Richard Young
@richardyoung.bsky.social
Writer, editor, presenter (plus mid-life crisis PGCE). Ask me to write about business, finance, PM, AI, VC & PE, HR, IT... It's not the platform, it's us. Anger is a compass not a map. Hyperbole is destroying civilisation!! linkedin.com/in/businesswriter
So so so easy to make the same point without the deceptive editing. And what's with the music bed? There is a genuine issue with BBC News chasing overly dramatic angles and sensationalism, but, crucially, at least it's sensationalising what's basically true. <Side-eyes at Fox/NewsMax/GB News>
NB if you would like to understand why the edit is a big deal, this is the Panorama clip vs the original www.theguardian.com/media/video/...
Side-by-side comparison of BBC-edited Trump speech from day of Capitol attack with original – video
A selectively edited clip by Panorama has resulted in the BBC being accused of making it appear clearer that the US president encouraged the Capitol attack
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
So so so easy to make the same point without the deceptive editing. And what's with the music bed? There is a genuine issue with BBC News chasing overly dramatic angles and sensationalism, but, crucially, at least it's sensationalising what's basically true. <Side-eyes at Fox/NewsMax/GB News>
Would it have killed them to knock the "A" over with a soft return?
Uk political parties keep trying to do youth branches, it's amazing. No matter how many times it ends in horrifying disaster
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Would it have killed them to knock the "A" over with a soft return?
Ooof. This feels like a reach: the one study cited feels lonely - and a mountain of anecdata would disagree. The benefits will flow. But the image they used below feels accurate: currently AI is most vivid in helping fly-by-night e-tailers write marketing copy and BigCos de-staff single processes.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Ooof. This feels like a reach: the one study cited feels lonely - and a mountain of anecdata would disagree. The benefits will flow. But the image they used below feels accurate: currently AI is most vivid in helping fly-by-night e-tailers write marketing copy and BigCos de-staff single processes.
I'm just going to keep writing this into the void because it irks me so much: why the hell would you establish within weeks of coming to power that there was a £22bn "black hole" in public finances *and not take the opportunity right then* to justify ditching the manifesto pledge on income tax?
Includes this line 🤔
Downing Street insiders are talking openly about an imminent rise in income tax. “You don’t exactly have to be a genius to have worked out we’re doing it".
More in our weekend read on how No 10 is buttering up Labour MPs to avoid backlash
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Downing Street insiders are talking openly about an imminent rise in income tax. “You don’t exactly have to be a genius to have worked out we’re doing it".
More in our weekend read on how No 10 is buttering up Labour MPs to avoid backlash
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Breakfasts at No 10: buttering up Labour MPs to avoid a budget backlash
Downing Street has been preparing MPs for going back on its manifesto pledge and raising income tax
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I'm just going to keep writing this into the void because it irks me so much: why the hell would you establish within weeks of coming to power that there was a £22bn "black hole" in public finances *and not take the opportunity right then* to justify ditching the manifesto pledge on income tax?
This is great and it chimes with SO MUCH I've been coming across recently. A year ago I did a round-table with a senior finance exec at <£bn retailer>, asking a bunch of CFOs how they were deploying AI. Only one out of 15 was. Everyone else was like, "can you just make PowerBI work properly first?"
November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This is great and it chimes with SO MUCH I've been coming across recently. A year ago I did a round-table with a senior finance exec at <£bn retailer>, asking a bunch of CFOs how they were deploying AI. Only one out of 15 was. Everyone else was like, "can you just make PowerBI work properly first?"
This is a great little history (and if any project managers who worked on The Line feel like spilling the beans, I will pitch the feature for Project mag...). But reading about the people working on it reminds me of a convo I had about three years ago...
so many unintentional funnies in here. Just so gloriously ridiculous, the fever dream of people who have overdosed on money
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ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is a great little history (and if any project managers who worked on The Line feel like spilling the beans, I will pitch the feature for Project mag...). But reading about the people working on it reminds me of a convo I had about three years ago...
My proper journalism days are behind me, but in 2002 I interviewed Nick Montagu when he was head of the Inland Revenue. (Like O-levels, that dates me.) He was clear: the mission *must* be to reframe paying tax as a social good - paying for the things that make society liveable. Guess it didn't work.
Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My proper journalism days are behind me, but in 2002 I interviewed Nick Montagu when he was head of the Inland Revenue. (Like O-levels, that dates me.) He was clear: the mission *must* be to reframe paying tax as a social good - paying for the things that make society liveable. Guess it didn't work.
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I can only remember three things about Dick Cheney.
1. He shot that old dude in the face.
2. He was instrumental in lobbying for war in Iraq.
3. He said he'd happily see people killed if there was a 1% chance they were a terrorist.
1. He shot that old dude in the face.
2. He was instrumental in lobbying for war in Iraq.
3. He said he'd happily see people killed if there was a 1% chance they were a terrorist.
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I can only remember three things about Dick Cheney.
1. He shot that old dude in the face.
2. He was instrumental in lobbying for war in Iraq.
3. He said he'd happily see people killed if there was a 1% chance they were a terrorist.
1. He shot that old dude in the face.
2. He was instrumental in lobbying for war in Iraq.
3. He said he'd happily see people killed if there was a 1% chance they were a terrorist.
Yes, this thread. And lots of people reading it will be appalled but behave in *exactly* the same way, only for the things they believe are right and can't fathom why others are so ill-informed or even evil for not getting it.
So a weird thing happened to me in Aldi that I cdn't quite place until I was listening to Gabby Bertin talking about choking in porn on the radio this am. (NB: this is 100% not a sex thing). Having the usual polite chitchat with the cashier who is tired from working extra shifts to make £ for xmas..
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Yes, this thread. And lots of people reading it will be appalled but behave in *exactly* the same way, only for the things they believe are right and can't fathom why others are so ill-informed or even evil for not getting it.
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Universal basic credit would create a fair AI economy ft.trib.al/GHcjYlt | opinion
Universal basic credit would create a fair AI economy
Predistribution, not redistribution, is needed to close the inequality gap
ft.trib.al
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Universal basic credit would create a fair AI economy ft.trib.al/GHcjYlt | opinion
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Happy birthday to Leeds United manager Daniel Farke who turns 49 today.
Many happy returns and hope you enjoy a few slices of cake later, Boss. 🍰
lufcdata.com/daniel-farke | #LUFC
Many happy returns and hope you enjoy a few slices of cake later, Boss. 🍰
lufcdata.com/daniel-farke | #LUFC
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Happy birthday to Leeds United manager Daniel Farke who turns 49 today.
Many happy returns and hope you enjoy a few slices of cake later, Boss. 🍰
lufcdata.com/daniel-farke | #LUFC
Many happy returns and hope you enjoy a few slices of cake later, Boss. 🍰
lufcdata.com/daniel-farke | #LUFC
As in writing, today's AI highlights how much human work is crank-the-handle, good-enough junk food for the brain. RELATED: linked in today's Overspill email: many podcasts only exist to blot out our thoughts and do ad reads. tthe-handle, hebaffler.com/outbursts/the-hatred-of-podcasting-belden
October 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
As in writing, today's AI highlights how much human work is crank-the-handle, good-enough junk food for the brain. RELATED: linked in today's Overspill email: many podcasts only exist to blot out our thoughts and do ad reads. tthe-handle, hebaffler.com/outbursts/the-hatred-of-podcasting-belden
The use of "today's" is discussions of AI feels like it's becoming both important and a dire warning. When people leave it out, it feels like a scene from a movie where people laugh at the fallibility of early robots, only to all die when one finally walks upright and managed to pick up a gun.
This is quite useful for explaining the difference between today's AI and actual intelligence: it *looks* like a sitcom and it *sounds* like a sitcom, but it is not, crucially, *funny*.
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The use of "today's" is discussions of AI feels like it's becoming both important and a dire warning. When people leave it out, it feels like a scene from a movie where people laugh at the fallibility of early robots, only to all die when one finally walks upright and managed to pick up a gun.
Checked in on the "Unfollow Project 2.0" list I maintain. I see lots of ANGRY posts about Elon Musk. I sleep peacefully in my bed knowing that hard Bluesky account holders stand ready to post furious takes on my behalf (even if they're mostly just performing for each other).
October 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Checked in on the "Unfollow Project 2.0" list I maintain. I see lots of ANGRY posts about Elon Musk. I sleep peacefully in my bed knowing that hard Bluesky account holders stand ready to post furious takes on my behalf (even if they're mostly just performing for each other).
Lovely history of the decline in UK shipbuilding; like the car industry, it fell foul of chummy marketing, too-relaxed management, and over-zealous unions. TIL all those things had been *advantages* at one point. HT @charlesarthur.bsky.social's Overspill www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-uk...
October 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Lovely history of the decline in UK shipbuilding; like the car industry, it fell foul of chummy marketing, too-relaxed management, and over-zealous unions. TIL all those things had been *advantages* at one point. HT @charlesarthur.bsky.social's Overspill www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-uk...
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The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.
Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK
How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.
We we have plenty of kids that would qualify for pupil premium, but lots of families won't claim it (because it's seen by many as shameful, we think); but the massive rise in formal diagnoses of SEND/emotional conditions (which many *do* seek) attracts little money, but lots of extra teacher stress.
There has been a rise in parents requesting formal support for their children ahead of proposed reforms to SEND
New council reports seen by PolHome show sharp increases in families seeking EHCPs, amid fears that they could soon be harder to come by, reports @cjayanetti.bsky.social
New council reports seen by PolHome show sharp increases in families seeking EHCPs, amid fears that they could soon be harder to come by, reports @cjayanetti.bsky.social
Rise In SEND Requests As Parents Fear Upcoming Reforms
Fears over upcoming reforms to the special education needs (SEND) system have led more parents to request formal support for their children, accord...
www.politicshome.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
We we have plenty of kids that would qualify for pupil premium, but lots of families won't claim it (because it's seen by many as shameful, we think); but the massive rise in formal diagnoses of SEND/emotional conditions (which many *do* seek) attracts little money, but lots of extra teacher stress.
Bad takes beget bad takes. Gawd, public discourse is so relentlessly stupid now...
October 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Bad takes beget bad takes. Gawd, public discourse is so relentlessly stupid now...
Genuinely feel for Wolves. This orange looks like our stats for many dropped points this season. And LUFC could have done with the draw...
October 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Genuinely feel for Wolves. This orange looks like our stats for many dropped points this season. And LUFC could have done with the draw...
Because they're illiquid and non-one wants to be a bag-holder?
Why everyone is trying to sell you private assets right now on.ft.com/4hp99yB
Why everyone is trying to sell you private assets right now
Wealth managers are keen to promote semi-liquid funds to a new group of clients
on.ft.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Because they're illiquid and non-one wants to be a bag-holder?
The crest of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell features a dude (who I think is supposed to be Jesus?) who looks like he's getting really tired of running his paleo-lifestyle YouTube channel.
October 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The crest of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell features a dude (who I think is supposed to be Jesus?) who looks like he's getting really tired of running his paleo-lifestyle YouTube channel.
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
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October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
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These days, every time I *pay* for a sub to something worthwhile, I feel like it's a little act of defiance against the dying of the light. But not streaming services that insist of showing me ads, or are simply helping switch my brain off. Then I feel like a scuzzy junkie passing over grubby fivers
October 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
These days, every time I *pay* for a sub to something worthwhile, I feel like it's a little act of defiance against the dying of the light. But not streaming services that insist of showing me ads, or are simply helping switch my brain off. Then I feel like a scuzzy junkie passing over grubby fivers
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A new study has found that doctors who regularly used AI became less skilled at spotting cancer. Just like our ability to read physical maps, overreliance on automation could make us forget basic skills - time.com/7309274/ai-l...
Using AI Made Doctors Worse at Spotting Cancer Without Assistance
A new study offers the latest evidence of potential “deskilling” effects on AI users.
time.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A new study has found that doctors who regularly used AI became less skilled at spotting cancer. Just like our ability to read physical maps, overreliance on automation could make us forget basic skills - time.com/7309274/ai-l...