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The Sonia Sodha piece neatly illustrates the problem with the Guardian/Observer’s refusal to move to a subscription model. Because their revenue depends on advertising, they increasingly publish poor or uninformed pieces that get retweeted for exactly those reasons.

reading is like The most accessible hobby and for some reason people talk about it like books cost hundreds of pounds and you need a masters degree to even begin to understand them

James Payn nailing the resurgence of the penny dreadful moral panic in the 1890s (quoted in Nicholas Freeman’s *1895*).

It’s always worth recommending Kay Dick’s *They*, in which a future UK is taken over by marauding philistines and anti-intellectuals. edition.cnn.com/2024/11/07/bus…

Reminded of the time I saw a presentation by a man who hadn't cut the label off his suit jacket sleeve, and throughout the entire presentation I was thinking "aren't you supposed to remove that? Am I the one who's wrong?"

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Have just noticed that it's Children in Need this Friday, which means that the following day would have been the first day of the ARPF conference, which means it's the opening of mince pie season Dr Joanne Knowles 🇺🇦

Get your nominations in; I’m on the panel for scholarly discussions of Doyle.

I wasn't going to leave Twitter because of Musky's awful beliefs (because you don't give up your table in the pub when someone clearly wants you to leave), but every time I log on here another 20 people have disappeared. It's simply becoming less and less functional.

On Bluesky, my notifications dial has melted and a picture of one of my bookcases has 2.4k likes in a day. On Twitter, I log in and another 50 followers have vanished.

Primarily on Bluesky now, at bsky.app/profile/christ…

My piece in The Conversation on practical tips for reinventing a Victorian Christmas theconversation.com/victorian-chri…

We're getting into the season where a lot of documentaries will cheerfully tell you that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, so here's my piece for *The Conversation* on why that claim simply isn't true. theconversation.com/charles-dicken…