Scott M Hartop

Hats off to @MishalHusainBBC . Take note, Panto Paxman, Faisal Islam and Andrew Neil. #BBCdebate

"The Places Becoming ‘Portals of Opportunities’ for Business" linkedin.com/pulse/places-b…

Documentaries more "formally inventive", borrowing from fiction filmmaking Alex Gibney on Zero Days #Netflix fastcompany.com/3060464/most-c…

"We get books from shell-damaged homes near the front line, through bombed-out buildings..." bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-…

"We should be asking ourselves what our Archduke Ferdinand moment will be..." On #Brexit & #Trump by @theonlytoby @theonlytoby/history-tells-us-what-will-happen-next-with-brexit-trump-a3fefd154714#.irumrshmq" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@theonlytoby/h…

I've not #read anything as good or as important as this in some time. Gripping #writing by @JasonMotlagh outsideonline.com/2098801/skull-…

“It’s perpetually unsatisfying" David Brooks on #writing a weekly column for the NYT linkedin.com/pulse/david-br…

A week to go and 31 tickets left to sell for @dot_york. Not got yours yet? Do it now, it’ll be fun dotyork.com/2016/

#AlphaGo wins game 5! One of the most incredible games ever. To comeback from the initial big mistake against Lee Sedol was mind-blowing!!!

"A slow, methodical path into hell" On Jóhannsson's deep percusive score for Villeneuve’s stylish Sicario wired.com/2016/02/sicari…

“Conventions are like fairies... stop believing in them, they die” Elizabeth Collett #Migration Policy Institute ft.com/cms/s/0/93881f…

Nigeria's littattafan soyayya and the power of Kano market literature wired.com/2016/02/glenna…

Just a heads up. Michael Clayton is on BBC iPlayer. Tony Gilroy's best work. Wilkinson, Pollack, Swinton, Clooney... all outstanding.

'The Last Days of New Paris' goes straight to the top of my most wanted list... #NewBook #ToRead wired.com/2016/01/10-mos…

"(I like the idea of a vulnerable ending)" Paul Goat Allan for @goodreads talks to the astonishing China Miéville goodreads.com/interviews/sho…

My profile of Nairobi-based think tank Sahan Research, in Monocle's Forecast magazine bit.ly/1O6k7bM

Mr. Bowie's fearless (and a little bit nightmarish) single currently soundtracking #thelastpanthers youtu.be/kszLwBaC4Sw

This morning, models for a new kind of caliphate. qz.com/546973/only-a-… By Haroon Moghul on @qz