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2026
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The Jason Arday Reckoning
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More incredible tales of App Store curation
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“History Itself Justifies Our Presence”: Stephanie Phillips on the Erasure of Black Voices in Punk and Indie Music
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If AI Can Do the Work, Why Are We Still Working?
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The Conspiracy Is the Politics
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Asymmetric Agents
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Work as punishment
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Regional and Cultural Tells In Digital Textual Communication
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Bad journalism should be a sackable offence
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Ethics in Tech Publishing: On Human Rights and the Middle East
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Unemployed young people to join AI boot camps to get job-ready
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John Waters, Marc Maron, and Ben Edlund
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The myth of Anthony Bourdain: how the bad boy chef became a hero to boozehounds and bullies
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Short Book Reviews: George Alec Effinger’s The Wolves of Memory (1981) and J. J. Connington’s Nordenholt’s Million (1923)
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Against Doomerism
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(Review) Enshittification: why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it, by Cory Doctorow
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The Strange World Of… The Cramps
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‘These are human fires, not wildfires’: Dunwich reflects on the devastation
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How Diplomats See the World
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Metadata for AI Generated Outputs
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Re-defining the IndieWeb – Focus on the philosophy, not on tools
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Let’s speak ill of the dead
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Google Earth’s potential disinformation nightmare
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Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy
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Jaguars over the Seine
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Dedicated followers of passion: the Kinks’ 40 greatest songs — ranked!
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Franco Baresi, iconic former Milan and Italy defender, dies aged 66
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Neal Ascherson: Dancing on a Volcano
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Contentification, Pulpification: From Books to Content
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Large Language Models in 2026: An LLM Trained On My Code And Now I'm Out Of Work
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US Private Equity Firm Takes Control of NHS Patient Records
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Major incident declared in Suffolk as 90 firefighters tackle wildfire on heathland
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1995: The Year of the Content Creator
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Abstract for “Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good”
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The Hard Questions of Reindustrialisation
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Lee meets The Bee
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Iran, Between War and Revolt
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3 x 3 x 26: Car Seat Headrest
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Bubbles is a New Way of Recreating Old Problems
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‘People who commit heinous crimes can be victims’: Michael Mann on the provocative power of Manhunter at 40
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Socialism Is Being Defended Too Narrowly
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No More Heroes 5: Stephen Alexander – The Performative Punk Poser (A Guest Post by Jeff Francis)
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Not using the F words
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The ghost in the spam folder: Remembering Mark Smith
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Andy Burnham in Downing Street
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Richard Dadd review – can his mental illness help explain these arresting, bizarre images?
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‘We’re the Canary in the Coal Mine’: Palestine Action Activists Sentenced As ‘Terrorists’ Speak Out
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Welcome to the age of extreme job anxiety
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Weekly visions - week 28, 2026
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Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled
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Where tourists seldom tread, part 21: two northern powerhouses on the rise once more
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‘I felt Holden was talking to me alone’: The Catcher in the Rye at 75
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Fox’s US World Cup summer: wild mispronunciations, Corden’s sad beers and Lowe’s excellence
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“Useful” is not sufficient
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The Political Uses of Ann Widdecombe
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Andy Burnham Votes for Labour’s Draconian Immigration Crackdown
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Dispatch for Saturday, July 11th, 2026: For the School at Hand.
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The Uses of a Death
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Michael Cloud Duguay – Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go
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All the World’s a Screen (anti-theatricality’s eternal returns)
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Kawan, London W1: ‘This dish is bound to work, we think. But it doesn’t. It’s hideous’ – restaurant review
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Days of salted codfish and cabbage leaves are over: how climate crisis is shaping Tour de France’s future
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How Palantir infiltrated the state
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The ad machine: how David Beckham conquered America
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Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers
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Off With His Head: A Short Story by David Rudkin
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A Guide to Running Hot by Dreda Say Mitchell
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Whitley Bay (In Memory of My Mother)
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Reeves to launch City ‘skills compact’ committing firms to retrain staff in AI
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The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape review – a masterpiece for the climate crisis age
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A Place in the Sun review – subversive exposé of picture-postcard luxury in the Canary Islands
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Walking ECE1
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Oche addicts: how Kenya fell back in love with darts
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The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
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Californians can protect their personal data with one click. Help us test if it works
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Bäck to the Future (det här var imorgon)
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Notes on Mark Fisher’s Poscapitalist Desire: Lecture Five
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The Strange World Of… King Tubby
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Some Friendly Advice for Andy Burnham
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If Your Company Funnels Money to Fascists, You’re a Fascist Company
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Mullvad funding the far-right and the problem with tech company ownership
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Still blazing after all these years: Mel Brooks at 100
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Muse – The Wow! Signal
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Book Review — The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Signs His Name to the Rubble
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“Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf.” La Düsseldorf’s La Düsseldorf at 50
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Heavenly conjunction
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What Midsummer Dreaming reveals about the Vitality & Fragility of BBC Radio
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I don’t like prompts
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Reissue of the Week: Mash Down Birmingham by Musical Youth
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To the Lifehouse!
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Notes on Mark Fisher's Flatline Constructs (2025): Chapter Four
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Scan your eyeballs, think of the children: how Britain sells surveillance as safety
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Gareth Southgate didn’t tackle the real issues facing young men
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Authoritarian Babyism
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Manchesterism is not socialism
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Under-16s Social Media Ban
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The case for an accessibility designer vibe coding when all his coworkers are also vibe coding
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The IRA men behind the Manchester bomb: Unravelling a 30-year mystery
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Omar Artan scandal reveals Gianni Infantino for what he is: one of sport’s greatest cowards
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Dispersal as an anonymity strategy
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Public Offering, Public Sacrifice
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Book Review: ‘Vertigo’ by Harald Jähner
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When Everyone Starts Talking Your Language
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Statement on Kieran McKenna’s departure from Ipswich Town
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Vladimir Nabokov's pale fire: the lost ‘father of all hypertext demos’?
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Who Controls the Account
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A Wombat’s Anus
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Are Writers Intrinsically Vulnerable to Alcohol and Drugs?
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The King He Invented
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12 thoughts about liminal horror
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Generative AI policy for students, part 1
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Net zero out, ‘common sense’ in — but is it still just gesture politics?
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Britain Needs Class Politics, Not Imported Culture War
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Devil's Reef — Addendum
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Audio Description Links - May 2026
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They Were Asked Not To. They Did It Anyway.
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Blooming Velmede
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Pope-ally wired! Why Mark E Smith’s maligned Catholic play is getting a reboot
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Moral Panic, Moral Imagination
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Model Collapse
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vancouverland
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Websites Are Not Going to Die
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‘We’re waiting for the plan to find us’: Mouse on Mars on working with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and 30 years of oblique adventures in sound
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If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why?
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Communism, Sex & Cruelty to Animals: 40 Years of Hail The New Puritan
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The Road to Wigan Keir
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Max Richter’s ‘Sleep’
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Guardiola leaves Manchester City as one of the game’s greats – and someone who knows its dark heart
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Should the Greens Stand in Makerfield?
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Self-Driving School
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The Last Competent Politician
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Torpedo the Ark Goes k-punk: Blogging With Mark Fisher
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AI as a Fascist Artifact
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What else could being a mother possibly be?
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Sheffield Music Invented The Future
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Labour’s Failure
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Mysterious Work & Alienation of Labor in Severance
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2026.04.DisappearingMoment
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Cole Allen Hated the Democratic Party, Too
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Statement on season ticket price rises for the 2026/27 season
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Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel
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Three courts dates in three months — and how you can help
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‘I could wipe the floor with you, man’: the exhibition on female football fans’ experiences
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Weekly visions — week 15, 2026
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Kae Tempest on creativity and his gender transition: ‘I’m just glad to be alive’
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Trump is Not Senile
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A Meditation on the Day Before
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Invisible
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Iran’s Baudrillardian Strategy
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Why we made a film about Mark Fisher called We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher
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S01e03 Dianna Settles with Arrangements of a Life Worth Living
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Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?
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'The Friend of Mankind Is No Friend of Mine': What's the Misanthrope's Place in Community?
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How Andrei Tarkovsky Taught Me to Write About the American West
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Something I Can Never Have
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The Observer offers voluntary redundancy to all staff
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‘I realised I had to do it for women’: Hole’s Melissa Auf der Maur on Courtney Love, capitalism and sisterhood
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The Politics of Gardening
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Feeding
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Labourism and Social Conservatism
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A corner of north London where food has become a battleground in the Israel-Gaza war
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
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Stay Classy
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The conservative victim complex
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At Crufts
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Why They Hated Rosa Luxemburg
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Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making?
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Wives and Lives
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Non-visual negative space
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Spring awakening
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It Has Come To My Attention That Some of You Have No Idea Where The Term Purity Culture Comes From
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Why We Struck Iran
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An introduction to Lifepod
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‘Spitting In The Wind Comes Back At You Twice As Hard’
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How LLMs & Chatbots Are Bad For the Indie Web
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Pubs are for everyone. Don’t let Reform make them the political property of the boorish hard right
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Political writer Ash Sarkar: ‘This one's really going to get me into trouble…’
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Irregular
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The Prince, The Paedo, The Palace, and the “Safety Tech” app
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Not-so-happy 100th birthday to Ireland’s Committee of Evil Literature
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Storming the Savoy: a communist history of the Blitz
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Fight The Power: Chuck D on the Politics of Hip Hop
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Behold the incredible shrinking Starmer: the PM who promises more while giving less
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Enthusiasm And Ethics
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We are in a web renaissance now
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Leftist fanboys are in crisis
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Scientology and the Fellowship
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
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On Crypto Crashes and Fake Money
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How did medieval French handwriting become “the Nazi font?”
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We Need to Talk About How We Talk About ‘AI’
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Dispatch for Friday, 30 January 2026
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The Green surge shows UK politics has reached a turning point – and it has surprisingly little to do with Zack Polanski
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Labour’s Last Stand
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Shackleton – Euphoria Bound
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God Save Jean Genet
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The other Turing test
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‘People could not be angrier’: A journey to the heart of Gorton and Denton
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Your Party Can Realign the British Left
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The problem is culture
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Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
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Davina Quinlivan’s Loving Gaze
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Why The Mill will be republishing ‘MEN Premium journalism’
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Earth Reportedly Cancel Bologna Show Over Venue’s Display of Palestinian Flag
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On Nibbling Nuggets Of Nuance
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Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars
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Defeat Fascists with This One Weird Trick
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As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the ‘middle powers’ face a grave new challenge
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Pitchfork Launches Reviews Paywall
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Reading ‘Capital’ in 2026
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AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy
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Choosing Each Other in a Time of Terror
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Making the indie web easier to join
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On the Three Simons: Messrs. Armitage, Critchley, and Reynolds
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And Stay Out
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The Oak and the Larch by Sophie Pinkham review – are Russia’s forests the key to its identity?
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Dispatch for the week ending 11 January, 2026.
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SI SI SI SI SI: On Fascist Passions in Mussolini’s Italy
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Say what you will about Trump, but unlike Starmer he knows his own power – and how to use it
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Fatal Realism
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Resistance honeypots
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The lost books of Central Library: scandal or conspiracy theory?
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Geo Maher on Venezuela, Popular Power, and US Intervention
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Ride the Bus
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On This Blog as a Numbers Station
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Leftwing militants claim responsibility for arson attack on Berlin power grid
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Where is Bitcoin?
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Killer Robots and the Fetish of Automation
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On Hatereading as Method
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Which Part of the Indie Web Ethos is the Bigger Priority?
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We are deep in a housing crisis – why are so many properties still empty?
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Old Trafford’s Queens of the Grill
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The Jeremy Kyle Insurrection
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A Mancunian noir classic capturing a lost city
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The IndieWeb in 2030
2025
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2025 in Review
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The UK’s Waterways Are Run by Property Developers
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The Far Right Likes to Hallucinate Threats. So Does AI
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The Dream of the Universal Library
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Luxury without Grandeur
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The visual design and experience of using GNU/Linux
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‘A watery gold sunrise lights the turbulent water’: the wild beauty of the Suffolk coast
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As Germans Drink Alone at Home, Community Pubs Are Closing
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Adam Curtis Plays the Hits
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A brutal schedule, merciless crowds and always on the road: is professional darts all it’s cracked up to be?
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A note in defense of Doing The Work, written on the shortest day of the longest year
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How Gaza Broke the Art World
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‘They like a good night out’: German darts fans find a (mostly) friendly rivalry at Alexandra Palace
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Self-hosting is a hobby
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I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
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Kind of Blue: A Short History of Tory Decline
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Low Culture Essay: Tariq Goddard on Jeremy Brett, the Perfect Sherlock Holmes
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Weekly visions — week 44, 2025
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Schmaltz, theatre and sharp teeth: Wrexham reveal the hard truth about football
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What if the Torment Nexus was fundamental to WordPress?
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Britain’s most dangerous radicals are… middle-aged men
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Fascintern Media
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Third Reich ’n’ Roll
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Book review: ‘Under the Sun: the letters of Bruce Chatwin’
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The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?
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They See Your Photos: 12 months on
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The Americanization of European Conservatism
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Noise
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We Need More Leftist Crime Fiction
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Limiting Customization
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I put my brain on a diet
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The Pub at the End of the University
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Various Artists: Metal Machine Music: Power to Consume, Vol. 1
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Sun, Cigars, and Sexism: How Spain's Marbella Became a Hotspot for 'Manosphere' Influencers
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Human Attention as a Philosophical Problem: The Question, and the Nature of Questions
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Trans Panic? More Like Trans Apathetic
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Inside Your Party Conference: Is This Farewell to Corbynism?
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Exclusive: Senior [Manchester] council officials engaged in ‘sleazy’ behaviour towards young female staff
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Preparing to Run by Strengthening the Ground: Toward a More Embodied Local Politics
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The Idiot Sandwich — On Embedding Alt Text
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StreetComplete — Contribution while passing by
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End-Times for Christian Zionism
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The Generati
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Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025
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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive
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My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
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‘I wouldn’t compare us’: Sindre Walle Egeli, the Ipswich teenager who has outscored Haaland
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The dichotomy of print versus the web
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Mani’s writhing, relentless bass was the Stone Roses’ secret sauce – it taught indie kids how to dance
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Paragraphs
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Zork is now open source
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What if dinner was public infrastructure?
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The Working Class Library Episode 5: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend
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Blue plaque honours town's first Indian mayor
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‘It touched us from the start’: Palestine savour historic night in Bilbao
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‘A sick spectacle’: counting down the final minutes on Oklahoma’s death row
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Weekly visions - week 42, 2025
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Support for Gemtext in Nantucket Lit
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How the 192 became Manchester’s muse
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For sale: strong opinions; never published
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What happened to the comment section? - The History of the Web
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Comments on community
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The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together
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On the Early Days of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Rise to Power
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scriptorium@christdesert
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Alien Future
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Sparks fly up
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In Praise of dhh
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XSLT.RIP
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How to Brew Solar Powered Coffee
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The English Countryside Doesn’t Exist
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Italian ambient pt. 1
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Trip to Somewhere
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Where tourists seldom tread, part 19: three UK towns with industrial legacies
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Journalists Became Personal Brands. That’s Not Necessarily a Bad Thing.
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Decisions are the foundation of art
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Reissue of the Week: The Unutterable by The Fall
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Blogging Gets Serious in 2001 With Warblogs and Movable Type
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From National Treasure to National Scandal
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No shame, no opprobrium: racism is priced in now. Of all the right’s victories, this one has been critical
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The crimewave sweeping Britain? Illegal houses in multiple occupation
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The AI Gold Rush Is Cover for a Class War
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It’s hard to join the Indie Web
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Can Substack Recover the Blogosphere We Lost?
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Rich Text newsletter No. 37: ‘These people knew mammoths!’
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The death of an argument
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Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world
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Call It Like It Is
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Historic town founded by Black Colombians fleeing slavery eyes second ‘independence’
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“No Kings” Protest (and Arrests for Speech) Begin
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Drax, the “corporate assassins” still lobbying for billions in subsidies
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Bad Taste, Unfulfilling
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Anger at Maccabi ban shows power of sport and why fans now expect more from its leaders
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HTML—the Most Difficult Programming Language in the World
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Show them your Vent
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The Emergency Is the Atmosphere
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Book review: ‘The Red Tenda of Bologna’ by John Berger
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Avant-God Music (Ecclesiastical Modernism: non-architecture division)
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Feeling Less Lonely
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Thank you for choosing us
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Inside the Tony Blair Institute
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The free press fights back…
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The New Party Fallout Shows That Hero-Worship Gets Us Nowhere
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How Do You Want to Be Remembered?
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No Islamophobia
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LLMs are still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks
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A pineapple saga
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Steps Towards a Web without The Internet
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Is the New Left Party Over Already?
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Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA
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Medium Thoughts, after Medium Day
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Getting Ready for the Winter. Part 1, Switching Technology
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Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today
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How the Anti-AI Movement Hurts Itself (and What It Could Do Instead)
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‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang
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Years of Lead
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The Lead is leaving X for good
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Don’t Trade Your Original Voice
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What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country?
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No Greater Wonder: Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On
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A third of UK firms using ‘bossware’ to monitor workers’ activity, survey reveals
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Online feels truer than material reality
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Pay Your Respects
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Reasonably accurate, privacy conscious, cookieless, visitor tracking for WordPress
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England fans’ chants cast Keir Starmer as first prime minister to become The Enemy
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The scramble for a spare room
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The Best Football Tournament Dies
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On Being Incomplete And Messy
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So Be It
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Lucent September
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It’s ok to not read your read later backlog
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Blogs don’t need to be so lonely
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Saipan review – football scandal makes for thrilling big-screen drama
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Zack Polanski’s Win Is the Kick up the Arse the Left Needs
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Zack Polanski's win shows leftwing candidates are still underestimated – even by Jeremy Corbyn
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my Proustian moment
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How student accommodation in Manchester became a luxury industry
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Schmoozalism: A Clarificatory Introduction
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Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?
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In Search of Left Wrestling
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From Brighton to Leicester: Where do people go for a good night out these days?
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Schmoozalism: The Radical Etiquette Behind Mamdani’s Appeal
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American fantasy
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Simon Reynolds interview, on post-punk
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The emblem of modern Ireland? Not fiddles and Guinness but a soulless shopping plaza
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James Joyce went by train from Dublin to Trieste. A hundred years on, it’s a very different experience
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How I Learned to Stop Teaching and Love AI
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Reimplemented and It Feels So Good
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Looking beyond collective blogging – Writing has always been a lonely endeavour and there is no changing that
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Members of far-right party organising asylum hotel protests across UK, Facebook posts show
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Re: do blogs need to be so lonely?
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Do blogs need to be so lonely?
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The Fascist History of Yoga
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Extract: The Parallel Path: Love, Grit and Walking the North by Jenn Ashworth
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Democracy as Practice, Socialism as Counter-Community
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Sometimes Easy, Sometimes Hard: Harmonia’s Deluxe at 50
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CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
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No Palantir in the NHS and Corporate Watch Reveal the Real Story Behind the Federated Data Platform Rollout
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German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit
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Jenn Ashworth Steps out of Character
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor Remove Music from Streaming Services
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Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
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Mark Gatiss, the boy that Dr Who books made
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blog comments
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Should Your Indieweb Site Be Mobile Friendly?
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Why have we let side-hustle private landlords seize control of our housing – and our politics?
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Who’s a blog for?
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‘It’s not noise. It’s a message’: the misunderstood misfits of Nigeria’s underground rock scene
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Art and the Future: A History/Prophecy of the Collaboration Between Science, Technology and Art
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After Captain Tom
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‘Nobody believes in the future any more’: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on how to wake up from the post-truth nightmare
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Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person
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The political communication problem
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Tech’s trillion-dollar binge, Palantir’s empire and women’s privacy under attack
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The Fifa Museum Is a Masterclass in Reputational Whitewashing
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How a Nazi-Obsessed Amateur Historian Went From Obscurity to the Top of Substack
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Substack Did Not See That Coming
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The Great Disappointment
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I wallowed in booze for four decades. Here’s what five sober years have taught me
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Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’
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Social media is dead – here’s what comes next
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Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world
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The rule book
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This trade deal is the EU’s Suez moment – its subservience to Trump is on show for all to see
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Blood and Confusion: England’s Republic
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The Modern Far Right Canon
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Nuclear Threats Are Back
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Review — fotoapp.co
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Weekly visions – week 29, 2025
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Pecksniff: Exclusive! We reveal far right plot behind Epping riots
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Keynes’ wisdom still stands; “Anything we can actually do we can afford.”
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The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight
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Truth Optional: How Digital Platforms Replaced the Press and Democracy Took the Hit
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Book review: ‘Required Writing’ by Philip Larkin
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Making notes, taking actions
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Some Off-The-Cuff Predictions about the Next AI Winter
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UK border officials to use AI to verify ages of child asylum seekers
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I’m not racist, just concerned
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INCOMM Scientology Keyboard
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The tech bros are making themselves sick
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1KB JS Numbers Station
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Everything Else
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Human recommendations rather than algorithmic curation
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Minimalism is a cult
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Five things I believe about actually-existing AI today.
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UK’s £225m AI supercomputer, Isambard-AI, launches in Bristol
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Never hearing No
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The party trick called LLM – blowing away smoke and break some mirrors – De Staat van het Web!
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A first-party data reality check
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Open Call for Submissions (for The Bee Magazine)
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Various Artists Habibi Funk 031: A Selection Of Music From Libyan Tapes
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Is this fascism?
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Where authors gossip, geek out and let off steam: 15 of the best literary Substacks
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Reissue of the Week: The Three E.P.’s by The Beta Band
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Hugo sites on Cloudflare Workers — or not
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A New Book Illuminates Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Prolific Time in Los Angeles
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Bless Me Father by Kevin Rowland review – the Dexys Midnight Runners frontman tells all
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Higher Education is in financial crisis – and a closure could ruin a northern town
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The case against Substack. (ICYMI)
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An incomplete list of things Jane Austen disliked.
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Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets to support.
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A crucial safety net for Britain's homeowners is facing the scrap heap
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How I deploy this site
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The worst thing about AI? That stupid Samsung ad where the guy adds ‘way too much sugar’ to his pasta sauce
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Substack Is Where Writers Go to Be Weird
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The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025 (In Association with Norman Records)
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The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation
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Rewiring the brain
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Unscheduled dispatch for 4 July 2025.
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We Never Walk Alone: Jota’s Empowering Joy
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Where tourists seldom tread, part 17: three port towns freighted with history
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The rise of Whatever
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Making Scannable Web Pages for Assistive Technology
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Trump’s big, beautiful gulag
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I’ve Got Better Things To Do Than This, and Yet
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The Hidden History of Class Struggle in the Roman Empire
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Deerhoof to Remove Music from Spotify
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Atomic Age Anxiety: Why 1950s Sci-Fi B-Movies Still Matter Today
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Generative AI’s crippling and widespread failure to induce robust models of the world
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