Who nose
It’s been a funny week because on the one hand I finally got the 13th Doctor scarf I had been coveting for some time, but on the other hand a completely different Doctor had to do a minor surgical procedure…
The day that I finally understood TikTok
I should imagine, not being rude about it, that the Venn diagram of people interested enough to read my blog and subscribe to my newsletter, and people who can get 20/20 in this Buzzfeed quiz “How many of the top…
A one-line review of every #TimsTwitterListeningParty I joined in February 2021
Nobody has asked for this. Tough luck. It’s a monthly series now. I’ve marked LPs that I’d never heard the whole way through before with a 🆕 icon. The links go to the album on Spotify. 🆕The Beach Boys The Beach…
Friday Reading S11E09
Friday Reading is a weekly series of recommended reads from the Guardian’s Martin Belam, covering journalism, media and technology, and other interesting nerdy things. It is now in its eleventh season. Sign up here. Great piece by Heather Bryant on…
Friday Reading S11E08
Friday Reading is a weekly series of recommended reads from the Guardian’s Martin Belam, covering journalism, media and technology, and other interesting nerdy things. It is now in its eleventh season. Sign up here. “In some ways, the Internet as…
m-orchestra ‘More Ghost Stories EP’ released today
The new m-orchestra EP is out today in all good digital stores, featuring four tracks: Swim With Me (Drowning Child) – A woman recalls the feeling she had as a child, that something in the house was trying to lure her…
Cancel empire culture
The Sunday Telegraph this morning have been banging on about how “Ministers will fine student bodies which stifle freedom of speech and tell heritage groups ‘public funds must never be used for political purposes’ in a major new bid to…
Friday Reading S11E07
Friday Reading is a weekly series of recommended reads from the Guardian’s Martin Belam, covering journalism, media and technology, and other interesting nerdy things. It is now in its eleventh season. Sign up here. I can’t stress enough that you…
How we got where we got today – revision
My former boss Tony Ageh shared this piece from 2014 on Twitter this morning, calling it “some of the best writing I have ever read on *any* subject, while at the same time addressing more or less *every* political undercurrent…
‘First rough draft of history’ – live blogging article for InPublishing
“I’ve always thought of the role of the live blogger as being a little like that of a radio DJ on a news-driven morning or drive-time show. You need to be lively and entertaining, you need to convey things quickly…