New global survey by King's College London shows that the UK is one of the least racist countries in the world. Less racist than Norway! unherd.com/thepost/survey…

Constant chats with mates, and online, about how much we all travelled unaccompanied; to school, to grandparents, to pen pals, to babysitting gigs, now it’s all 😱 what the heck has happened? Is this all 24 hour news? Because the stats are very clear, travel is safer than ever.

This is the key point in the Kirstie Allsopp furore, beautifully put by Jenni Russell: the more children withdraw into protective and phone-based settings, the less prepared for the world they become. thetimes.com/article/35fed7…

Some thoughts on the last few days, a 🧵. Firstly, when I tweeted about Oscar’s travels did I think it would be this controversial? Hell no! I was aware of Jonathan Haidt’s work on how risk averse we have become, but every year kids who have finished their GCSEs travel about the UK &

This is fantastic. In an effort to stimulate infill development and support local builders, Sound Bend has released a prospectus of pre-authorised building designs. Via Strong Towns strongtowns.org/journal/2022/1…

"If Germany operated a first past the post system, the CDU would sweep most of the West of Germany and the AfD would take the entire East of the country." Via Adam Tooze's excellent Chartbook on Germany's regional elections. open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/…

It’s easy to underestimate the economic catastrophe of the last 16 years because it’s been gradual. But imagine we’d actually grown at 2% a year since 2008 and then lost it all at once this year: it would be a collapse of >30% Hard to overstate how radical we need to be now

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Moving paean to the humble library from Tomiwa Owolade in The Times and The Sunday Times: thetimes.com/article/6656bd…

Revealing cross breaks too. Only twice in the last 15 years has a government been less popular with over-65s: during the Brexit impasse in May 2019 and at the height of the Truss collapse in late 2022.

Today, I’m excited to share with you all the fruit of our effort at OpenAI to create AI models capable of truly general reasoning: OpenAI's new o1 model series! (aka 🍓) Let me explain 🧵 1/

Erasmus Street, Westminster. Part of the large Arts & Crafts London County Council Millbank Estate for the respectable working class built within 5 years at a speed we could not match today. Tree-lined, red bricked, it’s a continentally influenced but very English London vision.

Glorious day to be out on the doorsteps in Thurston, canvassing for Harry Richardson in the upcoming district council by-election.

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This is, I think, the most interesting and insightful portrait of the dysfunction gripping Downing Street - by Tom McTague for @Unherd. But behind the briefing and intrigue is this critical point: they don't seem to know what or who they are for. unherd.com/2024/09/sue-gr…

If this happens as planned, announced here & hoped it could be transformational for England’s housing supply by pre-permitting homes that follow a locally popular design code, thus permitting self builders, custom builders , community land trusts and SMEs to…

The critical distinction is that Texas doesn't start by automatically letting prisoners out after just 40% of their sentence, and only brings forward the date of parole eligibility, not release. How much of their sentence will "well-behaved" prisoners end up serving? 20%? 10%?

The famous Ritz Hotel is replacing an ugly postwar block with an extension in the style of the original Mewès and Davis 1906 building. These are matching perspectives: it looks to be a huge improvement for Arlington Street. Building works currently underway.