Well, this is not great. I hope this does not survive the beta into release: Apple News+ in iOS 14 Opens Article Web Links in Apple News, Intercepting Traffic From Websites
Chris Eccleston returning to Doctor Who in a series of full cast audio adventures.
What fantastic news.
Absolutely absorbing read from Ed Yong at The Atlantic about the complexities of the immune system, why they confuse even other biologists and what that means for COVID-19.
Currently reading: Ring The Hill by Tom Cox 📚
Pandemic pleasures: being at home enough to keep your Hotbin composter at a steady temperature of nearly 60C. 🌱
Poirot after Christie
I’m currently reading and enjoying The Mystery Of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery by Sophie Hannah 📚. While I was sceptical about the idea of Poirot novels not authored by Agatha Christie, they work because they aren’t Christie pastiche.
They’re books featuring a completely recognisable Poirot, and set in the same sort of era, but are very much told in the author’s own voice.
Good, escapist, murderous fun.
Here’s one reason every journalist should write a newsletter for a while: nothing teaches you more directly the relationship between what you write and subscriber churn.