sean smith these are the people I was talking about… well worth a follow.

Brilliant… the Pat Barker Regeneration trilogy is a must read.

Scary telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

The daily archive. A young man dressed in Red Guard uniform as members and supporters of the Russian Communist Party celebrate the anniversary of the October 1917 Bolshevik revolution. #Russia #Moscow #Communism #Bolshevik #Soviet #photography #photojournalism

An intelligent look at where we are and how we got here- “it’s always worth questioning the status quo. Just because something is the received wisdom doesn’t mean it is right” theguardian.com/business/2024/…

The announcement of the sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media is a grim end to a shaming episode for the Scott Trust.🧵

The Trust claims the Observer was facing an existential crisis. But they failed to raise this once with me during my 6-year editorship which ended last month. And when I asked to address the Trust to make the case opposing the deal, the chair refused.

The deal is mystifying. No price has been given, instead the Trust is paying Tortoise Media to take The Observer off its hands, and in so doing to create a digital competitor.

The Scott Trust, which is supposed to to promote ‘the causes of freedom of the press and liberal journalism in Britain and elsewhere’, has lost the confidence of the staff it represents. It no longer appears fit for purpose.

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LS Lowry in Stalybridge, April 1958, by Frank Martin.

This is beautiful. Mik was a friend & ally & a really wonderful man & photographer. ❤️

Celebrating the centenary of #thegreatgatsby on April 10 an article by #sarahchurchwell that gets closer to things now then a barrage of recent articles. Sometimes you need to go back and a little laterally to know where you are. ft.com/content/dd6f1a…

Some clarity with some history though one could go back further 2008 to 71 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Six years ago, I walked into the lair of the tech gods - TED - to warn them democracy may not survive technology. In fact, I was the one who almost didn’t survive. This year I returned & called them data rapists. Complicit in a coup. Collaborators.

telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

nytimes.com/2025/04/09/opi… via New York Times Opinion

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It looks as if the media are moving to the position they reached during the Vietnam War: the war was justified but the My Lai massacre was a bit over the top. They now have the shooting of the ambulance workers as their 'atrocity' while the rest of what's going on is justified.

The stunt which the crew BEGGED Buster Keaton not to attempt. Even the camera man looked away as the two-ton wall crashed down