Sunday Times writer, author. Interviewer of the Year, BPA, 2014. Three times Feature Writer of the Year. CBE 2019.
London/Norfolk
Joined February 2009
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So, after tainted blood and sub-postmasters, what will be the next great British attempt to screw things up with fatal consequences and attempt to delay compensation until everybody is dead? My guess is shitty rivers, but there are so many other possibles.
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‘The future is hard but not impossible. We should free ourselves of the worship of the tech gods – Musk, Bezos, Altman, Zuckerberg, etc – and their money. They are so blinded by their ingenuity that they know very little of value.’
Me on the media
engelsbergideas.com/essays/t…
So do I
I recommend you all to read Novacene by Jim Lovelock and @BryanAppleyard:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova….
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The post Office scndal, “reveals that a wall of obtuse legalism has been used to subdue anybody that cannot afford litigation - about 99% of the population I would guess.”
Me on how not to build bad stuff
humanise.org/opinions/a-huma…
Thanks, Jordan.
@BryanAppleyard beat me and wrote this amazing book recently! Well done, about half way through today and it is a wonderful, unexpected discovery. Thanks!
Loving is the word.
With the @LAAutoShow underway, what lies ahead for #cars? #thisweekthosebooks has @TomStandage's riveting survey of how the automobile shaped our society; @BryanAppleyard's loving look at the significance of the automobile and 3 classic road books open.substack.com/pub/thiswe…
‘To say that photography has lost its innocence – an innocence born of the photographic genius of Julia Margaret Cameron or Eugène Atget – is to wildly understate the issue.’
Me on war and photography in @spectator
spectator.co.uk/article/no-o…
‘The robots known as banks, for example, have succeeded in bringing the world to its knees with appalling regularity.’
My review of David Runciman’s The Handover in @EngelsbergIdeas
engelsbergideas.com/reviews/…
‘For the former, Autumn Variations will be yet another occasion to despair at the colossal popularity of such proudly unimaginative, staunchly unoriginal and intellectually bereft music.’
Rachel Aroesti speaks truth to the power of Ed Sheeran
theguardian.com/music/2023/s…
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‘Any Utopia must be dystopian, for a life of rational harmony is the death of the soul.’
John Gray in The New Leviathans
Tucker Carlson is the only man in the who can make Trump look well dressed.
@TuckerCarlson
@realDonaldTrump
@YSL
@PaulSmithDesign
Etc
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“What is valuable in human beings is not intelligence”. Neither are ideologies or “world-transforming projects”. What matters “is passing sensation: human love, human courage, human defiance that make it worth having lived.”
John Gray
thetimes.co.uk/article/compu…
The new @SkyFootball Monday Night Football format has made me absurdly happy. Like watching a perfect psychodrama.
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