How many people do you know, teachers aside, who ended their chosen Uni course and then moved into a job directly related to those studies? I like the case of my late Cambridge friend Jonathan James-Moore. Studied: Engineering. End job: Head of Light Entertainment, BBC Radio.

He's coming early, just when we need him most.

Sonos Please just roll it back to the old app until you get the new one fully functional. My system is totally unusable at the moment 🤬

My #Sonos system is slowly healing thanks to updates from the disastrous #Sonos Update but still, two weeks on, does not connect to the #Sonos Boost they insisted I buy a few years ago. So my listening experience is creaky. I've heard nothing more from tech support. Poor.

Do you want to read 2800 words about today's evidence from Paula Vennells? Of course you do.

Why did I turn down lots of broadcast offers to do it? I have no idea. Sorry to everyone who asked. I wanted to be a broadcaster, not a blogger, and now look at me..

Following today's announcement, please see a personal update from me below:

God bless Peter Snow (and Kirsty Wark and all those who made Newsnight so indispensable over the years) for saying on BBC Radio 4 Media Show that the BBC cutting key news shows and reducing reporting resource - as the world falls apart and election is called - is madness

Bumped into senior member of Team Sunak leaving Downing Street this eve. I asked why now? They said this July date has been a slow burn for the PM and better economic news coupled with a fear that public have stopped listening were deciding factors. The biggest though? 'Things

Big news at Times Radio: the most powerful voice in political broadcasting will present a political world at one Monday to Thursday from September: Andrew Neil thetimes.co.uk/article/54ec6f…

Times Radio is delighted to announce Andrew Neil will be joining the Election Station in September to present a new, agenda-setting daily news programme covering the UK and US elections.

He is one of the UK's best-known and most-respected journalists and broadcasters, and his

Once upon a time there was a Tory peer called Michelle Mone…

A bedtime story to make your hair curl.

Bravo for telling it Led By Donkeys

Sacha Lord is threatening to sue us. Give us a hand open.substack.com/pub/themill/p/…

'None of us can afford the luxury of pessimism'. What happened when Clemency Burton-Hill met Daniel Barenboim to talk about Arabs and Israelis playing music together. thetimes.co.uk/article/8dfbdc…

June 1993 and the government is beset by crisis and sleaze.

“If we were to offer that tale of events to the BBC…I think that the producers of 'Yes, Minister' would have turned it down as hopelessly over the top. It might have even been too much for 'Some Mothers Do 'Ave Them'.

Students have always been idealistic, maddening, naive, ridiculous, self righteous & occasionally brave: my The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ column on youthful activism & the university encampments

thetimes.co.uk/article/d4acf5…

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Worth a watch and listen in full BBC Radio 4 Today #r4today

What @royalmail has happened to my supposed two day delivery via Tracked 48? Since I cannot talk to a real person, the only clue is from this record of a mechanical rejection.

'I’m not the warrior, I’m the battlefield.'