The Hello You Sunday Supplement, Issue 30
The sun's shining, the flowers are blooming, and here's this week's Good Stuff!
Hello, you. How’re you doing?
Welcome to the Hello You Sunday Supplement!
New subscriber, wot dis? Every Sunday I compile a bunch of links and recommendations so you have some good stuff to read, listen to, enjoy and think about with your brunch and coffee. I hope you like it! If you do, share it with your friends?
Meantime, put the kettle on and let’s start with …
Something to listen to while you read
It’s fifty years since Kraftwerk released ‘Autobahn’. I don’t think a single month has gone by since then in which I haven’t listened to it.
'Fifty years later, this is music that still doesn’t have a single mile on the clock'
Driving to see your mum today? Or, like my dad and stepmum, driving down to spend a week in the caravan? Put this on:
What went right this week
European institutions offered ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers, neurodivergence enjoyed a big screen moment, and the seeds were sown for a new national forest plus more good news from the good people at Positive News
Here’s this week’s Good Stuff. Click freely, share generously
‘It’s helping me build my future’: empowering migrant and refugee families in a London borough of sanctuary
Wouldn’t it be amazing if more airports looked like this?
‘I feel really, really cross at incredibly dumb decisions’ (So do I, Stephen. So. Do. I.)
Pioneering project by Welsh National Opera suggests music can alleviate chronic pain
The UK has a lot of people out of work because of mental illness, but listening to those affected reveals that’s rarely the whole story
How to have good taste
‘Nowhere feels safe’ – what it’s like to be a British girl in 2025
Music, cannabis and you (isn't that what they used to call Radio 2 overnights?)
What you’re probably getting wrong about workplace communication
‘As soon as you open the door, you’re in danger
At eighteen years old, Kate Elysia fell victim to Telford’s grooming gang of sex abusers. But how? And what happened afterwards?
‘They were telling me it was my fault’
Kate’s now in her thirties. She’s back in Telford after many years away, working in mental health.
‘I feel that I have recovered and that I’m doing very well considering what I’ve been through. I just hope for that for everyone else’
Kate tells her story in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast
How to enter the USA with your digital privacy intact (wow, this is bloody scary)
Listening bars are back (I want to go to all of these!)
We should start being more compassionate and empathetic towards the predicament of those in society who are underprivileged or poor
Teaching myself how to read
We’re all connected. When another country goes astray, it affects us too. When we go astray, we affect others
Creativity can transform your mental health
Do you know how to say 'No'?
Mercy Ships volunteers set sail to provide free life-changing or lifesaving surgery
It’s emotionally painful to watch mainstream legacy publications erode civil rights, amplify the authoritarian messages being spread by billionaires, and still receive widespread support
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'No wonder I'm 'vain'; I 'came of age' in the 1990s'
Chatbots could spark the next big mental health crisis
Love music? Want to hear something different? Listen to Canadian (or French) radio
The newsroom's vanishing women
The secret history of the manicule
If you read one thing this week, make it this
What is the meaning of life?
Final Thought, à la Jerry Springer
Thank you for being there
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