Duncan Geddes

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

Looks like it’s release year of biggest outlier relative to actual age. Every metal guy who binged Black Sabbath when Ozzy died seems to have got their age plus 38, roughly. No one getting 362 for hitting the gas on Handel tho

Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.

A study earlier this month found that America’s more fragmented media landscape — particularly the takeoff of cable news — accounts for fully one third of the increase in cultural conflict in the US since the year 2000.

Men think they’re watching sex-cam models. In fact they’re slaves A Sunday Times investigation finds that woman have been raped, imprisoned and forced into degrading acts at 24-hour streaming factories in Colombia

A Sunday Times investigation finds that woman have been raped, imprisoned and forced into degrading acts at 24-hour streaming factories in Colombia

This would be funny ha ha tut-tut but it isn’t the same people holding all three views.

The 51% who don’t want spending raised, or don’t know if they do, are hardly gonna turn around and say ‘oh, it’s ME paying for it? Go on then’

British fighter jets to carry nuclear bombs

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: American-made planes armed with tactical weapons would be the UK’s biggest defence expansion since the Cold War ⬇️

Starmer leads tributes to Andrew Norfolk, who exposed grooming gangs The prime minister, who was director of public prosecutions when Norfolk uncovered the scandal in The Times, described him as ‘an incredibly talented reporter’

Sometimes you read or watch a journalist and don’t see the work that goes on behind the scenes. Andrew Norfolk’s tenacity shone through in every word. He was an inspiration

www.thetimes.com/article/c589...

Inside Russian-occupied Ukraine: Putin, purges and propaganda The president says Russia and the land it’s seized will be ‘together for ever’. On the ground, life behind enemy lines is brutal

This one was a big part of my working week. I still find it kind of mad how often we manage to tell stories like these in places like this. Not many people can!

www.thetimes.com/article/96fb...

Stephen Graham on Adolescence: ‘We don’t know what kids do in their rooms’ The actor says too many British dramas portray ordinary family life as unremittingly miserable and reveals why he’s never cast as the romantic hero

I’m also thinking about Adolescence, because jesus christ obviously, and loved this interview with one of the geniuses behind it. What an actor

www.thetimes.com/article/8431...

Can’t guarantee you’ll pull a face like this but I’m still thinking about this bit of journalism, proud to have been involved in a small way. It’s free to read like all our other stuff this weekend

www.thetimes.com/article/95ea...

the idea that millions more Britons are economically inactive since Covid seems to be a mirage, caused by declining response rates to the Labour Force Survey - @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1409...