This is an excellent, balanced piece that really digs into the details

This is excellent, and I really hope we see these recommendations put into action, not just at the BBC but more broadly

Hello US east coast people 👋

If you’re working on anything that might be of interest to Financial Times readers, I’m in town (NY & DC) for the last week of this month and would love to hear more 🙏

Econ, housing, politics, social issues, something I’ve never covered before - I’m all ears

Do you like words? Do you like books? Do you like the thrill of random number games? Do you like the economy?

If the answer to those was YES, please enter the giveaway for my upcoming book In This Economy!

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If you're looking for a meaty football podcast, we released two new ones this week on Heroes & Humans. First, I channelled nearly 50 years as a Dutch football obsessive to mansplain Liverpool's new manager Arne Slot to Mehreen Khan megaphone.link/SPECIALPROJECT…

💥EXC: My deep dive into the heart of the Starmer-McSweeney project to save the Labour Party—and the long existential battle against *Blairite* revanchism that sits at its very centre👇 unherd.com/2024/05/the-mc…

Really interesting back and forth between Rana Foroohar and Peter Spiegel on AI and journalism: ft.com/content/aa1913…

OK now it's clear Sadiq Khan has won a third term, a few thoughts.

First, Susan Hall was a terrible candidate. She'd have made a terrible mayor, but in addition she too right wing, too implausible and too nuts to win in London. This election was winnable, but not by her.

Our @ft film series on democracy with Margaret E Atwood Elif Shafak Lọlá Shónẹ́yìn Aditi Mittal birthed a book!

New: How Ukraine broke Russia’s grip in the Black Sea.

Drone attacks have pushed Moscow’s warships to newly protected bases in the east and enabled trade from key ports to return to pre-war levels.

W/Sam Learner Dan Clark Irene de la Torre Arenas Ian Bott

ft.com/black-sea

Unsurprisingly, Edward Luce's take on the campus protests is by some distance the best and most sophisticated I have read.

ft.com/content/198902…

Somehow managed to summarise my entire PhD thesis on the growing UK voting age gap in 1000 words for the The Political Studies Association blog. Give it a read! ⬇️

psa.ac.uk/psa/news/widen…

Thanks to Trades Union Congress for this compilation - people have always reckoned that others are workshy. (Tip, if you can't find enough workers, raise wages, or mechanise. There is no third option). 1/2

New: Many of London's post-war housing estates are damp, cramped, and cold. But, it's possible to fix that and cut London's housing shortage.

Here's how an estate renewal revolution can build half a million homes and cut London’s emissions

samdumitriu.com/p/renew-london…

Hard as it is to believe when reading the news, the homicide rate in London has *halved* over the past 20 years.

In the past two decades London has gained 1.7 million extra residents and yet the annual number of homicides has gone down from 212 in 2003 to 110 in 2023.