After years of talking about it, I’m launching a magazine. I’ve wanted to publish my own magazine for a very long time. The closest I got was The…
Hello. You might not have noticed, but there was no Magazine Diaries newsletter last week. I could use the excuse of a wonderful day out in Edinburgh…
I hate Black Friday! It’s meaningless here in the UK - a post-holiday sale without a holiday makes no sense. But even without that absurdity, Black…
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No newsletter this week or next. For the next four or five days I’m writing my section of our Media Moments 2022 report and don’t have space for…
I heard the best idea story this week. Lin-Manuel Miranda, he of much musical fame, needed a holiday. He headed to Mexico with his wife and, being the…
My thoughts on the artist formerly known as Kanye West are entirely predictable and not entirely relevant to this newsletter. However, seeing the…
I subscribed to The Telegraph, a right-leaning UK news title, to get me out of my leftie echo chamber. The paper’s general reporting is solid and they…
Britain right now is in chaos. Our government is a shambles. The chancellor has just been sacked and the new guy is an old guy most famous for…
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