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Freelance journalist and co-founder @projectglitch_. As seen on your screen just now. Ex-WSJ and The Block. Signal: lhm.01 Email: lucyhm1 at https://xitter.gq/t.co/sMp2j7g9yv

Joined June 2009
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✨Semi-annual reminder that you can book me to write/edit/blog/report/help with media strategy. 🗞️Updated portfolio here, featuring clips from Channel 4, The Observer, American Banker, Project Glitch, Wired, FT Advisor and others: lucyhm.wordpress.com/
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Lucy Harley-McKeown retweeted
Realizing those M&A lawyers were just in it for the money
There is something particularly repulsive about a century old institution being torn apart because the partners want to make $15 million instead of a mere $12 million.
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I'll say this, it was so boring, that the gilts market has budged not an inch
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no government / royal mint NFT announced in the budget :( makes u miss Rishi Sunak
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Cue everyone searching their council tax band
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super El Niño son or cyber attack daughter
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Chancellor says in the budget that the gov is pursuing a "British way" for AI based on "security" & "sovereignty" announces a British data centre covenant and AI challenge prize for innovation Directly addresses worries about foreign involvement in e.g. health and defence data
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Also announces a founders relief for founders of successful firms (maybe VCs can stop complaining about UK as a place to build a business now...)
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Former chancellor George Osborne also speaking at DAS the previous week. I've been saying about right wing politicians and crypto.... projectglitch.xyz/p/the-war-…
Replying to @solana
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Former Mayor of London. @BorisJohnson led the country for three years and this city for eight. He’s on stage at Breakpoint, November 15-17.
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*DJ Khaled voice* another one xitter.gq/solana/status/21150664…
Replying to @solana
From Deutsche Bank to Number 11. Sir @sajidjavid, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, spent nearly two decades in banking before entering politics. At Breakpoint, he brings both careers to the question of where finance goes next.
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hottest accessory for autumn is actually the DCPS 2026 takeaway coffee mug (IYKYK)
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~~cleansing the timeline~~
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Lucy Harley-McKeown retweeted
His name is Ondřej Surý and yesterday he kinda saved the internet. I called him up to talk about it! theatlantic.com/technology/2…
Explaining to my wife how there's this one guy. And he alone is responsible for most of the world's distribution of PHP. And if anything happens to this guy, that's just it. Everyone is screwed.
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Crazy aging population stats from the ONS today: There were an estimated 645,000 people aged 90+ in the UK in mid-2025, a 55.2% increase since mid-2005 (416,000 people). There were 16,400 centenarians in 2025, up 3.5% since 2024 and +89.8% since 2005 (8,700 centenarians).
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Resilient old ladies: There were 760 people aged 105 years and over in the UK in 2025, an increase of nearly a third since mid-2024 (from 570) as the large generation born immediately after World War One (1919-1920) reach this age. Women made up 88.8% of this age group in 2025.
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Lucy Harley-McKeown retweeted
Every time you go to the post office the person in front of you has a problem that has never happened before in all of history.
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so desensitised to hacks / flaws in code from covering crypto for 5+ years that the PHP bug makes me feel nothing 🙂
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Lucy Harley-McKeown retweeted
it’s been an honor using the computer with you all
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