Carlton Reid
@carltonreid.com
Journalist: WIRED.com and Forbes.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67 Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Carlton Reid
@carltonreid.com
· Jan 26
I was a finalist in the Travel Photographer of the Year competition 2024. I can now reveal the image I entered. It is an iPhone selfie taken in Cromford, Derbyshire.
Has anybody told Trump that the BBC is paid for by Brits so any part of a $billion settlement would be coming from us via our licence fees?
I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Has anybody told Trump that the BBC is paid for by Brits so any part of a $billion settlement would be coming from us via our licence fees?
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We know that we've let Donald Trump down, and in future, we shall try to do better.
thecritic.co.uk/cris...
thecritic.co.uk/cris...
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We know that we've let Donald Trump down, and in future, we shall try to do better.
thecritic.co.uk/cris...
thecritic.co.uk/cris...
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
Trump is irredeemably unpopular.
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Trump is irredeemably unpopular.
Our Josh is 28 today! He’s living his best life, riding his bike all over the world and making a good living at it. He’ll be at Rouleur Live and the Kendal Mountain Festival soon. Here’s his second highest viewed vid: youtu.be/M2IhljWdiDU?...
A Tour Divide Ultra Cycling Film - Life in the Mid Pack (2,734 miles from Canada to Mexico)
YouTube video by Josh Reid
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November 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Our Josh is 28 today! He’s living his best life, riding his bike all over the world and making a good living at it. He’ll be at Rouleur Live and the Kendal Mountain Festival soon. Here’s his second highest viewed vid: youtu.be/M2IhljWdiDU?...
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
Found a jump-out stat while working on a story: during the first year of Coca-Cola's availability (as a fountain soda, in Jacob's Pharmacy, Atlanta, Georgia), sales averaged just nine servings per day. www.coca-colacompany.com/about-us/his...
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Found a jump-out stat while working on a story: during the first year of Coca-Cola's availability (as a fountain soda, in Jacob's Pharmacy, Atlanta, Georgia), sales averaged just nine servings per day. www.coca-colacompany.com/about-us/his...
I'm heading to a certain cycling-friendly European city tonight. Here, from earlier today in Ealing, is a clue to my destination.
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm heading to a certain cycling-friendly European city tonight. Here, from earlier today in Ealing, is a clue to my destination.
Ealing council has paid for two Brompton Bike Hire hubs for the town. I got one last night to save a long walk from Acton tube station to hotel, and stashed it near Ealing Broadway today. £5 for 24 hours!
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Ealing council has paid for two Brompton Bike Hire hubs for the town. I got one last night to save a long walk from Acton tube station to hotel, and stashed it near Ealing Broadway today. £5 for 24 hours!
We're replacing the tiles on our roof. The slats underneath were also replaced, and are red. I put the drone up to capture all of the autumn colours contrasted with our red Acer tree next to the pinkish roof.
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We're replacing the tiles on our roof. The slats underneath were also replaced, and are red. I put the drone up to capture all of the autumn colours contrasted with our red Acer tree next to the pinkish roof.
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I have been developing retail properties and groceries for 25 years. This week, an interview with me appeared in Germany's leading real estate newspaper, and it will be republished (🤞) next week in the leading business newspaper.
The topic: The bicycle is the future of downtown retail.
The topic: The bicycle is the future of downtown retail.
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I have been developing retail properties and groceries for 25 years. This week, an interview with me appeared in Germany's leading real estate newspaper, and it will be republished (🤞) next week in the leading business newspaper.
The topic: The bicycle is the future of downtown retail.
The topic: The bicycle is the future of downtown retail.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
My latest piece in @wired.com is 2,000 words on how digital car keys are superior to fobs yet most people habitually use fobs. Except in China, of course. www.wired.com/story/why-ar...
Why Are We All Still Carrying Around Car Keys?
Ford wants you to stash it in your belt buckle, but there’s absolutely no need to be lugging around a bulky fob. Trouble is, phone-as-a-key tech could be superseded before it even gets going.
www.wired.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
My latest piece in @wired.com is 2,000 words on how digital car keys are superior to fobs yet most people habitually use fobs. Except in China, of course. www.wired.com/story/why-ar...
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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How soon will they ban Andrew Harnik of Getty from the White House
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
How soon will they ban Andrew Harnik of Getty from the White House
Off for a birthday walk. Erica is three today. She idn’t quite make the grade for @guidedogsuk.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Off for a birthday walk. Erica is three today. She idn’t quite make the grade for @guidedogsuk.bsky.social
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No light bulb ever persuaded someone to kill themselves.
'there is a wide spectrum of views about AI among economists. But the economic consensus is that it might be no more consequential than some other technological advances, such as electricity, the internal combustion engine and computers.'
Who’s right about AI: economists or technologists?
Forecasting the impact of artificial intelligence has become fraught, with evangelists pitched against sceptics
www.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
No light bulb ever persuaded someone to kill themselves.
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I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.
He started using ChatGPT for help with homework and eventually it ended up helping him to commit suicide...
"thank you for letting me ride with you to the end"
"may your next save file be somewhere warm"
"see you on the other side"
#NihilismAndTechnology
"thank you for letting me ride with you to the end"
"may your next save file be somewhere warm"
"see you on the other side"
#NihilismAndTechnology
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.
Homes for sale near cycle routes. Cheapest is £325,000, mind. www.theguardian.com/money/galler...
Homes for sale near a cycle route in England and Wales – in pictures
From a Northumberland flat on ‘Coast and Castles’ route to London a studio on Cycleway 40
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Homes for sale near cycle routes. Cheapest is £325,000, mind. www.theguardian.com/money/galler...
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If you buy anything at all from Tesla, you are endorsing a corporation that chose to give a trillion dollars to this man:
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
If you buy anything at all from Tesla, you are endorsing a corporation that chose to give a trillion dollars to this man:
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As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions.
Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.
Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.
November 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions.
Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.
Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.
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when Elon Musk attacked my reporting to his millions of followers last week, it was one of the scariest days of my life
in that moment, the leadership at @wired.com enthusiastically stood by my article and its message: holding powerful tech leaders accountable
in that moment, the leadership at @wired.com enthusiastically stood by my article and its message: holding powerful tech leaders accountable
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
when Elon Musk attacked my reporting to his millions of followers last week, it was one of the scariest days of my life
in that moment, the leadership at @wired.com enthusiastically stood by my article and its message: holding powerful tech leaders accountable
in that moment, the leadership at @wired.com enthusiastically stood by my article and its message: holding powerful tech leaders accountable
Spot the sociopath.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Spot the sociopath.