SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I wouldn't understand the level of bravery and dedication you need to threaten women on the internet.
PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat
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I wouldn't understand the level of bravery and dedication you need to threaten women on the internet.
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we need Corbyn in number 10 so Piers can continue this noble lineage, if nothing else.
Lurdan
old wave
"Independent researcher" and twat afaics. His sources aren't hard to identify. Ms Arcuri's self-promotional activities a few years ago have left a large internet footprint and "Arcurigate" has been quietly bubbling along in the background all this week.
One source was a paywalled piece in the FT the day before yesterday by a tech journalist who encountered her in 2014, which gives a sketch of the scene she was working.
Jennifer Arcuri personified London’s scrappy start-up scene
Tim Bradshaw - 24th September 2019 - Financial Times
In hindsight, the stripper pole in the living room should probably have raised more red flags.
As I checked into an Airbnb on Shoreditch High Street in east London in the summer of 2014, I was more worried about the grimy staircase leading up to the flat and the noisy railway line outside my window. But at least my host, a peppy American named Jennifer Arcuri, was friendly, welcoming me with a bowl of pasta.
We quickly discovered we knew many of the same people. In addition to being an Airbnb, the flat doubled as Ms Arcuri’s start-up headquarters. I was passing back through London after two years in San Francisco as a Financial Times correspondent there. As the reporter with the dubious honour of being the first to write about Silicon Roundabout, the area around Old Street that was home to a clutch of nascent technology start-ups, I had met several entrepreneurs on my host’s cosy circuit.
This weekend, The Sunday Times reported that Boris Johnson, the then London mayor and now British prime minister, was a “regular visitor” to that Shoreditch flat. Mr Johnson was a “close friend” of my host, the newspaper alleged, raising questions about conflicts of interest, when Ms Arcuri won public money grants for her businesses and joined him on overseas “trade missions”.
Ms Arcuri has brushed away the innuendo, saying the grants and trips were “purely in respect of my role as a legitimate businesswoman”; Mr Johnson denied any impropriety.
London’s tech community seemed pretty incestuous in those days. It was a small world where an energetic American newcomer like Ms Arcuri could quickly rack up hundreds of LinkedIn connections. But after some years covering the industry from both sides of the Atlantic, by 2014 I was struggling to foresee a grown-up “Tech City”, as the government had tried to rebrand it, ever emerging from adolescent Silicon Roundabout.
Hyped east London start-ups such as Mind Candy, maker of the children’s online game Moshi Monsters, online radio pioneer Last.fm, and Dopplr, the travel site (whose founder coined the name Silicon Roundabout as a joke), were all fizzling out. Several of the city’s more prominent founders had already fled to Silicon Valley in search of higher valuations and better weather.
Even the Roundabout’s hangers-on were letting go. Two years before I met her, I was invited to one of Ms Arcuri’s InnoTech summits at the Grand Connaught Rooms hotel, at which the highest billing, after Mr Johnson, went to a keynote from one Milo Yiannopoulos.
A former Daily Telegraph blogger who was running tech news site The Kernel, Mr Yiannopoulos was at the centre of the London tech scene and was already showing his considerable talents as an antagonist, especially of the Tech City Investment Organisation, and picking headline-generating Twitter spats. Even those founders who had managed to stay on the right side of his poison pen were shocked when he went to work for Steve Bannon’s rightwing news site, Breitbart, in 2014. His rapid ascent to Donald Trump-supporting uber-troll, banned by Facebook and Twitter for hate speech and harassment, still gnaws at the consciences of his former drinking buddies and peers.
These days, London’s tech scene has real substance to match the hype, thanks to the likes of food-delivery company Deliveroo, founded in 2013, and Monzo, Revolut and OakNorth, London’s fintech “unicorns”, which all got started in 2015. Some of those are staffed with entrepreneurs who cut their teeth on the earlier start-ups; learning to fail is a badge of honour in Silicon Valley and London’s venture capitalists have long urged their companies to embrace this more ambitious approach.
But in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 crash, politicians, investors and, yes, reporters, were all too eager to will London’s tech scene into existence. There were breakfasts at 10 Downing Street and parties at Buckingham Palace long before there were any really big companies or billion-dollar exits to celebrate. No wonder wannabes, freeloaders and groupies often outnumbered the real entrepreneurs and investors.
Start-up founders are encouraged to “fake it ’till you make it”, and the same went for Tech City itself.
Tim Bradshaw - 24th September 2019 - Financial Times
In hindsight, the stripper pole in the living room should probably have raised more red flags.
As I checked into an Airbnb on Shoreditch High Street in east London in the summer of 2014, I was more worried about the grimy staircase leading up to the flat and the noisy railway line outside my window. But at least my host, a peppy American named Jennifer Arcuri, was friendly, welcoming me with a bowl of pasta.
We quickly discovered we knew many of the same people. In addition to being an Airbnb, the flat doubled as Ms Arcuri’s start-up headquarters. I was passing back through London after two years in San Francisco as a Financial Times correspondent there. As the reporter with the dubious honour of being the first to write about Silicon Roundabout, the area around Old Street that was home to a clutch of nascent technology start-ups, I had met several entrepreneurs on my host’s cosy circuit.
This weekend, The Sunday Times reported that Boris Johnson, the then London mayor and now British prime minister, was a “regular visitor” to that Shoreditch flat. Mr Johnson was a “close friend” of my host, the newspaper alleged, raising questions about conflicts of interest, when Ms Arcuri won public money grants for her businesses and joined him on overseas “trade missions”.
Ms Arcuri has brushed away the innuendo, saying the grants and trips were “purely in respect of my role as a legitimate businesswoman”; Mr Johnson denied any impropriety.
London’s tech community seemed pretty incestuous in those days. It was a small world where an energetic American newcomer like Ms Arcuri could quickly rack up hundreds of LinkedIn connections. But after some years covering the industry from both sides of the Atlantic, by 2014 I was struggling to foresee a grown-up “Tech City”, as the government had tried to rebrand it, ever emerging from adolescent Silicon Roundabout.
Hyped east London start-ups such as Mind Candy, maker of the children’s online game Moshi Monsters, online radio pioneer Last.fm, and Dopplr, the travel site (whose founder coined the name Silicon Roundabout as a joke), were all fizzling out. Several of the city’s more prominent founders had already fled to Silicon Valley in search of higher valuations and better weather.
Even the Roundabout’s hangers-on were letting go. Two years before I met her, I was invited to one of Ms Arcuri’s InnoTech summits at the Grand Connaught Rooms hotel, at which the highest billing, after Mr Johnson, went to a keynote from one Milo Yiannopoulos.
A former Daily Telegraph blogger who was running tech news site The Kernel, Mr Yiannopoulos was at the centre of the London tech scene and was already showing his considerable talents as an antagonist, especially of the Tech City Investment Organisation, and picking headline-generating Twitter spats. Even those founders who had managed to stay on the right side of his poison pen were shocked when he went to work for Steve Bannon’s rightwing news site, Breitbart, in 2014. His rapid ascent to Donald Trump-supporting uber-troll, banned by Facebook and Twitter for hate speech and harassment, still gnaws at the consciences of his former drinking buddies and peers.
These days, London’s tech scene has real substance to match the hype, thanks to the likes of food-delivery company Deliveroo, founded in 2013, and Monzo, Revolut and OakNorth, London’s fintech “unicorns”, which all got started in 2015. Some of those are staffed with entrepreneurs who cut their teeth on the earlier start-ups; learning to fail is a badge of honour in Silicon Valley and London’s venture capitalists have long urged their companies to embrace this more ambitious approach.
But in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 crash, politicians, investors and, yes, reporters, were all too eager to will London’s tech scene into existence. There were breakfasts at 10 Downing Street and parties at Buckingham Palace long before there were any really big companies or billion-dollar exits to celebrate. No wonder wannabes, freeloaders and groupies often outnumbered the real entrepreneurs and investors.
Start-up founders are encouraged to “fake it ’till you make it”, and the same went for Tech City itself.
This is part of the basis for some left conspiraloonsphere nonsense that's starting to appear.
After the Sunday Times expose there was a follow up in the Times the next day which added some further details of Boris' involvement in the Nathan Barleyesque Tech City gravy train :
Boris Johnson’s £100m plan for former model Jennifer Arcuri
David Brown
September 25 2019 - The Times
Boris Johnson planned to set up a £100 million investment fund with a former model whose companies he is accused of having allowed to benefit from public money and privileged access.
He announced a fund to support technology companies in the Middle East at a summit organised by Jennifer Arcuri, an American entrepreneur who had just completed an MBA.
(...)
Mr Johnson, 55, revealed plans for the fund at a summit organised by Innotech Network, founded by Ms Arcuri, 34, in October 2013. He said: “We want to support more tech ventures in the Middle East, around the Muslim world, with a new fund. The idea is to bring together London tech firms and tech pioneers with the Arab world.”
Ms Arcuri interviewed Mr Johnson, then the mayor, at the launch. She said: “We are putting together this fund which you have a lot to do with . . . to go towards the next generation of leaders.”
She received £12,000 in sponsorship from the mayor’s London & Partners investment agency to host the summit during the World Islamic Economic Forum. She said the proposed fund was part of an initiative for the UK to help form relationships between “startup clusters around the world”. She said: “Our message is, the UK is building tech economies and we want to partner with you.”
David Slater, then director of international business development at London & Partners, said at the time: “The idea was to create a fund harnessing what’s happening in the Islamic world and saying to these young entrepreneurs . . . internationalise through London, and see if we can create a fund that enables that to happen.”
Ms Arcuri met Mr Johnson in 2012 when she joined his campaign for re-election as mayor while studying at the Hult International Business School in London. She had worked as a DJ for Radio Disney, run a sushi bar in California and done university courses in musical theatre and media production.
One of the mayor’s business advisers who was at the summit when the fund was unveiled said: “We were stunned . . . She had no experience of managing a fund or working in the Middle East.”
Mr Johnson spoke at four Innotech Network summits and Ms Arcuri accompanied him during trade missions.
(...)
David Brown
September 25 2019 - The Times
Boris Johnson planned to set up a £100 million investment fund with a former model whose companies he is accused of having allowed to benefit from public money and privileged access.
He announced a fund to support technology companies in the Middle East at a summit organised by Jennifer Arcuri, an American entrepreneur who had just completed an MBA.
(...)
Mr Johnson, 55, revealed plans for the fund at a summit organised by Innotech Network, founded by Ms Arcuri, 34, in October 2013. He said: “We want to support more tech ventures in the Middle East, around the Muslim world, with a new fund. The idea is to bring together London tech firms and tech pioneers with the Arab world.”
Ms Arcuri interviewed Mr Johnson, then the mayor, at the launch. She said: “We are putting together this fund which you have a lot to do with . . . to go towards the next generation of leaders.”
She received £12,000 in sponsorship from the mayor’s London & Partners investment agency to host the summit during the World Islamic Economic Forum. She said the proposed fund was part of an initiative for the UK to help form relationships between “startup clusters around the world”. She said: “Our message is, the UK is building tech economies and we want to partner with you.”
David Slater, then director of international business development at London & Partners, said at the time: “The idea was to create a fund harnessing what’s happening in the Islamic world and saying to these young entrepreneurs . . . internationalise through London, and see if we can create a fund that enables that to happen.”
Ms Arcuri met Mr Johnson in 2012 when she joined his campaign for re-election as mayor while studying at the Hult International Business School in London. She had worked as a DJ for Radio Disney, run a sushi bar in California and done university courses in musical theatre and media production.
One of the mayor’s business advisers who was at the summit when the fund was unveiled said: “We were stunned . . . She had no experience of managing a fund or working in the Middle East.”
Mr Johnson spoke at four Innotech Network summits and Ms Arcuri accompanied him during trade missions.
(...)
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
I’d gladly take up arms again to snuff out his existence come this ‘civil war’
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
The Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition should meet at Check Point Bercow and exchange siblings
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Piers Corbyn
@Piers_Corbyn
The main origin of the #EU is The #RedHouse meeting of Hitler's generals etc in the later stages of WW2 who made a plan for Europe domination by other means after they had the coming defeat. #Brexit V #EU=#4thReich is a #Globalist continuation of #WW2
Proper Tidy
Arsed
Bingo. Rehashing published articles as insider info and BREAKING!!, classic twitter. Reminds me of that Eric whatshisface, some sort of self appointed security expert and Resistance! type
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
take a ticket and you'll be called when it's your turn
Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
A man's been arrested for attacking the office of Jess Phillips today. Her staff are all safe.
HuffPost is now part of Oath
But I'm sure this is a coincidence.
HuffPost is now part of Oath
But I'm sure this is a coincidence.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Cummings is utter slime, the fucking cockweasel. Glad Jess Phillips' staff are all OK.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Shortly to be a serving private, if he's lucky.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
funnily enough, the lippy soldier who wants to leave so badly is married to a German. Hope she's got ILR.From a serving officer (account now deleted)
Butr tweets nicely cached here Daniel Goshawk (@GoshawkDaniel) | Twitter
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I hope it doesn't happen, but the risk of something serious happening to an MP or judge is there.
Glad that her staff were OK after this.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Where's the CIA when you need them?
ruffneck23
front left
where's an infinity gauntlet when you need one ?
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
ruffneck23
front left
if things carry on going the way they are, im not sure we will be waiting long
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Nzr would be an infinitely better prime minister than abdpj
19sixtysix
Life as viewed from a Gay Gorbals Garret
From a serving officer (account now deleted)
Butr tweets nicely cached here Daniel Goshawk (@GoshawkDaniel) | Twitter
From the oxford mail.
SCALES OF JUSTICE: The latest results from Oxford and Banbury Magistrates' Courts
Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
Violence against women? Who'd have guessed. Make no mistake, they're ten a penny these lads. Still, I expect Johnson's camp will carry on with the fighting talk. Very brave, he is.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
Nice work centurion
19sixtysix
Life as viewed from a Gay Gorbals Garret
Nice work centurion
I can't take credit. It was mentioned on a facebook page. I just actually checked it out for truth before passing on.
ricbake
working out how
From a serving officer (account now deleted)
Butr tweets nicely cached here Daniel Goshawk (@GoshawkDaniel) | Twitter
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Time
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Time
Claiming he has been hacked...right.
8ball
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