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BakeronBusiness on Twitter. Former daily newsroom Dep Ed, business editor, current comms & engagement guy, perennial inquiring mind about past & present. Xscapee.
One of my favourite games in city centres is looking up. Nottingham has some remarkable buildings in its core, though I do wish they’d replace those abysmal lamp standards with something more sympathetic or interesting.
January 11, 2026 at 2:01 PM
One of my favourite games in city centres is looking up. Nottingham has some remarkable buildings in its core, though I do wish they’d replace those abysmal lamp standards with something more sympathetic or interesting.
Then as now: 1945, from Daniel Todman’s balanced, comprehensive and brilliant ‘A New World 1942-47’.
December 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Then as now: 1945, from Daniel Todman’s balanced, comprehensive and brilliant ‘A New World 1942-47’.
The people’s game latest.
December 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The people’s game latest.
‘Welcome to the Hotel California…’
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
‘Welcome to the Hotel California…’
It’s been a miserably depressing year. So I went to Lofoten. Which is nice.
August 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It’s been a miserably depressing year. So I went to Lofoten. Which is nice.
BBC website. Leading with Netanyahu and Gaza. And then this on the same national & international news homepage. Someone help me out…
August 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
BBC website. Leading with Netanyahu and Gaza. And then this on the same national & international news homepage. Someone help me out…
I can smell the PR and public affairs budget from here…
July 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I can smell the PR and public affairs budget from here…
Exhibit A and Exhibit B: a crude comparison, of course, but Britain’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde attitude towards capital investment and revenue spending writ large.
June 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Exhibit A and Exhibit B: a crude comparison, of course, but Britain’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde attitude towards capital investment and revenue spending writ large.
And I give you the Norman splendour of Southwell
May 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
And I give you the Norman splendour of Southwell
‘Hello, is that Mr Pavlov? Your dog’s at it again!’
May 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
‘Hello, is that Mr Pavlov? Your dog’s at it again!’
Outrageous. And I’ve got it on good authority that Starmer’s cat was seen walking alongside a pro-Palestine march!
April 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Outrageous. And I’ve got it on good authority that Starmer’s cat was seen walking alongside a pro-Palestine march!
I beg to differ…
April 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I beg to differ…
Perhaps it is. More seriously, it’s also a case study in how not to solve the abysmal connectivity problems that plague the health and wealth of the Midlands and the North. Might be an idea if the PAC also considered the appalling social and economic costs of that continuing failure.
February 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Perhaps it is. More seriously, it’s also a case study in how not to solve the abysmal connectivity problems that plague the health and wealth of the Midlands and the North. Might be an idea if the PAC also considered the appalling social and economic costs of that continuing failure.
And so it came to pass…
February 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
And so it came to pass…
If it’s been announced on a Saturday evening, it’s in the Sunday papers…
February 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If it’s been announced on a Saturday evening, it’s in the Sunday papers…
Painful reality, and some almost cranky jaw-dropping nonsense in the Telegraph.
January 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Painful reality, and some almost cranky jaw-dropping nonsense in the Telegraph.
The day the earth stood still. And an old science fiction movie.
January 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The day the earth stood still. And an old science fiction movie.
The Telegraph. Again.
January 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Telegraph. Again.
Then as now: Margaret Thatcher in March 1980.
January 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Then as now: Margaret Thatcher in March 1980.
Hubble telescope discovers new Tinius Violinis constellation.
January 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Hubble telescope discovers new Tinius Violinis constellation.
I dunno where he’s at really, but this is almost Mills & Boon.
January 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I dunno where he’s at really, but this is almost Mills & Boon.
BBC: Up on the homepage as a story of national political significance.
Me: No, it’s tedious SoS (Send out Stuff) political comms.
Me: No, it’s tedious SoS (Send out Stuff) political comms.
December 31, 2024 at 2:31 PM
BBC: Up on the homepage as a story of national political significance.
Me: No, it’s tedious SoS (Send out Stuff) political comms.
Me: No, it’s tedious SoS (Send out Stuff) political comms.
Not now credit card defaults…
December 29, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Not now credit card defaults…
Incidentally, just a handful of paragraphs later, we’re met with this reminder that the Prehistoric era isn’t as far distant as we might think:
December 29, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Incidentally, just a handful of paragraphs later, we’re met with this reminder that the Prehistoric era isn’t as far distant as we might think: