Newsletter Version: Meet the Attention Activists
Can I have your attention, please? Professor D. Graham Burnett would like it, too. Graham is an historian of tech and science… and through his research has become so passionate about reclaiming our attention from the grip of tech giants and addictive digital media that he has started a new movement. Alongside some colleagues, friends, […]
Why do we feel nostalgic? Newsletter version
Last night, after bathing Molly and putting her to bed, I got stuck into one of my favourite pastimes: taking the bins out. What was once a grubby chore has become a rare moment of solace. It’s just me and the night sky… and the bins. I pause for a moment after I’ve delivered the […]
Charlie Veitch and the New Media
“Grab your popcorn and enjoy your front row seat to the collapse of modern Britain” Last week, I wrote about how a dystopian view of modern Britain is thriving on TikTok. Some people are being served video-after-video on their heavily curated For You feed that depicts a world where everything is broken and everyone is […]
Newsletter Version: TikTok’s Dystopian Britain
Last week, on a trip to North America, I had some strange conversations. On more than one occasion, I spoke to somebody who seemed to pity that I had to live in Britain. They were concerned for me. They were anxious about my safety. They told me they’d heard that Britain was a lawless hellhole… […]
How our biology is being weaponised against us
I have done something gross. I needed to do it. I did it for you. I did it for science, in the name of human exploration. I did it because I was a bit curious. Last week, late one evening, after my partner Michaela had gone to bed… I tasted a drop of her breast […]
Are these terrible times?
The sky was a deep purple, with lashings of red, as emerged from the radio studio a week last Sunday morning. It was a lovely morning. 04:08. Four hours and eight minutes after I should have originally gone home. It’s unusual for me to catch an early sunrise, so I drank in the quiet of […]
Searching for Nicola – two years on.
This month marks the second anniversary of the disappearance of Nicola Bulley – the mum of two who went missing in Lancashire, sparking a media and online frenzy. Neighbours, day-trippers, police, independent investigators and an army of YouTubers, TikTokers and amateur detectives descended onto the scene. And… so did I. Not to try and crack […]
I broke the law. Why would I want a pardon? – Pamela Hemphill on the Jan 6th Insurrection
This was first sent as a newsletter to hundreds of subscribers. Occasionally, I will send content, thoughts and ideas direct to your inbox. To join them, sign up at the bottom of this page. ••• Pamela Hemphill was bored. She’d retired as a drugs and alcohol counsellor and was looking for something to do. She […]
Before Musk, there was Miah
This was first sent as a newsletter to hundreds of subscribers. Occasionally, I will send content, thoughts and ideas direct to your inbox. To join them, sign up at the bottom of this page. Watching the story of the grooming gangs creek back into life last week – and the interventions from Elon Musk – […]
How – and why – I made God Next Door
This was first sent as a newsletter to hundreds of subscribers. Occasionally, I will send content, thoughts and ideas direct to your inbox. To join them, sign up below. Hello there. How are you? Have you been away? You have a lovely glow about you. It’s been a few months since my documentary God Next […]