I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Council Housing in Winchelsea: ‘the working class are not wanted on the hill’ The new town of Winchelsea lacks the planning aesthetic of its more familiar post-war counterparts – there was little attention paid to neighbourhood and streetscape and it suffers from an unimaginative grid-like layout.

'What luxury this new council house was.' New on Substack, my post on the council housing of Winchelsea - some of the finest rural council housing I've come across:
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David Attenborough interviews Jack Mulholland.

The Good Russian Is Not Coming To Save You And when you tell them that, they will make you pay for it.

This special review of the Russian documentary "Mr. Nobody Against Putin" should be read by everyone.

"Putin did not turn the people into a herd; the herd chose him and made him this kind of ruler. Without the consent of millions, none of this would have happened." (A. Makarevich)

couldn't come up with better PR for transgenders than "underground transgender mafia successfully heisted 12 tonnes of Kitkats"

“When Bill Withers showed up,” Halverson says, “he comes walking in with his guitar and a straight-back chair, like a dining room chair, and asks, ‘Where do I set up?’ I showed him right in the middle of the room, and then he left and he came back in with this platform, a kind of wooden box that didn’t have a bottom. It was about four inches tall, and was maybe 3 foot by 4 foot; it was a fairly large platform, and he set it down in the middle of the room. Then he put his chair on it and got his guitar out, and he’s sitting on top of this box. So I miked him and I miked his guitar, and then I was doing other things—getting sounds together. “But then he calls me over and he points down to the box and says, ‘You gotta mike the box.’ Well, the way I was trained, you serve the artist, whatever the artist needs. So I got a couple other mics and I miked the box, the place down near the floor, next to this platform. “And now, when you listen to ‘Ain’t No Sunshine,’ you know that all that tapping that goes on [while Withers sings] ‘I know I know I know’ all through it, actually, that’s him tapping his feet on the box, which is actually more intricate than the guitar on that track. He had evidently rehearsed that in his living room, maybe for years.”

"You gotta mike the box." the engineer Bill Halverson on the making of "Ain't No Sunshine," 1971 (from a Mix interview in 2012)

Hidden artworks rewrite history A stash of more than 800 mysterious drawings has been revealed for the first time, rewriting the timeline of Aboriginal art and reconnecting families with long-lost relatives.

A stash of more than 800 mysterious drawings has been revealed for the first time, rewriting the timeline of Aboriginal art and reconnecting families with long-lost relatives.

Bad People, Bad Food, Bad Place. Two decades after the 'battle of Rawmarsh', Heather Parry writes about how Jamie Oliverism affected her hometown.

Jamie Oliver and the British food problem

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With respect to the poor essay - Overland literary journal Style is now a feature that we surrender to a digital pattern recognition machine, which attempts to replicate our own but often falls short, feeling convincing enough but too superficial in its notic...

A typically incisive piece by Jonno Revanche in Overland on bad essays, Substack writing, and the general state that we’re in overland.org.au/2025/12/with...

As one of the BBC’s most extraordinary series returns to iPlayer to mark its fortieth anniversary, Jude Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically minded crime thriller

Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025

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Former Stone Roses bassist Gary 'Mani' Mounfield dies aged 63 Mounfield was a member of the classic Stone Roses line-up for their 1989 self-titled debut album, which featured hits such as I Wanna Be Adored, She Bangs The Drums, and I Am The Resurrection.

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Fat City is an excellent novel. It’s never left me, that feeling you’re never gonna make it.

Andrea Ashworth wrote a classic of Mancunian literature. Why did she vanish from view? My search for the author of ‘Once in a House on Fire’ led to the other side of the world - and to a tantalising revelation

Anyone read ONCE IN A HOUSE ON FIRE by Andrea Ashworth? Anyone wonder what happened to her after publishing her one and only book in 1998?

Here you go: manchestermill.co.uk/andrea-ashwo...

Important lessons for fucking everyone in this piece.

How gutless of Scwartz to not put it in print.

Correct link here -
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‘We know what is happening, we cannot walk away’: how the Guardian bore witness to horror in former Yugoslavia The long read: During the decade-long conflicts, the major powers dithered as Serb militias carried out their brutal campaigns of ethnic cleansing. Guardian reporters became more passionate and more outspoken in their condemnation, attracting praise and criticism

‘We know what is happening, we cannot walk away’: how the Guardian bore witness to horror in former Yugoslavia

Losing My Dad in Installments - Electric Literature Back then, it felt easier to say goodbye to each part of him as they left

“The hourglass had been turned and I could see time trickling down; the grains were falling too fast.”

Enough with the comedians! The exploration of the banal is cool but surely there are more interesting people than comics