This - by Tian Qiyi and ⁦Jah Wobble⁩ - is out of sight. like Massive Attack and PiL jamming a call to prayer. totally into it.

I remember a time when charities simply didn’t need counter-disinformation expertise in their communications teams. It was a gentler time.

Lucy Ward 🇺🇦 John McTernan it's utterly nuts, but it's an older story.Linda McDougall's bio of Marcia is so brilliant on all of this - one of those feminist retellings of a story that at the time was treated completely differently.

subconsciously, 'generative AI' is fuelled by enraged and violent resentment of people with creative skills; that's why the builders of the giant plagiarism machines claim that to type a prompt is to 'make' or 'create' artistic works — it's a rhetorical annihilation of craft

EXCL: Rishi Sunak’s government clashed with George Osborne over attempt to interfere in appointment of new director of the British Museum - David Batty
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This is quite an intervention standard.co.uk/comment/siobha…

I asked half a dozen comms and marketing types if the Tories were making deliberately terrible ads for clicks.

Their overwhelming response was 'what are you, an idiot?'
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John McTernan Especially as he was a fierce opponent of the 5th Republic in 1958: called it a permanent coup d’etat.

NEW: How Rishi Sunak built a close relationship with Blackstone’s bosses

Links between PM and private equity group have fuelled speculation about Sunak’s post-election future

Financial Times story by @_modwyer, me, @georgewparker @antoinegara

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asking here because truly you never know: if an outlet would like to send me to the Democratic Convention in Chicago in August then I would love to write about it very much, and my rates are very reasonable

This is a good piece - I entirely agree that an incoming Labour government needs to hit the ground running, and that to do so it should take advantage of the constitutional inheritance left it by the Conservatives...

When was the last time a serving prime minister made a pre-election visit to Woking

This is a problem on lots of levels. 1) Sends message there's a free pass voting Reform to Tories 2) Erodes discipline and suggests disunity 3) Worst of both worlds in fusing Tory brand with Reform - risks alienating more liberal voters while unlikely to pull Reform voters back.

[Public address system announcement]

'MY NEIGHBOURS BOUGHT SOME WIND CHIMES SO I PURCHASED THIS PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM'

The exhibition at the The The National Archives entitled 'Great Escapes: Remarkable Second World War Captives' is both enlightening and enjoyable. The exhibition runs until 21st July and I would highly recommend a visit. nationalarchives.gov.uk/great-escapes/. #Twitterstorians #PrisonersOfWar #WW2

very cool to see Jenny Erpenbeck's KAIROS on the Booker shortlist!

if you find yourself wanting to read a couple thousand words on love, historical discontinuity, the generations of the GDR, and S&M in her work, do please consider clicking on mine >>>

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John McTernan I think François Mitterrand once said of the powers of the presidency under the 5th Republic that though they weren’t made for him, they fitted him very well.

Well, Tory MPs were warned. And NB (and I’m sure John McTernan knows) that REULA 2023 is only the start of it: much post-Brexit legislation in eg agriculture, trade, medicines gives huge powers to Ministers to set policy and rules within a skeletal framework.

New Brexit checks to cost UK business £2bn and fuel inflation theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

John McTernan jonn elledge TfL First half is close to the Black Path. Another great stroll.

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