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When I received my blue tick on Twitter a few years ago, people I knew in the real world were incredulous. …

This piece first appeared in my newsletter, Future Proof: please subscribe to get a first look at media futurology and support my writing! November is upon us. The nights are long, and arriving early. Drizzling rain is turned to driving rain. The World Cup is just a few weeks away…

Full transparency: I have a podcast to promote. It’s called Other Edens and it’s a journey through the dark, mysterious and strange corners of Britain. From hauntings to ancient rituals, religious movements to military interventions, it will cover this ground with a sense of historical wonder. I hope you enjoy…

As a podcaster — and, particularly, a podcast who writes (a lot) about podcasting — I’m marketed a tonne of products. Some come my way via Twitter, just coincidentally, and some slide into my inbox in the form of press releases or other solicitations. …

This piece first appeared on my newsletter, Future Proof, so please subscribe to that if you want to support me and see my writing earlier! Very few people who pay attention to the podcast market here in the UK will be unfamiliar with The High Low, a podcast that was…

I don’t know if it’s an expression that translates very well internationally, but here in the UK we are sometimes pushed to the point where we can only say: this boils my piss. And yesterday, my piss was successfully boiled by this astonishing piece by Ashley Carman in Bloomberg (if…