1. The soft reboot...

The countdown to 'Breaking' is on. Will it break me too?

Previously: The Sun and Shrödinger's benefit claimants

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This is the 941st edition of this newsletter. I first wrote one of these emails on June 17 2020, three months into lockdown. 30 people read it. The seventh instalment — on the subject of Brendan O’Neill — was the first to reach more than 2,000 views. In that first year, I wrote an edition a day and sometimes more than one.

Since then, the publishing cadence has ebbed and flowed. In the first few months of this year, I’ve been averaging one email a week, but that’s going to change.

On June 12, my first book is being published. Breaking is, inevitably, about the media, how it works and why it doesn’t. In the run-up to publication, I’m going to go back to the old ways — from today, I’ll be publishing an edition every day (excluding weekends and bank holidays). Rather conveniently, that equates to 50 editions concluding on the day the book drops.

I haven’t planned what I’ll write in all of the 49 other instalments in this series. I’ll try to be topical but I also want to respond to reader suggestions. What do you want me to write about that I’ve not covered before or haven’t looked at for ages?

Thank you for being a subscriber and sticking with me. I hope you’ll enjoy this series. Hit the button below to suggest a topic.

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