Catherine Mayer
@mayeroflondon.bsky.social
Author, journalist, activist, reluctant music biz participant. Novel TIME/LIFE out now. New nonfiction 2026. FYI don’t see private messages on here
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19 Clips of Trump Demeaning Female Reporters in Last Few Months
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19 Clips of Trump Demeaning Female Reporters in Last Few Months
Trump reserves particular venom for the women who cover him.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
19 Clips of Trump Demeaning Female Reporters in Last Few Months
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Tell me they got up and walked out
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Tell me they got up and walked out
“Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts.” If you read one thing today, make it this www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
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November 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
“Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts.” If you read one thing today, make it this www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
If you voted Labour at the last election, did you think you were voting for this?
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If you voted Labour at the last election, did you think you were voting for this?
Editing aka killing my darlings. #writerslife
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Editing aka killing my darlings. #writerslife
Yes this music is viral. It makes me sick
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads
Hits include country songs and a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human composition
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November 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Yes this music is viral. It makes me sick
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Successive governments have made me cry with rage but right now I am weeping with joy and grief. Finally the efforts of campaigners have resulted in an undertaking to preserve the Covid Memorial Wall, our shrine and celebration of our #lovelydead. Wonderful news if bittersweet.
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Successive governments have made me cry with rage but right now I am weeping with joy and grief. Finally the efforts of campaigners have resulted in an undertaking to preserve the Covid Memorial Wall, our shrine and celebration of our #lovelydead. Wonderful news if bittersweet.
As a veteran of legacy media, I'll never pretend that we got things right all the time. Some of the worst stumbles arose from a lack of experience around the table, editorial & lived. But most of us believed in journalism & practised it honestly. And here's the thing: you'll miss us when we're gone
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
As a veteran of legacy media, I'll never pretend that we got things right all the time. Some of the worst stumbles arose from a lack of experience around the table, editorial & lived. But most of us believed in journalism & practised it honestly. And here's the thing: you'll miss us when we're gone
Gilead establishes itself not only through violence but armies of strawmen and the active participation of the media
I notice the @nytimes.com has changed the WTF headline "Did women ruin the workplace" to this only slightly less egregious headline, but still.
The same newspaper that just reported women are leaving/being forced out of the workplace in droves
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The same newspaper that just reported women are leaving/being forced out of the workplace in droves
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
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November 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Gilead establishes itself not only through violence but armies of strawmen and the active participation of the media
Everyone keeps going on about how brilliant Joe was on #traitors but Ruth Codd was the standout star. (“Don’t piss in my ear and tell me it’s raining.”)
November 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Everyone keeps going on about how brilliant Joe was on #traitors but Ruth Codd was the standout star. (“Don’t piss in my ear and tell me it’s raining.”)
If ever you’re in trouble, best not to ask Lady Victoria Hervey to defend you. #panorama #themanformerlyknownasprince
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
If ever you’re in trouble, best not to ask Lady Victoria Hervey to defend you. #panorama #themanformerlyknownasprince
Overheard on the Central Line: “My children are all doctors, two real doctors and a doctor of philosophy. What can you do? Two out of three isn’t bad. “
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Overheard on the Central Line: “My children are all doctors, two real doctors and a doctor of philosophy. What can you do? Two out of three isn’t bad. “
Taking the risk of posting this podcast on How (Not) to Start a New Party without checking how my bit has been edited. Thanks to the Man Formerly Known as Prince, I'm too busy to listen, but this subject matters beyond the jokey title
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How (not) to start a political party
With Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party suffering some teething problems, host Patrick Baker delves into the art of starting a new political outfit. Corbyn himself speaks to POLITICO’s Bethany …
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October 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Taking the risk of posting this podcast on How (Not) to Start a New Party without checking how my bit has been edited. Thanks to the Man Formerly Known as Prince, I'm too busy to listen, but this subject matters beyond the jokey title
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www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
Spot the 👑 mistake
October 31, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Spot the 👑 mistake
Excellent ad placement.
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Excellent ad placement.
For a moment there I thought the artist formerly known as Duchess had found a new hustle
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
For a moment there I thought the artist formerly known as Duchess had found a new hustle
Raise your hand if you don’t think this poll an outlier (Me: 🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️)
2nd chart shows the nub of the problem, Labour sacrificing its base and values in a doomed attempt to out-Reform Reform. www.thetimes.com/article/bbf3...
2nd chart shows the nub of the problem, Labour sacrificing its base and values in a doomed attempt to out-Reform Reform. www.thetimes.com/article/bbf3...
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Raise your hand if you don’t think this poll an outlier (Me: 🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️)
2nd chart shows the nub of the problem, Labour sacrificing its base and values in a doomed attempt to out-Reform Reform. www.thetimes.com/article/bbf3...
2nd chart shows the nub of the problem, Labour sacrificing its base and values in a doomed attempt to out-Reform Reform. www.thetimes.com/article/bbf3...
"Lest we remember"
Please read this by @samfr.bsky.social about how populism is rewriting recent history to justify its ideology of hatred
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Please read this by @samfr.bsky.social about how populism is rewriting recent history to justify its ideology of hatred
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Never again?
Memory entrepreneurship and the radical right’s assault on the postwar order
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October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
"Lest we remember"
Please read this by @samfr.bsky.social about how populism is rewriting recent history to justify its ideology of hatred
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...
Please read this by @samfr.bsky.social about how populism is rewriting recent history to justify its ideology of hatred
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...
Short answer: yes.
“On average, after 15 years, gross domestic product per head tends to be 10% lower in countries run by populist leaders than in similar economies with more mainstream regimes”
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“On average, after 15 years, gross domestic product per head tends to be 10% lower in countries run by populist leaders than in similar economies with more mainstream regimes”
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Do populists always crash the economy?
Argentina is counting the cost of its turn to Javier Milei. Politicians from Donald Trump to Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage will be closely watching what happens next
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October 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Short answer: yes.
“On average, after 15 years, gross domestic product per head tends to be 10% lower in countries run by populist leaders than in similar economies with more mainstream regimes”
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“On average, after 15 years, gross domestic product per head tends to be 10% lower in countries run by populist leaders than in similar economies with more mainstream regimes”
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Awful shock. Just found a slew of paper wadded up at the bottom of my cup of tea—the manuscript I’ve been working on for years…destroyed.
Then I woke up. Good morning!
Then I woke up. Good morning!
October 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Awful shock. Just found a slew of paper wadded up at the bottom of my cup of tea—the manuscript I’ve been working on for years…destroyed.
Then I woke up. Good morning!
Then I woke up. Good morning!
Happy days www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Leftwinger Catherine Connolly to be Ireland’s next president after landslide election victory
Heather Humphreys concedes defeat after early vote tallies show insurmountable gap between the candidates
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October 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy days www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...