Refreshed at 0900GMT ThursdayWriting Worth Reading | July 29, 2010

1 iPad About. Stephen Fry: "Jack Bauer will want to return for another season of 24 just so he can download schematics and track vehicles on it"

2 Soros: 'bleak outlook for UK'. Robert Peston: "Soros said that the prospects for the UK were worse than the US, because the British government is approaching the limits of what it can comfortably borrow from investors to finance public spending"

3 Populism: Just Like Racism! Matt Taibbi: "I think David Brooks might be trying to talk to me"