How Substack delivered its users onto Apple

How Substack delivered its users onto Apple

With the forced introduction of Apple in-app payments, the Substack enshittification process is complete for publishers.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Journalism & media
We've been thinking about Substack all wrong

We've been thinking about Substack all wrong

The company that promised a new paradigm looks a whole lot like the old one

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Journalism & media
A photographer inside Nazi Germany's largest POW camp

A photographer inside Nazi Germany's largest POW camp

Stalag VII-A was liberated 80 years ago today.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
History
Discover hundreds of lost World War II photographs

Discover hundreds of lost World War II photographs

I've spent the last few years digitising and researching my great uncle's archives from the war

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
History
The fire that started a Victorian gender war

The fire that started a Victorian gender war

Paris, 1897. The Bazar de la Charité blaze killed 118 women and girls. Where were the men?

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
History
Jiu-jitsuing suffragettes, nuns hard done by and the first women's football match

Jiu-jitsuing suffragettes, nuns hard done by and the first women's football match

A women's history guided tour on London's Suffragette line

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
History
Who were the French women celebrated in the Olympics opening ceremony?

Who were the French women celebrated in the Olympics opening ceremony?

Whom we choose to put on a pedestal says a lot about our culture. The world over, public space is still dominated by male imagery.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
History
A vintage illustration of a human skeleton sat on a rock, its left ankle on its right knee in a stretching position

Meditation apps won't cure workplace stress

Burnout happens when the demands of a job and the resources allocated to it are out of balance. Self-care won't help with that.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Journalism & media