James Evison
@jamesevison.bsky.social
Postgrad in Modern Literature and Culture @ University of London. Digital editor with 20 years of experience.
Irony is that STEM degrees will be the actually worthless qualifications in an AI-centred world. Critical and creative thinking that LLMs cannot/struggle to process will be the high value asset to have for future economies.
Studying the language and literature that has helped to define our nation at home and around the world for centuries is a "rip-off" apparently
October 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Irony is that STEM degrees will be the actually worthless qualifications in an AI-centred world. Critical and creative thinking that LLMs cannot/struggle to process will be the high value asset to have for future economies.
The joys of second-hand bookshops. I picked this up in London, and look what fell out…assume Mr Brownjohn is literary critic and poet Alan Brownjohn, who died in 2024.
August 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The joys of second-hand bookshops. I picked this up in London, and look what fell out…assume Mr Brownjohn is literary critic and poet Alan Brownjohn, who died in 2024.
“Adolescence” is the greatest British drama in years. It’s soul-destroying television. Like all great social drama, it will change and save lives. The final dialogue of the parents, and the interrogation of the child murderer by the psychologist, are acting masterclasses. Must win every award.
March 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
“Adolescence” is the greatest British drama in years. It’s soul-destroying television. Like all great social drama, it will change and save lives. The final dialogue of the parents, and the interrogation of the child murderer by the psychologist, are acting masterclasses. Must win every award.
Superb piece by Jess. John and Christian are North. I was lucky enough to award them the Publican Award for Best Brewing Pubco back in 2017. What they built was very, very special for British beer, UK business, and for the city of Leeds. A sad day.
Now Keystone has acquired North’s brands, the sector is saddened. Could it be that brand identity is meaningless without beer integrity? Here, I look to the duo who began the North brand in earnest to show why the industry cares so much. www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/02/wher...
Where's your true North?
Now that private equity firm Keystone has acquired North Brewing Co’s brands, the sector is reeling. Could it be that brand identity is meaningless without beer integrity? Jessica Mason looks to the d...
www.thedrinksbusiness.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Superb piece by Jess. John and Christian are North. I was lucky enough to award them the Publican Award for Best Brewing Pubco back in 2017. What they built was very, very special for British beer, UK business, and for the city of Leeds. A sad day.
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January 31, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Great fiction writers pay close attention. They always see the undercurrent.
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Great fiction writers pay close attention. They always see the undercurrent.
New biohack announced for Bryan Johnson’s blueprint.
Reading makes you live longer.
January 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New biohack announced for Bryan Johnson’s blueprint.
Always thought it was wild that this image of the World Trade Centre was selected as the front cover design of Underworld (1997).
January 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Always thought it was wild that this image of the World Trade Centre was selected as the front cover design of Underworld (1997).
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Marcel Proust after eating a tiny little cake
December 27, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Marcel Proust after eating a tiny little cake
At Christmas, remember the loved ones we have lost.
December 22, 2024 at 7:58 PM
At Christmas, remember the loved ones we have lost.
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The birds
fall silent in the woods—
simply wait!
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1780)
#poem #poems #haiku #foundhaiku
December 15, 2024 at 12:03 PM
The birds
fall silent in the woods—
simply wait!
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1780)
#poem #poems #haiku #foundhaiku
Murnane is bantz.
December 12, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Murnane is bantz.
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T.S. Eliot would have loved Chas and Dave
November 29, 2024 at 10:29 PM
T.S. Eliot would have loved Chas and Dave
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November 28, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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wow the parade this year was crazy
November 28, 2024 at 2:01 PM
wow the parade this year was crazy
Robert Crawford’s Young Eliot is excellent. Looking forward to reading the second volume “After The Waste Land” and its focus on the Hale letters.
November 15, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Robert Crawford’s Young Eliot is excellent. Looking forward to reading the second volume “After The Waste Land” and its focus on the Hale letters.
Let’s make this place full of art and creativity and fair debate and just bloody life and let the frog meme people over in the other place slowly implode.
November 14, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Let’s make this place full of art and creativity and fair debate and just bloody life and let the frog meme people over in the other place slowly implode.