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Huw Sayer

@huwsayer.bsky.social
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Chief Engagement Officer at Business Writers Ltd. Helping companies create engaging conversations that inspire people, build brands and drive change. Championing #OneEAST_UK, #Norwich & #Norfolk, UK linkedin.com/in/huwsayer

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
While I’m here, plug for my theory that governments should take a more active interest in the size of their construction industries if they want to bear down on the cost of living acjsissons.medium.com/what-can-gov...
Alongside this, governments should also perhaps take a more active interest in their construction sectors. Building more stuff - homes, infrastructure, storage facilities - should help bear down on the cost of living over time. Avoiding labour shortages and bottlenecks in the construction industry
should make all of these investments more affordable, and limit price shocks from inflation in construction costs. Investing more in construction skills is the most obvious policy priority here, but providing a smoother, more predictable stream of demand to the industry could also help.
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Chimes with my 'Pothole theory of everything' (they even affect the price of homes). Poor quality roads mean people opt to move closer to work to shorten horrific journeys (bus, car, bike, foot), creating property hot spots. Fix potholes and build more homes. www.linkedin.com/posts/huwsay...
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Huw Sayer on LinkedIn: The pothole crisis is costing £14.4 billion a year in economic damage in…
Unless the government starts fixing the basics (roads, rail, public transport, education, health) the economy will continue to struggle. Poor infrastructure…
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The above might interest you @nor.dev 😊
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nor(DEV): Norfolk Developers @nor.dev · 29/01/2025
Read more of Dom's thoughts on speaking at conferences and the benefits at: norfolkdevelopers.com/posts/2022-06…
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nor(DEV): Norfolk Developers @nor.dev · 29/01/2025
The "corridor conference" is one of the best reasons to attend an in-person conference! Talks, ultimately, "you can watch most of those on the internet". Engaging with both speakers and delegates on the talk though... there's no better place!
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Inspired by a Tim Urban post, I decided to ask an AI about the date of the 'singularity' - we had a fun and interesting conversation.
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Huw Sayer in Conversation: The Future of AI and Humanity
The other day I was reading a long, long (2-part) post from Tim Urban about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) - you really should read it. The most fascinating thing about it was that he had written it in 2015, which seems like an age away now. In it he discussed the accelerating developments that we were already seeing - check out the…
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
My best advice to moderate politicians everywhere who want to defend democracy: move fucking fast and fucking fix things!
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
"The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." - Antonio Gramsci
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Peter Ungphakorn @coppetainpu.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
Remind me, please. How much do the performing arts earn for the British economy, from films, TV and music to all genres of live performances, and of course tourism? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Ministers to cut funding for performing and creative arts courses in England
Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher education
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
So, generally, not good.
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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Do you fancy a weekend getting away from it all? If you do, why don't you sign up to my two-day bee painting retreat on the 13-14th April. 3 places have just become available. Bees and paints what a fab combination 🪲🐙🐡 www.newbreweryarts.org.uk/twoday-paint...
Part of a painting I did of a Patchwork Leaf-cutter bee. Its shiny compound eye, clear to see as well as its dark golden body hairs. So much fluffier than you think.
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
The Wittergraph is a parody newspaper.
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
"Norfolk was probably 17th Century's most industrialised county, with 63% of adult men in industry by 1700." But it had deindustrialised by 18C "men in industry dropped to 39%, while share in agriculture jumped from 28% in the 1700s to 51%."
bbc.co.uk
Cambridge study reveals Britain industrialised earlier than thought
Records reveal
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Perceived as softer targets ☹️
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Oh that's lovely!
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Roger Everett @yachtlily.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
Rebuild went very well. Delighted with our new cockpit which gives us so much more storage
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Ann Hawkins @annhawkins.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
Yeah, no surprise but what do they get out of it? Why does it matter to them?
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Power, control, revenge.
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
A "discussion impossible to have without having to join a whole load of nutjobs who have their problem with it" - Nick Cave sums up the problem with too many issues these days. Fascinating interview.
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Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons: ‘It’s against nature to bury your children’
In the past nine years, the musician and artist has lost two sons – an experience he explores in a shocking, deeply personal new ceramics project. He discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
Stand out comment.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
I would probably skip the coyness and go for a straightforward headline like "RNC makes election denial a litmus test for new hires," but that's why I'm not a big city politics editor
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
No surprise. Run by men.
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Ann Hawkins @annhawkins.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
Meta and Google acting as judge and jury on women's reproductive information around the world. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Jennie Jordan @jenniewren.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
I’m going to keep reposting this. Why would anyone want to exclude ice cream from the list of healthy foods ?
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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 26/03/2024
It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it web.archive.org/web/20240122...
HE HARVARD RESEARCHERS didn't
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wrong. But the same paper had given them another result that they liked much better. The team was going all in on yogurt. With a growing reputation as a boon for microbiomes, yogurt was the anti-ice-cream-the healthy person's dairy treat.
"Higher intake of yogurt is associated with a reduced risk" of type 2 diabetes, "whereas other dairy foods and consumption of total dairy are not," the 2014 paper said. "The conclusions weren't exactly accurately written," acknowledged Dariush Mozaffarian, the dean of policy at Tufts's nutrition school and a co-author of the paper, when he revisited the data with me in an interview. "Saying no foods were associated-_ice cream was associated."
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
I think about this all the time, especially when I eat ice cream.
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
The sort of person they never tell you about in school!
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Richard Evans @richardev.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
Remarkable story – thanks for drawing attention to it!
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
More on the amazing Charles Waterton here historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
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Waterton Park, Walton, Wakefield, Walton - 1487471 | Historic England
List entry 1487471. Grade II Park and Garden: Waterton Park, Walton, Wakefield. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
Hats off to pioneering environmentalist Charles Waterton Love the house on the island. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Yorkshire estate known as world’s first nature reserve gets Grade II listing
Eccentric Victorian owner of Waterton Park, near Wakefield, made pioneering decisions to protect wildlife
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
More on the amazing Charles Waterton here historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
historicengland.org.uk
Waterton Park, Walton, Wakefield, Walton - 1487471 | Historic England
List entry 1487471. Grade II Park and Garden: Waterton Park, Walton, Wakefield. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
Hats off to pioneering environmentalist Charles Waterton Love the house on the island. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
theguardian.com
Yorkshire estate known as world’s first nature reserve gets Grade II listing
Eccentric Victorian owner of Waterton Park, near Wakefield, made pioneering decisions to protect wildlife
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
They're not shrinking kids who were already tall.
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Revolution Bars in secret talks about sale and mass venue closures | Business News | Sky News news.sky.com/story/revolu...
news.sky.com
Revolution Bars in secret talks about sale and mass venue closures
The London-listed owner of Revolucion de Cuba is plotting an emergency fundraising and bar closures that will threaten hundreds of jobs, Sky News learns.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Reporting on climate change is awesome because the people who think everything else is a conspiracy will say there’s no evidence besides the oil company memos that say like “make sure you lie about this, so we don’t make less money”
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
"After more than a decade of austerity, British five-year-olds are a full centimeter shorter now than they were in 2010, and they are becoming significantly shorter than children in other countries." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
nybooks.com
Small Island | Gary Younge
What has happened to Britain?
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
This way they'll be able to fit down chimneys again.
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Roger Everett @yachtlily.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Winter shadows in the cathedral cloisters
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Hope the rebuild went well. Looks like a cracking good day for a first of the season sail on the Broads. Moderate to Fresh (4-5) westerly. Remember your sunscreen.
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
Pressure that the Ukrainians should absolutely ignore - especially when the US has stopped supplying them with weapons. Ukraine needs to identify every Russian weakness that it can exploit, & hit it as hard as it can. This is a war Ukraine has to win, for its own sake & for the security of Europe.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
One of my crunchiest enviro opinions is that everybody should stop using gas-powered leaf blowers AND lawn mowers. The leaves are fine, chill. Lawns are unnatural monocultures that suppress biodiversity. Let 'em grow, or replace with native plants, or if you gotta mow, get a manual reel mower.
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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Not just the Garrick Club. Foreign Office officials may wish to reconsider their membership of the Travellers Club, which still doesn't admit women. Current British ambassador to Japan is a woman and many other ambassadorships past and present increasingly female. 1/2
thetimes.co.uk
Chiefs of civil service and MI6 resign from all-male Garrick Club
Simon Case and Richard Moore defended their membership by saying they were trying to make a change from within
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Could be like Three Days of the Condor (brilliant film) which was based on the book Five Days of the Flying Goose (or something like that).
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Please Follow the Official AP News Account @apnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Turkish central bank raises key interest rate to 50% as inflation soars
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Turkish central bank raises key interest rate to 50% as inflation soars
Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by 5 percentage points, resuming a policy of rate hikes aimed at combating soaring inflation that is causing households severe economic pain.
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Rob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
Makes sense if the lifeboatmen are actually in the boathouse before the storm arrives!
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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
Love this green horse statue - seriously spooky.
theguardian.com
‘Everywoman’ and horse sculptures chosen for display at London’s fourth plinth
London mayor’s office hopes works for Trafalgar Square will continue tradition of fostering debate over art
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