Hello and welcome to this month's journalism roundup. It does feel as though the phrase 'lockdown reads' is still contemporary so I'm going to stick with it for now even though I know not everyone in the UK is under a local lockdown. It just feels like we are.
We begin this month's summary with the economy, and a shrewd piece of economic and policy analysis conducted by the New Statesman. They predicted at the beginning of September that the UK is sleepwalking into a jobs crisis. I suspect that their feelings on the matter haven't changed much since.
Another sign of what might be ahead of us, economy and employment wise, was this surprisingly poignant tech story from Bloomberg, which revealed a trick Amazon delivery drivers are deploying to score more gig work.
In other driver related news, The Guardian ran this devastating piece about the life and death of Mervyn 'Mally' Kennedy, and the fight by his fellow London bus drivers to get the protection they needed from COVID-19 earlier this year.
While no one could really be said to be having a 'good' pandemic, this piece from The Conversation reveals some good news about Covid inspired innovations in Vietnam over the past six months.
Resident Adviser ran a thoughtful photo essay on Beirut's nightclub scene, post August's blast, and The Cut ran another of their much talked about, thought provoking personal essays this month. This time by model Emily Ratajkowski, concerning her fight to own her own image.
Using humour to talk about a serious topic, 1843 magazine provided a guide to conspiracy theory slang. In a loosely related, much darker, note the recent BBC podcast series Two Minutes Past Nine looks at the long shadow on American life and culture cast by the Oklahoma bombing in 1995 and is well worth a listen.
New Manchester media startup The Mill began strong last month with this penetrating analysis of why Rebecca Long-Bailey failed to become Labour leader. They also got the inside take on Manchester Metropolitan University's controversial student lockdown. You can subscribe to them for free or subscribe to a paid membership in order to help keep them going. Details and the end of each article.
Until next month. Stay safe.
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