Jim Waterson

This is going in @pollysmythe.bsky.social performance review

I love that building and I love this idea. So please add Jill Waterson‘s name to the bellowing list. #mums26

Little nugget at the end for the lawyer watchers

I remember him when he had an entirely different name, strong [citation needed] here

Kharg Island: Iran’s oil lifeline that Donald Trump has left untouched How US deals with crucial export hub could shed light on its longer-term strategy towards Iran

FT coverage is just so good at a time like this at explaining stuff in a really concise, clear way. www.ft.com/content/1355...

But my mortgage!

Some absolutely stunning buildings, especially on south side of the river, just burned down in recent years amid long running development battles.

Paper reviews are very popular online because they give people a proxy view of the world that manageable. Single news agendas are comforting and fairly core to our existing form of government. I wonder how many people in any sense “read” the Indy in full (and they’ve done much better than many).

The death rattle of newspapers is sooo weird, a totally random PR story that someone put on a print product bought by the same number of people who live in Basingstoke, who are rapidly dying. And this will for some reason be discussed on national TV. No wonder the future is influencers.

Oh while we’re at it:
1) “It’s almost mother’s day!” in my inbox - oh yeah no problem doesn’t really apply to me any more, no offence taken though
2) “WE ARE A CONSIDERATE BRAND AND JUST WANTED TO CHECK IF YOUR MUM IS DEAD SO WE CAN STOP REMINDING YOU SHE’S DEAD AHEAD OF MOTHER’S DAY” - y tho

The Tesco Clubcard year in review was brilliant, basically “we’re a bit worried about your dairy consumption”.

The "Azizification" of London housing Fire brigade inspections, dubious safety certificates, and a landlord telling Sadiq Khan that it's business as usual.

The “Azizification” of the London housing market

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Hereditary peer Lord Mancroft: ‘They don’t care about fox hunting. It’s about us’ [FREE TO READ] The Conservative politician and former master of hounds on House of Lords reform, the pros and cons of privilege — and his numerous tattoos

This is one of my favourite lunches that @henrymance.ft.com has done, and yes, that's a big claim. When I add that we decided you all earned it this week becuase you've tried so hard in difficult circumstances, you should feel very proud. as.ft.com/r/a30e9e3c-3...

Axel Springer poised to buy Telegraph in £500mn deal German media group has gatecrashed a proposed acquisition by the owner of the Daily Mail

I really don't miss having to cover the Telegraph takeover story, the world's most tedious media saga.

But this is INTRIGUING: @danielthomasldn.bsky.social says the Daily Mail deal to buy the Telegraph might collapse and Axel Springer might end up in control.
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thank u Oxford clarion this is the only news I’ve enjoyed this morning

What are the other PSBs if they’re just commissioners for iPlayer? Only one place this ultimately ends up, the speed just depends how many egos can take accepting it.

My dad wrote local history books about Yorkshire and refused to accept the new boundaries but NO ONE in Sheffield would buy his history of the west riding. They just kept demanding the South Riding edition. Thousands of unsold books filled our house.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The cool thing about this format is the sheer amount of extra injustices it gives people to argue about.

Desperately need to know more

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Oh yeah they HATED to be associated with Middlesbrough in those posh villages.

Always like how Yorkshire Day was started by people in Greater Manchester.

Was trying to find where I'd posted the link to the 1998 World Book Day book and I'll be honest my summary of it reads a bit different now.

One of my biggest regrets in life is I missed Woodstock museum's exhibition of an animatronic "story of human life" bible parody that had been designed for Meadowhall??? in the 1980s. We just don't have enough insane stuff in public spaces these days. This is why the Marble Arch Mound was good.

I think Claude Code can probably do that.

It’s capped, I’ll survive, heating’s almost off anyway.

It's just deranged, the best coders I know are rebuilding whole apps that people on this site are using on a day-to-day basis using Claude. They haven't written a line of code since last year and are doing weeks of work in a day.

Is this good???

tfw your personal geopolitical assessment to recommit to the Octopus Tracker energy tariff may have backfired

My kids secondary and primary schools in the East Midlands sent out emails about this. One sent an email saying it was a trend we had to be aware of, and the other sent one saying it's a viral hoax they want to warn us about.