"I'm a moderate European social democrat, but in the London artsy circles I move in, I feel like Enoch Powell" capx.co/the-british-le…

“usually the boss is surrounded by people telling him what a great decision he made, which is proof he must know best. And that’s how the whole process works, that’s how careers get made.” A must read, by dave trott

RIP Elizabeth Wurtzel - this piece of hers from 2013 on the strange directions life can take is just incredible thecut.com/2013/01/elizab… (h/t Nicky Bason)

1895 film upscaled to 60 FPS - surreal and brilliant thenextweb.com/artificial-int… (cc: @PamHutch)

More from that 1972 Norman Dennis documentary. From earliest times Northumbrian miners would blame accidents on the devil himself, and Johnny Handle singing 'The Collier's Rant' here - an old folk song in which a pitman fights Auld Nick - made my hair stand on end.

I imagine all the closures and cancellations give people a sense of ominousness. But it's really an amazing act of social solidarity: We're sacrificing so we can give nurses, doctors and hospitals a fighting chance. Start from there and hopefully we can figure out the rest.

Imagine Twitter during WWII. Christ, it'd be all: what idiot didn't look at the weather forecast before giving D day the go ahead? Why are there a bunch of people doing cross words in Bletchley Park?

.Three UK I realise you are having call centre problems but my partner, a key worker, has been trying to get assistance with a simple but urgent account issue for THREE days, just being passed around. She's virtually in tears. Can anyone please help us??

I think what I'd really like right now is a cozy British village murder mystery show where Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are elderly widower neighbors who bicker a lot about their gardens, and also solve crimes. And there's a super hot grandson who has to drive them around.

. Microsoft Support My partner is a key worker. She bought a brand new Surface 3 with Microsoft Complete insurance in March to continue her medical work during lockdown. It will not connect reliably to the internet. Support has been useless, going in circles. Can you help?

🎶Willia-an, Willian it was really nothing🎶 (apologies to The Smiths)

facts matter

Morning James O'Brien. Feeling irked by this tweet and underlying assumptions ... here’s why ...

Asking people to have a ‘little Christmas’ will never work. I present my idea for COVIDMAS:

Decent perspective on making remote work actually work

Every time I log into Twitter after having been off for a while doing normal-person things, it feels like everyone is experiencing a collective anxiety disorder.

🚨Rare decent LinkedIn post alert.🚨 Big fan of this

A knighthood for Rees Mogg? An insult to those previously awarded. Ludicrous.

Londoners. Got a spare ticket for Allo Darlin tonight in Islington, £15. Can hand over in person at the show. (I’m not a fraudbot!)

The answer: France 9%, UK 7.5%, Italy 6.2%, Germany 2.1%. UK growth hardly stellar since Brexit, which I don’t consider a success. But none of Europe’s four biggest economies has done well this decade. But these figures do undermine all these claims/studies that, but for