Of masks and madmen
I found myself addicted today to flicking through the pictures coming through on social media from Trafalgar Sq of the London anti-mask anti-Covid demo. I looked through over 100 and was reading every single sign that was visible. There was…
Friday Reading S10E02
It’s back. My weekly newsletter of … things QAnon is, in and of itself, nothing. A nonsense “Deep State” conspiracy theory created on internet message boards to generate intrigue and give people a uniting banner under which all manner of…
Friday Reading S10E01
It’s back. My weekly newsletter of … stuff Tom Whitwell always does the most interesting things. This lockdown he’s built an ambient slow movie player. You could do that too. He’s written about how. Maybe pick a movie without graphic…
I went in to work today
I went in to the office today for the first time since 18 March. It was odd, because it basically reminded me of all the downsides of working at home no chit-chat change of scene is good oh my god…
You failed
I can’t stop thinking about how I was predicted really high grades then tanked my A-levels, but that this year I’d have probably got close to my expected grades and someone else in my year would have been given the…
Q oh none
There is a really good opinion piece on the New York Times website by Charlie Warzel about QAnon worth a read. As someone who has spent years writing about the internet and social media and essentially most people treating the…
You are never too old for a career first
I had my first ever magazine front cover story this week. It is for the B2B magazine InPublishing, and is about what it has been like being a journalist working from home during the pandemic – and being one of…
Open your heart and listen
You’ll see people posting on social media that someone like Dawn Butler suggesting she is subjected to racism is her being divisive and a race-baiter. I’ve even seen some people who I am friends with on Facebook post anti-Dawn Butler…
The six sentences I hate writing about Doctor Who
If you’d told me as a kid that when I grew up I would get paid to sometimes write about Doctor Who for a national newspaper, then I’m sure little me would have been very happy indeed. But there’s always…
Dan Martin and Seb Patrick
Like a lot of people I’m finding it hard to process grief for this strange new category of people that have been introduced into our lives – people like Dan Martin and Seb Patrick, both of whom have suddenly passed…