Jonn Elledge
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Author at The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything
author, columnist, bestselling author (seriously). @newstatesman @theneweuropean @ohgodwhatnowpod. barely here these days, fewer nazis on bluesky.
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1 week ago |
jonn.substack.com | Jonn Elledge
Forgive the impertinence, but: I’m on holiday1, having boarded a plane to the Med at some truly horrific hour Wednesday morning. That means this week’s edition will be slightly shorter than normal, and also there is a very real chance that by the time you are reading it I will have fallen asleep on a sun lounger somewhere with a book on my face and first degree burns everywhere else.
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1 week ago |
newstatesman.com | Jonn Elledge
If you wanted a single poll to explain how we all got into this mess, you could do worse than the YouGov one dated 2 June. Asked what they think should be done about defence spending, 49% of British voters think it should be increased, 22% that it should remain the same and only 11% that it should decrease. That, for a question about a normally abstruse corner of public policy, feels a fairly compelling result.
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1 week ago |
thenewworld.co.uk | Jonn Elledge
1) The Glastonbury Festival – or Glastonbury Festival for the Contemporary Performing Arts, as it’s been officially known since 1990 – is the world’s largest greenfield music and performing arts festival. It takes place almost, but not quite, every year, in the grounds of Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset. 2) The festival’s founder, Michael Eavis, inherited the 150-acre farm and its 60 cows aged just 19 when his father died.
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2 weeks ago |
jonn.substack.com | Jonn Elledge
Saturday 17 June, 2023. For some reason, I recall the exact time I woke up: 8.08am. Agnes hadn’t been online since 1. That was good, I thought: meant she’d slept. I went to the bathroom, where sitting on the loo I read a blog about old TV. The man who wrote it remains a social media mutual, and he will never know what flashes through my mind whenever I see his name. And then I went into the other room. And I realised. *****It’ll be two years since her death this Monday night.
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2 weeks ago |
jonn.substack.com | Jonn Elledge
A few months ago, in a “but seriously commissioners, please call me” kind of way, I joked that if anyone out there wanted me to give me a pile of money to make a lucrative 47-part podcast based on my recent book, I was available. That offer remains open: we can even call it “The Rest is Borders” if you want, Gary. I digress. The reason I’m talking about it is because of this response:“This will probably depress you, rightfully so, but AI will do that for you.
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"This joke has stayed with me because “private” does, in fact, sound fancier than “general”. It’s not remotely obvious why the ranks should be that way round." Some etymology: how did the army get its ranks? https://t.co/dkAdfYX3br
"The third possible reason for Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland is that it looks really big on the map." Second edition of my new coumn for @TheNewWorldmag concerns Greenland https://t.co/yttKpFCwFp
RT @CovidJusticeUK: 🚨The warning signs are clear🚨 Another pandemic is inevitable, and we are not prepared. The Government must act now to…