The internet went WILD this week when a NZ journalist brutally took down a politician, and if you haven’t already, go watch it now
For our friends in the northern hemisphere, here’s some brilliant tips for staying sane as the days get cooler and winter creeps in (there’s gold in the comments)
Okay, so we don’t have kids but we’re weirdly loving this parenting newsletter called Evil Witches (‘a newsletter for witches who happen to be mothers’), which started out as private Facebook messages between the creator Claire Zulkey and her friends, and is now a hilarious weekly treat in your inbox. You can sign up here
Speaking of excellent newsletters! Gossip Time is a new celebrity gossip newsletter (stay with us) by a former writer at The Cut and it’s wonderfully snarky while also being actually quite informative. You can sign up here
If you’re partial to a can of tuna and Sirena has saved your lunch on more than one occasion, feast your eyes on this Guardian list of the best 17 things to do with tinned tuna. There’s a Nigel Slater baked tomato dish that sounds delicious, an Alison Roman salad, and even Ottolenghi shares his tuna secrets. Excellent Friday lunch inspo
Scary stories in 10 words or less
Everyone who’s currently working from home, this one’s for you (it’s an oldie but a real goodie)
If you’re counting down the days til The Crown starts, may we recommend listening to the latest few eps of the podcast You’re Wrong About instead? The podcast is a weekly series hosted by two journos who delve deep into an event or person or trend that's been miscast in the public imagination – and they’ve just released three juicy eps all about Princess Di and her life in the palace. Highly, highly recommend
Love these five ideas for shaking up your small talk repertoire (“I never know which popular strategy is better when people ask me how I’m doing. Should I say, “I’m fine thank you, how are you?” like a cog in the greased wheel of social graces that grinds on and on, tamping down the dust that gathers upon the ruins of human connection?”)
A long list of documentary recommendations by people on the internet
There’s been so many scathing reviews of Emily in Paris this week that it was hard to choose our favourite. In the end, it was a three-way tie: this snarky piece in Vice about the appeal of watching American white women behave like assholes in foreign countries, this Insider list of the 23 most unrealistic moments (“Emily is supposed to be a social media maven, but arrives in Paris with only 48 Instagram followers”) and this Twitter thread detailing all the inaccuracies in Emily's career in social media marketing
This story about a woman who opened a restaurant for a chipmunk cos she missed restaurants so much is honestly one of the best things we’ve read this year. It’s poignant and funny and sweet, and you’ll just have to trust us on this one (“By day three I’d made a makeshift tablecloth cut from a bandana. Then I fashioned a vase out of one of those rubber guards for pencils and filled it with a tiny purple vinca bud. “What do chipmunks eat besides nuts?” I wondered as I made a grocery list.”)
Tiny love stories
A Covid-denier shares what it was like to dismiss the pandemic as a hoax, only to host a party that spread the virus to his entire family (“I have no idea which one of us brought the virus into the house, but all six of us left with it. It kept spreading from there.”)
