The last imperial Chinese court eunuch could just about have heard the Spice Girls's debut album.

This map shows the share of households across Europe that own a cat. This obviously doesn't include all the stray cats of southern Europe. Source: buff.ly/3M9kunC

This week, we published the first mixed-reality Financial Times app in the Apple #VisionPro app store. It's been in development since 1949. Yep, this one merits a thread...

Despite positive reforms in recent years, there seem to be big differences in pricing, without any obvious reason they reflect either “market forces” on the one hand, or any kind of fair arrangement on the other. Please take a look at the piece! (7/7) neilobrien.co.uk/p/the-great-ra…

WOULD STILL ONLY BE A FIVER CORKAGE ON A MONDAY AT HAWKSMOOR

McBurney writes that under the Georgia Constitution, strict scrutiny applies to abortion regulations. He effectively describes Georgia abortion law as treating women like "collectively owned community property."

Quite. Maybe with added Proceeds of Crime Act orders against the holding company and directors responsible for breaking the law.

So, this afternoon I got home to find a lovely letter from NORTHERN 🚆 telling me about how they wanted to prosecute me for using the below ticket to travel on the specified route at a peak time. I paid £1.90 less than the fare they say I should have paid. A thread 🧵

'Examining the rare Lancashire court records “gives voice to some of the most inaccessible women in history” whose lives may be unrecorded anywhere else…' theguardian.com/society/2024/o… gosh. fascinating.

Yes, I know I've not been here much lately; life and all. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… was absolutely fascinating, though. "That which has happened is a warning. To forget it is guilt. It must be continually remembered". (if only all of Jaspers' translated works were so simple)

After my former BuzzFeed News colleague Brianna Sacks (a kickass reporter) broke the story in WaPo that a North Carolina man—armed with an assault rifle—threatened FEMA personnel, forcing them to be relocated I deployed the Freedom of Information Act to see what else I could find

The Washington Post is the paper which broke Watergate. It won a Pulitzer for coverage of January 6th. For the Washington Post to refuse to endorse a candidate because it fears retribution from Trump is an enormous flashing red sign that the country is on the brink of fascism.

BREAKING: Judge Baker just served the RNC a brutal reality check. They tried to pull a fast one—targeting Democratic counties with a cynical plot to invalidate votes while ignoring the same procedures in GOP-heavy areas. The judge didn’t hold back, calling it out as a move that

A counter argument to the one sided hysteria over the proposed changes to inheritance tax relief on inherited agricultural land. Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britains theguardian.com/commentisfree/…