Alex Selby-Boothroyd
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Head of data journalism at The Economist
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This is what I believe the French call "un making-of"
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
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Ben Stanley
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They were just following hors d’oeuvres
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Is the Arsenal parade still going on or is it like Gabriel's penalty?
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Arsenal? Concede a penalty?? In this season???
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Scott Shapiro
2 days ago
DO YOU SING?
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Queuing for Charli xcx watching the UCL final on my phone on ZDF via a VPN FTW
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The last blond keeper to get tonked on the head during a Champions League final absolutely shat the bed for the rest of the game, just sayin'
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New product shots, with aesthetically sympathetic accoutrements
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Julia Allum
2 days ago
Bright & bold, contemporary vintage, prints, posters, handmade screen prints & cards 👇
juliaallum.co.uk/shop/
Any reposts to spread the word are much appreciated :)
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A lovely puzzle today from
@petermoorefuller.bsky.social
for The Economist, featuring a delightful Nina
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Weekend crossword for May 30th 2026
A weekend crossword based on the week’s news
https://www.economist.com/interactive/mini-crossword/crossword/2026-05-30/
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Ben Ansell
3 days ago
Such an excellent and withering piece. The massive chilling effect that Starmer and Mahmood have had on high skill / high pay migration needed calling out.
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Quizicle #194 5/5 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥
quizicledaily.com
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Quizicle
The daily machine-learning powered quiz/puzzle game. Deduce the answer from crossword-style clues with hot/cold feedback.
https://quizicledaily.com
3 days ago
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Chrome users with patchy internet will be good at this (iykyk)
www.ft.com/content/dad4...
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Where's Enoch Powell?!?
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Brentry?
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"May you live in bellicose times." Lovely if depressing chart
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Nearly caught it out...
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How is the president doing? Not great, Bob, not great
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I can see why we didn't go with "the world's biggest condom-maker"...
www.economist.com/business/202...
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The world’s top condom-maker is getting squeezed
Will Karex break under pressure?
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/05/27/the-worlds-top-condom-maker-is-getting-squeezed
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My garden has had a wildly successful No Mow May, helped in large part by Facked Lawnmower April
www.plantlife.org.uk/campaigns/no...
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*Alec Guinness voice*: Confused, dear? That's no moon! (5,4)
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Owen Winter
5 days ago
I've written about this data viz for The Economist's Off the Charts newsletter:
theeconomistoffthecharts.substack.com/p/what-happe...
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What happens when a chart goes viral?
Also: FIFA’s exorbitant World Cup tickets could backfire
https://theeconomistoffthecharts.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-a-chart-goes-viral
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Eric Michael Garcia
6 days ago
The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT
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lolled at ihop
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6 days ago
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Lovely clue from Cruxum, our latest setter
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Some vintage Sonny. (Also, £2 for this was a bloody steal!)
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This tree forgot how to tree
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RIP to Sonny Rollins, the last of the jazz greats to feature in this classic photograph. A phenomenal player.
www.theguardian.com/music/galler...
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A Great Day in Harlem: behind Art Kane's classic 1958 jazz photograph
The young Kane was working as an art director when he had the idea to photograph the luminaries of the New York jazz scene for Esquire’s 1959 Golden Age of Jazz edition
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2018/dec/17/a-great-day-in-harlem-behind-art-kaness-classic-1958-jazz-photograph
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A successful long weekend
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7 days ago
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Nice sequence of clues in Saturday's Guardian cryptic by Paul
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City bottled the league and that's why Pep's quitting. Where was this energy a couple of years ago?
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Hetan Shah
8 days ago
Interested in demography? You might like our new tool on
@ourworldindata.org
which lets you see how changes in fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates will change future populations. Have a play! You can even do it continent wide.
ourworldindata.org/population-s...
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Population tool: how will populations across the world change in the 21st century?
We created an interactive tool that lets you test how changes in fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates will change future populations.
https://ourworldindata.org/population-simulation-tool?utm_source=OWID+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c257f80759-owid-brief-2026-05-22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-0c7f305164-537057534
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My boys, my boys
8 days ago
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Thank God football is over for the summer
8 days ago
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~daniel_barker~
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I'm gonna miss Robertson so much. Also, this was not a foul
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Andrew Robertson press vs Man City #shorts
Liverpool defender Andrew Robertson pressing against Manchester Cit...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-EbxCGlLP4s
8 days ago
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Fitting that Salah's outside-of-the-boot flick finally worked in his last game
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Who's got no thumbs and is sick of this heat?
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Tom Calver
8 days ago
Amid all the talk of freezing the price of groceries, I looked at what goes into the cost of a pint of milk. Two things jump out... 1/3
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Jonn Elledge
8 days ago
"Rivers are surprisingly difficult to measure, making this one of those questions to which there may be no right answer. And since I love those, let’s dive in." In search of the world's longest - and shortest - rivers
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How long is a piece of string? On the inherent uncertainty of rivers
A surprisingly complicated question.
https://jonn.substack.com/p/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string-on
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Chills, literal chills.
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The kid, after I asked if she'd heard of Zola's polemic J'accuse: "Who's Jack Hughes"?" (tbf she is now reading Catcher in the Rye)
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It Nailed
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Those mirrors reflect the face of everyone who will ever live. ⁽ᴶᵘˢᵗ ʳᵉᵃˡˡʸ ˢᵐᵃˡˡ⁾
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Hoping "novel gustatory experiences" is the new Pagliacci
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Polanski missed his calling
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Archdude Ferdinand Completes Mostly Successful Sarajevo Trip
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