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Happy Valentine’s Day! What better reason is there to write a newsletter if not for love? ABSOLUTELY BLOODY NONE.  But this ode to cupid is taking a slightly different approach. You see, this newsletter is part of my Solitude Series, a look at how people are spending more time

👆👆Podcast version of this week's newsletter above!👆👆 More solitude! Oh yes, continuing from last week’s newsletter, I’m taking a closer look at how the modern age is doing strangely unique things to us and our relationships.  While last week was all about how we’re all

We spend more time alone than ever before. We eat alone, we socialise alone, we entertain ourselves alone, and more recently, we’ve even started having relationships on our own.  Health organisations have been talking about the dangers of loneliness for years. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared loneliness to

👆👆Podcast version of today's newsletter above! 👆👆 Happy 2025 you beautiful b*stards.    As is the tradition every year, I’ve no doubt you already have a list of new year’s resolutions locked and loaded in the shiny new achievement cannon you bought yourself for Christmas.  This year

That’s quite the headline, isn’t it? But then again, you’re reading this on Christmas Day. Desperate times calls for desperate measures etc.  If you are reading this on Christmas Day, here’s some food for thought: if there are 8 billion people on the planet, and the

👆👆Oh look, it's The Brink podcast! Listen to this week's newsletter here! 👆👆 It’s Christmas. That means the bin bag of Christmas decorations you hastily shoved somewhere so you didn’t have to think about them is now empty, and your home is littered with tinsel

I read something odd the other day.  Over in China, the Department of Culture and Tourism announced they had created a unique holiday package. Called the "Exile to Ningguta", paying customers would get the chance to experience what it was like to be exiled during the Qing dynasty.