Andrew Brown

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writer, journalist, ex-Guardian, Independent.
Orwell Prize for Politics for book on Sweden "Fishing in Utopia";
Templeton Prize for religious journalism at Indie; shortlisted for Aventis Prize for science writing for "In the Beginning was the Worm", about c.elegans.

#sverige #flugfiske #languages #history #photography

andrewbrown.substack.com

Leofan men, gecnawað þæt soð is. Ðeos worold is on ofste, and hit nealæcð þam ende, and þy hit is on worolde aa swa leng swa wyrse. And swa hit sceal

Andrew BrownSep 2, 2024
Absolutely devastating
Andrew BrownJul 6, 2024
That goat must really be the goat.
Andrew BrownJun 21, 2024
How to market a milkshake
Andrew BrownApr 21, 2024
Incidentally, the church where the vampire shelters, and Quether (spelled Quither) are both on the OS map
Show threadAndrew BrownApr 21, 2024
Margery of Quether is on the Internet Archive, and it's great fun. Horrible narrator who is undone by kindness, greedy peasants, sympathetic vampire:
Andrew BrownFeb 26, 2024
AS a leader writer for the Telegraph, Tim Stanley can't blame the economic policies of the last 14 years — nor the big trend ever since Thatcher/Reagan — for the mess we're in. But here he calls out his own party's favoured scapegoats:
Andrew BrownFeb 1, 2024
https://open.substack.com/pub/andrewbrown/p/adventures-in-a-world-without-trust This one is here for @mariafarrell and Ed.
Adventures in a world without trust

A traveller in 1840s Afghanistan

The slow deep hover
Andrew BrownDec 10, 2023
So possibly Perplexity.ai is going to be useful
Andrew BrownNov 27, 2023
This https://ig.ft.com/china-mosques/ is a great story anyway — an example of how the FT uses data so cleverly — but the last sentence of this paragraph is perfect
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Andrew BrownOct 20, 2023
Cats and dogs compared https://open.substack.com/pub/andrewbrown/p/cats-dogs-and-human-communication?r=3hvho&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Cats, dogs, and human communication

Not clickbait at all, despite the cute pictures

The slow deep hover