Best of the Week: Henry Tajer’s next act; and radio’s losers

Welcome to Unmade, written in drizzly Horsham in the UK while you were sleeping on Saturday morning.

I’m just about over the jetlag now. Comedian Hannah Gadbsy offered a fine performance at the Brighton Dome on Wednesday night, nonetheless it was a battle to keep my eyes open.

I never did find out what the “runway pavement failure” I mentioned in the last edition of Unmade was all about, or why it led to Qantas offloading my luggage in Darwin. However, an angry Polish van driver, frustrated by the vagaries of British motorways and baffling housing estate layouts (“we foreigners don’t stand a fucking chance,” he informed me) turned up with my suitcases on Thursday afternoon. After a fashion, the system works.

Speaking of systems that work (or don’t) the content of today’s email is a tad choppier than I’d prefer. While Unmade is hosted on Substack, the unmade.media URL is registered via Go Daddy. While Australia was asleep, something bad happened to Go Daddy’s interface with the Domain Name System that links website names to the internet. As a result, Unmade was among the sites unreachable for a while, including this at the time half-written email. I started sweating on missing my preferred 10.10am Eastern send time.