Hull Fair #48 ✅ (give or take some fallow years!) We went on the mega high swings again. I was stone-cold sober, too, which was a first…

Having had something of a "Hotel California" relationship with PA over more than a decade (checked out but never left - although I have definitely left now!), I find this interesting. In this of age of corporate media branding bollocks, it's a bold move indeed to embrace the word "press", which harks back to an almost bygone era. They've finally realised, not too late, I hope - that "PA Media Group" was meaningless and bland. Like mullets coming back into fashion, things go round in big circles, and I see this as another turn in what's going to be a slow revolution. The internet's now an almost irredeemable bin fire of propaganda and AI bullshit. People will come back to traditional and respected newsgathering in all its forms, print and digital. We just need to still be here when they do.

Went out to the seafront in my jamas for this. #withernsea #northernlights

Opens Twitter. Jeffrey Archer’s dead and the plague is making a comeback. A) Don’t think the two are connected. B) Fucking hell C) Closes Twitter

This is kinda what keeps me awake at night. What happens with these content thieves and indeed AI when there’s nowt left to nick, eh? Where’s the new, original thought going to come from? It’s been good to see a lot of pushback on my feed. Keep making the noise, people! Comes a time when if your livelihood is threatened by a toxic combo of national giants and faceless local ‘social media creators’ with zero moral compass*, you start to fight back. *Oh hey there btw!! We you know who you are! 👋 😘

There’s a lot of this about, sadly. Increasingly so, because it’s lucrative. Some are faceless accounts run by experienced former senior journalists who should and indeed do know better. #ClicksOverConscience 👀

‘Content creators’ who do this sort of thing solely to profit from other people’s work are the lowest of the low. #WeKnowWhoYouAre 👀

What a time to own a 23-year-old, 1.9-litre turbo-diesel shitter.