@ada_palmer’s speech presenting the Campbell Award at Sunday’s Hugo ceremony, which was unfortunately affected on the night by the Great Subtitling Disaster. Well worth reading.

Recommended long read about seeing the stars.

content warning: nudity. But Is It Art?

We did it in 2008, before it became fashionable!

Also good reason for men and others.

My former colleague @runnercase experiences Andorra as few others will ever experience it.

A British doctor writes about euthanasia in Belgium.

Extraordinary story of the Gutenberg Bible that spent years in County Armagh at Gosford Castle.

To consume later...

Indeed. Rebuttal of the ridiculous @BenHabib6.

What Dominic Cummings thinks.

"the police, hospitals and public transport staff have already said they won't play ball" - Good.

Harsh but fair.

Wow!

I have never seen, nor do I want to see, this show. But this is a fascinating article about sex and religion.

“The ground on which people build and grow in the Border region feels particularly fragile today. It is almost possible to feel the heat of the past burning the soles of our feet.”

Glorious!

@larissaarabelle puts the case.

Have to agree with @b_judah - the millennials are way more interesting than Biden/Sanders/Pelosi.

Yep.

A portrait of England in 2029. Grimly funny.

I hear this. Good for her.

@XTopherCook's post-mortem of the Theresa May premiership. I would have been more vicious.

Futurology, reviewed by @randyfmcdonald.

@CER_Grant nails it.

Reflection from my @APCOWorldwide colleague @MyNameIsEarl.

Brilliant from @NeenaGmep, India-born member of the European Parliament.

Great, largely sympathetic profile.

Important.