David Gledhill

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

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Ever trodden on a uk plug when stepping down out of the loft in (for some forgotten reason) bare feet?

But LbD world beaters

Dubai chocolate, Lidl (spain) Spotted yesterday afternoon in Figueres.

No I didn't.

Bullet up the Grand Trunk Road by Jonathan Gregson is an entertaining travelogue of crossing India on an Enfield Bullet, bringing in the historical context around the partition and the intercommunal volience.
Worth a read.

It started with Thatcher.
But what was going wrong already that enabled La Vache to come to power?
And we shouldn't overlook the ownership of the press in all this

Hope you blagged some samosas etc from Gupta's over the road for snacking later.

Trying to concentrate on writing a good 500 words this morning whilst knowing the England v India test match is unfolding nicely...

I have to say I am envious...

Thanks, Ronan. That's great. That works. I am v relieved.
However, I was trying to do this on my PC desktop rather than my phone.
And clicking on that link on PC takes me to BBC Sounds, (with the banner advising it will be replaced)
Hence my frustration/confusion.
It still sends me there now.

Thanks. That's what the site says but I have been looking through and clicking around all and yet to find anywhere where Radio6Music is available on BBC.com.
BBC.com>audio>radio currently only shows links to BBC World Service and Radio 4.
Unless something changes... or I'm missing something...

Check out the great Noah Gil-Smith, 'a celebrated travel guide author known for his extensive explorations and vivid storytelling.' Surely one of our greatest living writers – he's got 647 books to his name! Don't forget to check in tomorrow though, he'll have added a couple of dozen more...

Amazon page with KJ Smith’s books on Morocco, Bastille Day, Montana

Amazon page with KJ Smith’s books on transcendentalism, St. Kitts and Nevis, Peru

Amazon page with KJ Smith’s books on existentialism, field hockey, New Jersey

Amazon page with KJ Smith’s books on Cologne, Art Deco, Liverpool

“KJ Smith” is genAI, right? Dozens of books in a few set formats, all published in 2025? I listened to one and it sounds just like ChatGPT — bland summary, little detail about any of the events mentioned, constantly drifting into corporate mission-statement vocabulary, no thought behind the phrases

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Thanks.
I keep re-reading the press releases etc but still a bit baffled as to exactly what the new world will operate.

The Asphalt Path

A couple, through no fault of their own, are thrown off Birmingham’s No 11 Outer Circle bus and resolve to complete the circuit by foot.

In doing so they have the spiritual awakening of spending half the journey walking towards Solihull, and the other half walking away.

So BBCSounds will still be accessible via desktop?
I am getting messages at top of screen advising it will cease.
Despite using a VPN...

The sooner cask ales get Unesco intangible Cultural Heritage the better. Might stop this sharp practice.

My latest piece in Private Eye on Carlsberg's Fresh Ale fiasco: filtered & carbonated keg served through dummy handpumps. #BskyBeer @camraofficial.bsky.social

Fantastic. I only wish it had mentioned language justice and the threat to minority languages. By default, AI models are trained and deployed in English.

As a lad, I was fascinated by illustrations of Patrick Woodroffe, very much influenced by Arcimboldo.
This was for a Micheal Moorcroft book cover.

Just got hold of this.
112 Gripes about the French.
Produced for American troops in France in 1945.
Interesting take down of prejudices.

Some thoughts on the #TheSaltPath scandal, especially for those who write books in that general neighbourhood (the nonfiction ones with the faux-woodcut covers, shelved under "nature" even if they probably shouldn't be). 🧵1/

Ooh. I am in Cradley for a couple of days next week. Must pop along to The Vine

They really should have ironed it flat again.

Someone has folded my GoogleMap and left nasty crease running across it

Yeah, all my theories have sweeping generalisations.

Consequently. there was freedom to adopt this and that from wherever.
It is a good pub conversation theory at least...

My pet theory that as England hadn’t been invaded for 1000 years there was never a foreign culture to rail against, and no necessity to fiercely hold on to own cultural identifiers in the face of subjugation.

The UK is very good at taking on board other cultures’ best bits, messing around with them to suit, mashing them up, making them our own by creating new and special. Especially music and cuisine, as someone else had mentioned. Chicken tikka masala, an invented dish, becomes a national icon.