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Grant Feller

@grantfeller.bsky.social

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Storyteller. Writer. Columnist. Broadcaster. News obsessive. Helping businesses, brands and leaders tell a better story. My newsletter is here https://grantfeller.substack.com/ and podcast here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/67-how-to-get-the-ceo-to

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Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 22h

I wish Heather Knight @nytimes.com had figured out a way of squeezing in this wonderful anecdote at the start rather than the end of her fascinating interview with Trump-convert Marc Benioff

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 2d

A brilliant editor once told me that sometimes you should run campaigns you never expect to win. The campaign thus lasts longer, the messaging can be more powerful and you'll gain greater sympathy and support. Has no one wondered if this was Trump's intention all along with the Nobel Peace Prize?

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 3d

So right from Jennifer Aniston. These companies are publishers not just platforms but they operate without the same oversight and constraints that traditional publishers must abide by

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 7d

Part of a wonderful interview with Daniel Day-Lewis from @kylebuchanan.bsky.social @nytimes What a treat to have him back on the screen

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 9d

Oliver Sacks was right but missed one essential element: hatred is public too and we are trapped in it. From @newyorker.com

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 9d

The only way of stemming antisemitism is to be honest about what fuels hatred in society. And it’s this place. Social media has changed us, the media, the way we feel, think and act. It’s taken 20 years but technology has supercharged private hatreds into public ones

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 17d

Prophetic stuff from Robert Jenrick in his new social media video designed to promote his leadership credentials

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 17d

‘Longevity is not where the need is - health span is. People don’t want to live longer for the sake of living longer. They want to live healthy as long as possible.’ Which hasn’t stopped these companies raising more than £10bn for anti-ageing treatments that will be only accessible by the rich

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 17d

Perhaps Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy was addressing the United Nations about ending conflict during everyone’s lunch hour

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 19d

Love it when @nytimes.com ‬⁩ writes about London. Sorry New Yorkers but when it comes to stuffy and forlorn, you might want to look in the mirror

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 20d

Important story in the finance section of the Daily Mail, which is run by Alex Brummer, Hugo Duncan, Patrick Tooher, Cal Muirhead and Richard Marsden

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 21d

I know as well as any parent how tough it is but maybe the assumption that one’s academic intellect is deserving of a job is one of the problems. What about other ‘softer’ skills?

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 22d

This data on the decline of democracy from the @vdeminstitute.bsky.social is already out of date. The next report is due in March 2026. That’s too long to wait for some in Western democracies

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 23d

Francis Scott Key's poetry has become one of the world's most powerful sources of pride. Today, it's probably even more potent: because if you want your land to be free, then you do have to be brave. Don't be bullied into submission. Speak out

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 23d

Illegal.
Illegal migration.
He said ‘illegal migration’.

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 24d

So much for your ‘second soul’. If only Charlemagne realised there’s no point in learning a second language

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 24d

I love print in all its forms but I wonder if £15 for a 111-page magazine filled with puff pieces works. But good luck to Edward Enninful and his 72 Magazine

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 25d

They do things differently in Windsor

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 25d

‘It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion’ said someone called Joseph about 90 years ago

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · 29d

Forget the Nobel Peace Prize and win the American Peace Prize, writes @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social‬⁩ in a brilliant ‘letter’ to Donald Trump which he might read but will probably ignore

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · Sep 12

From today’s @financialtimes.com Exploiting someone’s death even before his family has a chance to mourn. This is the problem. Not violence itself but the politicisation of it on places like this

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · Sep 12

I am looking forward to Nigel Farage and the Reform party following his advice, written - ironically - in today’s Daily Mail.
Don’t attack personalities
Debate ideas
And always do so honestly
#yeahright

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · Sep 10

A survey of 2000 people that doesn’t ask the opinions of anyone under 30 can hardly be called revealing

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · Sep 7

It’s not just that there is no vision - no story - it’s that no one seems to be listening, as Jason Cowley says in this excellent @thetimes.com piece

Grant Feller @grantfeller.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not sure which is the bigger PR coup for Farage and Reform before their annual conference:
That picture with Trump, Nadine Dorries joining them, or Rayner quitting as she inevitably will. Sadly (I'm not a fan) their story is getting stronger every day