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The Long Goodbye
Time, at last, to write about Agnes.
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It’s A Wonderful Life
This week: some notable Christmases, and some festive maps. But first: sorry, I’m going to get soppy on you.
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295 Days Gone
This is how it feels to go on without you.
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Things Can’t Only Get Better
This week: I have bloody well had it with the sodding Labour party. Also: an early modern way of having too many browser tabs open; and some maps…
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It’s All Kicking Off
This week: some thoughts on the riots; a new Redcliffe-Maud; and how do you rename and rebrand six operational London Overground lines, anyway?
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But what’s it *for*?
This week: come on, Labour, surely you can do better than this. Also: some noteworthy nicknames for Russian monarchs; and a still extant dinosaur.
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Good grief
This week: the *other* worst president in US history, and some comforting maps of the world’s rail network. But first: I am not writing about the news.
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In defence of echo chambers
This week, some common terms from naval language, and a map of left behind places. But first, what’s the problem with filter bubbles anyway?
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Did the early medieval era ever really take place?
On the “phantom time hypothesis”, the bizarre conspiracy theory that 297 years of European history were entirely made up.
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Unexpected arrivals
This week: the predictably unpredictable year ahead; some lingering evidence of Vikings; and a map for when your station is just too big.
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A pause
A gap in the service.
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Don’t Look Up
This week: why aren’t we talking about the looming Torypocalypse? Plus some graphs of city densities; and the many defenestrations of Prague.
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