John Lappin
@johnlappin.bsky.social
Journalist, financial, mostly I have opinions on many things.
Right. Frankenstein is about to get to the really upsetting bit. So I am going to bed. The original film did the same to me. Though I was considerably smaller and up too late that time.
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Right. Frankenstein is about to get to the really upsetting bit. So I am going to bed. The original film did the same to me. Though I was considerably smaller and up too late that time.
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Mr D Trump, of Mar O Lago, Florida, writes to complain...
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Mr D Trump, of Mar O Lago, Florida, writes to complain...
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Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
I have been quite shocked at the reaction of quite a few trans rights sceptical feminists regarding the BBC issue. Not a second of concern for who they are allied with. No regard for facts. Just the report from the partisan reviewer supported their view, they perceive, so the BBC must be wrecked.
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I have been quite shocked at the reaction of quite a few trans rights sceptical feminists regarding the BBC issue. Not a second of concern for who they are allied with. No regard for facts. Just the report from the partisan reviewer supported their view, they perceive, so the BBC must be wrecked.
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'Many on the Left are happy to go along with this agenda because of the BBC’s skewed UK political coverage. That’s a mistake.'
Are many on the left happy about this? Not sure, but agree it would be a big mistake
Are many on the left happy about this? Not sure, but agree it would be a big mistake
It’s bigger than you think.
The Far Right Hits The BBC
The assault on free media gathers pace
chadbourn.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
'Many on the Left are happy to go along with this agenda because of the BBC’s skewed UK political coverage. That’s a mistake.'
Are many on the left happy about this? Not sure, but agree it would be a big mistake
Are many on the left happy about this? Not sure, but agree it would be a big mistake
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 18181999:
"Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.
"Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 18181999:
"Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.
"Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.
Could Andrew Neil become BBC chair? That would be really clever.
On the hour BBC 6 Music reports that services PMI shows unequivocally Brexit is working.
And his working relationship with Robbie Gibb when they did pre and post-Brexit politics. Exemplary, incisive journalism. Govey and BoJo loved it.
On the hour BBC 6 Music reports that services PMI shows unequivocally Brexit is working.
And his working relationship with Robbie Gibb when they did pre and post-Brexit politics. Exemplary, incisive journalism. Govey and BoJo loved it.
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Could Andrew Neil become BBC chair? That would be really clever.
On the hour BBC 6 Music reports that services PMI shows unequivocally Brexit is working.
And his working relationship with Robbie Gibb when they did pre and post-Brexit politics. Exemplary, incisive journalism. Govey and BoJo loved it.
On the hour BBC 6 Music reports that services PMI shows unequivocally Brexit is working.
And his working relationship with Robbie Gibb when they did pre and post-Brexit politics. Exemplary, incisive journalism. Govey and BoJo loved it.
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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This is the same Noah Smith who, on arriving in Poland, complained that Warsaw airport doesn't have any escalators, when it has more escalators than the state of Wyoming. I'm not sure he should be allowed to travel unaccompanied; it seems to be too much for him.
Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes.
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Economist Doesn't Follow Signs At Heathrow: Proof The UK Is Failing?
A economist had a bad experience connecting at Heathrow, suggesting it's reflective of bigger issues in the UK. There's only one issue...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This is the same Noah Smith who, on arriving in Poland, complained that Warsaw airport doesn't have any escalators, when it has more escalators than the state of Wyoming. I'm not sure he should be allowed to travel unaccompanied; it seems to be too much for him.
Mark Urban. Goodness, gracious me.
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Mark Urban. Goodness, gracious me.
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Is anyone else also internally screaming about this BBC nonsense? I feel like someone's pumping hallucinogenic gas into my house. Nothing makes sense
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Is anyone else also internally screaming about this BBC nonsense? I feel like someone's pumping hallucinogenic gas into my house. Nothing makes sense
Good god. It's actually sci-fi horror.
“.. If you add more and more product to your face and are surrounded by people who do the same, ‘you lose sight of anatomic normalcy.’”
@axios.com #Panem
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@axios.com #Panem
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Good god. It's actually sci-fi horror.
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4 questions:
- Should the BoE produce scenarios so close to the central forecast (see chart)?
- Should the Fed talk about driving in fog?
- Is the Fed alone in having monetary policy compromised by politics?
- Is the Eurozone in a good place?
My answers in my newsletter: www.ft.com/content/e933...
- Should the BoE produce scenarios so close to the central forecast (see chart)?
- Should the Fed talk about driving in fog?
- Is the Fed alone in having monetary policy compromised by politics?
- Is the Eurozone in a good place?
My answers in my newsletter: www.ft.com/content/e933...
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
4 questions:
- Should the BoE produce scenarios so close to the central forecast (see chart)?
- Should the Fed talk about driving in fog?
- Is the Fed alone in having monetary policy compromised by politics?
- Is the Eurozone in a good place?
My answers in my newsletter: www.ft.com/content/e933...
- Should the BoE produce scenarios so close to the central forecast (see chart)?
- Should the Fed talk about driving in fog?
- Is the Fed alone in having monetary policy compromised by politics?
- Is the Eurozone in a good place?
My answers in my newsletter: www.ft.com/content/e933...
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David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for fiction with Flesh, his portrait of a man from adolescence on a Hungarian social housing estate to the world of London’s super-rich, which the judges described as 'a singular achievement' on.ft.com/3JEEalF
David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ wins the 2025 Booker Prize for fiction
Judges praise ‘singular achievement’ of sparsely written novel that traces a man’s unlikely social ascent from Hungary to the world of London’s super-rich
on.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for fiction with Flesh, his portrait of a man from adolescence on a Hungarian social housing estate to the world of London’s super-rich, which the judges described as 'a singular achievement' on.ft.com/3JEEalF
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Fascinating. Perhaps unsurprising that in the East End in ??? it is so heavily Jewish in types of food — smoked salmon, fried fish, ‘Jewish’ beef (brisket?) & ‘worsht’. I wonder therefore if ‘collar bread’ is challah? @dranniegray.bsky.social ?
@victorianlondon.bsky.social
Spotted at the beautifully atmospheric Wilton’s Music Hall near Whitechapel. Saveloys, pats of butter and coffee as a real luxury.
Spotted at the beautifully atmospheric Wilton’s Music Hall near Whitechapel. Saveloys, pats of butter and coffee as a real luxury.
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Fascinating. Perhaps unsurprising that in the East End in ??? it is so heavily Jewish in types of food — smoked salmon, fried fish, ‘Jewish’ beef (brisket?) & ‘worsht’. I wonder therefore if ‘collar bread’ is challah? @dranniegray.bsky.social ?
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John Le Carre was right about the British establishment and how the alumni of the best schools will sell out their own country for status and money and in particular a desperate desire for American attention
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
John Le Carre was right about the British establishment and how the alumni of the best schools will sell out their own country for status and money and in particular a desperate desire for American attention
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On this day in 1918 the parents of the poet Wilfred Owen were just listening to the church bells ringing to announce the Armistice when a telegram boy arrived with the message that their son had died.
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
On this day in 1918 the parents of the poet Wilfred Owen were just listening to the church bells ringing to announce the Armistice when a telegram boy arrived with the message that their son had died.
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Honestly, most of the Bond films barely even manage an internally consistent narrative. Though if Bond really is supposed to be 95, I’d love to hear from his cosmetologist, his yoga teacher, and from whichever unfortunate doctor has had to deal with his doubtless many cases of the clap
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Honestly, most of the Bond films barely even manage an internally consistent narrative. Though if Bond really is supposed to be 95, I’d love to hear from his cosmetologist, his yoga teacher, and from whichever unfortunate doctor has had to deal with his doubtless many cases of the clap
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It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
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A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
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Innocent tourists visiting Congress...
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Innocent tourists visiting Congress...
David Cameron's sister-in-law now seems to be suggesting Panorama ought to have balanced the documentary with Trump supporters. Would have been fun to find those who supported him at the time. The ex New York mayor and the rioters he pardoned. Is this actually where we are now?
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
David Cameron's sister-in-law now seems to be suggesting Panorama ought to have balanced the documentary with Trump supporters. Would have been fun to find those who supported him at the time. The ex New York mayor and the rioters he pardoned. Is this actually where we are now?
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A surprisingly bad set of labour market stats this morning. The story I was prepared for was "some weakening, but the shake out from the early part of the year is behind us". But it's worse than that - payroll jobs falling again, unemployment now up at 5%.
Here is our PN
Here is our PN
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
A surprisingly bad set of labour market stats this morning. The story I was prepared for was "some weakening, but the shake out from the early part of the year is behind us". But it's worse than that - payroll jobs falling again, unemployment now up at 5%.
Here is our PN
Here is our PN
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Trump then pardoned thousands of those involved, including violent offenders who have already gone on to commit more crimes. That doesn’t erase his own record, or the facts of the event.
Why is the shadow culture secretary demanding the BBC “grovel” to a foreign leader for telling the truth?
Why is the shadow culture secretary demanding the BBC “grovel” to a foreign leader for telling the truth?
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Trump then pardoned thousands of those involved, including violent offenders who have already gone on to commit more crimes. That doesn’t erase his own record, or the facts of the event.
Why is the shadow culture secretary demanding the BBC “grovel” to a foreign leader for telling the truth?
Why is the shadow culture secretary demanding the BBC “grovel” to a foreign leader for telling the truth?
But maybe at root, it's all the fault of John Birt's Producer Choice.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
But maybe at root, it's all the fault of John Birt's Producer Choice.