Outside London, every Greggs is a few steps away from one of those old-school bakeries where the food is only OK but the counter staff are quick and pleasingly brusque. Everything is behind the counter. An excellent business model for our times.
My favourite bit from the Sky News interview with Donald Trump:
Found while looking for something else @dlknowles.bsky.social
Reform manage to lose a county council seat on the coast. The Green Party victor is a recent winner of the Mr Margate Beard and Moustache competition.
Accept no imitations! Dereham doesn't cut it.
Also: are fairytales really comforting?
If the impending launch of Artemis II has you think "whats this whole Moon mullarkey about anyway", could I recommend my book on the topic. "The Moon: A History for the Future"? I think its pretty good and I am reliably assured that others do to.
www.google.co.uk/books/editio...
I feel I’m seeing similar approaches elsewhere. The division here seems to be: bit that doesn’t quite feel part of the county / definitely the county / urban bit / other urban bit / bit that we wouldn’t dare try to put together with any other bit.
We were crucified nearby… how often can you say that?
Many thanks. I think I raided your research data at a few points!
A great many polling charts make me unhappy about my generation (X) and I feel this is a new phenomenon. Perhaps the kids were on to something when they started calling us "boomers" a few years ago.
Ostia Antica! Easy train journey. 10 years ago another good answer was "ask the exceedingly talented, excellent-English-speaking locals why they haven't moved to London yet". But these days perhaps not.
After three decades of building, Britain's large cities have densities -- both at their cores and overall -- that are comparable to their North European equivalents like Amsterdam, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Cologne, and Copenhagen.
Yes indeed. But this is the time of year when they become airborne and randy.
Spring has come to my home today, confirmed as always by the fluttering, golden flight of the clothes moth
The #ECB is also in a looooong process of redesigning the € banknotes Britain will surely be using some time after the next fiscal crisis.
NOT SO "K"
America's "K-shaped" economy has become conventional wisdom—the idea that spending is booming for the rich and slumping for the rest, leaving growth top-heavy and precarious.
Only one problem: as I write in @economist.com, it is probably wrong.
🔗: www.economist.com/finance-and...
Lots of daft newspaper columns were published this weekend, like most weekends. This is the best daft column.
www.ft.com/content/261d...
I wondered if it might be the “too many lawyers around” thing that made it so hard to build a 2nd Ave subway and a Wilshire Blvd subway.
Why doesn't a tram run down Oxford Rd by the way? It seemed obvious to the designers of the Nottingham and Sheffield lines to connect the universities.
A blue plaque in honour of two bollards
Seen in a Dorset village. The first blue plaque for a bollard? @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
Some bitterness is evident.
Why is Dubai discourse so rich? Class identities all mangled and so everyone thinks they are punching up and letting rip. Full column 🫵 www.economist.com/britain/2026...
There is a strong short-term weather effect. Boats do not set off when it’s windy. It’s been a windy winter.
It’s mean and unfair, but let’s do it anyway. Number of small-boat crossers in the 2 days before Britain’s home secretary made asylum temporary: zero. Number in the 2 days since: 479.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Our editor-in-chief, @zannymb.economist.com, asks Dario Amodei about Anthropic’s clash with the Trump administration over AI safety. Watch on Thursday from 6pm London time
Such a strange, pervasive view. I know people who are convinced that plastic put in a bin in Britain ends up strangling a dolphin.
