‘People seemed deeply insulted’: how cult 90s band Rachel’s took chamber music out of the classical world

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

We need to talk about the elephant in the room.

I’ve lost count of the number of articles I’ve written about design & build contracting being the fundamental reason for so many construction catastrophes. And, as night follows day, another example comes to light. When are we going to learn? www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

Trump’s overly political prosecution of Jim Comey is unusual, experts say

Again, this looks awesomely bad - if nothing else, it was the US right that spent a decade screaming about Democratic Party abuse and trafficking rings - until you realise the whole operation is very wealthy sex offenders buying their way out of personal consequences.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

‘Never was so much paid by so many to so few.’

Hope - not as something you have, but something you practice into being. It is what the philosopher Jonathan Lear has called “radical hope” - “directed towards a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is.” Vale Professor Jonathan Lear (1948-2025)

this made me wince because it's not wrong.

Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵 IG msviciousdesign

<em>Shanghai Picnic</em> at Rockbund Art Museum www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/arch... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Sidenote: Did you know that the NACC employs over 200 people, spends over $50m per year, has 5 offices, and in over two years of operations hasn't landed a single major corruption finding?

I wrote a little about Optimo's JD Twitch futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-dige...

This is in my head, for some reason or other. "And round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words 'DRINK ME' beautifully printed on it in large letters."

just going to leave this on slow water here 'To solve climate change, we need to restore our Sponge Planet www.nature.com/articles/s44...

damn. can't think of anyone who has had such a massive effect in addressing climate adaptation sponge city concepts are being incorporated everywhere (and rightfully so) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Timothy Hill giving his wonderful RAIA Gold Medal oration in Sydney tonight : ‘Stirling’s gallery in Stuttgart came out when I was studying and it changed my life’

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

Morning rush-hour near London's Oval station. Trains pass underground every few minutes and there's a continuous flood of bicycles, but still there's one lane of gridlocked traffic. Your city will always have exactly as much gridlock as it makes room for.

The answer is always this map.

I spent a few years writing profiles of Australians from all different walks of life, which forced me to think about this to some extent. I have no good answers but the sense I have is that colonial Australians don't really associate themselves with, or engage with place.

Strongly recommend this rich and nuanced survey of Spain, 50 years after Franco's death, by William Chislett of @rielcano.bsky.social. At once a story of remarkable progress, unfinished business, and new challenges. ⬇️ www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/work-docu...

‘Eno’s exchanges in 1995 with friends such as Kevin Kelly (Wired, the Whole Earth Review) and Stewart Brand (the Whole Earth Catalogue, the WELL) now feel a little quaint, like a coffee house claque in 18th-century Vienna.’ Ian Penman on becoming Enosceptic: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine

“Get Smart” premieres 60 years ago tonight, on NBC. “I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”

Tooze now weighs into our Hopkins report "The capacity that China has built is not excessive. It is precisely on the scale that the planet needs." Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

The US Republicans letter to Albanese et al re: Palestinian recognition.....final paragraph threatens possible undisclosed punitive measures.

Une université américaine lance une enquête sur un professeur d’archéologie suspecté d'être un « antifa » www.legorafi.fr/2025/09/19/u...

Thinking about our commandant-in-chief, who loves to mock but can’t bear being mocked

The Swiss. Good.

I possibly shouldn't have laughed. But I laughed very hard. Posted by Tarquin 🇺🇦 on Twitter. #GoCharlie

Such a great piece. “In its doddering senescence, the capitalist war machine is no less murderous than fascism was—witness the millions of Muslims killed by the United States and Israel since 2001—but it has considerably lower production values.”

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

Baroness Hale on her stupendous, eye-opening life in the law: ‘People are capable of treating tiny children very, very badly’

Our climate target is exactly what everyone should have expected - enough for the rest of the world, when the world isn't doing enough. The poor decision isnt the low target as far as we can influence global action, it's that we won't demonstrate how to take on vested interests to have real targets

How to make an economist orgasm? Now remember - economists do it with models, so it's no easy thing. A Pigouvian tax on immobile resources! Climate change you say? Political leadership where even downsides are upsides? Good math? Let me explain....

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Amazing talent with true words!

When a Cartoonist, well a great cartoonist, understands more about our defence stupidity than the stupid people in charge. Hey @albomp.bsky.social grow a spine & sink AUKUS before the astronomical cost does it for you. Yes we know it is a Nuclear thin wedge - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Glorious. "Unlike other chatbots, ChatPerson’s answers to your queries are provided by real humans. Specifically, it is staffed by writers, artists, and researchers whose livelihoods are in peril thanks to chatbots." /... www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/int...

Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff — [ @nameofauthor.bsky.social ] minorliteratures.com/2025/09/17/y...

£895k for your own Smithsons building . . . themodernhouse.com/sales-list/u...

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

“If we leave it up to the market, you would have only offices, furnished tourist rentals and second homes — a Paris without Parisians, a Paris for the rich” (Indeed. Look at Anglosphere capitals. Amusing to watch the FT try to get its head around this pretty excellent policy) on.ft.com/4nxze08