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Today's newsletter, on why buying Sydney Sweeney's bathwater soap might be an act of political defiance (with apologies to Walter Benjamin).

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I have a favour to ask: if you're UK-based, could you go to ParkyPetition.com and sign our petition calling for the government to improve care for people with Parkinson's? We need to get to 100,000 signatories and we're currently at 42,000. Grateful for all signatures and shares!

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Higher cars are safer for the children in them, and deadlier for the children being hit by them. The inability to find - or regulate - a sweet spot exposes the failings of individualism.

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This is very good and Marc deserves more credit than he gets for being an OG podcaster. And a very decent fellow. @marcmaron.bsky.social

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On the end of WTF with Marc Maron - and, with it, the demise of a certain type of podcast. futureproofnews.substack.com/p/wtf-with-m...

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It's 2025 and I still can't include punctuation in a file name?

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PSA for global news organisations: we don’t need a new article every time Elon Musk tweets something about Donald Trump over the next few days, and we definitely don’t need a push notification.

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Despairing notes from my beach holiday in Greece.

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Christ almighty, is "baseless conspiracy" not strong enough already? What is with this obsessional belief that the media should report on Trump like a three-wines-in Facebook post from your aunt?

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“Beer, but with slurs” is quite the business plan.

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Brutal choice, but can’t wait to see Meryl Streep play him in the film adaptation.

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Finally, some instruction.

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I find this such a funny (/pretend) reason for HBO doing a new Harry Potter TV series. Which “plot lines” did the 8 movies, over 20 hours, miss out? Norbert?? How much detail do you sickos need?!

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Even the worst people on earth – i.e. his followers – must admit that this guy is a fucking ghoul.

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In 1970s Peru, English trains were an international symbol of regularity and reliability. Now, if your bowels move like an English train, you should consult a physician immediately.

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Happy bank holiday (I'm on the beach)! So here's a conversation I had with @maurolubrano.bsky.social about the history of anti-tech violence, and his new book on smashing up machines. pod.fo/e/2d9f02

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This is very good from @nickfthilton.bsky.social on The Podcast Show. It's a funny little industry.

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A near-perfect encapsulation of the Podcast Show and the podcast industry by @nickfthilton.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/futurepr... #PodShowLDN

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Let me allay your fears: this world is going to supply you no end of things to become addicted to.

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My review of Mountainhead, Jesse Armstrong's film directing debut. Bleakest tech satire imaginable, but still, by some strange alchemy, an enjoyable watch. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

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A good piece by @nickfthilton.bsky.social about The Podcast Show. I don’t agree with much of it, but I can’t say that because he calls me “James Cridland, the godfather of opening keynotes” and he’s right in this observation. It’s also quite funny. open.substack.com/pub/futurepr...

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This was simultaneously hilarious and depressing - and that’s quite the talent

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Quick sketch of my day – yesterday – at The Podcast Show, and what it did (or didn't) tell me about the British media landscape.

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In the week that The Podcast Academy gave Steven Bartlett the International Governor’s Award for Diary of a CEO (citing how he “elevated podcasting as a medium for insight, vulnerability, and meaningful dialogue”) he released this episode about “reversing” stage 4 cancer through dietary change.

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If Jaws isn’t about a shark, then The Last of Us isn’t about zombies. On episode 6 - ‘The Price’ - and the show’s celebration of diligent fatherhood.

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I expect this'll be the last we hear of Gary.

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Damn, the balls on this new woke pope. Fair play to him 👏 hope he lives to see tomorrow 🤞

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Murderbot is fine (God, I love to sell my own work).

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Arriving, three weeks late, at the Sinners discourse. We need to rethink our idea of what constitutes a box office hit in the post-cinema age.

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For the @the-independent.com, I ranked the Top 20 winners of the BAFTA TV award for Best Drama. This is a doubtlessly ire-inducing list, but even though the BAFTAs are bit hit and miss, there are some good shows here.

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“It’s a simple business, you simply wait to be added to a top secret group chat by the Secretary of Defence. So simple!”

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Holy shit they work fast.

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Will be very painful when Cardinal Erdo emerges 😵‍💫

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We have a few minutes of Schrödinger's Pope, where the new Pope is both a liberal Francis-continuity pope and the ultra-conservative Pope that half the church seem to want.

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One of the reasons the Roman Catholic church endures – despite everything – is because they do iconography so well, it feels genuinely ordained by God. White smoke over one of the most beautiful buildings on earth – not a Count Binface or Give Me Back Elmo in sight.

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Seagulls, witnesses to history.

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A piece about The Four Seasons on Netflix, and what it gets right about long, messy, grown-up relationships.

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RIP to Popbitch centre-aligning titles (which for some reason is impossible on Substack).

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We waited years for the renovated Sydenham Hill Woods footbridge to be opened - last night it was fairly obliterated by a fallen tree. Can’t wait to use it again in 2028!

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Can I recommend this episode of The Political Cycle as an aid to understanding the broader context of what's happening in Kashmir? @emilyctamkin.bsky.social talks to @rohanvenkat.bsky.social about the dangerous situation between India and Pakistan.

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I do wonder whether the Trump team provide briefings for the President that he just completely ignores, or whether they have all just given up on providing him context. You wouldn't see this sort of "first thought, coming straight out of mouth" stuff in a student debating chamber.

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