Vanessa Feltz | City AM | Matthew Perry
🗞️ City AM Column
💈 Polling reaction
🎧 The power of audio autobiographies
If you are new here, my name is Jimmy McLoughlin, a former Downing Street adviser turned podcaster. I write this notebook on the most interesting things I have seen on the future of work, jobs, technology and politics.
I started writing this Substack on a more consistent basis about a year ago, I enjoy writing, but can often find it quite taxing for a wide audience. I am dyslexic and so inevitably make mistakes and can be a bit clumsy with sentence structure etc.
Sometimes I also felt a pressure for every piece to be of searing insight …
When we revamped it to a ‘notebook’ format, it was able to feel a bit lighter, fresher and as a result it became far less burdensome to write.
Don’t get me wrong, I love writing pieces for The Times or Telegraph, the process of writing 750-1,000 words is exhilarating, how do you make this as concise and as punchy as possible? You are also reaching tens of thousands of readers.
This substack now acts as something between a personal journal, opportunity to route people to interesting stories on the internet, highlight interesting companies doing business slightly different and it also has the additional impact of being almost email marketing for Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future too.
Andy Silvester, the Editor of City A.M. called me at the end of last year and said do you fancy re producing your notebook for the paper?
Most of the column is an introductory read on my background for City AM readers, but if you are interested can read it below.
💈 Polling reaction
We had a really positive reaction to our polling data from FocalData last week.
Unsurprisingly the top figures picked out by the media were:
4 in 10 Brits expected to move jobs this year
1 in 10 think there job / role may not exist by the end of the year
1 in 5 cite flexible working as being a key factor in moving workplace
I appeared on Times Radio with Patrick Maguire, GB News with Arlene Foster and a personal career highlight, Vanessa Feltz on TalkTV.
You can watch the highlights reel below:
You can read the initial release and data here.
🎧 The power of audio autobiographies
I have been engrossed in Matthew Perry’s autobiography, ‘friends, lovers and the big terrible thing’. When you can get past the string of lovers, which largely feels like a long apology letter to each of them, it is a harrowing read on the desperation of drug and alcohol addiction. I am frankly amazed he managed to fit so much into his career, when you take into account the drinks and drugs.
His links to politics are something I had not been expecting and found intriguing, his single mother was an aide to Pierre Trudeau who was Canadian Prime Minister and of course father to current PM, Justin. He also recounts an this Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman and Peter Hitchens. I had to go and watch it for myself.
I listened to the book on the audio platform XigXag, I do really enjoy listening to a good autobiography on audio - it just gives another dimension to the story.
I remember listening to David Cameron’s autobiography and hearing his whole tone change when discussing the passing of his son, Ivan.
Keen for any autobiography reccomendations that you think are particularly well read?
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