Anna Wintour leaving Vogue:

Vogue editor-in-chief of 37 years and fashion mogul icon Anna Wintour will step down after the magazine’s next cover release. The inspiration for The Devil Wears Prada will continue her roles as Vogue’s global editorial director and chief content officer of publisher Condé Nast.

For context, I’m in my early 50s - so I was still at school when she took on this role.


Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers:

At its simplest level, our job as artists is to respond to the human experience. But the art we make is a commodity, and our world wants things quickly, cheaply, and on demand. We are rushing toward a future where our novels, our biographies, our poems and our memoirs—our records of the human experience—are “written” by artificial intelligence models that, by definition, cannot know what it is to be human. To bleed, or starve, or love.


The iPad is already my preferred video editor for most tasks. It looks like that’s only going to get better with iPad OS26 later this year.

I’m excited! But not excited enough to risk the betas…


Something it’s important to get sorted…

A simplified illustration depicts a bottle pouring liquid onto a map with the text "Clarification of Beer."

Forcing all prospective students to make all their social media profiles public is chilling. This will make it much harder for US universities to recruit - but maybe that’s the point.

It may be good news for other countries’ universities, though.


Yesterday, I went to the Worthing Dome with my daughters as a (late) Father’s Day treat.

What a beautiful cinema. I can’t believe I haven’t been before.

A grand theater with an ornate ceiling and rows of empty seats faces a stage with a red curtain.

A beer in a church - an under-appreciated combo.

A person is holding a pint of stout inside a church where other people are seated.

Gorgeous afternoon down on the beach. 🏖️

A "Swimming Only" sign stands on a pebbled beach with the sea in the background.

Candle in the rain.


Walking the tightrope between AI and audiences.

I get the feeling that a lot of business are gonna take a tumble into a dangerous canyon…