Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Will Humphrey

@willhumphrey.bsky.social

510 followers 480 following 1.6K posts

Marketing Strategy bod in Consultancy. Ex Advertising/Comms person. APG tutor. Stoke fan/music lover/punner/husband/father. My views don't represent my employer's.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 2h

They only used the finest swan, I bet.

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 4h

Hah, missed this. It happens in the Midlands too..some parents just can't resist the Richie Rich look.

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 6h

For all the occasional rants about private schools on this channel, blimey, it doesn't half give attendees confidence.

Just been looking at a leadership coach with 6-7 years experience in advertising - now giving CEO leadership lessons.

I've cooked pasta off & on. Time to tell Zilli how to do it.

1 6

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 9h

Proper comms idea, this (it has probably been going on for years, but eh, it's the first i've seen of it!)

Classic FM @classicfm.com · 9h

Pet Classics is back for the 2025 fireworks season! 🐾

Dan Walker and Charlotte Hawkins will keep the nation’s pets calm through the whizzes and bangs of Bonfire Night, with two shows of relaxing music.

📻 Pet Classics | 5pm–9pm on Wednesday 5 and Saturday 8 November. clssicfm.co/4753wRi

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 21h

Oooh. This one sounds interesting. Did you meet dear old Big HAM himself?

NB, I remember a new business meeting with everyone's favourite Fevery tonic water. The poshest clients i've ever met.

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

Loudly discusses his favourite ales when at the cricket club.

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

He’d block your planning permission in an instant.

1 1

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

There's something sinister about Charlie Bigham. Can't put my finger on it. Feels like he's no stranger to making pies with quicklime.

I think i'll stick with COOK for my overpriced, over salted, lazy middle class person treat.

3 1

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, pretty much.

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaha. I just think it’s interesting.

Doesn’t grind my gears as much as ‘creative strategist’, the fun run of job titles.

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many fractional CMOs. Not quite as many 'leaders', but getting there.

Funny old thing, language:

Part time = weak, lazy
Fractional = smart, numerate, in demand

3 3

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 2d

It really is. Brightened up this grey October day!

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 2d

My sister’s just had her second child.

Mother, baby, family all doing well.

We’ve both mirrored the make up of our families - older boy, younger girl. Funny.

And now our hearts are full.

1 3

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 3d

2010, playing golf in the snow.

The author, playing golf in the snow in Yorkshire. Thoroughly enjoying it, too.

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 3d

Post a picture (or two) of you from a different era.

2014 (pre Mrs H, pre kids) - on my way to a wedding. Slight Bateman vibes.

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 6d

This caption is clickbait. Not quite what he said, or what was asked.

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, getting the time back is the thing. Well - my eldest said his line beautifully today, and I’m chuffed I was able to be there!

Hope you are well, Mark.

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 6d

Good. The orange tango nazi didn’t bully his way to another ill-deserved garland.

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 6d

Pleasing update. Lisbon strikes mean I’m back in Blighty today. The assembly is a go!

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 8d

As was the style at the (very coke addled) time.

It's only with hindsight do I realise how many gigantic pricks I've worked with (and some total legends, but MY GOODNESS THERE WERE A LOT OF THE FORMER THERE)

2 1

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 8d

Link? I have Views about this.

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 8d

Having to travel with work, and missing my son’s harvest festival / leaving behind a cold ridden household.

I don’t know how execs in the 70s-00’s did it. This is the first thing I’ve missed, and I feel awful. (NB, my Dad was more of a road warrior than a flier, so he saw the bulk of my efforts!)

3 2

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 9d

One small parenting reflection:

Why dress your u8 like they are a 45 year old trust funder?

They’ve their whole lives to consider chinos and a gilet, and a vanishingly small time to make sartorial choices which would get them locked up in later life.

Kids as wealth signalling is a choice.

1 2

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 10d

Oh, I thought I wasn't going to like a lot of the canon, and surprised myself by really enjoying the more historically laden stuff (HELLO, MILTON).

Will Humphrey @willhumphrey.bsky.social · 10d

Exeter's 'Past & Present' and 'Culture and Criticism' modules (one a quick run through of the classics - from the Bible to Crusoe, and one a whistlestop intro to cultural theory) was one of the big reasons I chose the course.