Craig O'Callaghan
@craigoc.bsky.social
Editor at QS, home of the world's largest university rankings. Aisle seat at the cinema. Near the mixing desk at gigs.
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*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
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When Tommy Robinson celebrates Labour policy, the party deserves to die
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
When Tommy Robinson celebrates Labour policy, the party deserves to die
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Top executives cannot shut up about AI.
… but is it helping?
… but is it helping?
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Top executives cannot shut up about AI.
… but is it helping?
… but is it helping?
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
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gosh, wonder what would happen if the sector *started* with what students need and want…
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
gosh, wonder what would happen if the sector *started* with what students need and want…
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barely a metaphor lmao
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
barely a metaphor lmao
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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What can you give your mate who’s desperately upset on missing out on the Nobel Peace Prize?
FIFA announce new peace prize to be handed out in * can I shock you * Washington 🙀
FIFA announce new peace prize to be handed out in * can I shock you * Washington 🙀
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
What can you give your mate who’s desperately upset on missing out on the Nobel Peace Prize?
FIFA announce new peace prize to be handed out in * can I shock you * Washington 🙀
FIFA announce new peace prize to be handed out in * can I shock you * Washington 🙀
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Kate Garraway repeating things
October 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Kate Garraway repeating things
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(officiating wedding) Do you? Do you? (entering crowd work mode) (pointing at guy in front row) I know this motherfucker Do
October 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
(officiating wedding) Do you? Do you? (entering crowd work mode) (pointing at guy in front row) I know this motherfucker Do
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lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight
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I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
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Richard Tice, "We've already got 80 sharia courts in the UK"
Billy Bragg, "There are also Jewish courts as well, thats part of their religion. We as a tolerant nation accept that"
"To demonise, particularly the Muslims, is the sort of thing we worry about Reform UK"
Billy Bragg, "There are also Jewish courts as well, thats part of their religion. We as a tolerant nation accept that"
"To demonise, particularly the Muslims, is the sort of thing we worry about Reform UK"
September 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Richard Tice, "We've already got 80 sharia courts in the UK"
Billy Bragg, "There are also Jewish courts as well, thats part of their religion. We as a tolerant nation accept that"
"To demonise, particularly the Muslims, is the sort of thing we worry about Reform UK"
Billy Bragg, "There are also Jewish courts as well, thats part of their religion. We as a tolerant nation accept that"
"To demonise, particularly the Muslims, is the sort of thing we worry about Reform UK"
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🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Amazing! Honestly two worlds I never thought I'd see collide, one of the best interviewers out there sits down with a musician who has been a ridiculously significant part of my life for nearly 20 years. Loved getting to read this chat and dig back into an album I've not played in a while
Interview: Frank Turner on his UNDEFEATED album, being a punk-as-fuck teenager, doing a one-question interview with Bruce Dickinson, and much more
willharris.substack.com/p/interview-...
@frankturner.bsky.social
willharris.substack.com/p/interview-...
@frankturner.bsky.social
Interview: Frank Turner on his UNDEFEATED album, being a punk-as-fuck teenager, doing a one-question interview with Bruce Dickinson, and much more
"At a festival, I want to get trench foot and somebody in a giant bunny suit to sell me ecstasy, y'know what I mean?"
willharris.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Amazing! Honestly two worlds I never thought I'd see collide, one of the best interviewers out there sits down with a musician who has been a ridiculously significant part of my life for nearly 20 years. Loved getting to read this chat and dig back into an album I've not played in a while
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Its research is better than most news shows and its gags are better than most comedy shows but for me what sets it above most shows is that it always tries to ask "What can we do about this?"
"Oliver and his writers have built a worldview around the core belief that our government should make sure peoples’ basic needs are met, their rights protected, and their innate value as human beings reaffirmed." I wrote a short piece about an inspiring show. www.vulture.com/article/john...
Late-Night’s Last Hope
On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver delivers bad news with a pragmatic optimism. Someone has to.
www.vulture.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Its research is better than most news shows and its gags are better than most comedy shows but for me what sets it above most shows is that it always tries to ask "What can we do about this?"
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Perhaps someone can explain this to me because I thought the government was concerned with growth on.ft.com/4gkup84
UK study visa applications drop as immigration changes hit universities
Fees from international students are vital in offsetting long-term funding squeeze
on.ft.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Perhaps someone can explain this to me because I thought the government was concerned with growth on.ft.com/4gkup84
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Who could possibly have foreseen?
September 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Who could possibly have foreseen?
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"I spent decades saying, ‘Come on, it’s got to be more complex than this.’ But I think it’s not. I think that almost everything can be explained by this deep hatred that the majority of white Americans have for black Americans. It’s the only thing that makes sense.” inews.co.uk/culture/book...
Lee Child: 'I'd rather be a multi-millionaire than a credible author'
The best-selling author on abandoning America, his utterly fascinating writing process (which involves exactly 90 days and zero planning) - and his aim to write one more 'Jack Reacher'
inews.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
"I spent decades saying, ‘Come on, it’s got to be more complex than this.’ But I think it’s not. I think that almost everything can be explained by this deep hatred that the majority of white Americans have for black Americans. It’s the only thing that makes sense.” inews.co.uk/culture/book...
Oh dear, how dare protesters be a nuisance
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests?
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Oh dear, how dare protesters be a nuisance
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trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
August 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
Been rewatching the first one recently in chunks around baby duties and it's so well-constructed.
I remember it fondly as a movie my dad was excited to share when it came out on DVD, although he couldn't help himself from rewinding the film to demonstrate minor continuity errors 😐
I remember it fondly as a movie my dad was excited to share when it came out on DVD, although he couldn't help himself from rewinding the film to demonstrate minor continuity errors 😐
The Bourne Identity: so good that I had to immediately put on the sequel. Man, I still remember how hard it hit me when <redacted> died. Like I can remember the theater I was in and how it felt in the moment.
August 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Been rewatching the first one recently in chunks around baby duties and it's so well-constructed.
I remember it fondly as a movie my dad was excited to share when it came out on DVD, although he couldn't help himself from rewinding the film to demonstrate minor continuity errors 😐
I remember it fondly as a movie my dad was excited to share when it came out on DVD, although he couldn't help himself from rewinding the film to demonstrate minor continuity errors 😐
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Don’t threaten me with a good time
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Don’t threaten me with a good time
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No, with respect, the buck stops with him. He's the leader. Not McSweeney, not the comms guy. He sets the strategy, tone and values. He is responsible. Either Starmer and his whole crew are ousted and are replaced by something very different or its Vichy Labour from here until doomsday.
Keir Starmer should look at what is going out in his name on X and rein it in.
There is no point retracting the accidental allusions to Enoch Powell if the Downing St comms team seem to be apeing the Willie Horton playbook
There is no point retracting the accidental allusions to Enoch Powell if the Downing St comms team seem to be apeing the Willie Horton playbook
August 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
No, with respect, the buck stops with him. He's the leader. Not McSweeney, not the comms guy. He sets the strategy, tone and values. He is responsible. Either Starmer and his whole crew are ousted and are replaced by something very different or its Vichy Labour from here until doomsday.