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December 2025 update - and newsletter coming as well
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Some recent writing
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December 2023 reading list
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Taking The Long View by Richard Fisher
Lawfare by Geoffrey Robertson
Politics: A Survivor’s Guide by Rafael Behr
Back from the Cape Wrath Ultra
May 2023 reading list
April 2023 reading list
Revisiting Everest: The Cruel Way by Joe Tasker
Finishing War and Peace
March 2023 reading list
February 2023 reading list
January 2023 reading list
December 2022 reading list
Some winter photos
November 2022 reading list
October 2022 reading list and notes
Exposing the chumocracy - Chums by Simon Kuper
September 2022 reading list and notes
August 2022 reading list and notes
July 2022 reading list and notes
June 2022 reading list and notes
April and May 2022 reading list and notes
Windswept and Interesting by Billy Connolly
February and March 2022 reading list and notes
January 2022 Reading List
On giving up on books
Sun up on Winder
Some reflections on a year of reading - 2022
December 2021 Reading List
November 2021 Reading List
October 2021 Reading List
September 2021 Reading List
How to do footnotes
Footnote abuse
More books to read… the Baillie Gifford Prize announces the 2021 non-fiction longlist
August 2021 Reading List
July 2021 Reading List
Summer days
June 2021 Reading List
Also toxic: Sunburn by James Felton
Just toxic: Diary of an MP’s wife by Sasha Swire
May 2021 Reading List
Fall by Andrew Preston
April 2021 reading List
Failures of State by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott
March 2021 Reading List
February 2021 Reading List
January 2021 Reading List
December 2020 Reading List
November 2020 Reading List
Wake Up by Piers Morgan
October 2020 reading list
September 2020 reading list
August 2020 reading list
July 2020 reading list
Late presenting bladder cancer and colour vision
Colourblindness and cricket
The Orwell Prize winner 2020 goes to…
June 2020 reading list
May 2020 reading list
April 2020 reading list
March 2020 reading list
The Growth Delusion by David Pilling
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by James Bloodworth
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman
Orwell Long List 2019
February 2020 reading list
January 2020 reading list
Narconomics by Tom Wainwright
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
The Ascent of Nanda Devi by HW Tilman
January Debrief — The Political Doctor
Bad Samaritans by Ha-Joon Chang
December 2019 reading list
The pleasure of unexpected snow
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Email - geeking out with MailMate
Left and right: Click bait book titles
Signalling to Facebook
A passing thought on the D-word
Doing one thing - some caving
Black Friday and the Diderot effect
Best book with an awful title
Notes on a fell race: Ring of Steall 2017
Cormac McCarthy on academic writing
Gender bias in clinical case reports
The November 2019 BJGP Debrief
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
Howgills in November
Engines of Privilege by Green and Kynaston
London Review of Books: How to Buy Drugs by Misha Glenny and Callum Lang
Smith: Why are doctors so unhappy?
Can Medicine Be Cured by Seamus O’Mahony
Memy: Learning poetry by heart
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