James Noyes (@jranoyes)

I miss internet cafes. When I lived in Paris 25 years ago, I used to go to one on Rue de Medicis opposite the Jardin du Luxembourg to check my Hotmail. And when was in Bosnia in the 1990s and Syria in 2005, spending months very much cut off from the outside world, the long daily walk to the only local internet cafe became a real lifeline. I remember that there was always a gentle hush and sense of purpose about them.

Peter Allen @peterallenparis 3d

A nostalgic image from late medieval Paris. Those were the days...

View quoted post on X

James Noyes @jranoyes 5d

I am not sure that there is anything particularly fascinating about this. We understand it pretty well by now. We have become used to the fact that the gatekeepers of progressive liberalism would find a softly-spoken conservative philosopher more objectionable than a celebrity sex pest, and that Christ’s Last Supper is something to be cheaply mocked. We understand this. And we have watched it played out repeatedly in the UK and elsewhere in the West to a point where it has taken grip of our media, museums, universities and cultural institutions. George Eaton’s actions were simply part of a herd mentality which for 20 years has trampled over anything which looks like dissent to that grip. It’s about power and ideological control. There’s really not more meaning to it.

Joseph Dinnage Verified account @jcdinnage 6d

Fascinating that a journalist who found Roger Scruton so objectionable that he would lie about him in the press was apparently fine about having Russell Brand as a guest editor at the NS and posing for satirical photos with him
View quoted post on X

James Noyes @jranoyes 6d

It is good to see this announced. I have watched my friend and colleague @mattzarb work tirelessly over several years to build a company which has social purpose, a great team of people, and offers a world class solution to a complex tech and data problem across a multitude of different markets and jurisdictions. It has been an incredibly impressive endeavour, and I am pleased to see @gambanapp getting the recognition it deserves.

Gamban Verified account @gambanapp 6d

Our team are very pleased to announce that Gamban has been approved for funding to make our software free in England.

We believe Gamban offers the most effective gambling-blocking protection available, built on years of technological development and continuous improvement informed by people affected by gambling harm. We’ve always believed that everyone who needs protection from online gambling should be able to access it, regardless of their financial circumstances.

This funding gives us an important opportunity to work with partners across the sector to make that protection available to more people, free of charge.

Despite our disappointment at the initial decision, which meant Gamban could no longer be free in England, everyone in our company was heartened by the messages of support from other organisations in the gambling harm prevention sector expressing how much they value the work we do and to keep going.

We’re pleased that OHID has offered us funding, following further allocations being confirmed as part of its Gambling Harms Prevention Fund.

View quoted post on X

James Noyes @jranoyes Nov 2

Good piece on futures trading and prediction markets in this month's London Review of Books: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/… – with some excellent American historical background on "financial boondogglery" from the 1920s Grain Futures Act to the 2008 subprime crisis

www.lrb.co.uk Geoff Mann · What’s the truth? Prediction Markets Beneath a list of current bets on whether there will be a coup in this or that country by a certain date, Polymarket...

James Noyes @jranoyes Oct 30

Can’t wait for this!

National Gallery @NationalGallery Oct 29

Let Piero draw you in 👀

Artist and scientist, the Italian Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca changed the way we see. Serene figures, natural landscapes, harmonious interiors and intriguing compositions present religious stories in a revolutionary way, inviting viewers to look closer.

In the largest exhibition ever devoted to Piero, see some of his most celebrated altarpieces in all their splendour, reunited for the first time in centuries.

Find out more: bit.ly/4std0zU

Opening 2 October 2027.

View quoted post on X

James Noyes

Latest posts 5