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🇬🇧 🚀 Presenting: the Anglofuturism podcast, with me and @CalumDrysdale With each episode, we explore a big idea that will help make Britain the greatest country in the galaxy. Here's the first! Links below⬇️

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Well that's me told

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@culturaltutor imagine having that as a surname

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Poundbury, 2030 - You wake up - Lab-grown full English for breakfast, served by robot butler - Walk your children (which you can afford, because the housing crisis has been solved) to school - HS22 takes you direct to Spaceport Cornwall, which can sustain heavy-lift launches -

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San Francisco, 2030 - You wake up - You walk 2m to Cafe Reveille to get breakfast - You overhear a convo about AGI - You notice it's people you know from Twitter - You join the conversation, a new relationship starts - You walk 10m to work - You're stuck and need to make a key

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Under Anglofuturism, gleaming maglev trains will soar across rewilded countryside that was once the Astroturfed gardens of suburban Nimbys

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- Opens first page of new book - Immediately starts crying

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Average British high street if we go the way we’re going v. Average British high street under Anglofuturism

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@thebritafilter One of these days you, me and @JoannaLumleyUK will get together and chuckle about this over a cool jug of BRITA-filtered water

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It was fascinating to learn about why different kinds of housing looks the way it does (and how things might chance in the future). With apologies to anyone who lives in a newbuild:

Why Britain's newbuilds are so ugly

We explore the architectural underpinnings of a happy neighbourhood, and how communities can ensure new developments suit their surroundings

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Mine from Sunday: rights for sentient AIs! Contributions from @jacyanthis and other experts. (and no: the 𝘐, 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵 reference wasn't mine. But at least it wasn't Terminator)

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It's hard not to read The Case for Keto without getting angry about the wrong-headedness of nutritional advice from the '50s onward. High-carb diets are, for millions of people, slow-acting poison. My interview with the book's author, @garytaubes

Why keto is here for keeps – and how to get started on a low-carb, high-fat lifestyle

High-fat, low-carb eating remains controversial. But for some people, a new book argues, it just works

www.telegraph.co.uk

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🚨 Some professional news! 🚨 Today, after seven years, is my last day at the Telegraph. To everyone who's contributed to, edited or read my work: thank you. I'll end my time at the paper in a way befitting my career here: roistering on company time.

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This 'dainty little pixie boy' is... @louistheroux ! Interview in which we discuss what his younger self would make of his life (and whether he would wear an ironic Louis Theroux T-shirt if he wasn't himself Louis Theroux)

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A gooder bunch of boyes and girls I never did see

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Just before he left, I spoke to a UK-based Ukranian expat who's now driving home to take up arms. He didn't want the West's sympathy; he wanted weaponry. "Our people will die. But give us guns. That’s it." The courage of normal Ukrainians is astonishing.

Ukrainian expat takes the long road from Basildon to Lviv to fight Russian invaders

Oleksandr Bilyy leaves his comfortable life in Essex to return to Ukraine to battle for the survival of his country

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4 years

The closest I've got to weeping while conducting an interview. A conversation with @raymond_blanc about his late mother and the orchard she loved

'Maman Blanc was my greatest mentor. She taught me how to cook with love'

Raymond Blanc explains why his late mother was his biggest inspiration, and how he didn't get to say goodbye when she died this year

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2 years

🗞️Some meta-news🗞️ I'm moving... but not very far. On Monday I begin a job in the Telegraph's news department. I'll be writing news features: colour and longform. It's an exciting brief. Hurrah!

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The chance of the war in Ukraine prompting nuclear conflict remains small. Paul Ingram, of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, puts it at 1 in 80. But, he told me, the gov't should now be making contingency plans. A key concern: food. 🧵

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Cannot believe the arrogance of my gym login page, asking for a seven-character password with a capital letter, number and special character. You're a squash booking service, not the secret KFC recipe safe

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I'm writing about familects: the unique or idiosyncratic words and phrases used within families or households. Anyone got any fun ones to share?

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I've moved house and my new room has this unmitigatedly hideous feature wall. I'm allowed to obscure it but not mark it. Any ideas? Some hanging hessian? Send help and pest control

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This car has been in the family 48 years. Let's see if I can make it to 50...

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Under Anglofuturism, low-earth orbit will be populated by thatched pubs. Because sound does not carry across the void of space, there will be no reason for restrictive licensing laws, and visitors will be able to drink for as long as they wish to

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Am I going to get to try opium for an article or aren't I

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

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@DannyBoyle87 Meanwhile, Tory leadership contender Rory Stewart has controversially revealed he smoked opium in Iran Read more:

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Flinching every time I get a new email, dreading the inevitable commission to inject myself with Cillit Bang

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I promise this piece is more nuanced than it looks! Thanks to @anderssandberg and @tobyordoxford for their wise contributions.

Broadcasting Earth’s location could provoke alien invasion, Oxford scientist warns

Oxford academics suggest ‘giggle factor’ around search for aliens leads to ignoring risk around ‘ratio of peaceful to hostile civilisations’

www.telegraph.co.uk

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So she pivoted to longevity – the science of long life – and is now, at 23, in charge of one of the biggest grantmaking endeavours in the field. We chatted about her career and about the big questions with which longevity confronts humanity @LNuzhna

The 23-year-old trying to make everyone live longer

Lada Nuzhna on her work against ageing—and the ethical dilemmas posed by longevity

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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I'm thrilled to be sharing my first essay (a year in the making) for @WorksInProgMag . This one's for everyone who loves lasers, clean energy and *extremely* deep holes. Herewith: the future of geothermal power & the genius idea that might get us there

Watt lies beneath - Works in Progress

The earth's core is hot. So hot, that if we drilled deep enough, we could power the world millions of times over with cheap, clean energy, supporting renewables when the wind isn't blowing and the...

worksinprogress.co

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My experience of male makeup is that I've somehow become your stock image

The Guardian

@guardian

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Men's makeup: share your experiences

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A mere 3% of English and Welsh river length is open to the public. Bankside landowners' plots extend to the halfway point. A kayak trip can involve dozens of trespasses. @nickhayesillus1 and I spent an afternoon cocking a snook at these silly laws

Meet the trespasser on a mission to open English and Welsh rivers to the public

All but three percent of England's river length is off-limits to the public. Author and kayaker Nick Hayes is campaigning for that to change

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Any reasonable analysis of the new royal portrait must conclude: We are going to Mars

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Absolutely bodied by The Economist today, and rightly so

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Big thanks to whichever editor titled it "the worst haircut ever"

45 minutes for the worst haircut ever: what happened when I tried 'auto-barbering'

Our intrepid writer attempts a short back and sides in his home barbershop of horrors

www.telegraph.co.uk

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'If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.' — the Buddha My day imitating Orlando Bloom

I spent a day recreating Orlando Bloom's ridiculous routine

Brain oil, Lego, chanting, hiking: the Pirates of the Caribbean star's typical day has gone viral. We gave this new Bloomsday a go...

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Under Anglofuturism, those who settle new worlds will have the option of doing so in tailored three-piece spacesuits

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Under Anglofuturism, the stump at Sycamore Gap will be replaced with an oak tree the size of a redwood

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So this is how my family finds out I got an ear piercing

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@CristinaCriddle Joanna Lumley is an ambassador of @BRITAPRO , so I asked them if she'd be available for an interview. Alas this particular Brita Filter was not the one I meant

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Fantastic. I hope the many ugly buildings of the UK are quaking in fear

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A library in Sydney was replaced with an updated student centre in the name of architectural revival, and as a brutalism enjoyer, this makes me very sad

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get me my lawyer

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@tobyordoxford He also spells out, in this post from a few years ago, that taking care of colleagues "will come back to you 10x." If anything, he underestimated the 10x

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I came to the World Crazy Golf Championships to mock it. I left humbled. Here's my long read on this strange, hilarious and heartwarming pocket of sport. PS they call golf "big golf"

I took part in the World Crazy Golf Championships, and it transformed the way I think about sport

This article has an estimated read time of 10 minutes

www.telegraph.co.uk

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2 years

Gorgeous, savage writing

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Sadly, Johnson was never the vandal of the Westminster system his enemies claimed: just (as they say) a messy bitch who lives for drama. Lazy, distracted & inept, he squandered the sacred gift of power. For the nation's good the party must wield the knife:

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Made a coffee table!

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today I cradled a five-week-old baby who, moments after this picture was taken, reached out for the lowermost strands of my beard, touched them, and vomited

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Excl: 20+ veterans of British special forces operations to join the fray in Ukraine

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Until the @Telegraph office provides doggos such as this, I'm never returning. My afternoon at a #pubdesk :

Now pubs are welcoming office workers, is WFP the new WFH?

More publicans are welcoming the laptop brigade, but can you do a decent day's work from the boozer? Our writer put it to the test...

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Anglofuturism has been achieved internally

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Been to a couple of e/acc / Anglofuturism events recently. Some things I’ve learnt: > There is a very strong desire for the UK to take a pioneering role in shaping the future of the world > There are some super smart and driven people trying to make this happen 🇬🇧/acc

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My interview with Neil Parish (the "porn MP") and his wife. Exclusive for @Telegraph . He: "My wife is better than I deserve." She (chuckling): "That's for sure!" Portraits by @GeoffPix

Exclusive: 'It’s almost as if a weight is lifted off me,' says Neil Parish

In an interview with The Telegraph, Mr Parish, 'the porn MP', hailed his wife as 'better than I deserve'. 'That’s for sure,' she replied

www.telegraph.co.uk

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the shock and thrill of seeing someone else's cursor in your google doc... only to realise that you simply have the doc open in two tabs

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Under Anglofuturism, citizens will be trusted with large sash windows on any storey of any building, even when that building is surrounded by toxic Martian CO2

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Regulations were recently introduced requiring a minimum window sill or guard height of 1.1 metres. My colleague @RobertKwolek at @createstreets just spotted this new build, apparently an early example of the small squat windows this will generate. Behold the norm of the future.

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Great British kerosene, derived from petroleum harvested from the British Antarctic territory, will fuel our upgraded space programme

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JUST IN: 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 Russia makes HUGE oil discovery in British Antarctic Territory. The discovery is estimated at 511 BILLION barrels of oil – about 10x the North Sea’s entire 50-year output. Democracy is coming to the penguins 🐧

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Here's an @80000Hours podcast in which Allfed's David Denkenberger discusses seaweed & other food sources. Seaweed grows so fast that "we could actually get up to 160% of human calories in less than a year." (Looks like miso's back on the menu, boys)

David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe, ft Sahil Shah

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Of course I have some self-respect, what are you talking about

Can you cook a three-course meal in... a dishwasher?

Telegraph readers have cooked meals among their dirty dishes. Surely this can't be the future

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God forbid it be desirable to be a senior public servant

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Lord Cameron has hired a £42m jet to fly round Central Asia, for 5 days in ridiculous luxury. When James Cleverly hired the same plane last year it cost you £422,000 a day. That's 105 people's benefits for an entire year, every single day. It's crooks that cost you.

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As a matter of national urgency we must get Louis XIV's child-king-with-regent years discounted from his record as world's longest-serving monarch

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How to raise a gifted child. (By me, a childless 28-year-old.)

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Whoso pulleth out this sword from this stone, is right wise King born of all England

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Delighted to make my @prospect_uk debut. Here's my interview with @AleneAnello : fearless lawyer, Mother of Chickens, a woman on a mission to rescue hundreds of millions of birds from misery and squalor.

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Some of you have kings and queens in your ancestry. TIL, thanks to a reader, that I have a guy who got so obsessed with model-making that he forgot to eat and was hospitalised

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There's no brotherly kinship like the nods I am sharing with fellow shorts-wearers in an overdressed office. My brothers, with me on the ramparts. I would die for our right to bare calves

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My special report from Stamford Hill, where strictly-Orthodox Jews are so beset by anti-semitic abuse that they patrol their own streets. In today's paper and online.

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I feel a little sorry for those left unmoved by the past 24 hours. A life free of abstracted communal emotion isn't necessarily a more enlightened one.

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I'm in the Bay Area for a bit. Always open for ideas of stuff to write about. DM if you want to meet, or know someone I should meet.

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The Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (Allfed) has done a lot of analysis here. One of their suggestions is... seaweed. It happily grows in low light and cold water.

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Charlie did a stint in the Telegraph office and umpteen colleagues said we looked the same. We awkwardly complimented each other's beards. Now we are friends. And stunt doubles!

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2 months

If you liked this tweet and are crying out for more, @CalumDrysdale and I are hosting an Anglofuturist party . Subscribe to our s*bst*ck @anglofuturism2074 to keep up to date with our other projects.

Anglofuturist party | Partiful

Listen closely. They are whispering about it in the supermarkets, in the kitchens, on the terraces, on the lanes and in the parishes. It is being discussed on sofas and settees. In the pubs and...

partiful.com

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Greggs. Costa. KFC. McDonalds. Pret. Pizza Express. Subway. @h_chandlerwilde and I spent two hours eating seven lunches. Don't EVER accuse lifestyle journalism of being soft

7 new Veganuary lunches – tested by a vegan and an omnivore

No one expected a sausage roll to be so newsworthy.

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It's a ship... with a theatre on it! And a bar! (And I helped refit it, so I'd love it if a few of you came to see it)

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Thanks @TimeOutLondon for this lovely article about the project. We can't wait to share what we've been doing with people! Come visit! 24th January onwards.

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@ChrisHopkins99 Additionally, the wifi will be good

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Gastronomes will be relieved to learn that more conventional foods might also be possible. Potatoes, canola and sugar beet are typically grown in low-light environments. As such, they'd probably be viable in a nuclear winter. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew...

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Pandemic's over lads!

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And I will also gladly speak to any literary agents who, on reading these 4k words about doom, believe that they could suffer 76k more. Anyone know an agent whose bag this might be?

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From asteroids to nuclear war, humanity is facing a number of potentially existential threats. @tomough speaks to the people trying to keep us safe

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Interestingly, it was via this piece that my absent housemate learnt I've repurposed her bedroom as my personal brewery

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🌋 Large eruptions could cause terrible damage 🌋 We had a near-miss in January 🌋 Volcanology is so poorly-funded that its scientists have to borrow other projects' satellites Time to prepare! Interview with @laramani14 and @MikeVolc for ST News Review

Super-volcanoes: just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, here comes lavageddon

The night of January 14, 2022, was a terrifying one for the world’s volcanologists. “That’s the first time we’ve ever seen a country go dark in the aftermath of

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Tremendous work. Let a thousand futurisms bloom. Apart from Francofuturism

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Couldn’t resist. 🇵🇹 Sintra, 2030 - A Lusofuturist Vision You wake up to the sound of a smart window system letting in the soothing sound of the waves of the Atlantic, optimised to your preferred sleep cycle

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This was great fun to do. Thanks so much to all who contributed – many of your idiosyncratic and enchanting words & phrases are included in the piece.

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Finally flexing my fashion authority muscles in today's @TelegraphMag

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I know it's standard photography wording, but I will never not be briefly alarmed by editors asking whether the interviewee has been shot yet

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Delighted to make my @spectator debut with this paean to the bidet. Try one, and — as befitting a person performing their ablutions — you will never look back.

Why are bidets the butt of so many jokes?

In December 2019, and in keeping with our tradition of perverse birthday gifts, some friends gave me a bidet device. The contraption was a simple one. Fastened on to the back of the lavatory bowl...

www.spectator.co.uk

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Commuters! 🚫 underfunded, overcrowded public transport 🚀 an invigorated Britain whose ambitious new island project has funded new train lines by the dozen Anglofuturism, ep. 1, below ⬇️

‎Anglofuturism: Why Britain should build a new island in the North Sea on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Anglofuturism, Ep Why Britain should build a new island in the North Sea - 8 May 2024

podcasts.apple.com

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please direct all my correspondence for the next six months to kennington park's old english flower garden

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A piece about my car and also my grandmother – two vintage classics

'Inheriting my grandfather's 1973 VW Beetle unlocked family memories'

The heirloom was bought by my grandfather in the '70s, and has remained in the family ever since. Now it’s finally my turn to take custody

www.telegraph.co.uk

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In a pinch, we could turn indigestible plant matter into edible material by: 1) processing it in a paper mill 2) mixing the pulp with enzymes that break the cellulose & hemicellulose into sugars 3) enjoying the tasty sugar sludge, perhaps using it to garnish cockroaches

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Telegraph ultras will be lining the streets of Battersea, setting off flares, rocking the Guardian bus en route to the Battle of the Broadsheets. Might even sacrifice a goat. Welcome to hell

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1 year

I quit my job as a staff writer a year ago – so now seems as good a time as any to share some of the writing I've been doing since. Fill yer boots!

Tom Ough — Writer & editor

My journalism and contact details

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❄️Dachas 🍷Glühwein 🌭BBQs 🏝️Love Island 🍞...and lots of baking For today's @Telegraph , I asked people around the world how they're dealing with being locked down and cooped up.

How the rest of the world is doing lockdown

Confinement.

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The least flattering commission I've ever received: being sent to a charisma class. Thanks a lot, @ccAndrewBaker

Can charisma really be taught? Inside a masterclass on how to charm

Psychotherapist ‘Mr Charisma’ teaches some valuable lessons in how to radiate inner confidence and poise

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The thatched space pubs will be protected from the French by a missile defence system

Jack Needham

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londons defence tech hackathon are cooking the uk has the potential to lead european defence by building the systems of the future that keep us safe kudos to @AFitzgerald1992 @Sam__Cash and the @apollo_defense for helping make that future a reality

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@RevRichardColes Rev Coles, we'd like to mention good Saint Guinefort in the Independent today. Could you DM, please? Thank you.

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This gorgeous biotechnology journal is the first of its kind & has an essay from yours truly on self-sterilising surfaces. No sensible option other than to buy several copies 👇

Asimov Press

@AsimovPress

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Our first book about scientific progress, Origins, is now available. We learned a lot about printing—and starting a magazine—while creating this book. So we decided to write an essay about it! Buy the book, support our work, and learn more. 🔻

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RIP. I don’t know the university’s side of this, but FHI did spectacular work on topics that were once seen as lunatic. There should be more of these institutions, not fewer. I will miss interviewing its staff, not least because they were laudably tolerant of the stupid

Stefan Schubert

@StefanFSchubert

2 months

The Future of Humanity at Oxford has unfortunately closed. The long-term future is often the subject of thoughtless narratives and empty rhetoric. During its 19 years, FHI showed that precise and incisive thinking about the long-term future is possible and most fertile. ->

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Tom Ough

@tomough

7 months

Brockwell = prince among parks, undisputed GOAT of early-morning Zone 2 vistas

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Tom Ough

@tomough

4 years

🏗️ In 100 years we might be living in towers of wood and even *bone*, barely recalling the ugly architectural blip that was the era of concrete and steel. Really excited to share this labour of long-read love

The future of skyscrapers: a mile high, slimmer than ever and made from wood

With offices in decline and large-scale construction environmentally damaging are we approaching an end to the era of very tall buildings?

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Tom Ough

@tomough

5 years

Met this absolute UNIT the other day

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Tom Ough

@tomough

8 months

Lada Nuzhna, who grew up in a Ukrainian warzone, wanted to become a physicist in order to understand the mysteries of the universe. Then she realised that, to see those mysteries solved, she'd need to live far longer than her allotted threescore-and-ten.

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Tom Ough

@tomough

4 years

"Another thing to worry about!" — 27-year-old white guy My bit on male makeup in today's paper