I don’t know about you, but I find it really hard to keep up with what’s happening in the news (as Charlie Brooker describes it, it’s like ‘wandering into episode 389 of the world’s longest running and most complex soap opera’). This isn’t helped by the fact I’m more likely to spend an entire day reading the biographies of minor Star Wars characters than actually opening a newspaper. Helpfully, my wife has put together a sort of a bluffer’s guide of podcasts and blogs to keep people like me in the loop without having to try too hard. Thanks, wife!