ilmar
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Solely to blame for own opinions.
Not living in the happiest country in the world.
Not living in the happiest country in the world.
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
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November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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One thing not being said - indeed, I think everyone misses this - but the requirement for the BBC to show impartiality and balance relates to the politics of *this* country, there’s no requirement to show some mythical balance globally, only to report the truth without fear or favour.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
One thing not being said - indeed, I think everyone misses this - but the requirement for the BBC to show impartiality and balance relates to the politics of *this* country, there’s no requirement to show some mythical balance globally, only to report the truth without fear or favour.
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Gary Lineker for DG of BBC.
Let the piss boil
Let the piss boil
November 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Gary Lineker for DG of BBC.
Let the piss boil
Let the piss boil
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Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
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One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests.
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
November 10, 2024 at 6:10 PM
One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests.
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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here we are indeed.
(additional context for fans of other sports: Arsenal is currently at the top of the Premier League)
(additional context for fans of other sports: Arsenal is currently at the top of the Premier League)
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
here we are indeed.
(additional context for fans of other sports: Arsenal is currently at the top of the Premier League)
(additional context for fans of other sports: Arsenal is currently at the top of the Premier League)
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look, we have to stop demanding purity tests in times like these. our era will demand left unity and political discipline...
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
look, we have to stop demanding purity tests in times like these. our era will demand left unity and political discipline...
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Tesla investing in xAI is in limbo due to many abstentions to the vote.
xAI's survival is more crucial to Musk than his $1TR bonus award. I removed the paywall from a 9/26 report on this given today's tepid response.
Musk may need to sell some TSLA to fund xAI.
open.substack.com/pub/bradmunc...
xAI's survival is more crucial to Musk than his $1TR bonus award. I removed the paywall from a 9/26 report on this given today's tepid response.
Musk may need to sell some TSLA to fund xAI.
open.substack.com/pub/bradmunc...
Why Tesla is Being Pumped: xAI Needs a Bailout Like SolarCity Did
Musk is desperate to keep his AI startup alive, which is why the vote to allow Tesla to invest in xAI is urgent and more important than his $1 trillion pay package.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Tesla investing in xAI is in limbo due to many abstentions to the vote.
xAI's survival is more crucial to Musk than his $1TR bonus award. I removed the paywall from a 9/26 report on this given today's tepid response.
Musk may need to sell some TSLA to fund xAI.
open.substack.com/pub/bradmunc...
xAI's survival is more crucial to Musk than his $1TR bonus award. I removed the paywall from a 9/26 report on this given today's tepid response.
Musk may need to sell some TSLA to fund xAI.
open.substack.com/pub/bradmunc...
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If you want a near-instant pud of deep delight, I have news you can use: my martini-glass offerings (other glasses may of course be used) of speedily assembled, individually portioned tiramisù – aka Tiramisini – are - #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/tira...
Tiramisini
Some say, challenging more generally accepted ideas about the provenance, that tiramisu was invented in a casa chiusa (a house of ill repute) to give the working girls a pick-me-up, as the name (tira-...
www.nigella.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
If you want a near-instant pud of deep delight, I have news you can use: my martini-glass offerings (other glasses may of course be used) of speedily assembled, individually portioned tiramisù – aka Tiramisini – are - #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/tira...
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Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
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HERE IS WHAT IS HAPPENING:
-the public has beliefs about the world
-history tells us those beliefs can be anything, from mundane to horrific, from rational to deranged
-those beliefs are mostly formed by people talking to each other a lot and deciding what feels right based on what they hear
-the public has beliefs about the world
-history tells us those beliefs can be anything, from mundane to horrific, from rational to deranged
-those beliefs are mostly formed by people talking to each other a lot and deciding what feels right based on what they hear
November 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
HERE IS WHAT IS HAPPENING:
-the public has beliefs about the world
-history tells us those beliefs can be anything, from mundane to horrific, from rational to deranged
-those beliefs are mostly formed by people talking to each other a lot and deciding what feels right based on what they hear
-the public has beliefs about the world
-history tells us those beliefs can be anything, from mundane to horrific, from rational to deranged
-those beliefs are mostly formed by people talking to each other a lot and deciding what feels right based on what they hear
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BTW those protests were deliberately stoked by the publisher.
BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland.
THAT is what #finlandization was in practice.
A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.
BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland.
THAT is what #finlandization was in practice.
A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.
Raid Over Moscow (Access/U.S. Gold, 1984, C64/Spectrum)
#2 for one week in March 1985
Follow-up to Beach-Head. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protested against its insensitivity.
#2 for one week in March 1985
Follow-up to Beach-Head. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protested against its insensitivity.
November 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
BTW those protests were deliberately stoked by the publisher.
BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland.
THAT is what #finlandization was in practice.
A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.
BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland.
THAT is what #finlandization was in practice.
A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.
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Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex
As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you when the bubble will pop, because we're in the stupidest financial era since the great financial crisis — though,...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
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NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
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Does Ian worry about TikTok? Err...
From the latest episode of Page 94, recorded live at Cheltenham Literature Festival
From the latest episode of Page 94, recorded live at Cheltenham Literature Festival
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Does Ian worry about TikTok? Err...
From the latest episode of Page 94, recorded live at Cheltenham Literature Festival
From the latest episode of Page 94, recorded live at Cheltenham Literature Festival
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I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
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" #AfD is abusing its parliamentary powers to gather information about #Germany's transport infr, water supply, digital infr. and energy supply."
"With its requests, one gets the impression that the AfD is working through a list of tasks assigned by the Kremlin"
www.dw.com/en/is-german...
"With its requests, one gets the impression that the AfD is working through a list of tasks assigned by the Kremlin"
www.dw.com/en/is-german...
Is Germany's far-right populist AfD party spying for Russia? – DW – 10/26/2025
Lawmakers accuse the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of using its parliamentary powers to gather intelligence on Germany's critical infrastructure to share it with Russia.
www.dw.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
" #AfD is abusing its parliamentary powers to gather information about #Germany's transport infr, water supply, digital infr. and energy supply."
"With its requests, one gets the impression that the AfD is working through a list of tasks assigned by the Kremlin"
www.dw.com/en/is-german...
"With its requests, one gets the impression that the AfD is working through a list of tasks assigned by the Kremlin"
www.dw.com/en/is-german...
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Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.
on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
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British Council ‘selling everything it can’ to survive
Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off ‘financial peril’
on.ft.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.
on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
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