Chris Baker

NEW: The entire BBC news cycle is an abject lesson in the disaster economics of information. This isn’t just a news story. It’s a teachable example of real-time information collapse. We can’t fix that but we can & must save the BBC. 1/

Striking how Musk’s post saying civil war was inevitable in the UK due to immigration prompted a sudden and large migration from X to BlueSky in Britain. User numbers for BlueSky remain far smaller than for X, but I’d say most of the UK commentariat has now moved across.

This week’s riots aren’t happening in a vacuum. We’re living and breathing on platforms that billionaires have optimised for outrage. This is the world that social media made. My piece for @ObserverUK with contributions from the great @mariaressa + more theguardian.com/media/articl…

On the @guardian environment desk, we've tried to get the climate and nature crisis into the UK election debate - to help our audience understand that they are voting for the future, and to hold politicians to account. Here are some key pieces:

I’m not going to be answering many questions here, about Apple TV’s adaptation of Neuromancer. I’ll have to be answering too many elsewhere, and doing my part on the production. So I thought I’d try to describe that, my part.