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Recommended by Notes from the Underground with David Aaronovitch

Essays and conversations about big ideas that don't need a news hook.

Yascha is an ultra-thoughtful US based academic, and I always learn something from him

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I have written over twenty books, including seventeen novels, and won the Booker Prize for fiction. Words are my faith, novels my passion, great novelists my paragons of truth. You might think I should get out more. You are right.

Howard is just one of the finest writers there is. And funny.

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Dave Hill On London: Politics, Places, People

All sorts of journalism about the UK's capital city, plus history and culture on the side

The Jaggy Thistle

By Kenny Farquharson

Kenny Farquharson on Scotland. Politics. Culture. Essays. Photography. From an award-winning Times newspaper columnist.

Comment is Freed

By Sam Freedman

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

Great intelligent centre-left analysis. Indispensable.

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Just the Facts with Gerald Posner

By “Just the Facts” with Gerald Posner

Award-winning investigative journalism without any spin

The Debatable Land

By Alex Massie

Politics, culture, and history from Scotland, the UK and beyond

The Bulwark

The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture—supported by a community built on good-faith.

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News, views and interviews from the world of museums, galleries, heritage and art | One of the world's "33 best Substack newsletters" according to the Observer newspaper

The Bluestocking

By Helen Lewis

I read the internet, so you don’t have to.