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This longread by Sam Knight is every inch as good as everyone says. The best piece of writing on British politics I've ever read. A horror story. The story of modern Britain, a place I grew up but can never imagine living in again.

newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

The UK decided to leave Erasmus because Brits’ poor foreign language skills made membership too expensive to justify, a senior British official has revealed
politico.eu/article/brits-…

Damning Human Rights Watch report out today on the woeful lack of humanitarian aid for migrants crossing the Darién Gap and the 'failure' to stop exploitation by criminal gangs and to carry out investigations into robberies and rape

Juan Pappier Martina Rapido Ragozzino

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Great piece on the 'soft life' i.e. slower living focused on pleasure and fulfilment over consumerism and materialism.

As one interviewee puts it: “Have we been so brainwashed by capitalism that you have to be busy to be worth something?”

So many Londoners I know lost in this.

Happy to hear that my @wired piece on worker deaths in Indonesia's nickel industry was shortlisted in the Written Feature category for Amnesty International's Amnesty Media Awards 2024
wired.com/story/workers-…