Really interesting piece on the mood in Dearborn, Michigan economist.com/1843/2024/04/2…

Much deserved recognition for the brilliant Nicolas Pelham, who was also highly commended for foreign reporting

For The Economist’s 1843 magazine, Carey Baraka has written the definitive piece about the tragedy in Shakahola forest – where hundreds of people were found starved to death or killed last April. It's an astounding, sensitive feat of reporting and v much worth your time

economist.com/1843/2024/04/1…

Lots of things still uncertain about tonight, but one thing is quite sure: this pushes down Gaza and the horrendous suffering there on the international agenda.

Focus will now be on Iran, Western countries will mute their criticism of Israel, Arabs will debate who is more

Always important to have a good book to read when you're being deported

this, to me, is one of the most important stories 1843 has done during my time there — and certainly one of the most harrowing. please read.

There are 50,000 women preparing to give birth in Gaza with very little access to healthcare. This is the story of one of them. All I can say is, read it economist.com/1843/2024/03/2…

There are 50,000 women preparing to give birth in Gaza with very little access to healthcare. This is the story of one of them. All I can say is, read it economist.com/1843/2024/03/2…

This is such a good, poignant story by Emily Gogolak economist.com/1843/2024/03/1…

Powerful piece about how scary it is running a secret school for girls in Afghanistan economist.com/1843/2024/02/2…

IK-7 prison camp in Siberia is similar to the one Navalny died in. Arkady Ostrovsky has been exchanging letters with a political prisoner there & has written an extraordinary portrait of life in the modern-day gulag - its secret hierarchies & black markets economist.com/1843/2024/02/2…

Didn’t know this. After Russia deemed Navalny’s organisation extremist, Apple pulled his smart voting app, saying they had to comply with Russian law. After the Ukraine invasion it reappeared. So seems like there was room for manoeuvre? No good to him now codastory.com/authoritarian-…

So proud to see our small team in such exalted company on the #ASMEawards shortlist

The 90s in One Day are evoked with such specificity of detail it should come with a trigger warning for anyone who’s lived through them

Shades of Life of Brian in this amazing story about a TikTok prosperity guru by Will Coldwell. '“We’re all brainwashed,” said Leeds. “Am I right? Yes or no?” The audience responded in unison: “Yes.”' economist.com/1843/2024/02/0…

For the past couple of years, I've been tracking the rise of the notorious property influencer, Samuel Leeds

It's a story about smoke and mirrors, TikTok grifting and hard sells. Most of all, it's about our toxic obsession with housing.

economist.com/1843/2024/02/0…

US senators wanted McKinsey and BCG to submit documents on the Saudi-backed PGA-LIV Golf merger

BCG submission:
'91 pages. All but two of which are calendar invitations where all of the event attendees’ names are redacted'
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

an amazing Second Mentions in the New Yorker - 'aural appendages'

I wrote about my breastfeeding nightmare for Guardian G2 theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

This account of the legal battle between Walkers and HMRC over whether the former's Sensations Poppadaoms are a crisp, is perfect journalism (ht JackSerleHSJ). 'Nominative determinism is not a characteristic of snack foods' ft.com/content/a6a540…