In today’s edition: why the Apple News+ debate is - for now - a storm in a teacup, plus good reads on Reels, influencer and toxic game #journalism… onemanandhisblog.com/2020/08/whos-a…
Yesterday, I cleaned abandoned nappies of the local beach. Today, I read this. Britain, we are not showing the world our best side right now. apple.news/An8D4rUVrSFCug…
@sofiadmateus Yes ma’am.
@EstherKeziaT Yup - and we’ll quite probably see a boom/resurgence in regional co-working spaces, too.
“Commuting has come to be seen as an unnecessary health hazard. A worker visiting his or her office will be like going shopping, an occasional discretionary activity. Yes, we will value the human contact with workplace friends, clients and associates, …” gu.com/p/eha44/stw
Trying a small productivity hack today: doing half hour bursts of email, and then closing the app for a couple of hours.
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Beach life. t.co/MgBW2hqt2… 
I’m currently reading The Daring Of Della Dupree by Natasha Lowe 📚 to my daughters. They are absolutely loving it. Just enough peril to keep them hooked, but some genuine history in there for them to learn from. 👌🏻 micro.blog/books/97815344…
The “aircraft engine housing and car wash brushes” look for garden gates is in, in, in, this summer. t.co/Iq41sdXOJ… 
John Witherow, editor of The Times, in his morning newsletter:
Put simply, Britain is an over-centralised state that is weak at the centre.
Hard to disagree. nuk-tnl-deck-email.s3.amazonaws.com/61/c9591e48b02…
In praise of the cloudy summer’s day: microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2020/08/14/in-…
The over-50s are coming for your TikTok. And they’re taking no style prisoners. telegraph.co.uk/fashion/style/…
As soon as the sun goes in, we get the beach back to ourselves. This was absolutely heaving a few days ago. microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2020/08/14/as-…
There are worse places to catch up on a few emails. t.co/q8hFc4aGf… 
Any former #interhacktives out there looking for shifts? twitter.com/eliserwjohnson…
@FraZaffarano @LauraOliver @eliserwjohnson1 has already been bending my ear…
I’m sure I saw a story this morning suggesting that UK people movements were still down on pre-lockdown levels, but German levels are up. I cannot find it again for the life of me. Anyone else recall it?
Tempting. t.co/WqQo6pmMI… 
Upgrade for our Zoom future. t.co/ocmYqLkyR… 
Right here. Right now. t.co/kXCUAgkr4… 
Disposable BBQs are an abomination and should be banned in every civilised nation.
Well, now. Twitter has finally rolled out the anti-reply guy feature to everyone. t.co/ZLKQnkuO2… 
@Zielina @threadreaderapp Please unroll.
@OwsWills Any of the campsites on Île de Ré. You can cycle round the whole area really easily, and are never far from a great range of beaches and harbour towns.