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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 1d

I love how they don't even pretend it's real or meaningful. It's a straightforward transaction like giving a child an ice cream that we all know is made of sh*t

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

this shit is just beyond parody, man

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

this shit is just beyond parody, man

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 2d

Trump would love it. Very bling White House.

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 2d

Same. V50. Grey. It never did go wrong and it was so light you could ride all day through mountains without breaking sweat. I used to love that little wobble as it started and the the smooth chug as it slipped away. So well balanced that it drove itself really.

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 2d

Your doesn't bleed oil I suspect.

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 2d

I did a couple of motorcycle tours around Europe at about the same age, in the early 80s. A Moto Guzzi instead a Matchless. A very different continent to the one he saw. I suspect my bike was more reliable, but I am sure his trip was more extraordinary.

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine touring through post-war Europe after five years of isolation and the destruction? And he is wearing a tweed jacket and a beret and smoking a pipe. Sadly I have no written record of what he saw. The year after that last trip he met my (German) mum. No more motorcycle tours...

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 2d

I'm catching up with family. This I hadn't seen from the archive. My father touring Europe on a Matchless and a Triumph. 3 trips 48/49/50 ranging from Brittany to the Rhine to Switzerland and Sweden.

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 2d

Jawohl

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 2d

Ok. That makes sense, thanks!

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 2d

My Google translate can't cope with this. Any Latinists know what this means?

PolisLSE @polislse.bsky.social · 3d

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 3d

And please don't tell me that Marshall doesn't know what he's doing and shouldn't interfere with @gbnewsonline.bsky.social editorial. Their lies and racism only exists because of his funding.

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 3d

For me this as bad as the infamous Libyan Gaddafi episode. The LSE thinks that it knows what the higher moral interest is without considering the grubby moral compromises. No-one is pure but this one stinks

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 3d

Makes me sick that @lsepress.bsky.social takes money from the man responsible for this bsky.app/profile/gerr...

Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 3d

The sewer that is GB News. Now promoting repugnant ethno-nationalism & racism broadcasting calls to remove ethnic minority MPs from the UK Parliament. Even Enoch Powell at his most odious did not stoop this low. Meanwhile the supposed regulator @ofcom.bsky.social is asleep at the wheel.

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing. @channel4news.bsky.social just trailed an item on water shortages in Tunbridge Wells and then went into a commercial for WaterAid. Priceless irony.

Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 3d

The sewer that is GB News. Now promoting repugnant ethno-nationalism & racism broadcasting calls to remove ethnic minority MPs from the UK Parliament. Even Enoch Powell at his most odious did not stoop this low. Meanwhile the supposed regulator @ofcom.bsky.social is asleep at the wheel.

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Andrew - a superb summary!

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent detailed summary of our Journalism and AI festival. As the article says it was packed with expert and innovative voices from around the world - a great read and all the sessions are online

Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 3d

I was in London last month for the first in-person JournalismAI Festival hosted by @polislse.bsky.social and the Google News Initiative. I wrote up a few of the highlights for @niemanlab.org.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/news...

News media is “becoming part of AI systems”: Notes from the JournalismAI Festival 2025

The London conference tackled topics like AI-assisted reporting, article personalization, and deepfake detection.

www.niemanlab.org

Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 3d

I was in London last month for the first in-person JournalismAI Festival hosted by @polislse.bsky.social and the Google News Initiative. I wrote up a few of the highlights for @niemanlab.org.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/news...

News media is “becoming part of AI systems”: Notes from the JournalismAI Festival 2025

The London conference tackled topics like AI-assisted reporting, article personalization, and deepfake detection.

www.niemanlab.org

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 5d

'what about the kiosks?'

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 6d

Lots of other problems of course. Again, we need more research on this and it's hard to define but I would argue UK news orgs are more partisan than ever. Could just be our politics or increased competition and the subscription biz model?

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 6d

There's much more political reporting and commentary than ever before. There's more policy reporting than ever before. But perhaps the two are more separated? One problem is that policy stories are given to pol corrs as soon as they go up the agenda. f

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 6d

Stephen raises an interesting point here about UK political journalism. I am not sure how I'd prove the level of policy reporting over time with research. People have argued for decades (see J Birt 'Bias against understanding' 1975) that there's too much horse-race/Westminister bubble journalism.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d

Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.

Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social · 6d

All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence.

1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.

2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d

Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.

Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social · 6d

All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence.

1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.

2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 6d

Och. That's lovely thx

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 7d

What a loss. Moore, Hurst, Peters, Brooking all legends, but we were always Billy Bonds' claret and blue army. RIP share.google/6WVpEshnfuBg...

A statement from the family of Billy Bonds MBE - West Ham United FC

It is with deep sadness and the heaviest of hearts that West Ham United shares the following statement from the family of legendary player, coach and manager, Billy Bonds MBE…

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 8d

RIP Irony: "I just don’t know what you can do with people like that, people who wilfully refuse to see the reality of a situation simply because it contradicts their political viewpoints" www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

The obvious truth about BBC bias

For quite a few members of the House of Commons culture, media and sport committee, the answer to the claims of left-wing bias against the BBC could be annulled by the simple expediency of firing the ...

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Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 9d

Interesting pricing. I guess they are hoping first tranche of loyal readers will shell out then they'll discount heavily later. I got a year sub to the Washington Post for £15 last week...

Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social · 10d

Apply now for our free APAC region AI Academy open to journalists and media professionals from any news organisation in the region, regardless of size. The 5-week programme will start in February 2026.
Details here: www.journalismai.info/programmes/a...

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