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Put simply: having piano lessons and not practising in between them is like belonging to a reading group and not reading the book, yet still going along to the sessions. 🙍‍♀️

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

We once lived next to Jeffrey Archer. He'd swear furiously at his sons while playing cricket in the area btn our houses (his lawn being studded with Elizabeth Frink sculptures). He failed to get Mum to move her beaten-up Mini for his annual garden party - it was covered 'Jobs Not Bombs' stickers.

"Don’t be silly. I can hear you. I just can’t hear exactly what word you’re saying," said my 90yo mum just now. #hearingaids #mum

I feel like I'm living in a massive, seething, violent Hieronymus Bosch painting, and somewhere far away Andy Burnham is singing 'Always Look On The Bright Side of Life' and strumming 4 chords on his guitar.

I'm intensely curious to know what kind of conversations are going on at #bbcnews and #Newsnight following #c4news expose of Reform / James Orr.

An even more interesting question for @cam.ac.uk following #c4news expose of Reform, and James Orr's special role in it.

[Exit Queen.]

@bylinetimes.bsky.social Just got yr email about this event. I'm still trying to understand how and why this happened to Jason Arday. But is this in-person only – no way to watch a livestream/be in a zoom audience? Can you live-post? Publish a transcript? www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...

Here's a neat illustration of 'will' vs 'would' from @theguardian.com .

I am glad that @lucympowell.bsky.social broadened this curiously narrow question about the culpability of Cambridge University to include the media coverage. #c4news

I'm waiting to see how the "serious broadsheets" re-draw their defensive lines now that the real story about Jason Arday comes - hopefully - into clearer focus with the suspension of Nathan Cofnas, the racist.

Which other academics – or "prominent figures" as Hugh Muir calls Jason Arday – have @theguardian.com's "professional, responsible, empathetic journalists" scrutinized in this way?

friend showed me this: The Sun's racist attack against Benjamin Zephaniah in 1987 when he went to.... Cambridge 39 years before Jason Arday

Each circle has a different story.

NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

‘Cruelty has become more than an individual failing. It has become a political language, a cultural spectacle, and increasingly a governing principle. It is within this poisoned landscape that authoritarian and fascist subjectivities flourish ..’ www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/17/j...

I think @theguardian.com's complicity is disproportionately significant because it was the 1 place Jason Arday might have hoped to find fair reporting. Imagine feeling there was no place of refuge; the isolation & despair. They ran him as their top online story for 2 DAYS while the planet burned.

Trafalgar Square today www.instagram.com/p/DcCbpUGCGS...

#JasonArday phoned me a few days ago to talk to someone who knows what media abuse feels like. His untimely death shows why we need part 2 of the Leveson enquiry into media conduct

A former director of BBC News speaks:

"Nigel *adores* democracy" – Richard Tice radiating glibness and insincerity. #Newsnight

What a shame that #Newsnight only managed to find interviewees like these - people able to provide context and an alternative view backed up by fact - after Jason Arday died.

'at this moment of maximum grief' - stop being so patronising, ffs. She's just made an entirely cogent and lucid point. #Newsnight

Repeating what's in the public domain isn't a defence if it's wrong. #Newsnight

Jason Arday has committed suicide. He was never the story. Proud of yourselves, @theguardian.com ?

My sister and I doing a spot of late-night sanding and diy. Those are Prada sunglasses I’m wearing. 💪

The colour is Climate Change Pink and Apocalypse Yellow. Farrow & Ball also bringing out a sophisticated Parched Lawn and Enshittification Brown in their new End Times range.

This chart does sort of summarise the Starmer government. Just not really in the way it was intended.

I guess, "Posh Uni messes up its generally rigorous recruitment process in unseemly haste to redress a lack of diversity in academe, the root causes of which lie outside of academe," isn't as exciting as: Jason Arday is a fabulist! Heyyyy, look at our clicks! Update our ad sales dept! #JasonArday

Why is the resignation of Jason Arday main news? Sure, it’s an awfully sad thing and pulls in so many directions. But the only reason it’s the @theguardian.com top story is prurience. I worry for this man’s wellbeing.

whut?!

Tactical error on my part when dealing with GenZ.

{Sigh} It's not "Rhetorric" as in "poor Yorick" of Hamlet. It's "Rhett-oric" as in Rhett Butler of Gone With The Wind #bbcnews

No rain here, but it came within a field or two. Close enough that we could hear the rain laughing, hear the rain handing out crisp new five pound notes, hear the rain praising home decoration choices of the houses it fell upon.

I’m a Labour Party member and I agree.

You don't have to a Green Party supporter to deplore the amount of shit that Zack Polanski has to deal with. He must really frighten the establishment. #Newsnight

Only just discovered #CanadianTraitors - and it's that histrionic that I can't be bothered.

Not sure what's going on with that ref's shorts but I'm glad it's over. #WorldCupFinal #spaarg

It's a moral victory! #WorldCupFinal #spaarg

The cringe deepens like a coastal shelf. #WorldCupFinal #halftimeshow

Sweep knows. #WorldCupFinal #SPAARG

“Nothing‘s still happening” my sister has just said. #noreng

10yo pianist Toby just made this excellent joke: The Green Man lives in the greenhouse. The Blue Man lives in the bluehouse. Q: Who lives in the White House? A: The Orange Man! 🤡 🤣

Is this what it means to educate, inform and entertain? How proud newsnight’s staff must be. #newsnight

Farage and Belgium all within the space of 24 hours. I feel strange. I think it's hope.

I bet she wishes she knew somebody who had the power to regulate X, so she didn't have to just turn her back while it continues to poison society.

The noise I made on reading the final line was frankly Lovecraftian.