Part of what makes that New Yorker Lucy Letby piece so effective is how calm it is. And how mad the UK seems from the outside.

Heading back to Iceland next week and hoping for more Earth vomit

No.

One of the things that is making freelance journalism increasingly unsustainable is the lack of access to even your own past work because paywalls. This seems unreasonable to me.

Is this Welsh cave 'the first holy place' in the British Isles? Did people we can call 'pilgrims' journey here in the depths of the Ice Age some 34,000 years ago? And why do some modern pilgrims still today consider this a sacred space? Enter its depths in this thread.. 1/

Someone has done a deep dive on my building

It’s so incredibly rare that anything can be negatively reviewed in travel that writing this was genuinely thrilling. A pity it was a place in Glasgow, really ft.com/content/9c3234…

Victoria Derbyshire listing all the reasons young people hate the Tories is glorious #newsnight

And the Ayr Advertiser comes through once again 😂😂😂

Pyrotechnic football writing on deadline by Jonathan Liew in trying to describe how badly 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 played tonight

“The Conservatives caught the mood of the country, the votes prove it. But that mood was blind, smug, somnolent and in some respects evil.” Michael Foot after the 1959 election loss. (via Robert Saunders as usual)

Been up in the Arctic, which was nice.

I sort of went to bat for my hometown thetimes.com/travel/destina…

Is anyone taking bets on which type of maritime disaster involving the ultra wealthy will get far too much coverage next summer? A hot air balloon ditching in the Pacific? A fully restored Spanish galleon being rammed by a sperm whale?

“See that microphone? I’m gonna shove it so far up your arse you’ll never be able to get the fucker oot” 😂😂😂 St Johnstone fans raging with the TV pundit after Motherwell's 94th minute winner.

Decided earlier this year that I’m not going to enter any more travel writing industry awards, so I guess it's nice to be on a final list.