Reposted by Very Terry 🔥John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 12h"Mason accidentally forwarded the email exchange to a large internal distribution list named “Freshfields All” over the weekend. Although the email was swiftly recalled, some recipients took screenshots." as.ft.com/r/26b6da95-b... via @financialtimesas.ft.comFreshfields partners explore carve-out of AI unit worth ‘billions’, leaked emails revealExchange discussed putting legal tech unit into separate entity before valuations fall 076
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 10hThe Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC 822326608
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026One from the archives Sally Rooney in 2024: ".. we are witnessing an unfolding genocide.. the roots of this particular tragedy are in the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine & the apartheid system.. keep protesting.. it is the least that we can do" 9284131
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean. 13567402232
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026'Best Kebab', Old Street, Hoxton (2003) by Georgia Peskett georgiapeskett.com 535750
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 13/10/2026"A lot of investors have no clue what they are investing in .... They set very extreme expectations only to find out that it’s almost like they are in a casino”, an AI investment Ratner moment? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comChip stocks slide in wake of ‘casino’ comment by Broadcom bossDeclines for Samsung and SK Hynix drag Kospi sharply lower as investors fret over scale of AI investment 000
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 12/10/2026Everyone is out on bail and no one can say what the plot was and not a single journalist that i have seen has even arched an eyebrow. British journalism is hilarious 26640170
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 12/10/2026“Doesn’t he ever feel... embarrassed?” - Simon Reynolds on Noel Gallagher: 04511
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 12/10/2026A fair chunk of this expenditure goes to the US and UK to purchase major weapons systems, which the Saudis then use to e.g. pulverise Yemeni civilians from the skies for years on end. All that money never made Yemenis more secure, and hasn't made Saudis more secure either. Might be a lesson there. 23519
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026My review of Maryam Aslany's book Peasants: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...theguardian.comPeasants by Maryam Aslany review – why an ancient way of life may hold the key to our futureModernity means cities – or so we’re told. This bold new study of those who make their living from the land argues otherwise 012
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Every media figure who speaks to anyone involved with Man City who doesn't ask "have you no shame?" Them. 000
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Couldn't write it better. Depleted Liverpool somehow stay neck and neck with a team financially doped to hell, and then the game is decided by a ref from Manchester (who worked and trained at the Etihad Campus). And the players and fans celebrate as though it's earned and not bought and paid for. 010
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Shameless scenes from Man City at the end of the game. What can you say. Cheats prosper. 000
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Imagine the 1988 Olympics 100m Final being re-run and the drugs cheat finalists are allowed to run on steroids again. That's Man City now. 010
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Former Times columnist Mick Hume no less. It's amazing how the whole RCP cadre were absolutely plastered over the Omarska affair, yet since then their individual and collective paths have been constantly smoothed every step of the way. 22813
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick 6336751016
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is a very disturbing read by Philip Moriarty about the corporate consultants at University of Nottingham, whose "bloodless prime-LLM-grade corporate boilerplate" called Future Nottingham 2 is guiding decision-making - cuts, cuts and more cuts. muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/2026/10/07/j...muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.comJust how much of Future Nottingham 2 was written by vastly overpaid consultants?PA Consulting misled a government department, threatened the press, and over-charged the NHS up to £2,500 a day. So why is a PA consultant listed as the author of the Future Nottingham 2 business c… 36337
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Neil Atkinson @knoxharrington.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I mean he has downplayed the seriousness. The process that considers the findings has considered them and has been entirely independent. They are guilty of what the Premier League asserted they were guilty of. The football investment process has been linked by politicians such as Andy Burnham. 12310
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026We're a daily national paper, cover almost all Liverpool home games, yet we (+ other regulars) still get shoved out for other outlets whenever there's a big game or story. You'd think a club that sells itself on Shankly's socialism would have a place for the only socialist paper. 3254
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Thomson Reuters have completed the sale of a majority stake in their global print business - to a private investment firm. "Thomson Reuters will also maintain intellectual property rights and full editorial control over its content portfolio". www.thomsonreuters.com/en/press-rel...thomsonreuters.comThomson Reuters and KKR complete joint venture for Global Print Businesshomson Reuters Corporation (TSX/Nasdaq: TRI), a global content and technology company, today announced that it has closed on its previously announced sale of a majority stake in its Global Print busin... 001
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶 851157949
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If you're immuno-compromised you can get one free (and flu vaccine at same time) on NHS share.google/PBxvZ4gzWfXP...share.googleBook, change, or cancel a COVID-19 vaccination appointment onlineBook, change or cancel a COVID-19 vaccination appointment online. 161
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Its origins go back to the first world war when British propaganda accused the Germans of tossing Belgian babies into the air and catching them on their bayonets." share.google/bTNdMC5IuH2z...share.googleAnalysis: The disinformation campaignThe way wars are reported in the western media follows a depressingly predictable pattern: stage one, the crisis; stage two, the demonisation of the enemy's leader; stage three, the demonisation of th... 000
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A piece I wrote years ago about London, kayfabe and the small places that seem to exist on the edges of reality in any city. The places in which we often find a home.authory.comBradley's: Lager and Shots in No-Man's Land“I’m disappointed everyone here isn’t more… you know… Spanish.” The man in the expensive suit says, with slight confusion, to the towering figure behind the downstairs bar. Jan, the Belgian manager of... 119226
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56120313575
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Nick Park spent the '80s making A Grand Day Out mostly alone. It was a school project that got out of hand -- he wanted to quit many times. But Park stuck with it and fulfilled his dream of bringing a cinematic feel to stop motion. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/wallace-an... 141337400
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Antifa_Ultras @antifa-ultras.bsky.social · 05/10/20269 years ago standing up to a racist protestor. 0132
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I give you the "mock gilet", available alongside other adjacent products such as the integrated gilet www.next.co.uk/style/st4369... 010
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Also trying to get my head around the relationship to Balamory 010
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The rise of the gilet is such a tragedy 3173
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"The central planners of today are unlike their predecessors in one crucial respect: they do not build, own or operate infrastructure. They carry out PowerPoint planning, something perfectly suited to Britain’s service sector economy." @arthurdowning.bsky.social share.google/XU8feuyWD6Pe...share.googleArthur Downing · Asset Sweating: Britain’s Energy CrisisBritain has private ownership while making the state responsible for planning via subsidies. The result is a zombie... 000
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sinclair Lewis's 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here" imagines a fascist-ruled America promising $5k payments to voters. The to payments are never made. 000
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm not sure you're intending to post these... 000
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What were they thinking?!? Why is this opt-out??!? New #YouTube app lets everybody who clicks a YouTube link you shared see your channel/name. You have to notice it when you share or turn it off by default in #privacy settings 56343
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Quite a lot of people do seem to need to be shown video footage of their own birth, mind. Either to clarify the date or that it happened at all. 000
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You can't invent technology but being made to wait for things that aren't (necessary for short term survival) enhances your enjoyment of them immeasurably. 010
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Club Announcement Spurs 🤦♂️ @markscrivens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is why you don’t allow authoritarian foreign states to put you in a position where blackmail is an option. 610836
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026See also the sportwashing ownership of Manchester City FC. Is this AIwashing? 000
Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Three days left to watch this on iPlayer, btw. 175
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥M a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026To the corporations celebrating Black History Month: post your staff group pics let’s see how many Black people you’re employing in your London office 25819
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Private equity was coming up on the rails in the race to destroy Premier League football, but it looks like state ownership will be the one to finish it off after all. 2234
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Some interesting surrogates in the media in this Man City case, some for the club and some for individuals associated with it. Fascinating to see it play out. Good case study for media studies students. 5424