This morning, models for a new kind of caliphate. qz.com/546973/only-a-… By Haroon Moghul on Quartz

Mr. Bowie's fearless (and a little bit nightmarish) single currently soundtracking #thelastpanthers youtu.be/kszLwBaC4Sw

My profile of Nairobi-based think tank Sahan Research, in Monocle's Forecast magazine bit.ly/1O6k7bM

"(I like the idea of a vulnerable ending)" Paul Goat Allan for Goodreads talks to the astonishing China Miéville goodreads.com/interviews/sho…

'The Last Days of New Paris' goes straight to the top of my most wanted list... #NewBook #ToRead wired.com/2016/01/10-mos…

Just a heads up. Michael Clayton is on BBC iPlayer. Tony Gilroy's best work. Wilkinson, Pollack, Swinton, Clooney... all outstanding.

Nigeria's littattafan soyayya and the power of Kano market literature wired.com/2016/02/glenna…

“Conventions are like fairies... stop believing in them, they die” Elizabeth Collett #Migration Policy Institute ft.com/cms/s/0/93881f…

"A slow, methodical path into hell" On Jóhannsson's deep percusive score for Villeneuve’s stylish Sicario wired.com/2016/02/sicari…

#AlphaGo wins game 5! One of the most incredible games ever. To comeback from the initial big mistake against Lee Sedol was mind-blowing!!!

A week to go and 31 tickets left to sell for Dot York. Not got yours yet? Do it now, it’ll be fun dotyork.com/2016/

“It’s perpetually unsatisfying" David Brooks on #writing a weekly column for the NYT linkedin.com/pulse/david-br…

I've not #read anything as good or as important as this in some time. Gripping #writing by Jason Motlagh outsideonline.com/2098801/skull-…

"We should be asking ourselves what our Archduke Ferdinand moment will be..." On #Brexit & #Trump by Tobias Stone medium.com/@theonlytoby/h…

"We get books from shell-damaged homes near the front line, through bombed-out buildings..." bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-…

Documentaries more "formally inventive", borrowing from fiction filmmaking Alex Gibney on Zero Days #Netflix fastcompany.com/3060464/most-c…

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"The Places Becoming ‘Portals of Opportunities’ for Business" linkedin.com/pulse/places-b…

Hats off to @MishalHusainBBC . Take note, Panto Paxman, Faisal Islam and Andrew Neil. #BBCdebate