A piece this week on why you should visit the Crossness pumping station, featuring the most disgusting pun I have managed to get into The Economist: www.economist.com/britain/2024...

These people change lives www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hackneymig...

My latest story, on how Boston became the safest big city in America (as measured by its murder rate): www.economist.com/united-state...

It’s a weird wrinkle in our national psyche that the public often seems to favour either banning or nationalising most things. Sometimes both.

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Champagne socialist supernova: In the wake of the Oasis ticket price gouging/dynamic pricing row our new polling finds 58% of the public say that ticketing platforms like Ticketmaster should be nationalised.

Michel Barnier is the new French prime minister. When I interviewed him last year, he spoke less good English and was less into policy detail than his public image suggested. But he liked Keir Starmer: “I think Starmer is a European like me — a patriot and European.” www.ft.com/content/6ee1...

Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier: ‘The EU is not the same one the UK left’

French politician says British ministers did not know the consequences of leaving the bloc