As someone who reporting for the Times got things wrong once or twice let me tell you what happens. We publish a correction. We don't pretend the original story never happened. And the idea of deleting it entirely from the public record. Well...
A friend in agriculture has just seen the Environment Minister suggest sheep farmers should swap to raising cows instead and I would seriously suggest George Eustice goes nowhere near a farm any time in the future.
Many still have pitchforks.
This same column is headlined 'Path to war was paved with Joe Biden’s failures.'
Reminder: Biden has been president for 14 months. Trump spent 4 years denigrating NATO and Ukraine.
There’s a column in The Times suggesting that Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if the world had paid less attention to Greta Thunberg. And it’s not April 1st. I just checked.
@bazzacollins
Well we both worked on the Sunday Times too. Can you remember an occasion when a story was disappeared? If it was wrong we said so. In public.
It is an odd quirk of the Commons that it's OK to lie but not OK to point out someone is lying. And to get a little lecture on 'decency' for the latter to boot. Do wish Bercow had been there for this.
Looking like really bad acqua alta in
#venice
at 10am and 10pm today. For those who want to know what parts of the city this affects here's a very detailed interactive map
I don't understand people slagging off
@GaryLineker
et al for covering the World Cup in Qatar. Commentating on football wherever it is is their job. Unless you feel all media should boycott the event why single them out for criticism?
This is still the best news story of the day. Venezia FC, stadium with a capacity of under 8,000 and only reachable by boat or on foot, win promotion to Serie A in the 93rd minute after an hour down to ten men.
Needs
@GaryLineker
there for the Juve game.
The first group of workers to be entirely replaced by A.I. could be narrators in the booming audio book industry. Not only can A.I. read the books instead of real people, it can imitate the voice of the author. Get ready.
We need to foresee what is not good for society. -R
Today's
#Venice
lunch. Lovely fresh cicchetti €2 each at Adagio by the Frari. Arnold and Luca were there in spirit arguing about whose turn it was to pay the bill.
Nadine Dorries piles more threats on the BBC for doing its job. Johnson, who was a joke as a journalist, clearly now believes the only free press is one that supports him.
This is disgraceful. 'We just don’t have money in the budget to pay for contributors.' Says producer who wouldn't dream of going unpaid.
Stop asking creative people to work for free.
'Strictly dropped us after we asked to be paid, say musicians'
Delighted to see that Bakaro in Campo Santa Margherita is open again after many months closed. And that it still does a carbonara to rival anything in Rome. Pecorino Romano, guanciale and perfect pasta.
#Venice
None of this comes as a surprise to me. Boris Johnson was sacked from my old paper the Times for making things up. I worked there for a sight longer than he did. No one ever got fired from the Times. It was unthinkable. Yet he managed it. For lying. Plus ça change
@MarkJLittlewood
Hi Mark. For democracy to function it helps to know where lobbying organisations like your IEA get their money from. Instead of ranting about Brexit why not enlighten us about that?
I guess
@mrjamesob
really did hit the nail on the head when he said their only response to everything right now is to shriek 'Brexit!' at the top of their voices.
Do they really think they can do this forever?
The biggest threat to our democracy was the period 2016-2019 when elected representatives, were doing their utmost to thwart Brexit and block the will of the people. Embittered Remainers still popping up today on the airwaves. Let’s trust the people and respect their vote.
Thank you both
@RCArmitage
and
@david_hewson
for making The Garden of Angels come to live for me. I absolutely loved
#Geneva
and cannot wait for your second novel. 😊😊😊😊😊
"What do you do?"
'I'm an author.'
'Have I read anything you've written?'
'Er...'
'You do that for a living?'
'Yup.'
'Under your real name?'
'Yup.'
'Are you writing anything now?'
'No mainly I sit at home sorting my Phil Collins CDs into alphabetical order.'
Audible have very generously put a stack of audio stories aimed at the younger generation online for free. Dead easy to listen to.
Knowing
@audible_com
as I do I'm not in the least surprised.
I'll be hosting an author dinner at the famous Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Festival in Harrogate in July.
@RCArmitage
is too. Wonder whose will sell out first 🤔🤣😂
Well I'm all booked for the Audies in New York at the end of May to see if
@RCArmitage
and I win best original for R&J. I will go all Gwyneth Paltrow if we do. Will also do that if we don't of course.
Well that was quite a launch day. Thanks so much everyone for your interest in my work and of course,
@RCArmitage
for bringing such life to the audio version.
Splendid tribute toAndrea Camilleri, and it touches on an important issue - his use of Sicilian in the original. Tough for translators. I was told the US books once had a different translator to the UK - and they were very different books as a result.
Every time I come back to
#Venice
I promise myself a frittura mista at Al Merca in the old market on the Lido. What you get depends entirely on the season. This was today's.
Consider me stuffed.
“Brexit has been a fucking absolute unmitigated disaster.
And it will be a living nightmare until some politician has the balls to put a referendum in a manifesto and run on it and go back into the EU.”
Said
@NoelGallagher
.
Yup - that’s spot on.