Rob Dex
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@NewRobDex
Journalist. Ex-Evening Standard and Press Association, now HENI News. DMs open. [email protected]
fair play to this part of Cumbria for producing both England's World Cup back-up keepers, James Trafford and Dean Henderson, *and* WC2006 back-up Scott Carson. The Gipuzkoa of goalkeeping.
BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor made clear that he 'preferred to travel to more sophisticated countries' in his role as trade envoy Captain Blair, then Andrew’s private secretary, said he would prefer to visit countries that were 'in the lead on technology' On cultural visits he 'had a preference for ballet rather than theatre, the Commonwealth and military affairs Blair made clear that Andrew 'should not be offered golfing functions abroad'. 'This was a private activity and if he took his clubs with him he would not play in any public sense' In another memo it was made clear that Andrew should not be “burdened with the regularity of meetings... or the burden of paper which goes along with Board membership" Andrew was appointed without any vetting and any consideration of an alternative at the direct request of the Queen thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
When I was in J school, the ad kids held a press conference at the end of the year as a joint final. If the journalists ate the food, you failed.
What if Jamir Nazir is just a sincere, passionate writer using technology to explore new approaches to literature, and Granta is now the most daring, avant-garde journal of contemporary writing? This emerging collective deference to Pangram among digitally cosmopolitan readers strikes me as more philistine than an Indian businessman trying to write poetry or tell stories with the help of his computer. Who here is really most guilty of outsourcing their taste to the machine? And if you find this man's writing unworthy of the prize, then Granta's mistake was trusting in a human to be the reviewer; had they employed an AI judge then his piece would have been rejected. The truth is that AI will challenge our viewpoints about the nature of high culture and high-cultural production much more deeply than people realize. Most of the emerging critical lenses shrink into irreducible contradiction if you think about them for more than a minute.
Five-star story on How To Do Journalism from @HadleyFreeman in her Sunday Times column today. Trebles all round.
The London Underground is so old that its first passengers could take the tube to go and watch public hangings.
'I wonder whose asset he is... It's increasingly apparent he hasn't for a long time served the people of Britain.' @TheCoastGuy asks who Prime Minister Keir Starmer 'serves', calling him anti-democratic and predicting this could be 'the last Labour government'.
".. wickedly funny. Has the pace of a Dan brown but with depth and emotion and truly memorable characters." Nice review by @Paulodaburka on @aspectsofcrime aspectsofcrime.com/a-review-round… More great coverage for Joseph Incardona's new novel!
A Tory texts: “This is now Labour’s leadership candidates Portillo 1995 moment.” Starmer has effectively told the cabinet: “Put up or shut up.” Wes Streeting has the phone lines in. Will he now break cover?
🚨 BREAKING: Labour MP Catherine West will not launch a leadership challenge against Keir Starmer She will instead email all Labour MPs seeking their support for a timetable for him to resign in the hope it triggers a leadership contest
SPGB 0.2% in Lambeth Clapham Common & Abbeville (one candidate in a two-member ward)
