Author: TO BE FAIR - the Ultimate Guide to Fairness(Mensch): https://xitter.cf/t.co/jacgcr2mSm Formerly FT/DTel; Chair, Orwell Journalism Prize.
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To Be Fair: 3 short words. 8 letters. In our DNA. Ancient. Modern. A word unique to English; an instinct common to humanity. All of life is here -fairness underpins: business, politics, law, race, tax, love, sex, war, sport.
2 more short words: Out. Now.
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Moving house. Please follow me to benfenton.bluesky.social if you don't already follow me there.
Sad times. Plot lost.
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𝗦𝗘𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣! 🏆
Results across the league today mean it’s mathematically impossible for anyone to catch us.
Richmond Rugby are National League 1 champions and we’re going up! 🔥
#AClubForLife 💛❤️🖤
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All the very best to @michaelsavage in his new gig - a total gent, scoop-getter par excellence and stalwart of the lobby. You will be missed!
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Very important thread about cuts to BBC World Service
World in chaos. Reliable info at premium.What’s going on @bbcworldservice? Govt gave WS extra £32.6m 2025-26, yet #BBC cutting 130 more WS jobs to save £6m. Why? #TimDavie told @rogermosey he wants to double investment in WS+govt to pay for it. Why mutilate WS more in advance? 1/
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World in chaos. Reliable info at premium.What’s going on @bbcworldservice? Govt gave WS extra £32.6m 2025-26, yet #BBC cutting 130 more WS jobs to save £6m. Why? #TimDavie told @rogermosey he wants to double investment in WS+govt to pay for it. Why mutilate WS more in advance? 1/
Luigi Mangione as the “folk hero” at the centre of America’s confrontation with unfairness.
Online @prospect_uk now
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I have made a small contribution to this epic edition of @TheNewEuropean, guest edited by @feargal_sharkey (who I first interviewed in about 1983 for the Oxford Mail) - writing about the Cummeragh river in Co. Kerry: theneweuropean.co.uk/ben-fen…
Ladies and gentlemen here it is, a very special, one-off collector’s edition of @TheNewEuropean devoted to the sewage scandal and edited by me.
A huge, massive, humongous thank you to Matt Kelly and all of the editorial team for such a brilliant job, immense, you’re all rock stars. 👏👏👏
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Thanks to all replies on the blistered leg. Consensus is giant hogweed. Confirms what his mum thought might be one of the suspects. Everyone very kind and quick. Twitter at its best - the hive mind is one thing Musk has not killed yet.
A friend’s son had this reaction to something, probably outdoors, possibly insect, possibly plant - happened in semi-rural area on outskirts of Dublin. Doctors baffled. Anyone got any ideas on a diagnosis?
I see Elon Musk was right: a very civil war against intolerance has broken out in Britain this evening.
If I live to be 150 I will never, never call Twickenham “the Allianz Stadium”. What a travesty, a sacrilege.
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Elon Musk's decision to *personally* amplify disinformation about the rioting in England by amplifying a bad faith agitator making the obvs false claim the PM called "everyone upset at the murders" thugs should be a key exhibit in Ofcom & parliamentary hearings on misinformation
Crikey, you can't even have a good old Cold War prisoner swap in private these days.
US & Russian jets are descending for Ankara at the same time: Prisoner exchange might be in progress! RA-64059 Rossiya - Special Flight Detachment Tupolev Tu-204-300 and Dassault Falcon from Washington are landing to Ankara. Hope @evangershkovich will be free soon.
Reminds of me of Monty Python sketch:
Michael Palin character: "Alright it's a fair cop, but society's to blame."
John Cleese [as policeman]: "Agreed, we'll be charging them too."
POLL OF THE DAY: Are the Left elite to blame for the violence in Southport as they continue to smear and ignore angry communities? VOTE NOW
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Nobody seems to be drawing the obvious parallels between Southport and this serious incident, which has had bad knock-on effects in Ireland. International co-operation needed to identify common factors in incitement and misinformation. theguardian.com/world/2023/n…
Maybe what we need is a windfall tax on windbags who spent too much time campaigning and not enough time governing?
I think this tweet could do with a comma after "most" or it makes Giles sound as though he is surrounded by toadies rather than tortoises.
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Never, never, never take on the Mums of Britain. You will not win.
Mumsnet is suing OpenAI after discovering its site had been scraped - "presumably" for use in the training of ChatGPT pressgazette.co.uk/platforms…
