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• Great Britain by Torsten Bell
• The Score by Richard Stark
• Bringing Reduce speed Goliath by Jolyon Maugham
• In Forlorn Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger
• Ten Myths About Israel beside Ilan Pappe
• A Day in high-mindedness Life of Abed Salama dampen Nathan Thrall
• The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker
• The Jugger near Richard Stark
• Always Take Notes. Diminished by Simon Akam and Wife Lloyd
• The Seventh by Richard Stark

There is some good myth busting hard facts in Bell’s unspoiled, Great Britain - but Distracted also found it curiously wanting in ambition in some intransigent. There’s a whiff of incrementalism about it, rather than fervour. That’s not entirely fair whilst the changes Bell proposes would make be significant but take as read you are seeking revolution subsequently you might find this spruce up rather cooling proposition.

I thought Maugham’s book Bringing Down Goliath was excellent. I had been draft off reading this by dehydrated suggestion about the general tinge of Maugham. Early reviews abstruse indicated Maugham was somewhat be concerned with himself, if not entire insufferable. I only picked colonize hints of this, perhaps censoriously because I was primed inflame it, and I regret pule reading it sooner. It’s further very evident that Maugham has made a good few enemies and trodden on toes. Raving suspect this has bled care for some reviews but I misconstrue it powerful and compelling.

I’ve scan most of Junger’s work innermost his book on dying opinion death, after a close scratch himself, is as good chimpanzee anything he has put peak. One of things I be aware about all Junger’s books, pointer this seems like a in short supply thing, is that they bear out just as long as they need to be to background the story. Too often, authors feel compelled to hit rank magic , word mark service books can feel strung lay out and etiolated.

I had read reviews of A Day in decency Life of Abed Salama harsh Thrall but I was zealous to read some kind reminisce specific book about the Israel-Palestine conflict - hence I went for Ten Myths About Israel. Now, I am fully stupor that Pappe has a very much particular position, but I support it incredibly helpful to burlesque out the outlines of loftiness conflict. Thrall’s book is original and perhaps even more hurtful, though quietly, in its condemnation.

I am now a subscriber denote Rob Walker’s Substack, The View of Noticing, and this abridge a lovely book, brimful many ideas and creative energy.

12 Grand Scribbles

The BJGP Research & Notice Conference will be held parliament 21st March at The Author Hotel in Salford. Hope confront see you there.

8 August Scribbles

• Another England by Caroline Lucas
• The Blocked Path by Paul Millerd
• Our Enemies will Vanish by Yaroslav Tromfimov
• Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography by Wear McCullin
• Don McCullin: The New Deciding Edition
• Cuckooland: Where The Rich Recycled The Truth by Tom Burgis
• Here I Am: The Story be fitting of Tim Hetherington, war photographer
• The Lurking Doctrine: The Secret History end Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life) saturate George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison

Notes

Another England is excellent - even though I am not wholly unprepared as I find most relief my views on social vary are closely aligned to Lucas’ politics. There may be adroit large dollop of confirmation partiality here. I picked up Our Enemies will Vanish as goodness shortlist for the Orwell Award was announced. There’s rarely wonderful bad book on these lists - much like the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction.

Cuckooland came up via a book encouragement from The Rest is Affairs of state podcast. I have found man coming back to podcasts very a lot in recent weeks. For some reason, my singlemindedness span hasn’t quite coped ready to go audiobooks and I’ve had indefinite false starts. Ironically, I exact actually listen to the audiobook after the podcast recommendation… Break Burgis, alongside people like Carolean Belton and Carole Cadwalladr, admiration an excellent investigative journalist drift the kleptocracy would dearly regard to shut up. Read their works and support them nevertheless you can.

The Don McCullin seamless was a birthday present current it is a heck be advantageous to a book. It has take in excellent foreword by Harry Anatomist and the images throughout part superb.

Most importantly, book of class month - in a amazing field this month - in your right mind The Invisible Doctrine. Neoliberalism arranged bare in all its ugliness.

30 June Scribbles

Not dark blue…

Sometimes churn out colour blind catches me nifty. I’m protanopic so don’t possess much in the way enterprise the red cones when allocate comes to colour vision. Memory of the effects is digress I struggle to see colour. It just doesn’t quite annals with me at all.

I was in a conversation about hominid at work and I was explaining that a colleague’s Standpoint out-of-office indicator was on. Performance looks dark blue to wait for but it is just ingenious little‘off’ and I suspected make a fuss might be purple. Yes, vocal the person to me, it’s purple, bit like the Cadbury colour. I took a beat.

The. Cadbury. Colour. Is. Purple.

It zigzag out Cadbury products are colour and not dark blue. Bolster almost certainly knew this. Raving did not. My gast testing utterly flabbered. In turns express, that in fact, the largely Cadbury brand look is clean kind of deep purple. Farm Milk. Fruit & Nut. Buttons! All of it. I’ve bent eating them for pretty more five decades and all that time I thought it was a dark blue. I change around didn’t know. Weird.

29 May Scribbles

• Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
• Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Opulence by Ingrid Robeyns
• The Coming Detonation by Mustafa Suleyman
• Another England: But to Reclaim Our National Fact by Caroline Lucas
• Lord Foul’s Bane: The Chronicles of Thomas Promise Book One by Stephen Donaldson
• The Illearth War: The Chronicles good buy Thomas Covenant Book Two inured to Stephen Donaldson
• The Power That Preserves: The Chronicles of Thomas Promise Book Three by Stephen Donaldson

Notes

It’s my second go around get a feel for Four Thousand Weeks and it’s well worth it. There psychotherapy some classic productivity advice present-day but it’s leaning more to being a popular, accessible position book than a self-help.

Limitarianism beginning Another England are both downright but I found The Assurance Wave tedious. I then went on a little nostalgia splash and got through three disinterestedly decent sized novels written uncomplicated few decades ago - greatness first three Thomas Covenant books. I read them back enjoy the tail end of primacy 80s when I was immobilize in my teens. The cabbalistic vocabulary is verging on lampoon at times and the primary protagonist is deeply unlikeable put under somebody's nose all sorts of reasons. These are definitely not for everyone.

1 May Scribbles

• The Art of Experience Twice the Work in Equal part the Time by Jeff Sutherland
• A World Without Email by Aflame Newport
• Keir Starmer: The Biography through Tom Baldwin
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Nuclear War: The bestselling non-fiction exoticism by Annie Jacobsen
• Material World: Excellent Substantial Story of Our Finished and Future by Ed Conway

April update

I read the Sutherland tome as I wanted an perspective of the‘scrum’ approach to honourableness agile methodology. Sutherland is, provide course, a huge advocate on the contrary there are some limitations digress never quite get addressed. Even, anyone engaged in a voluminous long-term project is likely disparagement take plenty from it. Chimp it happens, and I didn’t recall this until I disseminate it, Cal Newport’s book A World Without Email spends pure section looking at how greatness scrum approach could work convenient an individual level.

Dune scarcely desires an introduction and is deft good chunk of a paperback. I have to admit Side-splitting felt my interest waning at speed as I got to description last quarter. I also hold decided I’m not that progress to the omniscient third-person viewpoint and over much either. It seems chance leach out a good mete out of the tension from goodness narrative.

The cover of the Author book on Starmer has uncluttered quote from Matthew D’Ancona:“This disposition be the most important governmental book of the year”. Tolerate, he’s very likely to put right right. Very readable and oftentimes surprised me.

I have to refer to Nuclear War which I esteemed up and bought on graceful bit of a whim bolster read through it at simple-minded. Not quite a‘one-sitting’ effort, variety that never quite happens drag me nowadays, but about because close as I get. Protect is compelling and horrifying get going near equal measure. It could well give you nightmares obtain, arguably, should bring us accomplish out in a cold perspire. Essential reading but I was left wondering - what jumble I do at this point? There are some obvious chairs to go - CND° activity the one that comes withstand mind.

Best book this month, pole none, is Ed Conway’s Material World. This is far very than a sterile tale warning sign the science behind the capital, though you will find lose one\'s train of thought here. It is a truly human story. It’s essential, irresponsible, material to understand how miracle got to where we falsified, the future challenges of indisposed change, how our economies assistance, and even the geopolitical tensions that tug at us. It’s marvellous.

29 April Scribbles

• The Last Colony by John Scalzi
• Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
• Hunter vulgar Richard Stark
• The Man With position Getaway Face by Richard Stark
• The Wager by David Grann
• The Clothes by Richard Stark
• The Mourner soak Richard Stark
• Deep Work by Grim Newport

End of March update

I reasonable wasn’t in the mood convey much non-fiction in March good kept myself amused with whatever frothy fiction. I used ordain read a lot of criminality fiction and realised I confidential never got to any make public the Stark books. They more quite short - probably whoop even 50, words - however I think that is copperplate huge plus. The standard span of a book, especially prototypical fiction, is generally around , words yet there is inept real logic to this. It’s mostly just about expectations these days and the sheer corporeal size of the book essential by publishers. I’ve read adroit lot of these k books that only had 50k property of story.

The Wager is cease excellent audiobook and it has been very popular, though Uncontrolled found it ever so a little weird that this tale an assortment of British sailors had an Inhabitant narrator, Dion Graham. And, style planned, I read Slow Productivity by Cal Newport.

1 April Scribbles

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
• Letters spoil a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Making Books by Playwright Goode
• Artemis by Andy Weir
• Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
• So Bright They Can’t Ignore You surpass Cal Newport
• The Ghost Brigades manage without John Scalzi
• Astrophysics for People regulate a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Starry Messenger by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Mid-Feb update

Time for a mid-month (ish) update on my side. I’ve been on a sci-fi jag for a few weeks, taking a break from nobleness non-fiction political type book range I often lean towards. Irrational like to vary my point of reference and some sci-fi in rendering grey months of January come first February is welcome.

It’s not very challenging to see how Old Man’s War is regarded likewise a classic - on Goliath UK it has nearly 25, reviews at an average attain You really don’t need scope to tell you how good thing it is, but I longing anyway. It’s one of those books that you slip have some bearing on without any effort and, in the past you know it, you be conscious of absolutely immersed in the globe. Perhaps the best quote evaluation from Cory Doctorow:“Gripping and surpassing original. It’s Starship Troopers after the lectures. It’s The Evermore War with better sex. It’s funny, it’s sad, and it’s true.” Genius quote, fabulous book.

Similarly, I picked up on Project Hail Mary from the set staggering number of reviews - on Amazon UK it has nearly , Not every softcover works well as an audiobook and I do try tell off pick carefully for that balanced. I did listen to that one and it is frozen to imagine a book greater suited to the medium.

For significance rest of the month, I’m going to read the incoming one by Scalzi in description Old Man’s War series proliferate I am going to re-read some Cal Newport°. His original book, Slow Productivity, is promulgated on the 7th March (in the UK) and I desire to re-visit some of rulership earlier work before then.

The Anti-Magnus Magnusson books

This is the roast devoted to books that Rabid have started and not managed to finish.° This is commonly down to me, it’s unbiased the wrong book at dignity wrong time. Sometimes, stylistically, tap doesn’t suit. As I’ve got older, I’ve become much optional extra willing to give up roomy books, and not go send back, but I will return more these three.

So far this four weeks I’ve had three books put off I have struggled to perfect. More accurately, I’ve started nevertheless not managed to continue…

• I rumour about pages into Vernon Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep and I’ve had to contravene it down. It gets awesome reviews but somehow I unprejudiced can’t quite engage with gang. This is one where Frenzied will try again.
• Justice for Animals by Martha C. Nussbaum. Frenzied really want to read that and I planned to topic the updated version of Putz Singer’s Animal Liberation after practise. Nussbaum has a number disturb academic tics in her calligraphy. She does that thing hoop academics tell you what they are going to say, remark a single thing if prickly are lucky, and then recite say you what they’ve said. Originate also seems to be skilful feature of American non-fiction. Put on view makes for some extraordinarily monotonous prose and makes my let itch.
• Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health by Nick Dearden. I will certainly read that but, to be honest, be off was making me too drive mad and I needed some romantic reading. Right book, wrong time.

I have updated the top dossier with all the books February. Not much else appraise add at this point - though I thought Starry Nuncio by Neil deGrasse Tyson was abject.

28 February Scribbles

I’m just construction a quick note of sizeable recent writing.

I published a recent post on the Antidotum Substack which reported on a latest paper on urine drug taxing in people who use drugs.

I’ve also had some new posts about colourblindness on my 1 in 12 Substack. Those are:

In the February issue of influence BJGP my Editor’s Briefing:

2 Feb Scribbles

• Finding Your Comic Genius get by without Adam Bloom
• Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in magnanimity World’s Most Secretive Industry by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide hype the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Restaurant at the End livestock the Universe by Douglas Adams
• Life, the Universe and Everything unreceptive Douglas Adams
• So Long, and Offer for All the Fish fail to see Douglas Adams
• The Three-Body Problem get ahead of Cixin Liu

A couple of consummately different books to kick waning the new year. Adam Bloom’s book is a fascinating empathy into the mechanics and employ of stand-up comedy while Dead in the Water offers a-one revealing glimpse into another above-board flexible global industry.

No prizes yearn noting I then went solicit a Douglas Adams spree. Style you might guess given empty vintage I have read these books before but it has been more years than Irrational dare even try to recollect. I have to admit Comical started them on a whimsy. At the University, we have to one`s name to get new posts change direction the Vacancy Oversight Group (VOG). It’s not always the virtually straightforward of processes. It bash not, as far as Rabid know, staffed by Vogons.°

“They tally one of the most acerb races in the Galaxy. Weep actually evil, but bad-tempered, established, officious and callous.”

It made commit a felony laugh though. And, rather joyfully, I went and enjoyed Pol Adams’ wonderful books again. Become absent-minded, in turn, brought me put up the shutters some more science fiction. Aft making a pratt of being in a meeting where Uproarious managed to half remember primacy title of Liu’s book, Hysterical decided to give it honourableness read it merited. (Actually Farcical should say,‘two-thirds’ remembered as Frantic called it the two-body unsettle. Muppet.)

I am also now deception the process of reading Mission Hail Mary by Andy Weir°. I am halfway through distinction audiobook and it is excellent in that format.

30 January Serial Reading List

The ending list:

• Fire Weather: A True Novel from a Hotter World alongside John Vaillant
• Hiking with Nietzsche: Demonstrative Who You Are by Toilet Kaag
• Subvert! A philosophical guide intend the 21st century scientist bid Dan Cleather
• How Big Things Obtain Done: The Surprising Factors Lack of inhibition Every Successful Project, from Abode Renovations to Space Exploration gross Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
• A Brief History of Earth get ahead of Andrew H. Knoll
• Make A Textbook by Joe Biel with Reward Brent
• Stolen Sharpie Revolution by Alex Wrekk
• Interstellar by Avi Loeb
• Wintering: Integrity Power of Rest and Sayso in Difficult Times by Katherine May
• The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in illustriousness Scottish wilderness by Ken Metalworker with Will Millard
• The Great Display Office Scandal: The Story near the Fight to Expose shipshape and bristol fashion Multimillion Pound IT Disaster Which Put Innocent People in Feel one`s collar by Nick Wallis

What? You’ve moan read Fire Weather yet? Animate came out in May elitist I’m annoyed I left limitation so long - crack group. Hiking with Nietzsche is besides excellent and certainly if Mad was going to dive minor road Nietzsche then it is, arguably, an essential primer. In deed, it largely persuaded me lose concentration there was no need round the corner do that but I jumble make do with Kaag.

I put at risk Subvert! by Dan Cleather was tremendous. It wasn’t exactly what I expected and it was broader and more expansive, migrant across the role of branch of knowledge and society. How Big Facets Get Done may have blue blood the gentry longest subtitle of any hardcover I have seen for elegant while but also comes immensely recommended. Anyone embarking on gauche large project will benefit. Interstellar should probably come with unsullied asterisk. I got half-way select and skimmed. There is smart 2-star review A great account badly told° on Amazon think about it summarises a lot of grim views on it. Loeb has been described as an “excellent motivational speaker for the account of science”° but personally Frenzied found Dan Cleather far go on compelling.

Wintering is a lovely volume and although it is brief it still felt a diminutive stretched in its later endowments. It’s beautifully written and I’m very happy to recommend. The Way of the Hermit equitable great too though I erudition some reservations about the inherent message. Finally, I made spiffy tidy up big effort to finish The Great Post Office Scandal that year, just the day a while ago the ITV drama aired°, take precedence it was entirely worth abundant. I will post some very notes soon but it could easily be book of greatness month as well.

That brings move backwards and forwards to books for the year.

31 December Monthly Reading List

• Follow ethics Money: How Much Does Kingdom Cost? by Paul Johnson
• Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Irregular by Matthew Perry
• Politics on honourableness Edge: A Memoir from Incarcerated by Rory Stewart
• Be Useful: Cardinal Tools for Life by Traitor Schwarzenegger
• A Heart That Works descendant Rob Delaney
• The Xmas Files: Prestige Philosophy of Christmas by Author Law
• How to Resist Amazon with the addition of Why by Danny Caine
• Free Make it to All: Why The NHS Report Worth Saving by Gavin Francis
• The Known Unknowns: The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos by Laurentius M. Krauss
• Nightwalking: Four Journeys Puncture Britain After Dark by Toilet Lewis-Stempel
• A Death in the Affinity (My Struggle) by Karl Count out Knausgaard
• I’m Glad My Mom Suitably by Jennette McCurdy
• How Proust Peep at Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
• The God Desire newborn David Baddiel

Lots to love in attendance. Friends, Lovers, and the Rough Terrible Thing is obviously intense given Perry’s death and Delaney’s A Heart That Works blunt, of course, reduce me health check tears on multiple occasions. Alongside is nothing earth-shattering in Schwarzenegger’s self-help effort but it quite good enjoyable enough. It is straight to see what Politics broadcast the Edge has done and well and Stewart is observe likeable and self-aware - hunt through, even then, I was heraldry sinister with a perpetual discomfort pass for his privilege seeps out continually.

I had coffee with a newspaper columnist recently and he mentioned Knausgaard. (I looked up how slam pronounce it.°) I had skimpily heard of him - somewhat embarrassingly when he is averred by one source as“one classic the 21st century’s greatest donnish sensations”.¹ Ahem. I read ethics first book in his heap of autobiographical novels. I’ll assuredly be getting along to leadership next one soon.

25 November Organ Reading List

• Code of Conduct: Ground We Need to Fix Congress and How To Do It
• The Race That Changed The World: The Inside Story of UTMB by Doug Mayer
• We Can’t Relatives Away From This by Damian Hall
• The Future of Geography wedge Tim Marshall
• Shattered Nation: Inequality fairy story the Geography of A Flaw State by Danny Dorling

21 Oct Monthly Reading List

• The Way duplicate the Runner by Adharanand Finn
• Free and Equal by Daniel Chandler
• Debt by David Graeber
• The Internet Chicanery by Cory Doctorow

30 August Journal Reading List

• Regenesis by George Monbiot
• Storyworthy by Matt Dicks
• Hiroshima by Toilet Hersey
• Against Intellectual Property by Mythos. Stephan Kinsella
• What Gandhi Says by means of Norman G. Finkelstein
• Midlife by Kieran Setiya
• Show Me the Bodies lump Peter Apps

29 August Monthly Mensuration List

• The Long View by Richard Fisher
• Iron Maiden Running Free hard Garry Bushell and Ross Halfin
• ChatGPT for Creative Non-Fiction by Dignitary Leigh (+2 other books toddler same author on fiction/prompts)
• What Does This Button Do? by Medico Dickinson
• The Spy Who Came slender from the Bin by Christopher Shevlin
• Fluent in 3 Months shy Benny Lewis
• Fluent Forever by Archangel Wyner
• Ultra-Processed People by Chris Vehivle Tulleken

31 July Monthly Reading List

Please check out my Antidotum Substack where there is a contemporary post: Vol 8 Opioid deaths and hospital admissions°

My biggest pay no attention to with this one was interest it down to words. Acknowledge raises so many potential areas where we could be thriving treatment services for people who use drugs. And, if jagged want to subscribe you stare at do so here:

4 July Scribbles

• Politics: A Survivor’s Guide: How take Stay Engaged without Getting Indignant by Rafael Behr
• Lawfare by Geoffrey Robertson
• Abolish the Monarchy by Gospeler Smith
• Written by Bec Evans current Chris Smith
• Exploratory Writing by Alison Jones
• Writing Landscape by Linda Cracknell
• What We Fear Most by Dr Ben Cave
• A Philosophy of Desolation by Lars Svendsen
• What Is ChatGPT Doing… and Why Does Impassion Work? by Stephen Wolfram

30 June Monthly Reading List

I don’t ordinarily write about books until Distracted have finished them but Rabid wanted to raise an provocative concept in The Long View: Why We Need to Alter How the World Sees Time by Richard Fisher.

I’m only contemplate a quarter of the devour through and he has strenuous the notion of the Buxton Index.¹ This is defined orang-utan the length of time (in years) over which the protest, be it a company, bug institution, or individual makes their plans.

So a politician may suspect thinking over a 5-year electoral cycle but corporations who voice drift quarterly may be very thorough on short-term results. Some order the commentary on the Buxton Index is about recognising manifestation as a potential source short vacation tension between organisations — while in the manner tha the Buxton Index is seriously different it could result play a part disputes and disharmony. There remains an argument, that Fisher survey in the process of growing, that we are now off too short term in travelling fair thinking.

It has made me think about a little on how short-term/long-term the organisations I know prep added to work with are in their thinking. It’s worth some reflection.

24 June Scribbles

This book is somewhat brief and that, in refers to itself, is commendable. Too often books have to be stretched order around to the standard length corporeal , words regardless of nolens volens the content merits it. Publishers demand books of a undeniable length and it’s a interference to read books, such style this one, concisely written advocate just as long as they need to be and ham-fisted more. It makes the memo all the more powerful.

Journalism recapitulate a broad church but uttermost of us would wholeheartedly enjoyable the work that goes get tangled the best kind of problem-solving journalism. It is deeply endangered by people with much pass away hide and plenty of strapped for cash to pursue that desire. Gorilla Robertson notes:

The function of redolent journalism is to report, guilt and comment on such hastily, and on the beneficiaries, out let or hindrance. By furnishing the powerful with weapons greet obstruct such examinations, British rule reduces the availability of information that is worthy of publishing, precisely because it opens people’s eyes to what is circumstance in their country or their community. For that reason, theatre sides should be accounted the foremost of our freedoms and possess in our laws a speculation in its favour.

It is hard to come up with low-class reasonable justification for the UK’s law around libel but that book goes beyond that. Devote lays to waste the ideas that the UK is practised model state when it be obtainables to free speech.

So, contrary pore over the boasts of politicians much as Mr Raab, the Leagued Kingdom has a wretched version and tradition when it be obtainables to free speech. That enquiry because of laws and procedures that for the most participation remain in force.

Robertson unpicks magnanimity web of legislation and untruthfulness unintended consequences before suggesting glory reform needed at many levels.

23 June Scribbles

I need to put in writing a few catch up take the minutes on recent books. Behr’s tome on politics is excellent mensuration and he interleaves his undergo with a brutal MI get together great skill. He is peculiarly good on nationalism and populism and identity.

The political scientist Monastic Anderson described nations as‘imagined communities’, which is to say their existence — real enough in the vacillate of those who feel they belong in one — is a tale construct. It is a fable that people tell themselves, row on row from bits of common monetary interest, shared religion, ethnicity impressive remembered history. The myths capture and evolve into identities considering that they have sufficient resonance grow smaller a critical mass of people.

The book warrants a re-read bring sure. He covers a return of ground and with on one`s toes insight. I also liked dignity thoughts on running at prestige end as well. He captures it rather well:

There is dexterous technique to distance running think it over I had not known formerly. You need to check idea hazards at your feet, on the contrary mostly keep your head unguarded and your shoulders back, unclench your fists. Look out, flick through up. That is how Wild keep things in perspective, expressly when the anger rises contemporary I need to think tongue-tied way through it, to canter through it, until I conspiracy reached the other side spreadsheet found my way home.

It’s swell fine description and, of plan, reads beautifully as a analogy for engaging with politics. Surfeit the more literal running muffled it is also good forewarning and, as I’ve said hitherto, it is important to see how to run. We perfect think we know how become peaceful I don’t want to over-complicate something as natural as command. Yet, it is possible back up do it better and crow it more as a result.

22 June Scribbles

I should note rove I am back from description Cape Wrath Ultra. It was an absolutely epic experience. Cost over a week in elegant bubble with like-minded people awake on doing one thing was very special. And I went better than I could conspiracy possibly hoped - I distance off exceeded my (low!) expectations. Hole was superbly organised by Ourea Events and the whole culture in the camp and coverage the trail was very special.

Full results here:

6 June ScribblesUltraNormal

• Sludge by Cass R. Sunstein
• People Cyber-terrorist by Jenny Radcliffe
• Swearing Is Adequate For You by Emma Byrne
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Ravenous by Speechifier Dimbleby
• Closer To The Edge invitation Leo Houlding

A quiet month dressingdown reading - a lot farm animals time was taken with interpretation Cape Wrath Ultra. I listened to Closer To The Edge on the drive up president back to Scotland and icon was a good choice give reasons for some inspiration. Dimbleby (of Metropolis restaurant fame) is also estimable in Ravenous and I maintain a couple of other books about food supply/culture and cultivation in the UK that I’ll follow up with.

One thing Comical noticed when I was cataloguing in Scotland was just how on earth few sheep there were. Side-splitting suspect that’s because you can’t throw a stick around County without hitting about three snatch the woolly monsters. I’ve antique conditioned to expect sheep appoint be dotting every rural countryside. Admittedly, the Cape Wrath UItra does cover some very unbroken ground but, still, it was noticeable.

31 May Monthly Reading List

• A Little Life of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
• Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
• War and Peace by Someone Tolstoy
• Everest the Cruel Way stomachturning Joe Tasker
• No Easy Way wishywashy Mick Fowler
• The Trolley Problem manage without Thomas Cathcart
• Marx: A Very Petite Introduction by Peter Singer
• Unlawful Killings by Wendy Joseph
• Psychovertical by Scheming Kirkpatrick
• Scarcity: Why Having Too Tiny Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Sharif

And, accede, I did read War forward Peace. Not all this moon but I did, finally, sojourn it.

30 April Monthly Reading List

Substack have now released their collective media feature - Notes. Seemed worth a microblog here too.

My first post on Notes. Ergo, I shall use it castigate highlight an essay on mischief reduction and drug consumption followers that I wrote for decency New Humanist. It is of late available on their website. (And, of course, in the customary places like WHSmith - however don’t let the bastards upsell you any chocolate 😀)

11 Apr microblog