An 18 year old makes his debut for Arsenal in the Champions League. Where are all our young players that won the league, won the FA Youth Cup and beat Arsenal ? Where are they ?

Best thing ever happened to me after tonight’s gig

BBC News segment on AI goes big on the 'democratization' and cost-saving potential of AI, before bigging up the newest 'creation' by an AI artist - a shot for shot remake of the Princess Mononoke trailer. No mention by presenter that this is wholly based on other people's work.

Hello! I'm here at BBC Radio 4, where I will be going live at 12:00, defending Chappell Roan in light of her recent show cancellations and advocating for artists' rights ✊ tune in here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

So, this afternoon I got home to find a lovely letter from NORTHERN 🚆 telling me about how they wanted to prosecute me for using the below ticket to travel on the specified route at a peak time. I paid £1.90 less than the fare they say I should have paid. A thread 🧵

yes brilliant strategy. keep pumping out larger and larger quantities of increasingly low-quality writing until your entire output is indistinguishable from AI, at which point you can replace everyone with AI. a bright future for uk journalism ahead

If they're marketing tickets as "any time" at point of sale and then slapping people with private prosecutions & hefty fines because they're secretly not actually "any time" tickets, the regulator should step in and slap *them* with a hefty fine

Meanwhile, here in the Netherlands, I tap my transport card when I enter the station and I tap it again when I leave at the other end. The cost is automatically calculated, and I pay it at the end of each month. The complexity of British rail ticketing is not normal.

This whole thing reads like a huge scandal to me.

I am deeply concerned by reports of Northern Rail fining and prosecuting passengers for innocent mistakes when using their railcard at peak times. I have written to their Managing Director to relay my concerns regarding this practice.

It's so thoughtful of Google and Blackrock to let Ministers sit on their private pow wow next week. (GIP is Blackrock)

Secondary ticketing is another topic I've written an awful lot about over the years. There have been some interesting developments of late, and now Michael Rapino - boss of Ticketmaster owning Live Nation - seems to be supporting a ticket resale price cap: bit.ly/3BBEbm2

I was interviewed for this brilliant The Guardian article by fab music journalist alim kheraj, focusing on music fandom and the connections between musicians and fans, discussing artists such as Chappell Roan & Tegan and Sara JOMEC @ Cardiff Uni Cardiff Uni Comms theguardian.com/music/2024/oct…

When you're looking for £22bn to fund public services, few people are going to complain about tapping the gambling industry for some of it. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

"It will derail racing" says industry that has spent the past 20 years cannibalising racing with football bets and inviting regulatory trouble by pushing everyone else to online slots.

Thanks for all the kind Rattlesnakes 40th anniversary words. Worth remembering, at this juncture, that I was not alone making the record. I was very lucky to be in such a great band, #Rattlesnakes40th

Ed Newton-Rex The government needs to be reminded that other peoples’ intellectual property belongs to them, not the government. It’s not the government’s to give away.

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So cool to be a guest on The Anfield Wrap talking about the Beatles! 😍🎸 Thanks for having me and hope to see some LFC fans at our charity gig celebrating 60 of A Hard Day's Night and Beatles For Sale on December 4th! Tickets here: liverpoolacoustic.co.uk/event/60-years…

can you believe that i, the savviest cleverest most beautiful person you know, fell for a scam? wrote about this excitingly horrid fraud to look out for on messenger and how the giant tangle of the ticketing industry allows it to happen independent.co.uk/life-style/col…