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Books
2026-11-05: S. D. Tucker provides an illuminating account of the development of the myth that Hitler built flying saucers
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2026-10-29
Gulliver fans celebrate three centuries of Jonathan Swift’s classic satire: ‘The dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin knew his novel would cause trouble and wanted to publish it anonymously.’
2026-10-29: Some science behind a 'reading is good for your health' claim
2026-10-27: Disaster capitalism with bad incentives - the ultra wealthy simultaneously make money from causing the climate crisis and dealing with its consequences
2026-10-27: 📚 Finished reading Sky Daddy by Kate Folk. So a friend was extolling the virtues of a genre of books …
2026-10-20: 📚 Finished reading Timeline by Michael Crichton. A guy inexplicably turns up dead in the middle of a …
2026-10-17: Sally Rooney’s books to be withdrawn from sale in the UK
2026-10-06: 📚 Finished reading The Hugo Winners 1963-1967 edited by Isaac Asimov. The Hugo Awards are awards …
2026-10-04: 'Empire of AI' - artificial intelligence as an imperialist project
2026-10-01: Public uproar over plans that might disturb Dobby's grave
2026-09-30: Micah Lee's guide to analysing leaked, hacked and otherwise acquired data
2026-09-19: An investigative journalist describes how one of the most consequential acts of sabotage in recent history (probably) took place, and what came next
2026-09-03: 📚 Finished reading All in the Mind by Alastair Campbell. In this novel we follow the life of …
2026-08-26: Slow Gods is a space opera dealing with the question of how various societies react to certain destruction
2026-08-15: Bad Blood tells the story of Theranos, one of the biggest Silicon Valley scams of all time
2026-08-10: 📚 Finished reading Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart. This book is set in a (slightly?) …
2026-07-09: The Coming Storm plots the recent history of the modern day conspiracism that rots our politics today
2026-06-27: Read Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram's 10-point manifesto for a better Britain in their 2024 book 'Head North'
2026-06-27: Patriot: the memoirs of the incredibly brave Russian anti-corruption campaigner, Alexei Navalny
2026-06-27: 📚 Finished reading The Compound by Aisling Rawle. Imagine the show Love Island, except with fewer …
2026-06-16: Explaining Social Deviance is a 10 part run-through of answers to 'what makes something deviant?'
2026-06-13: Dark Mirror retells the Edward Snowden story from a journalist's viewpoint
2026-06-02: Evidence-based investing guidance from Tim Hale's book 'Smarter Investing'
2026-05-30: Anti-wealth-inequality campaigner Gary Stevenson shows us how he became so rich - and what it cost him - in 'The Trading Game'