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Robert Nicholson

@rbnicholson.bsky.social
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Director of Programmes for Whistledown Productions. Latest: "Derailed: The Story of HS2" for BBC Radio 4 and "Versuchslabor Kinderheim" for Deutschlandfunk. Audio Journalist in Berlin

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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sam Matterface voice: Well if there are seven deadly sins in football, Croatia have committed every one of them tonight…and Slaven Bilic can be forgiven a little envy when he looks at the talent England have available.
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Insane that on top of this he is also statistically the most impactful defender in all of MLB.
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Strong criticism from the Law Gazette piece about the SRA ruling. Many feel SRA's biggest problem already was toothlessness. This ruling clearly would worsen that. Journos should pay attention too; test case is related to SRA investigating how law firms handle libel action.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Oh my goodness what an emotional experience listening to this edition of The Reunion about 9/11 presented with huge sensitivity by Kirsty Wark
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The Reunion - The 9/11 Attacks - BBC Sounds
Kirsty Wark is joined by a group of people who experienced the 9/11 attacks in New York.
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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
IDK @theathletic.com I think it would be overkill to scrap Liverpool entirely for this.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The best YouTube channel ever made has just dropped another of the best YouTube videos ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7...
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Johnny Depp's Bed
YouTube video by Bobby Fingers
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is a thread that takes quite a turn in the final post.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This fall don’t miss the team critics are calling “awful” defector.com/why-your-tea...
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Why Your Team Sucks 2026: New York Jets | Defector
Some people are fans of the New York Jets. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New York Jets. This 2026 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so ...
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I’m finding all the articles on the q of Harry Kane’s successor for the next World Cup very weird. Kane will only be 36, and there is no way to anticipate who emerges. 4 years before winning the 2018 WC golden boot Kane himself had just scored 2 goals in 13 games on loan at Leicester.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The epic investigation in the New Yorker by Heidi Blake seems to have lit a fire under UK criminal justice bureaucrats, who'd messed up last time they had a chance to prosecute the Tates (including some pretty horrendous victim blaming Blake recounts). Journalism matters for justice.
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Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
What you call a single strand of fabric, a 🧵
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is amazing on a bunch of levels. Gibraltar aswell! Wild.
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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
England up 1 deciding to sit back and do nothing with 9 in the box for a half hour against Argentina in the World Cup
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It was extraordonary to watch this - and then see Tuchel just bring on more defenders. Going all in on a 2 and a 7 when theres three aces on the table.
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Thoroughly looking forward to a summer of trying to explain Count Binface to my German friends.
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
AI use has become a ubiquitous part of the university experience. But are the guardrails on it working? And what might students miss out on in the age of LLMs? Our latest - produced by John Rogers, presented by Kathryn Claire Higgins. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Currently, The Artificial University
Can university education survive AI?
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/07/2026
European teams in the last 16 of the World Cup: 2018: 9 2022: 8 2026: 7
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A man! A plan! A canal! Bellingham!
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Long wave goodbye
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I think this is such an obvious way around the tricky debate over how to reconcile free speech on platforms with rampant libel and misinformation. If you are actively/algorithmically promoting a claim, you should bear more responsibility for it than merely hosting it on an open platform.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Grim. Plenty of research showing public service broadcasting delivers real benefits to health of democracy. Yet here we are, in these polarised times, slowly starving our public service broadcaster.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Platonic form of televised baseball commentary here. Hypnotic
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Moment of the tournament so far. Nearly gave a one man standing ovation when I saw the name on the back of the shirt.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A media outlet is claiming that it has no papertrail or institutional knowledge of who wrote a piece it published seven months ago.
ConservativeHome cannot now find a record of exactly who sent them an article by Caroline Dinenage in November 2025," it said in a statement. "However, it was received in the usual manner, subject to our usual processes, and we believe the article to be genuine, sent in good faith, and remains on our website as a record of

that day"
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A genuinely insane story www.ft.com/content/c5c7...
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American Narco: The Miami football player who fell foul of Pablo Escobar
How Greg Pahules talked his way into the Medellín cartel
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
On this whole list I think the most satisfying word is lucor. Though "candific" and "vigify" are the most fun.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Good piece by @saschaosullivan.bsky.social this. Crazy just how frequently the Conservative position is literally 'our plan is working. We just need magic to happen when our enemies Inevitably Implode'.
politico.eu
The Tories think they’re onto a winning plan — even as they keep losing
The Conservatives are struggling to capitalize on Labour’s woes after a crushing election defeat — but party insiders tell POLITICO’s Westminster Insider they see signs for optimism.
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
5 players in England's expected World Cup squad based outside England (Kane, Bellingham, Rashford, Toney and Quansah). Last time England took a team to a tournament with that many was Bobby Robson in 1990, when 4 players played for Rangers and Chris Waddle played for Marseille.
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Wharton not going to the World Cup is such a shame for both player and team. He is a brilliant and unique midfielder of a flavour that is perennially underrated. Intense competition for places clearly - but he's unlucky and I think England could really have used him.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
In a piece of excellent news, The Londoner has had a libel action against it thrown out. And yet even this pre-trial win took six months and £40,000 in legal fees. The government must action on Slapps. www.the-londoner.co.uk/we-won-our-d...
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We won our defamation case!
The judge has thrown out Claudio Di Giovanni’s lawsuit, calling it ‘plainly an abuse of process’
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 18/05/2026
“audience development and related marketing needed to be a really big deal for everyone in journalism, and I didn’t understand that very few really good journalists were aware of that” @craignewmark.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/crai... @sarahscire.com
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Craig Newmark explains why he’s pulling back on funding journalism
One question he says other funders should ask:
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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 18/05/2026
Terrific journalism from actually looking at the money flows as.ft.com/r/1e5fba60-4...
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Nigel Farage’s accounts challenge claim that he paid for £1.4mn house with TV fee
Reform UK leader has said he did not use £5mn gift from crypto billionaire to buy Surrey property
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I think football consistently does a great job of illustrating the economic divide in Germany. SV Elversberg, from a town of 13,000 people, just reached the Bundesliga for the first time, where they join other 15 teams from former West Germany, plus Union Berlin and RB Leipzig.
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Our next PM
Mads Mikkelsen in the movie another round
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Injuries are the big negative from the game against Fiorentina last night - but for me the big positive is thay Jaydee Canvot looked unbelievable. Still a teenager - but eased people off the ball, won headers, made surging runs with the ball at his feet, totally unruffled. We have a gem. #cpfc
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
On BBC Radio 4 at 8pm tonight - the most unbelievable and shocking story I've ever worked on. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - File on 4 Investigates, The Experiments
An investigation into widespread medical abuse in German children's homes.
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The defining challenge for legacy media at the moment is holding together their viewing coalitions, widening appeal without alienating core audiences. Weiss I think is demonstrating in real time that you can't just pretend that the second half of that challenge doesnt count.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...
Sure. How much do you think you should pay me to use my name?
It's really important to think about attribution and think about impersonation, and so on. As an expert, you have a trade you make on the internet. The idea is that when you put content out there, myself included, you hope people use it. You want to refer to other people's content.
You want people to link to you. You really, really hope they attribute you when they do. When somebody uses your content, should they attribute you? Of course. And to attribute you, you have to use your name.
There's a different line which is, should people be able to impersonate you? And I think that is a very different standard. And we saw the lawsuit. Respectfully, we believe the claims are without merit. The idea that the feature is impersonation is quite a big stretch. Every mention was very clearly, "This is inspired not only by this person, but also inspired by a specific work from this specific person, with a clear attributed link to get back to them." It's far from that test lof impersonation].
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
My hot take is that teams should not be able to register the same players for both the Carabao cup and European competition. Reduces fixture congestion for top players/clubs. The cup itself becomes an intriguing showcase for young players and a tantalising prize for the “best of the rest”.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Lisa Nandy vows to give BBC permanent charter to prevent political interference www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
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Lisa Nandy vows to give BBC permanent charter to prevent political interference
Minister says the change is needed to protect the corporation from repeated ‘culture war’ attacks
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I am not right for it because I am neither smart nor innovative (and possibly also a bit older than 30), but if YOU are, this is a great opportunity. 👇
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Thoughts on the AfD result: I'd be the first to admit that the party is generally gaining ground in the German west (I made a whole BBC programme about this last year: bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...). But 18% in a state where the party took 15% in 2016 isn't all that impressive, tbh.
bbc.co.uk
BBC World Service - The Documentary, Germany: Rebellion on the Rhine
In the run up to Germany’s snap general elections Jeremy Cliffe goes to Ludwigshafen
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Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Hemingway: wow. That is terrible. The saddest thing Ive ever seen. I am devastated. Me [handing out flyers for my artisanal baby shoe pop up]: what
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Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
delighted to join Patrick Baker @politico.com on their latest Westminster Insider to try to answer why PM's are now for Christmas and not for life... (well why we count their tenures in months not years). www.politico.eu/podcast/west... Hope No.10 is listening.
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Westminster Insider – Newsletters – POLITICO
POLITICO’s weekly political series lifts the curtain on how Westminster really works, offering in-depth insight into the political issues which typically only get broad-brush treatment in the wider…
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The dirty secret of curling that no one involved in the sport will admit is that the broom doesn’t do anything
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Doubling down. It is not a controversial take to give respect to AP and Reuters journalists in Venezuela, most of who are local or from Lat Am, currently risking their lives, and who are paid for their work — so everyone else can benefit from their reporting.
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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.
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