I've been tidying up the significant number of lists that are kicking around in my Obsidian, and realised that they fall into different kinds, so I've been trying to come up with a typology for them. I'm sure someone's done this before,

I've been watching Jon Bois' Reform!, a look at the weird and wonderful happenings with and political legacy of the Reform party. (I'd like to do something like that for the various electoral incarnations of Euroscepticism over here, maybe called Referendum! or something similar.) Something

Perhaps it's because I'm getting closer to having kids myself, but I've been thinking about my dad a lot lately. I see him more and more when I look in the mirror; but I realised recently that the him that I see there isn&

To continue: in a way, the media are the biggest cranks of all—able to maintain an absolutely rigid belief in whatever their thing is at the time—it's just that unlike normal cranks, it can change on a dime. Consider the media narrative that predominated shortly after

Thankfully, Wednesday's countrywide far-right kickoff failed to materialise—and nowhere less so than in Brighton, where four guys spent a somewhat uncomfortable evening getting roasted by a crowd of thousands. I read in the Financial Times that: It is in no way an attempt to legitimise violence and

I think sadness is an inherently transitory emotion. I don’t think it can’t last (sometimes for a good long time!) but it’s generally a response to something, and eventually it will lift. There is something which seems like sadness, but is not quite, which I will call

I was talking to a visiting friend a few months ago about their 'systems for life', and when they said they didn't have a to-do system I stopped making dinner to talk at them at length about it (until CM asked me pointedly whether I was

I’ve had a thought rattling around in my head since Mania: Cody Rhodes’ entrance theme—though it has the one thing every wrestling fan loves, a sing-along bit—paints a misleading picture. “My father said/when I was younger/hard times breed better men” is, of course, a reference

For once in my life I’m not spending too much money on a gadget I don’t need

Ted Gioia is a remarkably popular Substack writer—you might have seen some of his posts go around before. He's written things which have gained enormous reach, on things like Barnes and Noble's recent growth, ways to evaluate character and 'dopamine culture'. Given that

what is up with phillip morris' website

I had a spare Audible credit so I listened to Dan Davies' new book about Stafford Beer a few weeks back. It chimed with some thoughts I've been having since listening to the last General Intellect Unit, which I've been listening to (on and off)

A few years ago, to the consternation of... presumably some people other than just me, some big BT-branded screens went up all around Brighton in place of phoneboxes that are constantly displaying adverts for things. They're awful and they break up the streets and I hate them. One