Summerstown by Niall McDiarmid 2016 (From the series Southwestern) After Dedham Lock and Mill by John Constable RA 1820 on the wall.

Just taped a one-hour podcast on Cohn and Trump with the London Economist conducted by its perceptive and brilliant interviewer Imogen Serwotka Imogen Serwotka Online in July. Really happy with it.

It was my pleasure Jim!

“To paraphrase Schopenhauer,...every generation mistakes the limits of its own field of vision for the limits of the world. But what happens when generational visions collide?” —Zadie Smith on Tár go.nybooks.com/3GryAi6

Presented a poster at the Oxford Neuroscience Symposium, as a masters student, back in 2017.

Lovely to be back talking about how we’re using eye movements to help diagnosis and classify between Parkinsonian Disorders.

Tech companies are starting to use AI to simulate the personalities of the dead, using the data they’ve left behind. Our science correspondent tests out the tech for “The Weekend Intelligence” econ.st/47UF4QZ 🎧

Digital Ghosts. So glad to have brought this idea to life in a podcast I produced and wrote with the wonderful Abby Bertics. It poses big questions about grief, how personal data accumulates and the extent to which AI is being integrated into our lives. economist.com/podcasts/2024/…

“Outstanding series” The Times
“Bracingly good” Radio Times
“Gripping” The Guardian

Begins tonight, 9pm Channel 4 with all episodes then available to stream on channel4.com

#minersstrike 1984 #minersstrike #orgreave

This should be great and very timely

A documentary series I worked on with a great team last year for Channel 4. Very excited Swan Films

After an extended and unplanned silence, I've finally written again ... on silence. From the latest installment of the Convivial Society.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-thing-th…

First time in LA with Abby Bertics: in the distance recording the sound of waves 🌊

Gosh. I didn't expect such a bumper reaction to yesterday's post about my project researching Postman's Paths. I will get round to responding to all the comments. In the meantime, here's an article from The Guardian a few weeks ago about my project.. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/s…

On a Newcastle to Carmarthen Christmas train odyssey: a good time to post last week’s press awards in Waterloo

Views sitting in NewYork public library last week NY Public Library

Winter Afternoon by John Northcote Nash 1945
Watercolour on paper
(Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery)

Some quick thoughts on why large parts of the mainstream media keep slipping up on Gaza/Israel (and why it was the same at times with Covid):

The main reason is a failure to keep pace with modern news gathering techniques, but there’s more.

Hoorah, my piece on swimming in @Guardian via Virginia Quarterly Review has been recorded for the Audio Longread podcast! bit.ly/3rklRJd

The Paris Review mourns the loss of Louise Glück (1943-2023). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her poems from our archive.

theparisreview.org/authors/26185/…

A beautifully written obit of George from Allan Little Allan Little bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…