a tasty chunk of my enemy’s territory…
One of the main achievements of the offensive in the Kursk region is how the situation affects the mood in the West. Ukraine is using Western weapons in the offensive and there has been no escalation from Russia. On the contrary, apart from whining about the attack at the UN,
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@CharlesTTHF This is what happens when Silicon Valley moves from experiments with disregarding laws (Uber/Lime etc) to proactively screwing with social systems. The ‘move fast and break things’ model does seem to be breaking things. Who’d a thunk it!?
So interesting bc it’s so obviously true that when people can like content without social judgement, they will do more than they did. But in some countries you want to express engagement without govt knowing. It’s a real conundrum
When, on 12 June, Elon Musk made Likes on X private (so that only a post author can see who likes their post) this seemed like a small change. But small changes in complex systems like X can have big, unpredictable effects. 1/7
As I fully expected, @x has decided that the guy who urged his followers three times to find my home address and hoped I would get attacked with a machete (in a now deleted tweet), did not break its rules, which merely confirms that there are no rules anymore. 1/