Paul Durman
@Durmanator
A lover of facts in a post-truth world. Former Sunday Times hack turned comms adviser. It's my irritability that keeps me alive and kicking.
Mike Bloomberg calling it like he sees it. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Weaving together Ozzy Ozbourne, the @SMMT, de Tocqueville, Dickens and the birth of heavy metal in Birmingham before the city was brought low by globalisation. Masterful @dcsandbrook! RIP Ozzy Osbourne, and the world that inspired you thetimes.com/article/a5aa2d…
The lessons of history. Thirty years on, for Netscape read Open AI? Netscape IPO casts a shadow from 1995 over AI boom breakingviews.com/columns/big-vi…
.@Iridium cuts 2025 service growth to 4% from 6%, maintains EBITDA forecast; shares fall 20%; D2D talks with MNOs under way, field trials start next year. @Starlink @AST_SpaceMobile @Verizon @Syniverse.spaceintelreport.com/iridium-trims-…
Good piece by @hannahprevett looking at @HarryStebbings and his seven-days-a-week approach to building a $10bn business. I’m with @surangac. Is being a ‘996’ workaholic essential for start-up success? thetimes.com/article/7b3264…
Once again, @realDonaldTrump’s aggression seems to have wrong-footed the bien pensants. So much for TACO. Donald Trump reaps $50bn tariff haul as world ‘chickens out’ via @FT on.ft.com/44AkdE8
The first Wimbledon men's final without one of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, or Murray since 2002!
YOU CAN SAY what you like about the current OASIS hysteria. It’s probably all over your timeline but you’d be hard pushed to find any other capable of creating this worldwide buzz of excitement and anticipation. They have created something special when the world is in a bit of a…
The allure of despair. “It is not just political analysts who realise the problems - climate change, Putin, Trump, migration, markets - are matters over which no British politician has any control whatsoever.” Reform voters simply want to smash things up thetimes.com/article/a59a31…
Great piece on a tremendous addition to South London. How Apple powered up Battersea Power Station’s redevelopment thetimes.com/article/7c3a66…
A quietly furious @JGaneshEsq: “A great many of Labour’s MPs and activists are almost constitutionally incapable of making hard choices, about public money in particular.” Keir Starmer is preferable to his party via @FT on.ft.com/3IoHd04
Brilliant column by @matthewsyed on the crisis in democracy and believing in fairies at the bottom of the garden, Our leaders have to keep offering us new clothes or they’d be gone thetimes.com/article/23aa7c…
Cracking evening at @TroxyLondon last night with @fatdog_fatdog. Sweatiest, most excited crowd reaction to a new band that I have seen in years. Here’s Wither - woof!
Cracking evening at @TroxyLondon last night with @fatdog_fatdog. Sweatiest, most excited crowd reaction to a new band that I have seen in years. King of the Slugs
Helpful to see. And, to nobody’s surprise, away form is still the problem.
#Pompey’s Championship position on December 6. And their record since. Remarkable.
“[As Europeans] we knew we were living in a continuous existence. It never comes to an end.” Henry Kissinger quoted by @EdwardGLuce in a great piece, trailing his book on Brzezinski The last grand strategists: Brzezinski and Kissinger @FT on.ft.com/3E6FQSd
Great column from @JeremyWarnerUK Trump’s chaos risks exposing the world to a $1 trillion parasite telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…
singapore pm with some of the most sensible analysis responding to us tariffs i’ve seen from a global leader.
Democracy is fading
"The number of autocracies (91) has just surpassed democracies (88) on this list for the first time in two decades, and nearly three-quarters of humans now live in an autocracy — where one person has unconstrained power — the highest rate in five decades" cbc.ca/news/world/tru…