Richard Sambrook

Reform’s record £9m crypto donation is just the latest offering from abroad | The Observer

Around two thirds of Reform's money has come from overseas | me with @catneilan.bsky.social 📰 observer.co.uk/news/politic...

75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors

As this from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and the Democracy for Sale team shows, by not acting on a donations cap, Labour are sowing the seeds of their own electoral destruction. Utterly idiotic. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

This exposé is breathtaking. Witkoff and Kushner do not just have conflicts of interest - thy are deeply woven into a web of Russian influence peddling by "investments". Money, personal ties and geopolitics have become indistinguishable.
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Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee - 1. Childhood - BBC Sounds Hermione Lee's vivid biography of one of theatre's leading playwrights.

Radio 4 is rebroadcasting its abridgement of Hermione Lee's biography of Tom Stoppard: this is the first childhood section

"His baby words would have been in his natal language, which he would soon forget"
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They need to do better than just showing Shakespeare
In Love again…

Let’s hope there’s now a BBC4 Stoppard season…

Now Tom Stoppard’s gone. Sheesh, what a year ….

Blimey - what was he aiming for with Finnegans Wake then?!

I have zero interest in AI music or AI photography. Both seem to miss the entire point to me …

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

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How racist AI Facebook posts made one Sri Lankan influencer rich The content creator made his fortune from racist Facebook groups aimed at Brits; now he’s sharing his formula

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You looked great in that headscarf tho … ;)

#Arran

It’s been there for many years as a place for riot training 🙄

Why is it so difficult to run the BBC? As complaints over the editing of a Donald Trump speech topple another director-general, leading the broadcaster is once again looking like an impossible job

Excellent from @henrymance.ft.com on the BBC

on.ft.com/4r7eNtC Why is it so difficult to run the BBC?

I blame radio phone-ins…

Feels like a very specialist pub quiz category…

Thanks for the namecheck! 😆

I’ve seen the BBC flat out on the canvas before. Brave journalism is the best way to hit back | Roger Mosey The corporation is again being put to the test. Now is its chance to double down on reporting that serves the people of the UK, says former head of BBC TV News Roger Mosey

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Naomi is I think bang on here. I have said many times to many people that AI is like any other technology shift: it changes jobs and how we work. Naomi builds on that (and expresses it much better), and lands on "learn the skill of discernment". Do read this.

The absolute state of employment tribunals and enforcement here 🤯

The men who raised the flags Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

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Everyone seems to want to be a guru or thought leader. Anyone up for actually doing the work?

Why we Need to Reform the UK’s Rules on Political Spending and Donations Britain’s political finance regime is dangerous. Musk’s musings about donating as much as $100 million to Reform make the threat even greater. By Logan De La Torre, Kevin Fahey and Iain McMenamin.

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