NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world

It's back, baby. We're relaunching the grandest prize in architecture. Share your bad buildings here, or to the email below.

Can I just stop you for a moment at ‘rare now are the Nobel prizewinners’

It's always fun to work with Francisco Garcia but this one is my favourite yet. It's about a man who dug a massive hole under his house and became an urban legend. A story of obsession and mystery and how London is changing

There’s two pieces out this weekend (this one, and one in The Times) about different aspects of birth/post-birth trauma. Though the stories are different, there are similarities, mainly of an NHS completely on its knees. It is, quite frankly, terrifying. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Every Friday I like to go to the pub and have 6-7 pints of diet coke

In which we learn that Princeton was fine graduating a student who took part in the January 6 assault on Congress but will expel a finishing PhD student for sitting on the grass.

Opinion: Millennials' ire with boomers may soon be replaced by conflict with the privileged, property-owning elites in their own generation, writes John Burn-Murdoch on.ft.com/3vRab32

Had a lot of fun doing this piece about the incredibly unfun stuff going down at Goldsmiths theguardian.com/education/2024…

I've been made redundant from openDemocracy along with several of my brilliant colleagues.

I'm looking for work. Here are some of my clippings:

If you love the flag so much prove it edjefferson.com/howpatrioticar…

New Interview: I talked to former Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller about the contradictions of Biden’s Israel policy, and why American leaders are so reluctant to cause conflict with Israel. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/b…

The IDF's early explanation re the killing of the World Central Kitchen team is in - per 'security sources' speaking to Haaretz. Before we get to the putative pretext for the attack, they also disclose a harrowing detail - the drone bombed the convoy THREE TIMES in succession..

The incredibly precise intel & targeting involved in Israel’s pinpoint air strike on the Iranian generals in Damascus is a stark reminder, as if any was needed, that everything it’s done in Gaza is equally deliberate and not some inevitable collateral damage of fighting Hamas.

'Jacket Chair', Jean-Claude Biraben

cover of The Observer today! happy easter girlies 💐🙏🏾🐣

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a reminder that Thames Water’s debts have grown from *zero* to over £18bn since privatisation - with billions sucked out in dividends

I’m covering for Adrian Chiles this week - obviously an impossible task - but have given it a shot.

“Why has LinkedIn become so weird?

It is now used as a full social network – and is changing how we think about our accomplishments.”

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…which is to teach the ineffectual youngest sons of the minor aristocracy how to be curates agonising about transubstantiation in minor parishes in and around the Cotswolds, yeah?

Love that Serra was a painter until he saw Las Meninas, realized he couldn't top it and threw all his stuff into a river