Year: 2026
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Our broken society and how we can fix it
The Asset Class: How private equity turned capitalism against itself. Hettie O’Brien (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2026) How to fix our ruined world This fabulous book should go with Enshittification – see my last blog post from 10 June – as a guide to how everything in our world went wrong and how to fix it…
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Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow’s book defines enshittification as: ‘when you combine the banality of evil with an internet-connected device and a federal law that criminalizes doing anything with that device that the manufacturer dislikes.’
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A new Kick-Start course to encourage you to dive into your creative writing
I’m holding a new creative writing series of workshops soon. See the poster for details and booking. It’s for the usual eight weeks but this time I’m experimenting with a new afternoon time slot of 2.00-4.00 because some people asked for that alternative to the evening one. I’ve been reading some books on writing and…