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July 2024 reading 12 August 2024
Next year’s BJGP conference 8 August 2024
June 2024 reading 30 June 2024
On being colour blind 29 May 2024
May 2024 reading 1 May 2024
April 2024 reading 29 April 2024
March 2024 reading 1 April 2024
February 2024 reading 28 February 2024
Some recent writing 2 February 2024
January 2024 reading list 30 January 2024
December 2023 reading list 31 December 2023
November 2023 reading list 25 November 2023
October 2023 reading list 21 October 2023
September 2023 reading list 30 August 2023
August 2023 reading list 29 August 2023
July 2023 reading list 31 July 2023
New Antidotum post has landed 4 July 2023
June 2023 reading list 30 June 2023
Taking the longer view 24 June 2023
Lawfare - another area where reform needed to preserve and promote our democracy 23 June 2023
Surviving politics 22 June 2023
Back from the Cape Wrath Ultra 6 June 2023
May 2023 reading list 31 May 2023
April 2023 reading list 30 April 2023
Substack Notes 11 April 2023
Revisiting The Cruel Way 11 April 2023
Watching football when colour blind 9 April 2023
Finishing War and Peace 8 April 2023
Smart notes vs second brain 5 April 2023
March 2023 reading list 31 March 2023
Unnatural causes, natural reactions 17 March 2023
February 2023 reading list 28 February 2023
January 2023 reading list 31 January 2023
December 2022 reading list 24 December 2022
Some winter photos 9 December 2022
November 2022 reading list 26 November 2022
Migrating to Mastodon 26 November 2022
October 2022 reading list and notes 29 October 2022
Exposing the chumocracy 6 October 2022
September 2022 reading list and notes 5 October 2022
August 2022 reading list and notes 4 October 2022
July 2022 reading list and notes 3 October 2022
June 2022 reading list and notes 2 October 2022
April and May 2022 reading list and notes 1 October 2022
Windswept and Interesting by Billy Connolly 8 July 2022
Sustainable farming around Haweswater and Mardale Common 22 April 2022
Reading online essays on your e-reader 22 April 2022
February and March 2022 reading list and notes 21 April 2022
January 2022 Reading List 29 January 2022
On giving up on books 8 January 2022
More numbers — this time on exercise 7 January 2022
Sun up on Winder 6 January 2022
Some reflections on a year of reading 5 January 2022
Christmas crime scene 3 January 2022
December 2021 Reading List 1 December 2021
November 2021 Reading List 2 November 2021
October 2021 Reading List 1 November 2021
September 2021 Reading List 1 October 2021
How to do footnotes 17 September 2021
Footnote abuse 16 September 2021
More books to read… the Baillie Gifford Prize announces the 2021 non-fiction longlist 10 September 2021
August 2021 Reading List 1 September 2021
July 2021 Reading List 1 August 2021
Summer days 23 July 2021
June 2021 Reading List 1 July 2021
Also toxic 27 June 2021
Just toxic 25 June 2021
May 2021 Reading List 1 June 2021
Fall by Andrew Preston 8 May 2021
April 2021 reading List 1 May 2021
Failures of State by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott 28 April 2021
March 2021 Reading List 1 April 2021
February 2021 Reading List 1 March 2021
January 2021 Reading List 1 February 2021
December 2020 Reading List 1 January 2021
November 2020 Reading List 1 December 2020
Wake Up by Piers Morgan 19 November 2020
October 2020 reading list 1 November 2020
September 2020 reading list 1 October 2020
August 2020 reading list 1 September 2020
July 2020 reading list 16 August 2020
Late presenting bladder cancer and colour vision 15 August 2020
Colourblindness and cricket 15 August 2020
The Orwell Prize winner 2020 goes to… 9 July 2020
June 2020 reading list 1 July 2020
May 2020 reading list 1 June 2020
April 2020 reading list 1 May 2020
March 2020 reading list 1 April 2020
The Growth Delusion by David Pilling 19 March 2020
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal 18 March 2020
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by James Bloodworth 17 March 2020
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum 16 March 2020
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman 15 March 2020
Orwell Long List 2019 14 March 2020
February 2020 reading list 1 March 2020
January 2020 reading list 2 February 2020
Narconomics by Tom Wainwright 29 January 2020
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow 28 January 2020
The Ascent of Nanda Devi by HW Tilman 27 January 2020
January Debrief — The Political Doctor 24 January 2020
On Immunity: An Innoculation by Eula Bliss 20 January 2020
Bad Samaritans by Ha-Joon Chang 12 January 2020
Strava update for 2019 3 January 2020
December 2019 reading list 2 January 2020
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron 31 December 2019
The Gentle Art of Tramping by Stephen Graham 30 December 2019
Understanding colour blindness 17 December 2019
Purple skies and pink elephants 16 December 2019
The pleasure of unexpected snow 15 December 2019
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit 7 December 2019
Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens 6 December 2019
Missing the Anthropocene point 30 November 2019
More on email - geeking out with MailMate 29 November 2019
Left and right: Click bait book titles 28 November 2019
Signalling to Facebook 27 November 2019
Home visits and GPs 26 November 2019
Taking notes on audiobooks 25 November 2019
A passing thought on the D-word 24 November 2019
Doing one thing 23 November 2019
Black Friday and the Diderot effect 22 November 2019
De-Googling 21 November 2019
Best book with an awful title 20 November 2019
Notes on a fell race: Ring of Steall 2017 19 November 2019
Nine tips for writing essays on research for medical students 18 November 2019
A note on typography 17 November 2019
Cormac McCarthy on academic writing 16 November 2019
Gender bias in clinical case reports 15 November 2019
Mobile drug consumption rooms 14 November 2019
Blackpool is still dancing 13 November 2019
The November 2019 Debrief 12 November 2019
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis 11 November 2019
Howgills in November 10 November 2019
Engines of Privilege 9 November 2019
Email apps: why don’t they all have a ‘working offline’ button? 8 November 2019
Selected quotes from Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott 7 November 2019
Monthly reflection on activity: October 2019 6 November 2019
London Review of Books: How to Buy Drugs by Misha Glenny and Callum Lang 5 November 2019
Smith: Why are doctors so unhappy? 4 November 2019
Some quotes from Seneca: On The Shortness of Life 3 November 2019
Aporkalypse Now 2 November 2019
Can Medicine Be Cured by Seamus O’Mahony 1 November 2019
Memy: Learning poetry by heart 31 October 2019
Richard Freeman: former Team Sky doctor 30 October 2019
Healthy diets and the planet 29 October 2019