Long reads

^ great article.

What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/

Thanks, that was interesting

Not too long, but an interesting read about two American political consultants, Birnbaum and Finkelstein.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgrassegger/george-soros-conspiracy-finkelstein-birnbaum-orban-netanyahu

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/19/american-airlines-aairpass-golden-ticket

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/03/the-untold-story-disappearance-of-fan-bingbing-worlds-biggest-movie-star

Tried reading that, found the tone so smug and self-congratulatory that I had to give up.

I would say it only gets smugger as well, especially given that outside of airline staff, I can't imagine another human who would of flown more miles in their life and created s bigger carbon footprint from air travel than the reporters father

I had to give up when the navel gazing began about the psychological impact that losing his golden ticket had on the writers father. Especially when it was seriously pointed out without a hint of irony or self examination that a big part of the problem was the guy would get lonely, phone up the dedicated booking hotline and chat with the operator, book shit loads of flights and then either cancel them the next day or forget to do so and not turn up.

The Trump piss tape is fake. Probably.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/inside-the-convincing-fake-trump-pee-tape.html

Excellent journalism here on citizen surveillance, housing costs, inequality, and the random things people buy on Amazon:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/stealing-amazon-packages-age-nextdoor/598156/

Economist has a special report on housing policy. The comparison of different approaches across the world is pretty interesting.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/01/16/home-ownership-is-the-wests-biggest-economic-policy-mistake

The True Story of the Fugitive Drug Smuggler Who Became an Environmental Hero

https://www.outsideonline.com/2146981/how-fugitive-pot-smuggler-became-environmental-hero

A death on a lonely road, a woman shot at her own home and the one man who connects them both.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-24/one-person-at-centre-of-two-deaths-geoffrey-sleba/11866504

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-democracy-protests.html

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/05/invisible-city-how-homeless-man-built-life-underground-bunker-hampstead-heath

This is detailed but actually really interesting.

Any other bike article recommendations? True crime feels a bit heavy at the moment.

Enginerding: What Is Anti-Squat & How Does It Actually Affect Mountain Bike Performance?

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/definitions-what-is-anti-squat.html

Great work

http://www.tydomin.com/blog/singlespeeding-the-tour-divide-2017-part-1

Singlespeeding the Tour Divide 2017 - Part 1.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/30/looking-for-a-distraction-here-are-25-of-our-favourite-long-reads

The top ones here I reckon are:

The Batman of obscenity: one lawyer’s crusade to defend extreme pornography – Edward Docx
Myles Jackman is on a mission to change Britain’s obscenity laws. For him, it’s more than a job, it’s a moral calling

Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo – Alex Blasdel
How one company seeks to upend two centuries of western orthodoxy about going to the loo

Why we fell for clean eating – Bee Wilson
The oh-so-Instagrammable food movement has been thoroughly debunked – but it shows no signs of going away. The real question is why we were so desperate to believe it

The fatal hike that became a Nazi propaganda coup – Kate Connolly
In 1936, a school group from south London went on a hike in the Black Forest. Despite the heroic rescue attempts of German villagers, five boys died. Eighty years on, locals are still asking how it happened

This one is very timely and covers the discussions playing out on the forum at the moment in the covid threads:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/31/how-will-the-world-emerge-from-the-coronavirus-crisis

I thought this was an interesting read; I’m not into celebrity tittle tattle but I switched off my cynicism and read through and found the whole thing to be incredibly sad.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/16/friendship-intimate-on-all-levels-whitney-houston-robyn-crawford-addiction-fame-secrecy

Or it could just be fantasist lies and click bait

It’s pretty much there for all to see in the 2017 film Can I Be Me.

Some good stuff here - 25 Movies and the Magazine Stories That Inspired Them

https://longreads.com/2020/02/28/movies-based-on-articles/