Stefan Stern
Journalist and author. Writes for FT, Guardian, Prospect and The Conversation. New book: Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition, out now. Visiting Prof at Bayes Business School
- This Times column which is about supposed falling standards in higher education has given us the word "renumerated" instead of remunerated. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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- Thanks for saying so!
- It was a pleasure to review @patrickwallis.bsky.social 's excellent book The Market for Skill for the @financialtimes.com - online now and in print on Saturday for @ftweekend.com on.ft.com/3S5RY9k
- That’s annoying. I don’t seem to be in the White House Signal group that advised everyone to buy shares yesterday because there will be movement on Tariffs today.
- I signed up for something called "Signal 2" in the hope of getting inside information but all they set me was some out of date toothpaste.
- And we'll finish at 4.30pm just before the FA Cup Final kicks off, so it's win-win!
- Tomorrow at 4pm! #StratLitFest
- Was a great pleasure talking to Dr Alex Curmi for his Thinking Mind podcast. Link below. I hope you find it interesting. #ambition open.spotify.com/episode/38Il...
- Check out the ThinkingMind podcast with Dr Alex Curmi, available tomorrow.
- Be disappointing if they chose a Pope on day 1
- Can't binge watch if there's only one episode.
- Well fancy that. www.ft.com/content/7f13...
- When people apologise and say "That's not who I am" we should understand that in fact they've just shown us exactly who they are.
- How about a sunny day trip to Stratford-upon-Avon this Sunday?
- Please come to Stratford-upon-Avon on Sunday 11th May at 4pm - #stratlitfest - #Ambition Tickets here: Https://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/stefan-stern (If you're already there at noon to hear @tombaldwin66.bsky.social and @mds49.bsky.social come back for more after lunch!)
- Sarah Pochin, the new Rosie Barnes. Probably.
- Ok it's actually cold now.
- Time for news editors to get a bit braver with the Trump nonsense. If what he's just said is cobblers that should be the angle. Don't waste everybody's time "analysing" it.
- Like George Foreman in 1974, Trump has picked the wrong place to get tired. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- The truly useful AI app will be the one that can take our spontaneous and unfiltered posts and inject some tact into them before they go live.
- “The Blue Labour pitch has developed, and not neccessarily to our advantage,” Morgan McSweeney to All-hands Spads meeting, next week.
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- These results seem to point to the need for a more Labourish, Angelaish-style leader.
- Please come to Stratford-upon-Avon on Sunday 11th May at 4pm - #stratlitfest - #Ambition Tickets here: Https://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/stefan-stern (If you're already there at noon to hear @tombaldwin66.bsky.social and @mds49.bsky.social come back for more after lunch!)
- Please come to Stratford-upon-Avon on Sunday 11th May at 4pm - #stratlitfest - #Ambition Tickets here: Https://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/stefan-stern (If you're already there at noon to hear @tombaldwin66.bsky.social and @mds49.bsky.social come back for more after lunch!)
- The promise was change. Not enough has changed. There is no compelling plan for change. Whichever way you slice it, this is a big problem.
- They do it with mirrors. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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- I had missed this story, thanks for the reply. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Dangling the *possibility* of the Open golf championship returning to Turnberry in 2028 might be quite an effective bargaining tool for the UK government, just saying.
- This administration is a hostile act on humanity.
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- Or Lee Anderson.
- Reading railway station is big. Who knew?
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- Quite - nice splash for the old Obs was my feeling. (Written by a former Obs staffer..!)
- And chips.
- @herring1967.bsky.social Hello you will like it here people are nice mostly apart from me.
- Couldn't agree more.
- In a four/five party fight, and no matter what the haters say, if Lab doesn't have a voice like Ed Mili's talking about the green agenda it will lose a lot of votes in seats where it needs tactical support.
- Running thin, like his hair and his brain power.
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- There was always quite deep scepticism among some pollsters about what impact tactical voting has at GE time but perhaps as people get more "online" awareness of what it can do at a local level grows?
- "What Donald Trump tweets or says doesn't always materialise." - @bbcstever.bsky.social That's the way to do it.
- "The truth is these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand..."
- Breaking News: Trump officials blame a mistake for setting off the tectonic confrontation with Harvard. nyti.ms/4ioHtIT
- "Ambition, the moth of holiness" says Stanley Tucci to Ralph Fiennes in the movie "Conclave". Well, it's a point of view. For more on #ambition see my book "Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition", available in the UK here tinyurl.com/3yfxuyud and in the US here shorturl.at/iRmxT
- I fear Trump has already reached the Act III sc iv stage of Macbeth: "For mine own good/ All causes shall give way: I am in blood/ Stepp'd in so far, that should I wade no more,/ Returning were as tedious as go o'er." Still, maybe this means the end is coming soon...?
- Just don't think we should be playing clips of Trump talking rubbish and leaving it there without some sort of editorial (correcting, clarifying) comment.
- Dead on! #rorymcilroy
- This is excellent. Wait for the George Washington quote at the end.
- Score one for reality.
- Trump is like the eight year old boy who comes to your house, gets all your toys out, breaks them, then soils himself, starts crying and blaming everybody else for the mess he's created.
- Waddya gonna do?
- When a floundering boss feels the need to declare that "I know what the hell I'm doing" you can be sure he doesn't know what the hell he's doing. #Trump
- When a floundering boss feels the need to declare that "I know what the hell I'm doing" you can be sure he doesn't know what the hell he's doing. #Trump
- The markets to Trump: you're an idiot. We'll carry on til you change your policy.
- Trump will have to pay up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
