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Since the moon is so full, here it is over the sea

Halfway through I'd still recommend this novel (look, she won the Nobel). One of the strongest impressions it leaves me with is how much time, effort and emotion went into the utterly barren business of being a British Communist, a lifelong exercise in bad faith. What a pointless waste of life.

China is smarter about subsidies than everybody else - www.ft.com/content/8719... Absolute feast of important links in this Gillian Tett article

China is smarter about subsidies than everybody elseBeijing is stealing a march on its competitors by targeting strategic sectorswww.ft.com

Chinese firms’ market share gains driven by subsidies, says OECD - www.ft.com/content/885c... feels like a rather important result (which I missed, two months ago(

"Warsh’s metaphor, in other words, is utterly wrong-headed. The Fed is not a referee; it’s a player, and a very important one" www.ft.com/content/fe3f... Bang on by @robarmstrong.bsky.social

Kevin Warsh is confusing marketsThe Fed is a player, not a refereewww.ft.com

Here @tildawilkes.bsky.social tries out a new commute

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Am reading Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, written in the early 1960s and this section makes me wonder: when did people stop thinking of London as ghastly, unpleasant and grim? I've long taken it for granted that it's one of the best cities in the world.

Musk’s vision of the future www.economist.com/business/202... This guy gets so much wrong that he's almost a useful contra indicator: Britain, a country with a fifth of the murder rate of the USA, is not going to have a civil war over race or culture There isn't going to be a Mars colony 1/

Elon Musk’s vision of the futureThe world’s richest man sits down with The Economistwww.economist.com

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Ok, Emily Wilson versus Christopher Nolan is a most unequal battle. I still want to see the movie. Maybe just reread the book too

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManAs they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...www.lrb.co.uk

"the Lancet model finds: 36% of the world’s heat deaths are attributed to Europe, which is home to less than 10% of the world’s people. And the annual death toll is rising" www.economist.com/internationa... From The Economist

The geopolitics of air-conditioningHeatwaves are making access to AC a political problem around the worldwww.economist.com

"Optimism alone wouldn’t fix things if the underlying economic conditions were terrible. But the UK in recent months has been fairly resilient and remains one of the fastest-growing major economies." www.ft.com/content/976c...

Don’t underestimate the economic power of a UK vibe shiftThe economy still has plenty of challenges but there’s something to be said for facing them with a smilewww.ft.com

"Among the factors affecting Iranian strike rates could be interceptor usage levels among Americans and their allies, after reports that they burned through large numbers of interceptor missiles during the first months of the war." www.ft.com/content/82ac...

How Iran adapted its missile war with TrumpRecent fighting has provided conditions for Tehran’s forces to launch more precision strikes across Gulf and Jordanwww.ft.com

I've started Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams as my fun non fiction book and after that first chapter all I want to know is whether she could possibly have forgiven her parents and if so, how.

Every few years I get to re-enjoy my astonishment at how bureaucratic the business of hiring a car is. How the people at the booth spend more time than would be needed to arrange a complex mortgage.

Proust in the age of TikTok - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... what a lovely piece by @joshspero.ft.com I've been mulling whether Proust's is one of the great novels I should reread* in the handful of decades I have left. This persuades! *actually only finished four volumes in 1996

Proust in the age of TikTokThe French writer’s seven-volume magnum opus was a challenging choice for a book club — but its evocation of the human psyche makes essential reading for our timesgiftarticle.ft.com

Inside the Rushed Effort to Get Trump His New Air Force One www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u... Staggering waste and nonsense throughout

Inside the Rushed Effort to Get Trump His New Air Force OneA New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.www.nytimes.com

my much smaller cat used to do this too. my schnauzer at the time, not so much. The family is still ashamed of this

"a continent that struggles to export cars or chemicals now gets its dollars and yuan by enticing foreigners to come over and spend on its shores instead" www.economist.com/europe/2026/... This is very confusing, The Economist, which surely knows that : EUROPE RUNS A TRADE SURPLUS. 1/

Dismissing Europe as a museum is glib. Think of it as a theme parkAll the continent’s a stagewww.economist.com

In response to the EU taxing American companies, he threatens to tax American consumers. - www.ft.com/content/9b81... via @financialtimes.com 🤪

Donald Trump threatens new EU tariffs in retaliation for fines on US tech groupsPresident says Washington will launch new probe into the bloc that could sharpen trade tensionswww.ft.com

"Functional information-processing taking place in an atemporal mathematical space is so utterly unlike the lived intelligence of a human being that to call it “intelligence” at all is to wholly falsify its nature." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Why this philosopher turned down AnthropicThe AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questionsgiftarticle.ft.com