About The Periscope Post

The Periscope Post is an independent publication with one aim: to explain things that are made to seem harder than they are. We take the questions people search (a film's ending, the way an app moves money, the difference between two look-alike terms) and answer them clearly, with sources.

We are not a breaking-news outlet. The daily wire is crowded and fast, and it ages in a day. We work the other side of the news: the evergreen explanation that stays useful long after the headline has scrolled by. If a subject is worth understanding this year and next, it is the kind of thing we cover.

What we cover

Three sections carry the work. Screen & Story unpacks the films and shows people keep arguing about, endings said out loud and traced back through the plot. How It Works takes apart the products and apps everyone name-drops but few can describe. This vs That settles the pairs of things that get mixed up, with a clear comparison and the reason the distinction exists.

How we work

Every explainer starts with the primary source, whether that is a filmmaker's own account or the agency that sets a rule, before we write a line. We put the answer at the top, in a box we call The Short Answer, then show the working. Where a subject touches health, money, or safety, we explain rather than advise, and point to the people qualified to help. Our full standards live in the Editorial Guidelines.

A note on this domain

The periscopepost.com domain previously hosted a separate UK news and opinion website that is no longer in operation. Today's Periscope Post is an independent explainer publication with no affiliation to that earlier site or its former staff. We have kept the name because it describes what we do: raise a clear head over a confusing subject and report back what we see.

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