Great piece.

Here are four places you could build lots of houses, from a single road (Southampton Way) next to Burgess Park and half an hour from Waterloo. London is *filled* with wastes of space like this. Densification would be like striking gold for the whole city.

.Leila Abboud on ‘Glucksmania’ ft.com/content/6276f6…

This really is an extraordinary performance

Man sitting opposite me on TGV is underlining bits in Jean-François Lyotard’s 1984 Éditions de Minuit philosophical work Le Différend – in shades 😎

Art Laffer has been named as a potential Fed chair under a Trump 2 administration.

I caught up with him recently in London for a FT economists exchange
on.ft.com/4adUjp8

That’s the work of the great James Ferguson

A superb and detailed account of what’s been happening at Sciences Po by ⁦Ivanne Trippenbach⁩ lemonde.fr/societe/articl…

DISPARITION ⚫ L'écrivain et journaliste Bernard Pivot est mort ce lundi à l'âge de 89 ans.

Amoureux de littérature, il présentait les célèbres émissions 'Apostrophes' et 'Bouillon de culture'.

📸 Retour sur sa carrière avec quelques photos issues de la photothèque de l'INA.

Reminded of the time someone reported Hannah Arendt for 'advocating a totalitarian philosophy in her political courses,' when she was teaching a course on her book The Origins of Totalitarianism.

Arendt's FBI file

'Sunak’s chosen battleground . . . turned out to be a killing field for Conservative councillors,' argues Stephen Bush ft.com/content/a35a63…

Richly deserved recognition for the great 🥩🥩Tim Hayward🥩🥩

I see that Les Républicains are borrowing from the GOP playbook in their war on “islamo-gauchisme”, accusing the administration at Sciences Po of “capitulating” to pro-Palestinian student protestors lemonde.fr/politique/arti…

Really interesting argument from Elina Ribakova 🇺🇦 on the material incentives for continued Russian aggression:

ft.com/content/3fd6b6…

(presumably those incentives could change if Russia's losses ramped up significantly)

“So many strange things have happened to me in my life, so many unexpected and improbable events, I’m no longer certain that I know what reality is anymore.” Paul Auster’s Art of Fiction interview with Michael Wood is wonderful theparisreview.org/interviews/121…

Kate Forbes could be back in the running to lead the SNP. Here's something I wrote about the furore that ensued when she stood for the leadership last year ft.com/content/dd49a7…

Something about the current moment induces me to pick this up

The FT's obituary of Paul Auster, by John Self ft.com/content/fe7dc2…

It would be far more worrying if the young were indifferent to the deaths of thousands of children…..
Thoughtful column by Edward Luce about campus protests ft.com/content/198902… via @ft