What's Happening? What's New? What's Evil?
'Once upon a time, Britain’s eccentrics simply got on with it. They built sheds in the shape of battleships, collected novelty teapots shaped like Neville Chamberlain, and frightened postmen without ever troubling the NHS.'
LIMINAL BRITAIN
'The real “landlords” are not your mythical elderly couple with a spare flat. They’re corporate giants like Blackstone, Lloyds, and Legal & General buying up housing estates by the thousand. They call it “Build to Rent.” I call it serfdom with branding.'
Willy & Bill
'The British public remains largely oblivious to one of the most significant corporate penetrations of the UK state in recent history. Palantir Technologies – the surveillance company co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel – has secured at least 24 contracts across key UK public institutions, from the NHS to local councils, often bypassing normal procurement processes.'
EuropeanPowell
"Sam (Altman) has the sad-psycho eyes of the lost woman’s boyfriend who the police have asked to front the missing person’s appeal. Please come home, Sheila – we’re all worried sick and we just want you back."
Marina Hyde
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one. — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation.
James Marriott
Although we are, thankfully, well out of the loop and have zero 'influence', out there are clever thoughtful writers and media shaping the new zeitgeist (see links below) well worth reading and following.
The People we follow:
Cory Doctorow, Joan Westenberg, Scott Galloway, Enrique Dans, John Wight, Shankar Narayan, The Writing Cooperative, Wes O'Donnell. Yascha Mounk, The Free Press, Robert Reich, The Unreported Truth, Racket News, Tina Brown, Alberto Romero, Will Hayward, Nation.Cymru, Daily Beast, Liminal Britain, After Babel, Nasim Nicholas Taleb, Satirical Planet News
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Check out the latest articles and curated lists below.
Read below our lists of articles by Medium writers we follow on topics of interest to our audience such as writing advice, politics, evil things happening in the world and more.
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Editors note. The topics, content and opinions in these linked articles are those of their authors. Read at your own discretion.
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