John L. Walters

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How Nigel Farage’s ‘right-hand man’ in Europe was unmasked as a traitor Podcast Episode · Today in Focus · 25/11/2025 · 30m

Good programme about the traitor Nathan Gill, podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @theguardian.com With @lukeharding1968.bsky.social and @helenpidd.bsky.social

The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 1. A Time of Monsters - BBC Sounds Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.

The latest Reith lecture is well worth listening to, www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The notorious bit of BBC censorship doesn’t make a huge difference: it is clear from the lecture what he thinks about Trump, whether we’d been informed about the cut or otherwise. #moralrevolution

Former Reform in Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for pro-Russian bribery Nathan Gill, 52, is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after admitting taking bribes while an MEP.

Farage et al really mustn't be allowed to walk away from this scandal, and its wider implications:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fergus McCreadie at Union Chapel last Thursday. #londonjazzfestival

I implore someone, anyone, in the media…

Do your job

And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:

…what were the motivations behind this?

The digital version of our Nathan Gill timeline is now online ⬇️⏳

www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Book your tickets for #TypeTuesday, ‘Light Fantastic’, on 25 November 2025 with Kate Dawkins and Michael Collins, bit.ly/TypeTuesday52

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But surely not ‘deeply shocking’ …

Light Fantastic with Kate Dawkins and Michael Collins. Type Tuesday at St Bride. 25 November 2025.

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From The Nuclear Sublime by Michael Collins.

Passchendaele ceremony. Design by Kate Dawkins Studio.

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Come to Type Tuesday on 25 November, with Kate Dawkins and Michael Collins.
#graphicdesign #recordphotography #spectacle #projectionmapping

Kurt Elling (fourth from left) and the Yellowjackets, playing the music of Weather Report at Cadogan Hall.

Left to right: Russell Ferrante, keys Dane Alderson, bass Bob Mintzer, saxophone and EWI William Kennedy, drums Kurt Elling, vocals

Good to hear Kurt Elling and the Yellowjackets last night, playing the music of Weather Report at Cadogan Hall. #efglondonjazzfestival #jazz

It’s always good to hang out with Mike, and (briefly) to hear the world through his ears. Great man.

The BBC is right not to pay damages to Trump By apologising, the broadcaster has taken the sting out of Trump's excessive attack

David Allen Green: The BBC is right not to pay damages to Trump

Honorary Doctorate awarded to Michael Gibbs in Birmingham - UK Jazz News Michael Gibbs, often hailed as the world's greatest living jazz composer, was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Birmingham City University at a ceremony at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's Brads...

Mike Gibbs celebration – report by John Watson for UK Jazz News, ukjazznews.com/honorary-doc...

#doctorhonoriscausa #michaelgibbs #mikegibbs

Michael Gibbs receives an honorary doctorate at Birmingham Conservatoire, 13 November 2025. 📷 JLW

Big band at the Eastside Jazz Club at Birmingham Conservatoire playing Mike Gibbs’s chart ‘Knees Up’. 📷 JLW

One of several wall displays celebrating the life and work of jazz composer, arranger and bandleader Mike Gibbs.

Photo of me (John L. Walters) and Mike Gibbs at Birmingham Conservatoire by Mike’s daughter Nikki. Thu 13 November 2025. I have known Mike since I was a student, and produced his 1988 album Big Music for Virgin / Venture. At the time it was his first album for 13 years. Not yet available via streaming, you can hear the album on YouTube, https://youtu.be/ojvmI0XOybk

Great day in celebration of Michael Gibbs’s honorary doctorate at Birmingham Conservatoire.
Friends, family, staff, students and lots of music inc. a terrific student big band at the Eastside Jazz Club.
Big thanks to Ed Puddick.
#doctorhonoriscausa #jazz #jazzcomposition #michaelgibbs #mikegibbs

The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...

The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.

It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.

Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards

Trump's Full Speech at D.C. Rally on Jan. 6 - MarketWatch At a rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, former President Trump repeated his unsubstantiated claims of fraud in both the November election and the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff, saying "We will never g...

Panorama should just re-edit the programme.

Removing the edit Trump complains about.

Replacing it with the last 1 minute 16 seconds of his speech, unedited.

In which he repeats exactly what Panorama put in the edit.

From 69:36 to 70:52.

www.marketwatch.com/video/trump-...

Cover of The AI Con

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna

Cover of The AI Con

‘The ouroboros of hype’
My review for @eyemagazine.bsky.social
Packed with information, The AI Con pours cold water on ‘AI’ hysteria, while drawing attention to the tech’s environmental and ethical implications.
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
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@alexhanna.bsky.social

My profound apologies.
(Can’t be blamed on rogue AI, just normal human incompetence.)

Imagine my surprise … @financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com

Cover of The Ai Con

Titles for Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000.

Emily Bender and Alex Hanna

Cover of The Ai Con

‘The ouroboros of hype’

Packed with information, The AI Con pours cold water on ‘AI’ hysteria, while drawing attention to the tech’s environmental and ethical implications.

Review by @johnlwalters.bsky.social

@emilybender.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
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Ewan Bleach with his Fleeting Paradise Orchestra – album launch at Sands Films in Rotherhithe. Wonderful.

Action is stronger than feeling, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/ac...
‘Doing the Work’, the 2025 St Bride Foundation design conference, brought some dynamic new personalities to the foreground.
Report by Anoushka Khandwala.
Conference curated by @gregbunbury.bsky.social
#graphicdesign #illustration

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Farage: epic grifter

Design history in Ankara, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/te...

My review, now online, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
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