There are more than 100k Chinese students at UK unis, but relatively little is known about their individual stories, dreams, motivations. For FT Weekend I got to know some in Manchester -- and the agents and property developers scooping up their business. on.ft.com/4auGIKe

Your mate steve after a few drinks

The president of Iran knew too much about Diddy

Starting to think you should never put important people in helicopters. Helicopters should be exclusively for transport to high level e-sports events

Posting about how there’s no such thing as community anymore (+ eating hot chips)

Big congratulations to all the Hackney Blackshirts

“Why doesn’t the student focus on the problems facing Pakistan?” Ok, well, being in America might be a good place to learn about it

Really mystifying why a student from Pakistan might have some thoughts on US involvement in foreign military operations on the grounds of waging a war on terrorism

The fetishization of post-war prosperity is obviously a major part of the national character. After decades of crises, the promise of renewal has been powerful. It never arrived. Postmodern disappointments are sublated into grand national mythologies. We're a nation of neurotics.

Time to monetise grass

Ok but pretty much everyone in this video is white? If you’re going to be racist at least think about it first

Favourite dumb guy motivation content I’ve seen recently are all the tik tok users who are using King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem as inspo

losing my mind at this article about the insane nyu zionist of my era saying she got addicted to cheese and had to go to cheese rehab because being a zionist on campus was so stressful

Woman gets addicted to cheese because of stress caused by running a Zionist student org at NYU, then goes to a $6k/week rehab for her cheese addiction...but recently had a 'brief relapse' during current anti-Israel protests on campus.

I am speechless
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it sucks how Assassin Creed games become culture war flashpoints because they’re neither good nor bad in interesting ways. everyone is furiously making posts about games that are the most 6/10 games ever produced