The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture: Hard to know whether to recommend this or not.

The Podcast Election: Can some of Trump’s victory be explained by the weaponisation of the ‘emerging medium’ of podcasts?

‘Five to ten seconds appears to be optimal’: the science behind hugs: Why hugs are good.

I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost: Apparently plenty of people believed believed what Trump said.

I moved to Finland believing it was a progressive dream. It hasn’t turned out that way: Are there any decent countries left?

On the benefits of microblogging: It’s good to write, and there’s no need to make it perfect.

Donald Trump should have the easiest presidency ever: Biden’s administration has already accomplished a lot of Trump’s campaign promises.

Finally, the end of ‘the British empire’ – and maybe an honours system a modern country can live with: Soon the E in the OBE might stand for ‘excellence’.

‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?: Introducing ‘avatar therapy’ - where patients with psychosis interact with digital incarnations of the hallucinatory voices that plague them.

Donald Trump should have the easiest presidency ever: Many of the things he promised to do during his campaign have already been done by the Biden administration.

taylor derangement syndrome: It reads differently now we know the result of the election, but I had originally enjoyed ‘Taylor is a normal person and that’s why she’s a Democrat’.

Introducing ChatGPT search: OpenAI releases its search engine.

Democrats join 2024’s graveyard of incumbents: Is the US election result simply a continuation of an unprecedented tendency for elections held this year to vote out the incumbent party?

What happened to Bhutan’s ‘kingdom of happiness’?: Sadly even the country that pioneered measuring Gross National Happiness has its own problems.

Spain’s apocalyptic floods show two undeniable truths: the climate crisis is getting worse and Big Oil is killing us

We will fight Trump’s plans to slap tariffs on the UK – Rachel Reeves: There’s going to be some ‘interesting’ decisions to be made, but I’m glad if our politicians aren’t necessarily going to roll over and take whatever crumbs we’re given.

Exit polls from the 2024 presidential election: Some cross-tabs to distract us bewildered data addicts.

If I were a cautious, centre-left prime minister, Trump’s victory would have me worried: Are there more local lessons to learn from Harris' defeat?

US election 2024 results and exit poll in maps and charts: More exit poll analysis from the BBC.

The voters who tipped the balance for Trump: The BBC looks at exit polls to try and determine who voted which way and why.

Exit polls 2024: Deep economic discontent with Biden drove voters to Trump: Early exit poll suggests the state of a) democracy and b) the economy were top of mind for voters in the US election.

The return of President Trump: a bleak day for the US and the world: ‘An already treacherous world is becoming more so.’

What does Jeff Bezos' non-endorsement mean?: Max notes that historically it’s been the owners of newspapers that did want to endorse candidates and the reporters that don’t.

Bluesky and enshittification: The most well-intentioned service remains at risk of enshittification whilst there remains significant costs incurred when switching away from it.

The Washington Post sold Democracy. Now it needs a new line of business. : The WaPo and the LA Times lost a lot of subscribers when their owners refused to let them endorse a presidential candidate.