Conrad Quilty-Harper

@rowlsmanthorpe @matthewclifford *Checks FTSE 100 for trillion dollar market cap companies* Oh

This is why @matthewclifford says: "Sovereignty these days is downstream from having a trillion-dollar company in your country". It's not always comfortable and you don't always see the benefits, but in a crisis you have some leverage

If you want to understand why people go on about tech sovereignty - I was recently told about a major central bank which after weeks of pleading finally secured a meeting with Anthropic

@davidtpegg @_TheLondoner Happy to send them a legal letter or two!

Today's contribution from the Society of Media Lawyers. Vital to remember that there's absolutely no such thing as a Slapp, and @_TheLondoner are only imagining the £40,000 of costs they now face.

That's only roughly a dollar off average UK prices 😬

@MikeIsaac sorry, but i cant get over him describing talking to his 3 y/o as a "massive unlock" as if she is a potential sales lead

okay Google AI glasses w/warby parker officially coming for meta raybans

Says man who has datacentre and space businesses

@Lons @wrestlinggrinch truly a groan-worthy Disney ending!

@wrestlinggrinch It's not a bad movie at all! I enjoyed watching it. It's just "crowd-pleasing" to the point of being almost aggressively juvenile.

PROJECT HAIL MARY is ARRIVAL for Disney Adults.

@edcumming you can already hear them tip tapping on their little lenovo thinkpads

Unreal news for the quarter-zip community

@CharlieMoloney scandalous that they're left with a £40k bill too

This is a massive proof of concept for the Mill Media titles and its journalists. Victory for press freedom in open combat against some of the most terrifying threats a publisher can face. Marking themselves out for truly great things here….

Some great news to announce this morn😁: The case against us has been thrown out! However, its absurdity highlights the urgent need for the govt to stop talking about it and act on long promised reforms. A waste of time and energy for everyone involved pressgazette.co.uk/news/mill-medi…

Have you seen anything as cynical and misleading as this PMI ad on LinkedIn? Par for the course for the cigarette industry, but PMI really take the biscuit

@WomackPhilip I get paid better and faster and with less faff from Substack newsletters than I do most of the mainstream press

One of the things I'd tell a wannabe freelance journo these days is that there are a lot of outlets. You can maintain a fairly decent income from a surprisingly wide range of places. It's worth spending time thinking about niche interests and so forth. Koi Carp Monthly?

The Golden Holocaust is not over yet theguardian.com/society/2026/m…

Zack Polanski and his partner called their narrowboat their “amazing home” for three years. He registered to vote there. If it was his main residence, council tax was due. None was paid. His team says he stayed there only “occasionally” - if true, there's a very big problem.

WATCH: Asked Nigel Farage last night abt his £5m gift from Christopher Harborne. Why did he not just declare? Does he regret that? What’s his response to those who argue it looks dodgy? He said my Qs were a “waste of space" & was clearly annoyed in what became a tense exchange

“What do you think, should we sell the rest of the gold?”

@eliguerron makes me think it should go the other direction too - like slide to the right and it brings back a word or two if you go too far

When I was at Apple, I loved working on micro interactions that you see all over the OS. Now that I’m not an apple I still like to solve for these little problems that really annoyed me. In this case, I designed a backspace button with a speed controller, so by just pressing it you can delete by letter and then immediately by word as you stretch it, without having to wait (like it usually does on the OS) and then if you stretch a little more, you can speed delete through words… I’m also working on another one where you can repair the words if you over-deleted it by accident 😜 (it also has haptic feedback, which makes it really fun)

But oh my god the details are actually devastating/hilarious It's really a story of what happens when you're a 30-year-old who makes a single, internationally famous, career-ruining fuck-up (He leaves the BBC, they become friends) Might get a copy pressreader.com/uk/features/20…

Initially thought it was weird that someone (@ElliottGotkine) wrote a book about that Guy who went on the news that time and who it turns out wasn't actually that Guy, but another Guy. A whole book? With 224 pages?

The wifi in my local coffee shop, where the owner hands you the little BT dongle with the admin password plain to see, is about 50% faster than the WeWork I use Love it