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The Zero Sum Game
I am not optimistic the war is about to end. Also this week: why old manuscripts have so many S’s that look like F’s; and a map of England’s “natural…
 • Jonn Elledge
Borderline Exhaustion
Rob Hutton on a forgotten electrical pioneer; some previously unseen thoughts on borders; and some sentences that might seem passive aggressive, if…
 • Jonn Elledge
Nerd’s Eye View: 10 things you need to know about dead US presidents
Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news
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An incipient breakdown, masquerading as content
This week: Death by Lightning and some quite wonderfully named 19th century US political factions; and a map highlighting the importance of the Strait…
 • Jonn Elledge
Us And Them
How the internet has thrown our imagined communities into disarray. Also this week: some notes on bats; and the man who invented the Tube, sort of.
 • Jonn Elledge
No, it is the children who are wrong
This week: Keir Starmer has decided that he blames the voters. Also: some golden age anti-car propaganda; and some new maps of British living standards.
 • Jonn Elledge
Every Day He Eats the Book
This week: my god I want Matt Goodwin to lose. Also: a new way of seeing the world; and some very old work on a very old bus.
 • Jonn Elledge
The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything
assorted nerdery from a man who should probably be doing something else
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