Iain Aitch
@iainaitch.bsky.social
Author, journalist, thought leadership, copywriter, ghost, PR ideas man, artistic working class histories, subculture, THFC fan. Trouble caused or solved. VG+, some surface noise. https://www.iainaitch.com & https://thisidea.co.uk/ London via Margate
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Slaying the the Corona Virus "great leveller" & "strength of character" myths - remember when @maitlis.bsky.social
was attacked for anti-Tory bias just for telling the truth about who was really being killed by Covid?
#Newsnight #CovidInquiry #r4today
was attacked for anti-Tory bias just for telling the truth about who was really being killed by Covid?
#Newsnight #CovidInquiry #r4today
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Slaying the the Corona Virus "great leveller" & "strength of character" myths - remember when @maitlis.bsky.social
was attacked for anti-Tory bias just for telling the truth about who was really being killed by Covid?
#Newsnight #CovidInquiry #r4today
was attacked for anti-Tory bias just for telling the truth about who was really being killed by Covid?
#Newsnight #CovidInquiry #r4today
Same
UK government borrows higher than expected £17.4bn in October on.ft.com/4891wb0
UK government borrows higher than expected £17.4bn in October
Figures are last before Reeves’ Budget next week
on.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Same
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Hell of a disclaimer.
Get rid, Tottenham. Fast.
Get rid, Tottenham. Fast.
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Hell of a disclaimer.
Get rid, Tottenham. Fast.
Get rid, Tottenham. Fast.
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There's a sector of the UK population that is always suspicious that, somewhere, somehow, someone is having an unsanctioned GOOD TIME and it drives them batshit angry.
Asylum seekers aren't crying and terrified all the time and that makes the Daily Express mad
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
There's a sector of the UK population that is always suspicious that, somewhere, somehow, someone is having an unsanctioned GOOD TIME and it drives them batshit angry.
It's really time you heard Robert Jenrick chatting to Cuddles
Offal #30 – Let us go then, you and Offal
Putting words in a dummy’s mouth. Caught using our appendix. Spammed out on sausage-roll algo-fiction. Michaeled out of our mind. Always crashing the same red bus.…
steady.page
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
It's really time you heard Robert Jenrick chatting to Cuddles
Trust nothing, believe nothing. Be interesting to see the copy rate at the Express today with various LLMs down.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/express...
pressgazette.co.uk/news/express...
Express offers compensation after freelances say work was stolen
First person account of rail journey apparently rewritten using AI.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Trust nothing, believe nothing. Be interesting to see the copy rate at the Express today with various LLMs down.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/express...
pressgazette.co.uk/news/express...
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“to use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly”
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“to use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly”
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Shabana Mahmood tells MPs that "it is not the policy of this government to confiscate jewelry from those who are... accessing asylum accommodation."
This is the opposite of what the Home Office minister Alex Norris said this morning
This is the opposite of what the Home Office minister Alex Norris said this morning
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Shabana Mahmood tells MPs that "it is not the policy of this government to confiscate jewelry from those who are... accessing asylum accommodation."
This is the opposite of what the Home Office minister Alex Norris said this morning
This is the opposite of what the Home Office minister Alex Norris said this morning
Will the Home Office be using qualified dentists to remove gold teeth at Dover, or will a private security company do it en route to the camps?
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Will the Home Office be using qualified dentists to remove gold teeth at Dover, or will a private security company do it en route to the camps?
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Stella Creasy MP writes that the asylum proposals of the Labour government are "performatively cruel" and likely to be ineffective in securing control or going after the smuggling gangs
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve | Stella Creasy
If we want to ‘stop the boats’, we need to stop the BS when it comes to what creates refugees, and how to respond to them, says Labour MP Stella Creasy
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Stella Creasy MP writes that the asylum proposals of the Labour government are "performatively cruel" and likely to be ineffective in securing control or going after the smuggling gangs
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Even better, the antibiotic seems to exist in overcooked sausages if the illustration is correct
This is corking news: discovery of antibiotic that can be used that doesn’t trigger resistance - early days but this is really meaningful stuff:
bsky.app/profile/adap...
bsky.app/profile/adap...
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
November 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Even better, the antibiotic seems to exist in overcooked sausages if the illustration is correct
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Seizing assets is it? Jewellery and furs is it?
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Seizing assets is it? Jewellery and furs is it?
Paper whose main income comes from ads doesn’t seem to understand branding, upselling or market fragmentation.
November 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Paper whose main income comes from ads doesn’t seem to understand branding, upselling or market fragmentation.
Well, that's me dumping those Checkatrade leaflets in the bin. news.sky.com/story/politi...
Politics latest: Farage: Ministers 'only listen to big business'
Nigel Farage is delivering a news conference where he has declared that the government "only listens to big business". The founder of CheckaTrade was also announced as a new backer of the party. Watch...
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Well, that's me dumping those Checkatrade leaflets in the bin. news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Club email offering ST holders (and members?) chance to buy guest tickets for Fulham, Brentford. So sales not going well then. Bearing in mind that until now most PL games are effectively sold out. Fans had enough so pick and choose? Will club see price as a factor? Feels like something has changed
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Club email offering ST holders (and members?) chance to buy guest tickets for Fulham, Brentford. So sales not going well then. Bearing in mind that until now most PL games are effectively sold out. Fans had enough so pick and choose? Will club see price as a factor? Feels like something has changed
Ruh-roh! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lucy Powell says Labour must stand by promise not to raise key taxes
New deputy leader also calls on government to lift two-child benefit cap urgently and in full
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Ruh-roh! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Launching this new personal branding service for business leaders and career growth today. thisidea.co.uk/personal-bra...
Personal branding – why do I need that? - THIS IDEA
Personal branding defines how you are seen as a founder, leader, practitioner or business owner within your profession and the wider world. It marks you out as different, displays your strengths to th...
thisidea.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Launching this new personal branding service for business leaders and career growth today. thisidea.co.uk/personal-bra...
Who remembers 2008 Jacqui Smith saying how buzzed everyone was for ID cards? news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_poli...
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | People 'can't wait for ID cards'
news.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Who remembers 2008 Jacqui Smith saying how buzzed everyone was for ID cards? news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_poli...
Is it me, or is the dad in the John Lewis ad in an Xmas K-hole?
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Is it me, or is the dad in the John Lewis ad in an Xmas K-hole?
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In this day and age of YouTube cultural capital, how are John Lewis allowing multiple other outlets to publish their Christmas advert on their respective channels in full?
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In this day and age of YouTube cultural capital, how are John Lewis allowing multiple other outlets to publish their Christmas advert on their respective channels in full?
Launching this new personal branding service for business leaders and career growth today. thisidea.co.uk/personal-bra...
Personal branding – why do I need that? - THIS IDEA
Personal branding defines how you are seen as a founder, leader, practitioner or business owner within your profession and the wider world. It marks you out as different, displays your strengths to th...
thisidea.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Launching this new personal branding service for business leaders and career growth today. thisidea.co.uk/personal-bra...
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It’s currently available on iPlayer for the benefit of anyone with access to that
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
It’s currently available on iPlayer for the benefit of anyone with access to that
What? That was it? Such a weird weird speech
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
What? That was it? Such a weird weird speech