Five Great Reads: on misunderstanding protest songs, chronic illness, the way we spend

Protest songs create ‘a notional place’, writes Nesrine Malik, ‘disembodied from wretched reality, that nurtures solace, bravado and connection between a scattered and uprooted people’. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Good morning. I’m back again with the stories from around the Guardian this week that most got me thinking.

Have a read, bookmark them for later and have a lovely weekend (my tips: look at these cool eco-brutalist structures, read some Alice Munro and go see the better Josh O’Connor movie).