Substacks recommended by Helen Lewis

Recommended by Helen Lewis

A weekly podcast about the latest scientific controversies, with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie

Tips, tricks and tools for writing and directing in film, TV and audio from someone who has been doing it for 25 years. Includes The Development Hell Writing Course, covering everything from ideas and structure to software and workflows.

Julian has tried more writing apps than any man alive, and I respect that. Useful insights and cathartic grumbles.

- Helen Lewis

The Swingometer

By Rob Ford

Thoughts on elections, public opinion and politics. The Swingometer is named in honour of the late Sir David Butler, inventor of both "swing" and the device to illustrate it on television.

My favourite source of polling nerdery.

- Helen Lewis

Invisible Women

By Caroline Criado Perez

Keeping up with the gender data gap (and whatever else takes my fancy).

Pockets, loo queues and heart attacks.

- Helen Lewis

Science Fictions

By Stuart Ritchie

Good writing about bad science

Stuart Ritchie debunks bunk.

- Helen Lewis

Comment is Freed

By Sam Freedman

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

I love the taste of crunchy policy analysis in the morning, and nobody does it better than the Freedmans.

- Helen Lewis

The Debatable Land

By Alex Massie

Politics, culture, and history from Scotland, the UK and beyond

Alex Massie on Scotland and more.

- Helen Lewis

Blocked and Reported

By Jesse Singal

A Podcast About Internet Nonsense

Methadone for twitter addicts.

- Helen Lewis

The Common Reader

By Henry Oliver

Essays for interesting people about talent, literature, and biography. "One of my favourite Substacks." Helen Lewis

Books you didn’t know you wanted to read.

- Helen Lewis

My Apophenic Haze

By Gia

a·po·phen·i·a æpoʊˈfiːniə noun --'the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena; the tendency to find personal information in noise.' ...but basically just a newsletter on whatever I'm thinking about now.

Art, digital culture and philosophy.

- Helen Lewis