Good piece by ⁦Hannah Prevett⁩ looking at ⁦Harry Stebbings⁩ and his seven-days-a-week approach to building a $10bn business. I’m with ⁦Suranga Chandratillake⁩. Is being a ‘996’ workaholic essential for start-up success? thetimes.com/article/7b3264…

.@Iridium cuts 2025 service growth to 4% from 6%, maintains EBITDA forecast; shares fall 20%; D2D talks with MNOs under way, field trials start next year. Starlink AST SpaceMobile Verizon Syniverse.spaceintelreport.com/iridium-trims-…

The lessons of history. Thirty years on, for Netscape read Open AI? Netscape IPO casts a shadow from 1995 over AI boom breakingviews.com/columns/big-vi…

Weaving together Ozzy Ozbourne, the ⁦SMMT⁩, de Tocqueville, Dickens and the birth of heavy metal in Birmingham before the city was brought low by globalisation. Masterful ⁦Dominic Sandbrook⁩! RIP Ozzy Osbourne, and the world that inspired you thetimes.com/article/a5aa2d…

Goodness

A great obit of a business giant. Didn’t realise that Ivan Fallon had written a biography, which must provide much of the source material. Lord Alliance obituary: Reviver of Britain’s textile industry thetimes.com/article/cff683…

Rum, Sodomy And The Lash is 40 today. Here's the piece I wrote when it came out. Not a bad bit of work, but nothing compared to the record itself, a work of art whose lustre and meaning grow with the passing years. It is a stone classic, nothing less.

Not sure about the subtitles but one of the all-time great songs.

Phenomenal pics

After this was released, the popularity of Nigel - the most popular boy’s name in the UK in 1963 - continued to decline until, in 2020, not a single British baby was called Nigel. Regardless, great song.

Hello Monday! Paul Weller The Jam From the Jam (Foxton & Hastings)

What a song

Charlie Kirk slick tactics dont work against intellectual college kids at Cambridge. SHUT DOWN again, and with laws of the Bible.

Dickie Bird's magnificent knock has come to an end. He was so good. And so eccentric. He is completely synonymous with English cricket in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Can't think of another official, in any sport, who was genuinely as famous as the players. Raise your bat, Dickie.

“Since the readmission of the Jews to England in the 1650s (thank you Oliver Cromwell) until 1960 (when a Jewish student was killed by fascists), not a single Jew was killed in our country for being a Jew. This is unique in all Europe and the Americas.” thetimes.com/comment/column…

This is such a superb song. “We live in a troubling age…” open.spotify.com/track/0gtn33DS…

Powerful stuff from Irwin Steltzer, once my colleague, I guess. A storm is brewing to spoil the big American picnic thetimes.com/article/79a64d…

Good to see that Soo Catwoman merits an obituary from The Times and The Sunday Times - complete with references to the Bromley Contingent and pictures of Rat Scabies and Wreckless Eric. RIP Soo Catwoman obituary: punk fashion symbol thetimes.com/article/f07ad8…

Didn’t they look the dog’s bollocks?

Transmission at #26, Heart of Glass at #32, Message to you Rudi at #39 and Electricity at #40 - what a year!