I do hope Chelsea Board Director Danny Finkelstein and Matthew Syed aren’t sitting next to each other in the next Times conference meeting

Surely both?

Every single one of these electioneering posts is fake and they’re part of a new flood of pro-Trump images published by Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Image courtesy of @nytimes.com

Normally, editors run a single ‘on the road with…’ interview with political leaders in the run up to elections. In a single week, The Times has done two with Farage. Basically the exact same soft touch pieces. Are readers as enthusiastic about him as the Editor?

I think you’ve already achieved a great deal. People are talking. And maybe doing other stuff!

There’s a really important fact that is buried at the end of this article: researchers combined the data from many failed Alzheimer’s trials and a minority of successful ones. If we skew results like this, investment will dry up

‘I think it would be braver to come and have the conversation’ says @samanthaniblett.bsky.social to colleagues briefing behind her back about her brilliant ‘let’s enjoy sex’ campaign. But surely have the conversation first and then come?

I find it extremely worrying that this writer ignores the real ‘fuel’ of antisemitism. You can’t ‘see’ AI fakery unless social media publishers like Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube enable and allow you to. But saying so might harm Rohan’s career

This is the second time in the last few months that Patrick Maguire - a commentator not a journalist - has joined Nigel Farage on the campaign trail. But he hasn’t joined any other politicians or parties. Why?

Appalling omission in an otherwise brilliant column from Deborah Ross. If anyone knows how to double park and get away with it, it’s Kanye West. He might actually thrive in Golders Green

Just to clarify: it’s 2 Britons ‘flocking back’ in this story and neither want to be identified because the UAE authorities might take action #livingthedream

Agreed

‘Normal people can feel themselves going mad.’ I think that might be me - and you - that @hugorifkind.bsky.social is writing about. Addiction to the attention ‘reward mechanisms’ of social media publishing companies is so destructive

I'd love to know what Nigel Farage thinks about Hitler-loving, Jew-baiting, apologetic, non-apologetic Kanye West coming to the UK. He and the rest of Reform have been unusually quiet

The answer to Camilla Long’s pained question is: Journalists on expenses. Just a couple of months into her new job and half of Camilla’s chosen restaurants charge more than £150 a head. Nice work if you can get it

Verbally communicating with each other?

The return of Arturo Ui. This time with Mark Gatiss who still remembers the brilliant Robin Askwith. In truth, he never went away and the animals that do his heavy lifting are still unmuzzled…

Makes sense for JD Vance to kick off his new anti-corruption job by visiting Viktor Orban in Hungary. Good luck, JD!

I don’t often read Baptist News Global @baptistnews.com‬⁩ but this succinct summary of Hegseth’s war against his own Army is excellent. Major General William Green was the chaplain, sacked for…well, let’s guess

#storytelling #questionstorming #storyfinding #storymaking #storytelling | Grant Feller Dear King Charles, I’m writing to ask for a job. Do you have a LinkedIn account? No matter, I’m sure you flick through the site when you’re bored. Anyway, do you need a new speechwriter for your fort...

Some news: I'm going to become King Charles III's new speechwriter
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An example of how podcasting has had a negative impact on journalism:
This morning in an 8-minute interview on BBC radio’s Today programme, presenter Emma Barnett spoke for almost 4mins 30 seconds. Government minister Peter Kyle spoke less - less! - than his interviewer

Opinion | Craigslist Made Me Rich. Giving the Money Away Is Easy.

Super piece on philanthropy, from pigeon-loving nerd Craig Newmark of Craigslist: ‘Making money isn’t proof to me that I know something any better than someone else. Wealthy people who believe that they do aren’t as smart as they think.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o... via @nytimes.com

...which we are effectively reposting as the TOP STORY so that even more trolls can have another go, maximising the opportunity of more clicks for MailOnline #havecakeandeatit

From The Times: ‘Use all the goodwill it can muster…’ Perhaps even the republics of Europe will be wishing The King and Queen well when they meet Trump. Cancelling the Royal trip would be madness

In a @nytimes.com interview the CEO of YouTube, Neal Mohan, compares protecting children from damaging online to content to riding a bike. Kind of ignoring the fact that you get hurt not from the bike but by everything else around you. The stuff you can’t control

Rishi Sunak on an organisation that has failed to listen to key audiences because its leaders, hampered by groupthink, are immune to external criticism and slow to make decisions. I wonder what Matt Brittin thinks of the Conservatives!

Made me think of Soylent Green. Can they not be a ‘retail and funerals’ group?

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This @maitlis.bsky.social interview with Nick Clegg @thenewsagents.co.uk is even more relevant now. Nick, who used to help run Meta and benefits from being a ‘good leaver’, insists that social media companies don’t influence vulnerable people’s behaviour.
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This column from @alicettimes.bsky.social is so important. I’m always surprised by the silence of non-Jewish business leaders when it comes to antisemitism but not always other forms of racism or prejudice

The coming of crypto: how Nigel Farage plans to reshape politics Trump once called cryptocurrency a scam but in office has embraced it. Now Reform wants to bring a similar revolution to Britain — even if it resembles a racket

We’re watching our political system being corrupted by an elite that wants to get richer. Fraser Nelson on what Reform really wants
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