Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Newcastle University Business School, creative industries, comics, football. Views mine.
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Feb 24
No thanks to the #cannyGNEdriver no. 30 17.18 to Slatyford, who left the Grainger St stop early, while I was running to catch it. Check mirrors, check time?
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Feb 24
And of course the following 31 is already ten minutes late, which is more understandable than leaving early.
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7 Dec 2025
@duolingo I have been a subscriber for years with a long streak in Portuguese. I enjoyed innovations like the stories with actors’ voices bringing it to life. The new AI-generated ones are awful. The characters sound the same in a flat tone and nothing like the original voices.
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7 Dec 2025
I also find the correction of errors no longer seems to happen and it feels like technical effects are favoured more than language learning.
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7 Dec 2025
I hope you announce to bring back the original actors’ voices, otherwise I doubt that I will renew my subscription in the new year.
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27 Oct 2025
@LNER last night I was searching for return tickets from Newcastle to Brighton for this Friday. Typically the prices for this journey vary between £86 and up to £150 if you leave it to the day or the day before. Now the cheapest prices are all £200.
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27 Oct 2025
I read that there has been a price hike in the last couple of months of around 6%. But this is way beyond that. Is there a problem with the ticketing system? Because if tickets are now increased by 30-40% 5 days ahead this is clearly an incentive to drive.
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14 Oct 2025
Less than #cannyGNEdriver on the 10a who just drove on while I was running and signalling to stop on Team Street, only to have to stop at temporary traffic lights up the street for several minutes anyway.
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15 Oct 2025
Today a very kind and #cannyGNEdriver on the 47 who saw me running and stopped at Teams street to wait for me. Well done that man 👍🏻
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Jonathan Sapsed retweeted
4 Nov 2024
What you also won't learn from @thetimes today is details of how the new tax regime will work, who will be affected and what they can do to mitigate it. I just scoured the print and online editions for some neutral, factual reporting and analysis. Nada.
4 Nov 2024
The Times splashes on the views of James Dyson who thinks the Budget is really unfair to people like him. That’s a billionaire who backed Brexit then moved his firm to Singapore - and owns more than 30k acres of UK farmland. But you wouldn’t know any of that from this article.
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28 Sep 2024
Scenes from @ComicArtFest with @TerryMooreArt @panelborders and that cat that @xaimeh said didn’t know who he was a few years back. @ace_national
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19 Sep 2024
Today I took two packages to the @RoyalMail to send to the USA. They said they don’t do postage any more and to go to a @PostOffice. Went to the Post Office and they said they haven’t got space so can’t take them.
The utter state of our public services…
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7 Sep 2024
That’s an impressive leek show…
7 Sep 2024
What a fantastic show of leeks at the North East of England Show at the Beamish Museum. I have no doubt this will take over as one of the top shows up the north.
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4 Aug 2024
Among the far right thuggery, vandalism today on @TeessideUni, which educates students and helps them get better careers, supports businesses and communities in #Middlesbrough. Why attack that which is elevating the region?
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24 Jul 2024
What a relief to hear a government recognising international students as a positive, rather than an existential threat.
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Jonathan Sapsed retweeted
15 Jul 2024
"I'm very inspired by young people today... the lesson I've always learned in life is follow your passion."
Words of advice and encouragement to our graduates from @edvaizey, awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law as part of our summer congregations.
#WeAreNCL #NCLGrad
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8 Jul 2024
This
8 Jul 2024
Waiting to see if there's a frontbench role for Newcastle MP @ChiOnwurah, who shadowed science/innovation for the better part of 14 years.
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Jonathan Sapsed retweeted
29 Jun 2024
5 days to go. Remember when senior Conservatives showed they don't understand anything about trade
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24 Jun 2024
Not sure they quite hit the right tone…
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