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The Frigest #5: The Secret of the Secret of Secrets
Regular Frigest readers will know that I have been struggling manfully through Dan Brown’s latest Robert Langdon thriller, The Secret of Secrets, these…
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My Word of the Year? 'Podcast'
My favourite thing to do this year, when talking with prospective clients or offering media analysis, has been to ask people to define the word podcast.
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The Frigest #4: Netflix's acquisitive mood, FIFA's lickspittle tendency, and my apologies
Ok, look… I was very excited for The Frigest to become a fabulous new addition for premium subscribers (which it is, don’t worry) but I skipped a week…
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How Product Replaced Art (or 'A Recipe for the Great Entertainment Soup')
About 18 years ago, locked away (like Rapunzel) in a British boarding school, I downloaded my first podcast.
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November 2025

The Frigest #3: Libel, Lorde, and Luddites
The Frigest is for paying subscribers only, which makes you a very special person.
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The Frigest #2: Zohran, Auntie, and the cinema habit
“Why no thoughts on Mamdami?
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The TsunamAI: are our systems ready for the coming flood of vexatious AI?
Shortly I will send out my subscriber-only email, The Frigest, with stray thoughts, recommendations and gossip.
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The BBC's Reckoning: can the next Director-General solve its impartiality permacrisis?
Tim Davie has resigned, but does this help the BBC move forward?
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The Frigest #1: Surrogates, Tories, Moustaches, and Treachery
The first edition of my premium Friday digest of cultural and political treats
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Synecdoche, New Media: can the creator economy become more than the sum of its parts?
Can Steven Bartlett create "the Disney of the creator economy"?
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October 2025

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