London Speed Dating Now Where Romance Runs on a Three-Minute Clock
London Speed Dating Now Where Romance Runs on a Three-Minute Clock | Hopeful singles get a few minutes to make an impression
Month: February 2015
Tehran Introduces Loyalty Scheme
Tehran Introduces Loyalty Scheme: Cross the Strait Ten Times, Get the Eleventh Missile Gratis The Strait of Hormuz — a 21-mile-wide sliver of water through which approximately one-fifth of the world’s seaborne oil ordinarily passes on its way to keeping the lights on across three continents —…
Dalston: East London’s Permanent Soundcheck With Opinions
Dalston: East London’s Permanent Soundcheck With Opinions | A Neighbourhood Where Music, Coffee, and Debate Overlap
London Garden Squares Now the City’s Secret Green Rooms Behind Railings
London Garden Squares Now the City’s Secret Green Rooms Behind Railings | Hidden oases offer leafy calm to those who know how to find them
Tufnell Park: North London’s Thoughtful Sidestep From the Main Road
Tufnell Park: North London’s Thoughtful Sidestep From the Main Road | A Neighbourhood That Pauses Before Answering
London Bollards: The Humble Posts With A Cannon Legend
London Bollards: The Humble Posts With A Cannon Legend | London bollards are the sturdy posts dotting the city’s pavements, wrapped in a famous legend that the oldest were made from captured cannon.
Post-Apocalypse in London
Post-Apocalypse in London: Why the End of Civilization Went Completely Unnoticed London Carries On Blissfully, Unaware Civilization Actually Collapsed London woke up after the apocalypse exactly the way it wakes up every morning: annoyed, under-caffeinated, and convinced this was somehow the Mayor’s fault. The sky…
British Political Parties: Internal Democracy, Factions, and the Eternal Question of Whether Party Members Should Run Their Own Party
British Political Parties: Internal Democracy, Factions, and the Eternal Question of Whether Party Members Should Run Their Own Party | Leadership Elections, Trigger Ballots, One Member One Vote, Momentum, Tory Awkward Squad, and the Management of Ideological Diversity Within Political Coalitions
Meghan: Artisanal Financial Devastation
Meghan Markle Invents Exciting New Netflix Genre: “Artisanal Financial Devastation” Streaming Giant Confirms Millions Unaccounted For, Possibly Folded Into Linen Napkins at Montecito Tea Service There are flops. There are spectacular flops. And then there is whatever you call it when a global streaming platform…
Paris Café Prices
Paris Café Prices Reach New Highs, Conversations Reach New Depths PARIS — The average price of coffee in central Paris has reached €14, prompting widespread outrage and even deeper conversations. You’re Not Buying Coffee. You’re Investing in a Feeling. Economists say the price increase reflects…
London Memorial Benches: The Quiet Tributes In The Parks
London Memorial Benches: The Quiet Tributes In The Parks | London memorial benches are the simple wooden benches scattered through the city’s parks, each bearing a small plaque to someone loved.
Croydon London: A Towering Town Of Bold Concrete Ambition
Croydon London: A Towering Town Of Bold Concrete Ambition | Croydon london is the large, bustling town in the city’s far south famous for its bold skyline of office towers and big shopping.
Henry Vs Conquest Of Normandy: When Winning Became A Full-Time Commitment
Henry Vs Conquest Of Normandy: When Winning Became A Full-Time Commitment | How One Victory Turned Into Years Of Very Busy Expansion
Britain Invents Dessert Called ‘Spotted Dick,’ Refuses to Change Name Despite Decades of International Sniggering, Considers This a Point of National Dignity
Britain Invents Dessert Called ‘Spotted Dick,’ Refuses to Change Name Despite Decades of International Sniggering, Considers This a Point of National Dignity | Country That Calls a Suet Pudding ‘Spotted Dick,’ a Dessert ‘Sticky Toffee Pudding,’ and Everything Else ‘Pudding’ Regardless of Its Physical Form Defends Its Naming Conventions
PlayDoge Goes Up and Down
Five Observations From a Nation That Once Ran the Global Economy and Now Watches a Dog Coin Go Up and Down Analysts describe PlayDoge as “a paradigm shift in digital asset philosophy,” which is what analysts say when they cannot think of anything else to…
Kyoto Park London Achieves Perfect Serenity, Then A Tourist Falls In The Koi Pond
Kyoto Park London Achieves Perfect Serenity, Then A Tourist Falls In The Koi Pond | A London board reports Kyoto Park London – the Japanese garden in Holland Park – is the calmest spot in the city until 11am. Mock-news.
Britain’s Decline
Britain Announces Bold Plan to Avoid Decline by Holding Another Meeting About Decline Featuring tea, historical nostalgia, and a spreadsheet labelled “Empire (Do Not Open)” There comes a moment in every great nation’s life when it must ask the hard question: “Are we declining… or…
Bermondsey: Where Grit Learned Table Manners
Bermondsey: Where Grit Learned Table Manners | Bermondsey London Neighborhood Satire With Polished Scars
Knightsbridge: Where London Spends Quietly but Judges Loudly
Knightsbridge: Where London Spends Quietly but Judges Loudly | A Polished Satire of Knightsbridge’s Luxury, Surveillance-Level Politeness, and Strategic Indifference
America’s Warrantless Spying
America Discovers the Only Thing More Dangerous Than Warrantless Spying Is Being Asked to Vote About It Our cousins across the Atlantic have once again treated the world to the great spectacle of American democracy at full throttle: arguing loudly, deciding nothing, and blaming each…
Leyton Orient FC: Football With Urban Rhythm
Leyton Orient FC: Football With Urban Rhythm | A Club Shaped by Its Streets
Maida Vale: West London’s Soft-Spoken Elegance With a Strict Bedtime
Maida Vale: West London’s Soft-Spoken Elegance With a Strict Bedtime | A Neighbourhood That Wins by Whispering
Camden Town: North London’s Permanent Festival With a Leather Jacket
Camden Town: North London’s Permanent Festival With a Leather Jacket | A Neighbourhood That Never Fully Grows Up
Scotland and Reality
Scotland’s Sudden Lurch Toward Reality How Labour, the Left, and a Generation of Explanations Accidentally Invented Conservatism Again 🇬🇧 Scotland didn’t wake up conservative. It woke up sober. — Alan Nafzger Somewhere between the fifteenth “temporary” tax, the seventeenth consultation on feelings, and the thirty-year…
New Deal Liberalism: Murals, Dams, And Fireside Chats
New Deal Liberalism: Murals, Dams, And Fireside Chats | What FDR Filed In 1936 Just Needs Reactivating
NASA Sends Four Astronauts Around the Moon
NASA Sends Four Astronauts Around the Moon, Nation Agrees It Sounds Considerably More Pleasant Than Staying Here Four astronauts have returned safely from the first crewed lunar mission since 1972, having spent ten days travelling 252,760 miles from Earth — further than any human beings…
The British Think Tank Industrial Complex: Who Funds the Ideas That Govern Britain and Why It Matters
The British Think Tank Industrial Complex: Who Funds the Ideas That Govern Britain and Why It Matters | IEA, IPPR, Fabian Society, Policy Exchange, Resolution Foundation, and the Question of Whether Britain’s Policy Debate Is Open or Has Already Been Pre-Purchased
AI Was Supposed to Take Over Our Jobs in 2025
AI Was Supposed to Take Over Our Jobs in 2025, but It Couldn’t Even Click a Mouse — The New Yorker’s Belated Tech Horror Story 2025 was supposed to be the year AI liberated humans from the drudgery of daily tasks. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI,…