“You can’t come to the vice president and just ask her to do something,” said another staffer. “You need to have a why.” Outrageous! Staffers should be able to order their bosses around without offering any explanation. What kind of a toxic work environment is this?? smdh

Tonight @ 21:00 on Sky History

Interesting what the threat of potential legislation can suddenly make companies do. They’ve always been able to do this, just didn’t feel the pressure to do it before… let’s hope this is the start of more safeguards.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has put action on the climate and nature crisis at the heart of everything the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office does.

Ha Victoria Coren Mitchell , Guy Branum was shouting out Only Connect on this week’s Jon Lovett show Lovett or Leave It. I love it when there’s a transatlantic crossover in my cultural knowledge 🙂

This is a thoughtful viewpoint on TikTok and social media algos: Section 230 Catches Up to AI by Andy Kessler wsj.com/opinion/sectio…

Many thanks to the Strict Scrutiny Podcast crew—Leah Litman, Kate Shaw, and Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵)—for shouting out this profile in their latest episode, which is all about Elizabeth Prelogar and how she runs circles around the justices. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-…

I had never seen this before. Wow.

More of this >> Amazon UK pays corporation tax for first time since 2020 theguardian.com/technology/202…

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As the wife of someone who works in this industry, under these kinds of pressures, I am always worried about him. ‘I fell asleep driving around London’: TV workers on fear, danger and fatalities in an industry in crisis | Television | The Guardian theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

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Sport and the creative industries are a power house of growth and opportunity in the UK, as well as bringing joy to so many. Fascinating discussion at #ukinvestment summit on what more we can do to put “rocket boosters” under these brilliant sectors in every part of our country.

Yes please!! Go upstream and stop the source, rather than make me “recycle” the plastic! This massively affects my fresh food shopping choices I will always choose loose. ‘Shop like our nan!’ Call for supermarket ban on plastic packaging for fresh goods theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Really smart read. I feel this from people all the time, I only read my news, I don’t watch tv news or cable (never have) as given my creative career I know how effective motion/film/sound is & how that can be dangerous, add in incentive of enragement = engagement = £ and voila.

Petition: Introduce 16 as the minimum age for children to have social media petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…