NEW Financial Times Sketchy Politics video! 🎥 robert shrimsley joins me to discuss whether Sunak/Hunt are being too bold and Labour not bold enough. Featuring a Ming vase, my battered New Labour mug, a badly drawn Hunt 👀 and a better map! youtube.com/watch?v=Ro7A8D…

Private equity run children's care homes are bleeding councils dry to pay off vast debt piles and make investors super rich.

There really isn't a bigger ongoing scandal in Britain.

Lego failed to make oil-free bricks. So what's next? Millions of people buy & sell Lego through BrickLink - a kind of marketplace for bricks. So what can the eBay of bricks tell us about Lego's future challenges? New Financial Times Film by me & Richard Milne: youtu.be/8Jgsi0rAnqQ

Lego failed to make oil-free bricks. So what's next?
Millions of people buy & sell Lego through BrickLink, a kind of marketplace for bricks. So what can the eBay of bricks tell us about Lego's future challenges? New
Financial Times Film by me & Richard Milne
youtu.be/8Jgsi0rAnqQ

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Come for the political analysis; stay for my excruciating lettuce joke

New Sketchy Politics, in which Miranda Green and robert shrimsley 'horse about' 🐎, explaining how the election race is shaping up. Watch for free on YouTube, or Financial Times ⤵️
youtu.be/JBRzr0nT_98

One thing they don’t prepare you for when your kid goes to school is that you need to get like four apps, all with names like “BOINGO - Parents”, all of which serve a function that could be an email or a piece of paper in a school bag, and none of them work.

2/2 The second episode, just released, documents the frightening experiences of people globally who signed up to 10 day silent meditation retreats and emerged broken. We ask the question: can meditation really cause psychological harm? @ft Goat Rodeo
open.spotify.com/show/1GUc0a6ls…

1/2 Wonderful review of The Retreat today: “There are a million and one podcasts looking at cults or conspiracies...This one is new and unexpected. Marriage’s programme is dense with information, dense with emotion and dense with stories. I was gripped.” thetimes.co.uk/article/untold…

Well worth a listen

@[email protected] I just ran across this article which describes two specific bugs. A helpful “what” but nothing on the “how” of the tech process being so broken

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j…

Where is the best technical explanation of why the Post Office's Horizon system was so buggy? Generally nobody intends to write bad software, do they? So why was it so broken? What actually caused the values to get added up incorrectly?

RIP Mike Ross-Trevor, an extraordinary scoring engineer /mixer. He worked with Jerry Goldsmith, Bruce Broughton, many others. Brilliant, unassuming, polite, kind. Photo by Damian Duncan, 8/8/2002, Whitfield (Sony) Studios in London #filmscore #recording #musicmixer

Heard joke once: man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him.'

Splattering pens and invisible maps - new Sketchy Politics: Sunak's (whelk) Stall
Free to view in full on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=XbP060…

NEW! Some think it's a positive development that I've completely lost my voice since we filmed the latest 🎥 for Sketchy Politics: Sunak's (whelk) Stall. robert shrimsley might prefer it. (Made before Elgin Marbles-gate by the inestimable @[email protected] ) m.youtube.com/watch?v=XbP060…

Splattering pens and invisible maps - new Sketchy Politics: Sunak's (whelk) Stall
Free to view in full on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=XbP060…