Q Marks The Spot – Treasure Map 112 (December 2017)

Sacred Treasure

• Former LibDem leader, Tim Farron has been saying some really important things in the last week about the state and nature of western liberalism.
  • Here is his original Theos lecture: What Kind of Liberalism do we want?
  • Then a follow-up article he wrote for the Guardian: Liberalism has eaten itself
  • And an interview in The New Statesman: I’m roadkill
  • Theos’s Nick Spencer reflects on the related issues: Tim Farron, Identity politics and Christianity
• My colleague Paul Windsor has some good stuff on Fake and Real News from India
• A great one from Malcolm Guite – a rondeau on the passing of Leonard Cohen

Topical Treasure

• One of Facebook’s founders on creating a monster
• Why the Moon-landings could NOT have been faked…
• I’d never heard of her – but Berenice Abbott was a remarkable photography pioneer – New York in 1935 looking breathtaking
• Elon Musk’s epic gauntlet for the Flat Earth Society.
• This is a bucket list library if ever there was one – an incredible library in China

Quirky Treasure

• Another goodie from Nerdwriter: how David Fincher hijacks your eyes
• Don’t worry – it’s not a bomb. Just a very big courgette
• A mediaeval charter, written in long-hand… literally
• One way to stop yourself spending money on your credit card – no wonder the credit card company objected… (for fans of Brooklyn 99 especially)
• You need to convey the sounds of a fight scene in acomic stripp? Here’s how! SHKLUNK
• I’m really looking forward to 2022 – here’s why: