This page will be updated with all my recommendations.
Last updated 5th of December 2025.
News Sources
- BBC News
- The Guardian
- The Times
I always insist it’s not just important to stay informed, it’s a responsibility as a citizen.
Podcasts
- The Rest is Politics
- Political Currency
- Waveform (MKBHD)
- The Vergecast
- The Rest is History
- Version History
- The Book Club
My podcast player of choice is Pocket Casts.
Music Player
- I use Spotify and have done for over a decade. It’s solid. I tried Apple Music once and I didn’t like how they treat music queuing.
Fiction Books
I particularly enjoy detective fiction.
- The Cormoran Strike series
- The Thursday Murder Club series
- The Horowitz and Hawthorne series
- Robert Rinder’s novels
- V2 by Robert Harris
- Robert Langdon series by Dan Brown
- The Twilight series
- The Hunger games series and its prequels
- The Harry Potter books
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Normal People - Sally Rooney
- Conclave - Robert Harris
- Fatherland - Robert Harris
YouTube Channels
- Grainydays
- Chris Spargo
- Tom Scott (not active at the moment)
- MKBHD
- The Studio
- Tested by Adam Savage
- Nick Carver
- By Default
- Blank First Page
- Uri Tuchman