Rachel Duffy

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I get that this is an unpopular view but: We need more journalists & fewer pundits. We need more original reporting & fewer hot takes riffing off the news. We don't have this because reporting takes work and is difficult & pontificating on YouTube is lazy & easy.

Old books are better because they sprung from a culture where reading, not watching, was the predominant mode of leisure. That not only meant authors were well-read and thus better writers, but that their readership was well-read too, so authors could expect more of them

There really is a Thick of It clip for every occasion.

One thing GenZ gets wrong about work, imo, is thinking your job should be fully separate from your social life. You know the meme: clock in at 9, work, lunch on your own, clock out at 5. No chats at the coffee machine. No Christmas cards for your colleagues. Oh X is having a leaving-do? Don't care, I'm going home. It's good to have boundaries, sure. But it's silly to spend 40+ hours a week in a social desert, then wonder why work feels meaningless and you dread Mondays.

Your inability to consume media that you don’t personally relate to is preventing you from discovering some life changing art

Incredible letter in @thetimes

No offense but I think we underestimate how many of our current problems, both cultural and political, are downstream of the decline in reading, the decline in learning and the loss of interest in the humanities.

I asked Leo if he had done Wordle yet today. He had (despite our ridiculously early wakeup time today). He got it in three.

what people don’t realize is that to write is to think. by outsourcing your writing you are outsourcing your thinking. you are paying for the degradation of your own mind. don’t use AI to “structure” your thoughts. structure them yourself. a shortcut to nowhere

please read ... books, poetry ... please think & reflect ... know your history ... it matters much more than this screen-addled, instant gratification, sound-bite, consumer based irreality tries to tell you

Useful stat in the Sunday Times: Brazil was Keir Starmer’s 40th foreign trip since July 2024. “He has clocked up more air miles than any Prime Minister so far this century”

Please, read books. Not just captions, or carousel posts, or what made it to the top of your feed. Read books. Long ones. Complex ones. You cannot build a mind with weight on the back of social media ephemerals. Intellectual depth demands patience.

You really don’t understand us do you, @RussianEmbassy ?!?! @FrancisDearnley and @HamishDBG are going to be chuffed! When do I get a look in?

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You can lead an ordinary life and be an extraordinary writer. And even if you're a mediocre writer, please write. Someone will resonate with your words. We need long form content in this world of slop. I want to see people being earnest and thoughtful.

What a night! Thanks to everyone who joined @Telegraph’s live 'Ukraine: The Latest' recording - it was inspiring to meet so many of you. If you missed it: 🎥 VIDEO: youtu.be/Mw_lWhp-flU 🎧 AUDIO (+ Q&A): shorturl.at/x4q9O 📰 ARTICLE: shorturl.at/89MD7

We're honoured @Telegraph's 'Ukraine: The Latest' won Podcast of the Year at @londonpressclub. We held a live recording yesterday, and 400 people came. It puts pay to the myth of 'war fatigue'. We dedicate it to everyone who cares deeply about the war, and to David. Thank you.

it’s a 2 minute radio program, never repeated, broadcast 18 times a week. Bigger audience than Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon … combined. Millions listen, with no need for the information it gives. Just to listen. The BBC Shipping Forecast is 100 years old.

if you start reading books again you will feel at least a little better. i promise