James Hurley
@jameshurley
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Business and financial journalist and editor, The Times. [email protected] https://t.co/U4uR8lMEQI
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Joined May 2008
I opened a bookshop. It was the best, worst thing I’ve ever done. One of the most beautiful pieces you’ll read all year, or any year. Free access for all. @FT
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Chloe Fox shares the hopes and heartache of fulfilling a life-long dream
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Reuters story on AI (another reality check) titled: "AI promised a revolution. Companies are still waiting" Lots of great anecdotal stories in here on GenAI implementation. Below is one of my favorites. Come on...a 100-page document of rules should be cut and dried... but it
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Executives say they still believe generative AI will eventually transform their businesses, but they are reconsidering how quickly that will happen within their organizations.
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Pathetic performative cowardice. I mean, it's not even a workable lie. A better one would be to pretend it's only the suburbs which are inhabitable, while the centre is lawless. Which obviously wouldn't be true, either, but at least has some remote connection to the actual areas
London used to be the best city in the world. I loved living and working there. Genuinely loved it. The whole world wanted to be in London. Now? It is a dump. Outside a few select posh areas right in the middle of the city, it increasingly resembles the third world. It
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Put this on a shirt
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He's going to be the new Chair of the OBR
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT IMMINENT
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Sound advice from David Lammy to David Lammy
Jury trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement. Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea. The Government need to pull their finger out and acquire empty public buildings across the country to make sure these can happen in a way that is safe.
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NEW: 93 murders in London (pop: ~9m) in 12 months to October. The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades; perhaps centuries. https://t.co/T0o7Q0bgVw
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It's the anniversary of the greatest diary entry in history. Michael Palin, November 13th 1977.
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Manchester City. Don’t mention the war https://t.co/M7ooLZc6mL
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Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
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This is an insane chart
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List of teams in the top six levels of English football that are STILL unbeaten after the weekend... 📊 ⏺️ @HornchurchFC End of list.
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Honoured to have won the European Parliament's Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism with @jameshurley and 13 other newsrooms across Europe. Our investigation looked at former owners of ships now in the Russian Shadow Fleet. https://t.co/jiX33WxMGL
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On Tuesday, Follow the Money won the 2025 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism for exposing the hidden financial networks enabling Russia’s sanction-evading oil trade.
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London is portrayed as a dystopian hellhole of lawlessness and no-go zones by people who have never set foot in it. A narrative turbo-charged by social media disinformation designed to create fear, division and hate (while ignoring actual issues of affordability & absenteeism).
London murders have fallen to 89 in the last 12 months. The lowest rate on record.
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London murders have fallen to 89 in the last 12 months. The lowest rate on record.
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Honoured to have been shortlisted for the Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism with @jameshurley and journalists at 13 other newsrooms for our collective investigation into the former owners of ships in the Russian Shadow Fleet. https://t.co/F3N4Lzo0Gf
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"One of the world’s most powerful technology leaders has reportedly warned that regulating artificial intelligence risks hastening the coming of the Antichrist." https://t.co/piuzWLYT9v via @jameshurley @thetimes
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Tech billionaire claims in a lecture about religion that the devil promises peace and safety by strangling technological progress with regulation
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Israel kills 22 people including 9 children in 'horrific massacre' in Gaza, Palestinian officials say https://t.co/gdU4eR8BI0
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Video purportedly from the scene of the attack on the Souq Firas area of Gaza City shows the bodies of children being pulled from rubble.
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