Freelance writer, speaker etc, mostly on tech. Bob Dylan, (mostly English) literature, changing London, Spanish travel & culture, classic pubs.
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It took me 174 days of running across the USA to raise for charity what Isak earns in a week for not training/playing. Thatโs a tough one to reconcile. #nufc
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22 Oct 2024
Suella Braverman's excuse for sending government documents to her personal email account is technologically challenged. Split-screen software function on a large screen or adding a second physical screen would have worked just as well.
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10 Jul 2024
I was already aware that I own shirts older than Lamine Yamal. Today, I found a to-do list item that was older than him.
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17 Apr 2024
I just saw this sickening news about the best football journalist since Brian Glanville and it's another kick in the shins. People mock the 'mainstream media' but good luck understanding this world without excellent writing, deep domain knowledge and editors who care.
10 Apr 2024
Some personal news: Iโm leaving @thetimes @TimesSportโฉ. Been made redundant. Iโve loved my eight years there, great people, I thank them for the platform and I leave as current @SportSJA and @WeAreTheFSA Football Journalist of the Year ๐
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11 Mar 2024
Clearly, the editing of the Royal Family portrait is the greatest new story of our time. I only wish the mainstream media could pursue it in more forensic detail.
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23 Nov 2023
"Some followers live in private group homes, where they can brainstorm ideas, engage in philosophical debates and relax playing a four-person variant of chess known as Bughouse." Odd sentence in an otherwise fascinating story re. OpenAI's equally odd week. wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-blowuโฆ
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31 Oct 2023
Dominic 'Potemkin' Cummings is one of those people who uses words/references that others in the meeting won't understand so they all have to Google them. Classic British pass.-agg. meeting behaviour.
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4 Oct 2023
Four excellent tickets for Lloyd Cole in Newcastle on Friday - shout if you're interested.
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15 Sep 2023
Sad to hear the wonderful India Club on the Strand is closing. File near classic dead caffs such as the New Piccadilly, Centrale, Lorelei, Presto, & Gaby's Deli. Add pubs like the Pillars of Hercules & Carlisle Arms. Call those files The Last of London and fear for the future.
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2 May 2023
I dare say the late Gordon Lightfoot didn't plan it this way but for years now, on waking up to the tell-tale patter on Velux windows, I never failed to think of the frail melody of his lovely song, Early Morning Rain.
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24 Mar 2023
How to run a tech startup when a war is in the way...
24 Mar 2023
"The great thing weโre building in VictoriaMetrics is people and a team: people who like to work with each other and build a product used by hundreds of thousands of people." @hagen1778
One to watch - via @StackPublishing & @Martin_V ๐
thestack.technology/one-to-wโฆ #opensource
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2 Mar 2023
Whatever your current problems, "team builder in Slough".
2 Mar 2023
Half the Conservative Party is currently locked up at a team builder near Slough as the Sue Gray news breaks...
Source says "backbenchers are appalled..."
Less upset "from those in Government."
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23 Feb 2023
Failed yesterday's Wordle with three goes at one letter remaining. #firstwordleproblems
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22 Feb 2023
Please get in touch by mail with thoughts on the Blair/Hague 'redesign the state around tech' plan. #journorequest
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17 Feb 2023
So what do I have to do to get a League Cup Final ticket? Kidney, (post-Dry January) liver and basic sense of dignity available in part exchange.
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3 Feb 2023
Immediate global ban applied to the words/terms "fanbase", "woke", "virtue-signalling", "TED Talks" and "futurologist/future-watcher/future-gazer". More news as we get it.
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2 Feb 2023
Everyone who needs to catch up on the progress (and sometimes the opposite) of digital government needs to read Jerry.
2 Feb 2023
this is a great piece by @Martin_V for @StackPublishing about our recent discussion of my new book and all things digital and politics
More on the book coming soon ๐
thestack.technology/jerry-fiโฆ
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30 Jan 2023
Cancelo culture strikes again.
30 Jan 2023
All has not been well between Cancelo and Pep in recent weeks
joe.co.uk/sport/reason-for-jโฆ
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27 Jan 2023
The club meetings in The Detectorists = Every Tech Media Conference Ever
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