The Hello You Sunday Supplement, Issue 35
Because it's been quite a week, and you really don't want to read the papers today
Hello, you. How are you this morning? Or this afternoon, or this Tuesday lunchtime, whenever you’re turning to this (mostly) uplifting collection of links and recommendations in search of something good to read and enjoy?
That’s the purpose of the Hello You Sunday Supplement, if you’re a new subscriber or a curious visitor (and if you are: welcome! make yourself at home around the Hello You Virtual Kitchen Table with the other members of the Hello You family).
And if you’re a longstanding Hello You family member, it’s good to have you here. At times like these, it’s good to have good people around us. I’m using the word ‘good’ a lot today, because frankly I think we - Shropshire, the UK, the endangered planet - could use a lot more good. Hello You the Shropshire podcast exists to boost everyone’s levels of good. Feel free to turn to it when you need more good. And share the good?
OK, let’s do this …
Something to listen to while you read
Just leaving this here …
What Will Become of England, by Jim Ghedi
What went right this week
Indonesia topped a new wellbeing index, electric cars kept the lights on in Spain, and an ‘extinct’ bird came back from the abyss plus more good news from the good people at Positive News
Ready for the good stuff? Here we go …
Spain shut down for almost an entire day. It was chaos. It was terrible. It was beautiful
No Mow May is one of the easiest ways to help and connect with wildlife, and the perfect way to start supporting nature in your garden (I started No Mow May in March!)
‘It’s done wonders’: trading card game featuring middle-aged men revives Japanese town
A secret note hidden in Dachau-built ‘Violin of Hope’ tells a tale of survival and craftsmanship
Incredibly, the name 'Highland Rim Project' isn't the worst thing about this
Sham marriages and spies: rediscovering the Birmingham Group
We could all press the magic button. But we're better than that
Why is the UK deporting people to Taliban-run Afghanistan?
Too Many Lost Souls: How Doves' Mancunian melancholia soundtracked a life
The UK’s autism ‘tests’ for trans youth should raise alarms
What could possibly go wrong?! 😳
Five common signs that you're in a toxic work environment (enjoy the bank holiday, everyone!)
The only recap of Trump's first 100 days you should be reading (or need to, tbh)
I'd love to hang out with this guy. And listen to the Mixcloud on here? He has impeccable taste!
A camera versus the Cosa Nostra
On Hello You the Shropshire podcast this past week:
‘I literally could not believe what I had done’
James shares his story of the hell and degradation of chemsex: risky sexual behaviour whilst using - and addicted to - crystal meth
‘It’s a way of educating people about our amazing county’
Does a building near you have room for a mural?
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AI is 'pivot to video' 2.0
A film photography workshop for the smartphone generation
This one-man newsroom embraces ‘bare-knuckles’ journalism (Hello You the Shropshire podcast is very inspired by this guy. Can you tell?!)
Sounds of the Ukraine war: what these recordings of daily life reveal about the human and environmental costs
This is not just a media problem, it is a fundamental threat to democracy itself
London life in posters from c.1990
'I hate front-facing camera culture'
Tangerine Dream’s Rubycon half a century on
How to tame your listening space
Stop waiting for America to look like what you think fascism will look like. It's too late for that now
If you read one thing this week, make it this
In case you were thinking of travelling to the USA ...
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Final Thought, à la Jerry Springer
Thank you for being there
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Have the best bank holiday you can
Thank you for being a member of the Hello You family
Take care of yourself, and take care of the people around you. I hope they’re taking care of you, too