The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything
Jonn Elledge, Isabelle Roughol, Phil Tinline, Rhiannon Garth Jonesassorted nerdery from a man who should probably be doing something else
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Burning Down the House
This week: summer’s here, so you know what that means – a new Prime Minister, again! Also: my adventures on the Paris Metro; and a map of some places in London to cool down.
It’s as regular a feature of the British summer as a once-in-a-ce...
“The war system cannot be allowed to disappear”: the report that shocked America
Jonn here. Today’s book extract comes from Phil Tinline’s fascinating Ghost of Iron Mountain, one of the Times’ history books of 2025. It concerns… well. You’ll see.
America, winter, 1966. Nearly four hundred thousand soldiers in Vietnam....
Entitlements, grudges and numbats
This week: a creature that isn’t a wombat, and Oxford’s five hundred year grudge against Henry Symeonis. But first, a rant about education and employers.
The subjects I thought extensively about in my week away included popes and antipopes...
Is this… normal? On writing a book
I’m in France not checking the news, so here are some notes on the process that’s been consuming 80% of my brain of late. Also: a map of the 38 United States; and a brief etymological investigation.
There’s a long-standing myth that women...
Book Club: Why do we imagine Ancient Rome in gleaming white?
Jonn here. I am on the final, final, FINAL push to get my new book out – so in a change from your regular TNONQE service, here’s an extract from another book which someone, pretty sensibly, has already finished writing.
I spend a lot of ti...
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Author/journalist/columnist type. Sound on the matter of HS2.
I use Substack as social media but you should really sign up at broadhistory.com for my writing. Writer & podcaster, Broad History. Fractional exec building sustainable indie newsrooms.
Phil Tinline is the author of The Death of Consensus (Times Politics Book of the Year). His book Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax That Duped America and its Sinister Legacy ("excellent" - NYT) is out now.
I am a medieval historian, writer, editor, and general nerd. My PhD is in early Islamic material culture and the shared traditions of Afro-Eurasia. I am the Editor of Medieval World magazine and my book, All Roads Lead to Rome, is out now!
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