Great chart here from @resfoundation.bsky.social on housing costs by square metre by age. Britain's problems with Nimbyism and the planning system in a nutshell.

This is a good, valuable and timely report from Barclays — but made ca 1000x better by @bryce.lol repeatedly skewering the bank for its obvious reluctance to sound TOO sceptical. on.ft.com/3ICXT4B

big sesh tonight (listening to the power broker on 2x speed while bouldering)

Interoceanic Train of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is a proper railway name asia.nikkei.com/business/tra...

this is true www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Just thought about the bitcoin hard drive guy again.

Apart from anything else this is just incredibly disrespectful to the millions of American servicemen who fought to force Germany and Japan to *unconditionally surrender*.

the legacy media is now at least 30% a vehicle for explaining the latest shortform video microcelebrities to boomers

It might look something like this:

For some reason the BBC is obsessed with arguing, demonstrably incorrectly, that the answer to the housing crisis is filling empty homes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My vintage polariser certainly added a lot of character to these shots!

Who knows

Considering getting this passage from the NYT article printed on totes for our art history majors. Too much?

Austria is good.

Twitter has just broken people’s brains

Trengo + Mews. The people have been crying out for Trengo + Mews. Finally, they have been given Trengo + Mews.

Two prominent Israeli human rights groups have formally accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

When the enormity of the world's horrors makes you feel helpless, narrow your focus. Find one stranger and scold them for posting a recipe while kids are dying. Call out a new mom for not adding alt text to a baby photo. Critique a selfie. Correct a joke. Show people you care more than them.

“What is happening now in the Gaza Strip is a disgrace that will stain Israel for generations, as thousands die of hunger in a fenced-off area under our control.” www.zman.co.il/newsletter/2...

"The government is rushing to erase Gaza, and thank God we are erasing this evil. All of Gaza will be Jewish… We don't need to be concerned about hunger in the Strip." www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Gutted. The England chants about Minge would have legendary

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Never move to Germany. Happy July.

Modern media is so undignified

“…Chancellor Merz's decision to invest heavily in defence unlike his predecessors, who in the shadow of WWII were keen to reassure the world that German military strength was not a priority.” West and/or East Germany didn’t spend on the military: the myth that just won’t die

Come on Minge!!!

Just so *demonstrably* untrue that it’s somehow not possible to in many cases tell that someone is Jewish from their appearance, and yet this premise is blindly accepted as “contributing to public discussions on race” or something www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

American money advice: invest in cheap trackers monthly. Don’t try and time the market. British money advice: switch energy provider every quarter, run your washing machine at odd hours to get free electricity and here’s a great trick to get more nectar points.

Ran my first half-marathon yesterday!

A truly touching faith in DB’s ability to do, well, anything on display here.

I’ve uploaded the photos I took for Marie Claire to my website: idvck.myportfolio.com/ukraine

One Billion Mullets: a blueprint for the Australian century

Great loop of “markets expect TACO so aren’t crashing but TACO won’t happen until Trump gets a signal from markets” we’re in now

‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel over Gaza war is not all down to antisemitism

Is there a 1491 for Aus and NZ?

My train ride today: Green line: 7 hours Orange line: 1 hour 40 minutes DB truly in a class of its own

Discussions on nuclear strategy are weird. It’s so jarring to hear people discuss what would be the single most murderous act in human history with euphemisms like “countervalue” as if they’re playing a board game.

Very chunky stuff here www.gov.uk/government/n...

"People are prepared to die for a bagful of rice and a bit of pasta" That is the assessment of a British surgeon who was among the few international witnesses to the aftermath of the first shooting near a Gaza food distribution point. Read my interview with her here: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...

Strikes me as kind of odd that anti-AI populism doesn’t really seem to have emerged as a meaningful political force

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Elon's AI is now actively recommending a second Holocaust

Would be nice if AI puts Nazis out of a job tbf

Elon is no longer a Trump ally. Doesn’t seem particularly politically problematic to ban Twitter.

My photos from Kyiv are published in this month’s Marie Claire Australia, illustrating Frances Mao’s excellent and moving report on relationships during the war.

Ohhhhh my god u wrote a critical profile of steve bannon in a broadsheet paper? should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party?should we invite milo

You put on your headphones and press play. It’s Rory Stewart saying “quick explainer”. You take them off and run out of the house. You stumble into a stranger. It’s Rory Stewart saying “quick explainer”. You scream and hail a bus. The driver is Rory Stewart. He greets you with “quick explainer”.