www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Went to Wales www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Tributes paid to lawyer described as ‘instrumental’ to Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 Tributes have been paid to Giles Peaker, a leading housing sector lawyer who passed away last weekend.

Giles was such a good guy. He is going to be so missed.
www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/tribute...

"I'm not a facking wheeler dealer I'm a facking architect"

Can confirm. And he's looking well

Lmao

Love German politics scandals

Bout time globe trotting foreign correspondents were brought down a peg

Few things send me more insane than the existence of Drax

donate them. One lucky child gets to go to Disneyland Florida each year

Dunno where else you would put it, but still find it funny there is a specific section on airmiles in the ministerial code

Runs the same way Hal powerwalks in Malcolm in the Middle

There’s a man who maxes out his ISAs

Give or take

Have to drag shoplifting levels back to the mists of…2019

“I can’t risk my life for a sandwich”: A day watching shoplifters at Greggs "No pastries?" said one thief as she cleared the shelves and asked staff for further supplies.

Very good, if infuriating, piece on the pernicious but incredibly solvable problem of shoplifting www.londoncentric.media/p/greggs-sho...

If I were a publicly listed bakery and a feral @jim.londoncentric.media knocked on my door, I’d probably respond

what about thiiiiiiiiiiiiis

Politicians make a category error when it comes to car crime. They are far too light on it for fear of the "war on the motorist" when motorists hateeeeeeeeeeeeeee dodgy drivers

And soon you will too

Is that a “come and get me” plea?

Fun that the key to being a pound-for-pound discourse superpower is just spend a few billion

Ailbhe's fundraiser for Crisis Help Ailbhe Rea raise money to support Crisis

Hello, running a half marathon later in the year to raise money for Crisis, the homelessness charity. Grateful for any and all donations 🙏🏻

www.justgiving.com/page/ailbhe-...

Chartbook #184 - Nostalgia for decline in deconvergent Britain After a year of political turmoil and financial embarrassment, Britain ends 2022 shaken.

If we’re gonna do UK decline discourse again, I’m returning to “Chartbook #184 - Nostalgia for decline in deconvergent Britain”.

“What I am afraid of, and what I fear that the revived talk of decline and declinism obscures, is that things have, in fact, changed, but for the worse.”

Lovely piece

The tragedy of leisure [FREE TO READ] The combination of AI and small families will create more free time than is good for us

Janan Ganesh: The tragedy of leisure as.ft.com/r/62d2536d-4...

Huh

Fascinating

The UK has now had so much wage compression that its wage curve is actually less unequal than the Soviet Union managed on a p10 vs p90 basis. Whatever people are mad about it is not inequality.

My scorching hot take on this (at least in the uk) is that a bunch of more public-sector-ish jobs: teaching, universities, media, civil servant had been relatively downwards mobile in this time and it’s actually falling inequality that is making people mad.