Friday Reading S10E08
It’s back. My weekly newsletter of … things what I reckon you’ll like. Subscribe to it here. From the media ethics department, I found this very interesting: It also affects how our legal system tackles law-breakers on the roads. Those…
Friday Reading S10E07
It’s back. My weekly newsletter of … shiny baubles from the intertubes. Subscribe to it here. In 1954, the Supreme Court decided that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional—but it was thousands of children who actually desegregated America’s classrooms. The…
Friday Reading S10E06
It’s back. My weekly newsletter of … stuff that caught my beady little eye. Subscribe to it here. Some eco-fascists argue that the environment is being destroyed by overpopulation and blame the global south for it. (This idea, quietly taking…
Friday Reading S10E05
It’s back. My weekly newsletter of … things what I found interesting this week. Subscribe to it here. Long and thoughtful and I don’t 100% agree with it from James Fallows on how the press hasn’t broken its most destructive…
Friday Reading S10E04
It’s back. My weekly newsletter of … stuff I found hidden down the back of the internet’s sofa. Subscribe to it here. Some solid work from the FT here – which you may need a subscription to read, sorry, journos…
Friday Reading S10E03
It’s back. My weekly newsletter of … bits’n’bobbins I wrote earlier in the week ‘Of masks and madmen’ about the signs on display at the anti-mask demo in London last weekend, and how I realised that some of them displayed…
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…
(Late) Friday Reading S09E08
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 also available as an email newsletter and sometimes even actually arrives on Friday. Sign…
Friday Reading S09E07
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 also available as an email newsletter. Sign up here. What an amazing and brutally…