OK Boomer Memes
The trafficked teenagers tending UK cannabis farms (2017).
Plastic pollution is making Central America uninhabitable.
The best minds of a generation have not been destroyed by social media. Though it could depend on the generation: boomer memes that helped Scott Morrison in Australia are now helping the Tories.
Martin Scorsese on why Marvel movies aren’t cinema. I’m working through them with my kids at the moment. Maybe they aren’t cinema, but they’re mostly fun.
Does Batman really need a Bat-Yacht?
The best explanation I’ve read of the need for HS2.
Australia demands compensation over Brexit trade disruption.
Thatcher killed the UK’s superfast broadband before it even existed.
Russia wants to cut itself off from the global internet.
A GPS mystery in Shanghai. Chinese manufacturers are behaving as though they have no future.
An unbearable reminder of the evils of colonialism: a father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old in the Belgian Congo in 1904, as photographed by Alice Seeley Harris.