26 Sep 22 Monday Briefing

A roundup of five things I found interesting in the past week

• Bettina’s quite right – there are more foodie places to feature than Italy.

• There are more Sinitic languages than Mandarin, no matter what governments might have you think. A language is truly a tongue with a navy.

• Will the US’s legacy of Empire be Princess Elsa’s glittery image on backpacks and kids’ melamine plates?

• Always a delight when Dr Jason Fox drops a museletter + podcast. Run, not walk to it.

• A look at “the most successful extremist group in the digital age.”