Substacks recommended by Arthur Snell

Recommended by Arthur Snell

Long form newsletter and podcast covering underreported stories from Central Asia by journalist and author Agnieszka Pikulicka

On this and that, and the other

By Martin D. Brown

Occasional musings and thoughts, when I can be bothered, and mainly for my own amusement, but might be occasionally illuminating

Dividing Lines

By Tom Hamilton

A Substack about political attack, what it means and why it matters

Diving into Data & Decision making

By Christina Pagel

Prof Christina Pagel on using data to inform decisions. What does data tell you? What can't it tell you? What do you need to know to make good decisions? I also write more generally around health policy, UK and US politics, using data and evidence.

The Kramatorsk Diaries

By Paul Conroy

Reporting and photographing the Ukraine war since March 2022

Paul Conroy has so much experience, painfully gained, from war zones. It gives him a special kind of insight.

- Arthur Snell

Flat White Whale

By Pete

Going for coffee with Moby-Dick

Auraist: picking the best-written books

By Sean

Trusted by 40K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK recent releases and prize shortlists, and publish in-depth articles by their authors on prose style. Plus the satirical series The Demon Inside David Lynch.

Ordering the Disorder

By Jason Pack

We live in an era of Global Enduring Disorder. Neo-populism, climate change and unregulated cyberspace are but a few of the key issues which confront our wrong-footed institutions. Join us, as we monitor and explore solutions to the Enduring Disorder.

Navigating the Vortex

Big-picture geopolitical and geoeconomic commentary with an ethical compass.

Rant! with Alex Finley

A place to rant about national security, democracy, and corruption, but funny.

War Crime

By Hugh Sykes

Iraq since the 2003 invasion by the United States and the UK.

War Crime

By Hugh Sykes

Life and death in Iraq since the invasion and war in 2003.

Tax Policy Associates

By Dan Neidle

Updates on tax policy from Dan Neidle and Tax Policy Associates

The Garden of Forking Paths

By Brian Klaas

Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever changing world.

Politics, polls and public opinion

By Will Jennings

Analysis of recent developments in British politics, polling and elections

Fallout

By Dustin Du Cane

We have moved from Substack to Ghost! We are at fallout.ghost.io

Climate Psyched

By The Climate Psychologists

For everyone who feels psyched out about dealing with the climate crisis. Here you can read about climate psychology, climate emotions, building resilience, large-scale behavior change and how to start feeling psyched up about the climate transition.

The Grizzly Bear Diaries

By Julius Strauss

The story of a British war correspondent who moved to the Canadian wilderness and set up a bear-viewing lodge. And what happened next. By Julius Strauss. Since 2006.

Back from the Front

By Julius Strauss's Back

A veteran war reporter and former Russia correspondent writes on Ukraine & Russia, as well as the Middle East, eastern Europe, the Balkans and where the world is going. Dispatches from the field, investigations, commentary and analysis.

Writing from London

By Nick Cohen

Politics and culture from the UK and beyond by Nick Cohen

Comment is Freed

By Sam Freedman

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

Seven Days in May

By Martin Black

"The things that can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices), and the intoxication of the senses"

The Ideas Lab

By Eliot Wilson

Innovative thinking about politics, business and society, with historical reflections

The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything

By Jonn Elledge

assorted nerdery from a man who should probably be doing something else

Quirky, fascinating, different to many other newsletters.

- Arthur Snell

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey offers an incisive and thought-provoking analysis by James M. Dorsey of the geopolitics in a swath of land stretching from Africa's Atlantic coast across the Middle East and Central Asia to the borders of China

Fascinating and broad scope looking at geopolitics across Africa and Eurasia

- Arthur Snell

Shane O'Mara

Explore the mysteries of your brain and the magic of life by Shane O'Mara, Substack Featured Writer, best-selling author, and Professor of Experimental Brain Research. Book: Talking Heads - The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds

SpyTalk

By Jeff Stein

Intelligence for Thinking People

Diplomatic, by Laura Rozen

By Laura

Reporting on foreign policy, Washington, and the U.S. administration.

Brilliant in-depth analysis of foreign policy issues.

- Arthur Snell

The Bluestocking

By Helen Lewis

I read the internet, so you don’t have to.

PREVAIL by Greg Olear

PREVAIL is a regular column about politics, history, national security, foreign affairs, organized crime, dirty money, global corruption, the fight for democracy—and, on Sundays, poetry and literature.

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Book Post

By Ann Kjellberg

Bite-sized book reviews by distinguished and engaging writers, direct to readers‘ in boxes. Editor Ann Kjellberg is a multi-decade veteran of The New York Review of Books and founder of the literary magazine LIttle Star

Not all doom

Recommended by Arthur Snell