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Daily newsletter recommending and summarising the internet's finest articles, hand-picked by @robertcottrell & @c_crampton. Posts here by @uribram

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"When the gods have so driven a man out of his wits that he decides to produce a critical edition of a classical Latin author, what does he do?" Delighted to feature this magnificent piece from @AntigoneJournal in The Browser this week!

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And now, dear followers, our 500th article! It's a meaningful milestone and one we mark by reviving a lovely lecture that is largely unknown. So here's the ingenious and playful James Willis on the Science of Blunders: Confessions of a Textual Critic. https://t.co/TC3RHLbkbx

[Uri Bram 🔍 @UriBram]

There are Aliens and Cyclists in today's edition of @TheBrowser -

Science fiction has led us down the garden path as far as aliens are concerned, @GjMcGowan notes in 'Alien Assumptions'

And @PeterCarlyon4 profiles a vigilante cyclist in a piece for @_TheLondoner

Alien Assumptions
George McGowan | Mindless Algorithm | 8th February 2026 | U
Science fiction has warped our ideas of how a visit to Earth from aliens might go. Just to get here from the nearest star, let alone further afield, said aliens would have to be far more technologically advanced than us. Unless they wanted us to know, we might not even be aware of their presence. "There is no 'war' and we don't even necessarily realise what is happening. They don't land infantry with laser guns" (1,200 words)

London's Most Controversial Cyclist
Peter Carlyon | Londoner | 7th February 2026 | U
Profile of one Michael van Erp, better known as "Cycling Mikey". When he was 19, his father was killed by a drunk driver. Ever since, he's been trying to catch road offenders in the act. As a "cycling vigilante" who shares his footage with both the Met and his thousands of followers, he is proud to say that he has pulled in £168,568 in fines. His nemesis is a lawyer known as "Mr Loophole" (2,700 words)

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@c_crampton https://t.co/wDiqme681N

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From today's Browser -- this deserves more than 719 views. H/t @c_crampton

[AK Turner 🖤 @AKTurnerauthor]

Lovely piece on the direct but thoughtful and constructive rejection letters Toni Morrison wrote while in publishing in the Seventies. Scroll down to see extracts. (Via the always excellent @TheBrowser )https://t.co/1CI57ZsBw6

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Money-launderers, bankers, headhunters, coders, mobsters, oligarchs, murder victims, and innocent bystanders: read Underflow, our new serial fiction https://t.co/2oNA1qAY93

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How to Be a Good Literary Citizen | @TheBrowser https://t.co/d5CBUYZlxw

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How do you feel about people saying your name a lot during a conversation?

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We're delighted to announce Underflow, a new thriller serial delivered by email. Meet money-launderers, technologists and central bankers in a story of financial and governmental intrigue. Billions don't come free. Sign up here to be the first to read https://t.co/lkL5PZdKr7

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Tomorrow! Come eat delicious chocolates, meet fascinating people, and pit your tastebuds against other readers in our prize quiz....

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New Yorkers, please do join us for a chocolate tasting evening this Thursday at @vercinyc in Soho -- try delicious chocolates, meet delightful people https://t.co/ibPwSg6pOb

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I always think it would be fun as a newsletter to send a special note to, like, your 155,555th member, but there's absolutely no way to do it that wouldn't look like spam

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New Yorkers, please do join us for a chocolate tasting evening this Thursday at @vercinyc in Soho -- try delicious chocolates, meet delightful people https://t.co/ibPwSg6pOb

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Today we're delighted to share the first in a series of short stories by @larsiusprime to be published in The Browser:

We Trade With Ants

https://t.co/LgK4VBGtEn

[Lars Doucet @larsiusprime]

Doing a new thing this year. Writing some science fiction short stories. I've got a series that might turn into a book, and I'm running the first few stories in @TheBrowser. If you wanna catch em I'll link them on my blog as they run.

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The thriller is almost over; guess the ending before it happens. Start here: https://t.co/qU251qjjsz

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@marcoconno (if you had some other link please do send it to me so I can redirect it as well!)

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An inconvenient Frenchman. An accident with coffee. A disingenuous billionaire. All this and more in the first installment of our new serial, Death in Davos.

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@marcoconno at this link, or some other? this one works for me, let me know if it's still 404ing and I'll dig in! https://t.co/qU251qjjsz

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https://t.co/JrJbmZelDa

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@ChanaMessinger @dynomight7 @TheBrowser has been featuring it since at least September 2020!