Incredibly moving seeing the final episode of #MastersoftheAir showing the liberation of Stalag VII-A in Moosburg. That's the camp where my grandfather Gilbert Roughol and his brother Pierre spent 2 1/2 years of their lives. Some of their photos, more at isabelleroughol.com/stalag-7a/

Lots of geriatric Millennials in that government. DBZ was huge. I would kamehameha my brother all the time.

Outrageous price increases are annoying as it is, but bad maths is worse Virgin Media 🐐. That’s not RPI + 3.9%. It’s RPI + 3.9 points which means RPI nearly doubled (+79.5% if you wanna get specific). And here I thought the email was to apologise for all the service interruptions.

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Marketers have got to chill. I just wanted to order cat food and now I think I'm being recruited for a revolution.

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After nearly a year battling British Gas, today I won. 1300 quid spared! Months on my own did nothing. Two weeks ago, I went to the Energy Ombudsman. Everything got unlocked. PSA: Use the Energy Ombudsman.

Hey NewsDay Zimbabwe ! Pretty ballsy of you to republish my article in full without compensating or even asking. Nice array of cheap ads you’ve got there. And the donate button to support indie journalism, chef’s kiss. Where do I send my invoice? newsday.co.zw/opinion-analys…

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'Leaders who try to break the generational curse of bad management modelled after bad management often end up burnt out and leaving the industry'

Isabelle Roughol on why news organisations need to need to train editors as dedicated people managers

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The state of Royal Mail... Pay for 24-hour signed for delivery on Monday, watch it not having even entered the tracking system on Friday.

David Beckham is the last remaining investigative journalist

Times student sub: 10 quid a year (clever, the only thing that could have made me look past their dark commercial practices)
Financial Times student sub: £165. Love you guys, no can't do.

Hearing US news right now is like watching a show that’s been going on for way too long and thinking “didn’t we get this storyline in season 3 already?”