James Leach
@jecleach.bsky.social
Writer and content marketing person. Write a newsletter about narrative, brand, messaging at https://itsallstorytelling.substack.com
I feel like a lot of my train delays are down to problems with signalling infrastructure or track and correct me if I’m wrong they’re publicly owned already and have been for some time?
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I feel like a lot of my train delays are down to problems with signalling infrastructure or track and correct me if I’m wrong they’re publicly owned already and have been for some time?
@samfr.bsky.social can confirm my mum was apoplectic when it was first floated. I think it’s the idea of the government wagging its finger and telling you you’re not saving in the right way.
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
@samfr.bsky.social can confirm my mum was apoplectic when it was first floated. I think it’s the idea of the government wagging its finger and telling you you’re not saving in the right way.
I particularly wish everyone would calm the hell down, given I’ve been on teams that have accidentally put an entire *website* live prematurely. The pearl clutching is silly.
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I particularly wish everyone would calm the hell down, given I’ve been on teams that have accidentally put an entire *website* live prematurely. The pearl clutching is silly.
I’ve had to go back to renting due to a separation @zoegrunewald.bsky.social and you’re exactly right. It feels out of reach AGAIN if you have it and lose it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I’ve had to go back to renting due to a separation @zoegrunewald.bsky.social and you’re exactly right. It feels out of reach AGAIN if you have it and lose it.
Game of Thrones gets my vote. Not for the actual ending (I think the end is actually pretty consistent with the characterisation). It’s more just the writing and general pacing
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Game of Thrones gets my vote. Not for the actual ending (I think the end is actually pretty consistent with the characterisation). It’s more just the writing and general pacing
@stephenkb.bsky.social and as I just wrote at some length
“it’s slowly dragged Labour into policy positions that don’t form a coherent philosophy, merely a series of disparate dividing lines that appear to convey “grown-up government.”
“it’s slowly dragged Labour into policy positions that don’t form a coherent philosophy, merely a series of disparate dividing lines that appear to convey “grown-up government.”
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
@stephenkb.bsky.social and as I just wrote at some length
“it’s slowly dragged Labour into policy positions that don’t form a coherent philosophy, merely a series of disparate dividing lines that appear to convey “grown-up government.”
“it’s slowly dragged Labour into policy positions that don’t form a coherent philosophy, merely a series of disparate dividing lines that appear to convey “grown-up government.”
This is Schrodinger’s Government: both dead and alive, curiously weak and strong, somehow angering its coalition of voters into thinking its dangerously socialist and horribly nativist at the same time.
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This is Schrodinger’s Government: both dead and alive, curiously weak and strong, somehow angering its coalition of voters into thinking its dangerously socialist and horribly nativist at the same time.
It claims to want to turbocharge the British economy and unleash growth, yet it’s angered businesses by asking them to shoulder higher National Insurance contributions
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It claims to want to turbocharge the British economy and unleash growth, yet it’s angered businesses by asking them to shoulder higher National Insurance contributions
It’s somehow managed to create the image of a party that’s itching to raise taxes and is simultaneously petrified to put them up
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It’s somehow managed to create the image of a party that’s itching to raise taxes and is simultaneously petrified to put them up
I’d say this Labour government couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery, but it’s worse than that; Labour would also forget to tell anyone they were planning a piss up in the first place.
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’d say this Labour government couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery, but it’s worse than that; Labour would also forget to tell anyone they were planning a piss up in the first place.
@danielsohege.bsky.social where is this interview please?
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
@danielsohege.bsky.social where is this interview please?
His article was actually about how we shouldn’t forgive Hunt, and why the British media has moved on so quickly from asking why a Tory government t was designing economic policies that bordered on negligent.
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
His article was actually about how we shouldn’t forgive Hunt, and why the British media has moved on so quickly from asking why a Tory government t was designing economic policies that bordered on negligent.
Yeah hence a recent article I saw from Simon Nixon, formerly of The Times, wherein he explained that *of course* Labour were going to make tax promises they couldn’t keep. The Times and other papers would have just had them for breakfast. (I personally don’t think this gets KS and RR off the hook).
November 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Yeah hence a recent article I saw from Simon Nixon, formerly of The Times, wherein he explained that *of course* Labour were going to make tax promises they couldn’t keep. The Times and other papers would have just had them for breakfast. (I personally don’t think this gets KS and RR off the hook).
I see that. Though interestingly I think immaturity and the self destruction is in character with who they all are. Xander was initially their Chandler Bing but I never found the battle with his own childishness incoherent
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I see that. Though interestingly I think immaturity and the self destruction is in character with who they all are. Xander was initially their Chandler Bing but I never found the battle with his own childishness incoherent
Again another of your takes I’m fascinated to unpack. Why do you think the show is mean-spirited? Interestingly Gellar and Boreanaz as leads, for me, are exactly why I can separate art from artist. Ditto Nathan Fillon actually. They all bring a compassion as leads.
November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Again another of your takes I’m fascinated to unpack. Why do you think the show is mean-spirited? Interestingly Gellar and Boreanaz as leads, for me, are exactly why I can separate art from artist. Ditto Nathan Fillon actually. They all bring a compassion as leads.
When I started my team on social media, we learned that there were 3/4 types of social post that can slot into one campaign. Informative vs entertaining. There’s room for both.
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
When I started my team on social media, we learned that there were 3/4 types of social post that can slot into one campaign. Informative vs entertaining. There’s room for both.
Starmer could publish lots of TikTok content for instance; it doesn’t have to be him being a beat poet, but you could have him sharing a light hearted day in the life series, or have him interview one of his own cabinet ministers.
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Starmer could publish lots of TikTok content for instance; it doesn’t have to be him being a beat poet, but you could have him sharing a light hearted day in the life series, or have him interview one of his own cabinet ministers.
@robfordmancs.bsky.social for instance social media comms and newspaper comms often feels very disparate. The main parties seem to think social media is there to be whimsical (see that “mock apology” Labour wrote the other day “apologising” for breakfast clubs. It was a tonal mess /2
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
@robfordmancs.bsky.social for instance social media comms and newspaper comms often feels very disparate. The main parties seem to think social media is there to be whimsical (see that “mock apology” Labour wrote the other day “apologising” for breakfast clubs. It was a tonal mess /2
@robfordmancs.bsky.social speaking as a private sector comms person working in B2B, I’d say the need to repeat the message hasn’t changed. It’s making the different channels synchronise that’s gotten harder. /1
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
@robfordmancs.bsky.social speaking as a private sector comms person working in B2B, I’d say the need to repeat the message hasn’t changed. It’s making the different channels synchronise that’s gotten harder. /1
As a private school alumni it’s sadly normalised in environments like that. At my school there was a lot of casual anti Semitism.
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
As a private school alumni it’s sadly normalised in environments like that. At my school there was a lot of casual anti Semitism.
@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk yes I love that Grant Shapps’ ability to use a spreadsheet made him some kind of master psephologist.
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk yes I love that Grant Shapps’ ability to use a spreadsheet made him some kind of master psephologist.
No, if anything I think the BBC leadership should read this speech too, as it’s another example of an organisation that continues to let its opponent set the terms of the debate. There is no attempt to defend a key principle (the importance of public service broadcasting vs misinformation)
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
No, if anything I think the BBC leadership should read this speech too, as it’s another example of an organisation that continues to let its opponent set the terms of the debate. There is no attempt to defend a key principle (the importance of public service broadcasting vs misinformation)