James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Frankly I’m wary of anyone who thinks “an historian” is OK 001
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Legendary superyachts last week, the World Town Crier Champs in Chester this. Funny old job, this 000
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026More, you say? Be happy to. Honestly, what a beauty 021
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Fancy some Friday boatporn? Course you do. I've sailed for, ooh, 40 years: tallships, yachts, trad workboats, cargo deliveries. I'm not fussy. Atlantic has been a different level though - extraordinary boat, lovely crew. Helming her as we smoked along at 14 knots may be as good as my job gets 010
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This, my friends, has been a very good day. On board Atlantic in S France 010
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Some time ago in Botswana, I heard a hotel guest at breakfast moan that it was raining. “Yes, madam,” her guide replied. “It is a blessing.” Right now I’m sort of getting what he meant 000
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Todays's FT includes a new description of hell. Move over Dante 120
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Huge congratulations to Andy Green for the new land speed record. I interviewed him a decade or so ago - we got off on the wrong foot (long story), rescued things by talking about a shared love of sailing and ended up having a great chat james-stewart.com/bloodhound-a...james-stewart.comBloodhound Andy Green – JAMES STEWART 110
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 20/07/2026One of mine from the weekend – sailing, obviously, but really about the joy of simplicity; of stripping things back to basics. The images are beautiful if you have a sub to access the piece on digital www.ft.com/content/1871...ft.comHow to holiday like it’s 1932: sailing the Norfolk Broads on a vintage yachtJames Stewart voyages back in time — at 2mph — to find tranquil waters, endless horizons and a surprisingly sociable escape from modernity 031
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/07/2026There's no point in being freelance if you can't decide to sack off work on a Friday 130
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The 1930s Broads boat is laughable compared to some superyachts I've sailed on - equal parts Edwardian gentlemen's club and glorified tent. But I win today 010
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I don't post on here too often but Traena! Fucking hell! 010
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The destination dupes concept of travel journalism was always a bit mad but this list is a tumble down the rabbithole 000
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Things get weird when you translate the cookie preferences of foreign language websites. That or this is a niche Slovenian joke 000
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The photo is doing a lot of work to make that pool look decent too 010
Reposted by James StewartSam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Fascinated by the implication that £200/night for a family holiday is outrageous luxury living 7027335
Reposted by James StewartDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Ouch. Jet fuel. www.ft.com/content/7181... 13615200
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 28/03/2026giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Death row lawyer Bryan Stevenson: ‘Hope is our superpower’: if you only read one thing today make it this by @edwardluce.bsky.socialgiftarticle.ft.comDeath row lawyer Bryan Stevenson: ‘Hope is our superpower’The attorney and activist on overturning capital convictions — and his fears that civil rights gains are being dismantled 2288
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 16/03/2026First American politics, now crippling fuel prices - pity the travel PRs who had spent months planning for the centenary of Route 66 this year 011
Reposted by James Stewart👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I cannot wait for the insights on this! He's going to: 1. Sample some local street food. 2. Ride a train. 3. Visit a temple. 4. Not mention the pogroms that the serving Prime Minister presided over. 5. Smile at some elephants. 6. Top up his kids' private school fees. 7. Say "India is changing". 851178191
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026“The Times has been told” by who? UAE government sources? UK opposition parties? Dave down the pub? Without some sort of source this is just meaningless. Six days into Iran it’s been relentless grift from right-wing media 031
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/03/2026@runbox.bsky.social can you update re email provision, please? recurrent outages and 504 errors 110
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Thoughts and prayers with every PR who has a major launch this week 120
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 17/02/2026If the government had only asked me I'd have saved them £109m and done nothing for £1m www.ft.com/content/186f...ft.comUK quietly shelves £110mn frictionless post-Brexit trade border projectExperts criticise halt to programme that had used Deloitte and IBM as contractors 011
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 05/02/2026My bit from Verbier in today’s Times. The header pegs this on price but it’s actually a story about tradition and community; what one guide called “the spirit of the mountains” www.thetimes.com/article/f328...thetimes.comThe surprisingly affordable mountain hotel in upscale VerbierSkiers will love Cabane Mont Fort, elevated 2,457m above the Swiss resort’s busier centre with out-of-hours access to the slopes — plus what’s new nearby 200
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Frankly kudos to him for coaxing 70mph out of a VW bus www.thetimes.com/article/b4f7...thetimes.comBoy who drove campervan at 70mph given penalty points for future licenceThe 13-year-old drove his parents’ VW van in the middle of the night on a dual carriageway. They tell a court he will be ‘washing cars for a year’ as punishment 020
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Can someone send the NYT subs some new travel cliches? Missed opportunity to blather about “hidden gems” and “secret beaches” 270
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I've a theory that the world's current ills can be laid at the door of dysfunctional tech bros. Because Silicon Valley nerds struggled with in-person relationships they created an online world where relationships were distant and interaction performative Aware of the irony of saying this on socials 100
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 19/01/2026If you’re interested in how much America cares about Trump and Greenland, the New York Times is running the story on page 4. The Mail phone-hacking trial gets higher billing 000
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 12/01/2026This from the FT news story on Nadhim Zahawi is chef's kiss. Par 3 too 020
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 12/01/2026And since I'm flagging pieces, the brilliant Self Esteem told me how to write a pop song for the Sunday Times Mag. Lots of top tips even if her thoughts on the joy of being sweary and having a global pop hit with the word "lump" didn't squeeze into my word count www.thetimes.com/article/5796...thetimes.comSelf Esteem’s guide to writing a pop songYou don’t need to start with the melody and you don’t have to be a virtuoso — but you must connect with your listener, says the musician Rebecca Lucy Taylor, aka Self Esteem 020
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 12/01/2026My bit on testing the world's first electronic skis got readers in a right flap BTL. Which was sort of the point of the piece www.ft.com/content/c703...ft.comTesting the world’s first battery-powered skisA Swiss start-up aims to do for ski-touring what e-bikes did for cycling. James Stewart gets an exclusive preview 020
Reposted by James StewartSophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Asking people, again, to pay me for the work that was commissioned, written and published in November. It’s illegal to make us wait this long and I‘m too old to be begging like this. So if anyone dares to give writers shit for monetising their Substacks - it’s better than begging the broadsheets… 112317
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Cabane Mont Fort porn - home for the next two nights to celebrate its 100th anniversary. Verbier in case you're wondering 020
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025730am and someone at the LHR T2 bar has just ordered a martini. I'm not sure whether this feeling is horror or respect 110
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Reports that visitors to the US will need to disclose five years' social media fall short. Federal Register states the requirements include - tel numbers & email addresses for 5 & 10 years, incl business tel/email - IP addresses from submitted photos - details of all family members (addresses, DoB) 210
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I could’ve sworn the Telegraph led accusations of the BBC skewing its news output but that can’t be right 23812
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 07/11/2025It couldn’t possibly be because every print media outlet bar one now stokes said wars for clicks, obviously www.thetimes.com/article/c308...thetimes.comBritons becoming increasingly divided over ‘culture wars’Survey finds that young people are also losing a sense of pride in the UK and that a majority of people believe life was better in the past 021
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 06/11/2025This story is such a wild ride. Pure hubris. Cracking digital storytelling too ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...ig.ft.comEnd of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelledMohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance 010
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 03/11/2025"Who is telling me this and why? How do I know they’re who they say they are? How plausible is what I’m being told? What can I do to check?" This story is pure cringe for the Times newsroom pressgazette.co.uk/news/times-j...pressgazette.co.ukTimes journalists urged to make 'basic' checks after two 'humiliating' hoaxesA newsroom boss at The Times has described two fake interviews it ran as "humiliating" and said "basic" questions were not asked. 000
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 15/10/2025You hear so much about quiet luxury and meaningful travel now that the riotous bad taste when the pendulum swings the other way in a few years is going to be quite something to see 000
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 08/10/2025When I asked Google AI about winter fauna in the UK. Clever ole internet 040
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/10/2025My bit in today's FT on robo-legs, testing exoskeleton tech in Wales with a little help from ai and Edmund Hillary www.ft.com/content/825e...ft.comI am Robohiker! — testing the exoskeleton that promises to take hikers further, fasterWearing the Hypershell, the Welsh mountains are like a walk in the park — but is it cheating? 120
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 01/10/2025I bought the insurance policy an hour ago. This doesn't bode well 010
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Funny old job, this. I spent yesterday playing Robocop on a Welsh mountain to test a new exoskeleton from Hypershell. Carbon fibre & titanium, motors to lift legs, ai tech to sense terrain. E-biking for your legs basically. (Image legs not mine obvs) 120
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 01/09/2025This story is such a wild ride. On a side note, it slightly narks that AI has properly done for the em dash www.cityam.com/mass-halluci...cityam.comMass hallucinations: In search of the rogue AI reportersHow a pitch about warring London chicken shops led Steve Dinneen on a journey from Chicago to Kenya in search of a rogue AI reporter 030
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 29/08/2025From a PR: "We’d be delighted to explore a collaboration with you – offering a 7-night luxury stay in exchange for editorial content that captures the unique atmosphere of the resort that aligns with your creative vision" Travel journalism has certainly changed since I got into this game 000
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Safari was a tourism problem. In my jeep at Sri Lanka's Yala a visitor was reduced to tears by 15-20 jeeps jostling for position around a lone honey bear. Is this really what we want from tourism. The wildlife certainly doesn't want it www.thetimes.com/travel/inspi...thetimes.comTourists with cameras are now as bad as the trophy huntersVideo of safari vehicles blocking wildebeest in Tanzania has prompted outrage. It’s about time, says Chris Haslam 020