Today’s Engaged Reading Digest: killing comments, surviving after redundancy, getting better at instagram - and the power of visual journalism. All this for the low, low price of a click…

Oooh, my sister-in-law is in Vouge.

Heh. One unforeseen side-effect of having a newsletter - you get to see who is already on their Christmas break by their out-of-office updates…

As a lecturer, nothing makes you feel better than a student who turned in something pretty mediocre initially, creating a final submission that is both inspired and professionally executed. Big smile on my face right now.

Newsletters are beginning to over-whelm my in-box. Time to try out Feedbin’s ability to aggregate them in my RSS reader, I think.

This is a really interesting view from inside the BBC: GE19 - from the presenter’s chair.

I found my parents’ old tree angel, so she’s back in service after a decade off.

A vintage angel figurine dressed in white with gold wings is holding a choir book and appears to be singing.

This is a useful read: What does the future hold for progressive politics after the Conservative victory?

Andrew Sullivan’s profile of the newly-elected PM from last week is worth revisiting in light of today’s news: The Blundering Brilliance of Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Great analysis from the FT data team: last night, Labour lost the working class.