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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · 7d

I put together our third annual Carrie Bradshaw index, measuring how affordable it is to rent alone in America's 100 biggest cities, for @economist.com
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Where can Americans afford to live solo in 2025?

Our Carrie Bradshaw index shows rent is soaring in several southern cities

www.economist.com

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · 10d

And another! She’s unbelievable

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · 12d

As popularity and revenue soars, how much longer can the NBA - which effectively controls the W - hold their line that it is still losing money? 🤔

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · 12d

With about a month to go until a salary renegotiation deadline on October 31st, I looked at why America's women basketball players are scandalously underpaid, for @economist.com
www.economist.com/united-state...

Women’s pro-ballers want more cash

The popularity of the WNBA is soaring

www.economist.com

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · 29d

Who knew the Lib Dems were the chilled ones about tax returns! But overall that's a striking consensus, and a potentially big problem brewing for Farage

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 29d

While Nigel Farage has declined to publish his tax returns, saying it's "an intrusion too far", 80% of Britons think senior politicians should be required to published the amount of tax they pay each year

Should: 80%
Should not: 8%

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now two years after this was announced and (by my reckoning at least) still no sign? 🤔 Curieux
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

Boris Johnson yet to appear on GB News 10 months after being signed up as a presenter

The former PM, working on his memoirs, has still not hosted a programme for the right-leaning channel – and his publisher awaits book slated for a 2016 release

www.theguardian.com

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · Aug 24

Lovely vignette on the making of Gone With The Wind (from Bruce Chadwick’s Reel Civil War)

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · Aug 22

“My characters exist,” snapped Candace Bushnell at her critics. “Go to enough parties, and you’ll meet all of them.”
First appearing on TV in 1998, I wrote about the (perhaps slightly overdue) end of her Sex and the City universe last week, for @economist.com
www.economist.com/culture/2025...

Farewell to Carrie Bradshaw, TV’s exasperating, enduring heroine

She made viewers cross. But “Sex and the City” was unlike anything that had come before

www.economist.com

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · Aug 14

Our polling with YouGov has found nearly a third of under-30s listen to audio sped up (compared to 8% of those 45+). A sign of brain-frazzling madness, or an ingenious time-saver? I had a closer look for @economist.com
www.economist.com/culture/2025...

What’s your preferred playback speed: 1x, 1.5x or 2x?

Young people, in particular, want audiobooks, podcasts and videos to go faster

www.economist.com

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · Jul 23

"Owens met Farmer at the London event where she made the Hitler remarks... Seventeen days after meeting Owens, Farmer proposed over the phone. Seven months later, in August, 2019, the pair married, at Trump Winery"- quite the nugget
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

The Gospel of Candace Owens

The Daily Wire host is waging a far-right fight for the soul of pop culture.

www.newyorker.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jul 17

A reminder that when Kemi Badenoch was offered a security briefing on this earlier this year she decided that it wasn't important enough for her to bother turning up

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Jul 2

There's a lot of 'the spendthrift PLP versus the Iron Downing Street' about, which ignores that the PLP accepted a deferment of scrapping the two child limit and voted to means-test winter fuel.

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Dan @fraternalwriter.bsky.social · Jun 16

Shout out to Catherine Corless, independent local historian. who has made a difference.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jun 16

Preparatory work to identify remains of 800 infants at Irish mother and baby home begins

Excavation crews begin sealing off site in Tuam, Co Galway, before full-scale dig starts on 14 July Preliminary work aimed at identifying the remains of nearly 800 infants is starting on the site in Tuam, Co Galway, as Ireland continues to wrestle with the traumatic legacy of its mother and baby homes scandal. Catherine Corless, a local historian who first sounded the alarm about the dark past of the institution run by nuns from the Bon Secours order, uncovered the names of 796 infants who are believed to have been buried there between 1925 and 1961, some in a disused subterranean septic tank. There were no burial records. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · Jun 7

Women too emotional for politics, etc etc

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · Jun 7

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · Jun 5

🚨 BREAKING: Zia Yusuf has resigned as Chairman of Reform UK, saying “I no longer believe working to get a Reform government is a good use of my time.”

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · Jun 3

Another excellent column by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social, this one about the amazing play John Proctor is the Villain: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...

Opinion | Why Women Are Leaving This Broadway Show in Tears

www.nytimes.com

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · May 16

Also spoke to The Intelligence, our daily podcast, about it this morning. Have a listen! From 18:30
shows.acast.com/theintellige...

Bucharest pressed: Ukraine’s election effect | The Intelligence from The Economist

shows.acast.com

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · May 16

"It's not a magic trick to get people to watch women's sports", one analyst told me. As the new WNBA season starts tonight, I wrote for @economist.com about how women's basketball exploded in America
www.economist.com/culture/2025...

The WNBA will soon be the most valuable league in women’s sport

Already wildly popular, women’s basketball still has room to grow

www.economist.com

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Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social · May 8

One lesson of the local elections is that it's time to take Reform seriously, not just as a political movement but as a possible party of government.

So I spent a few days digging into their economic plans—and found hair-raising, Truss-adjacent stuff.

www.economist.com/britain/202...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · May 7

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis

While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

www.propublica.org

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · May 2

Australia heads to the polls on Saturday, in an election dominated by the cost of living crisis - housing in particular.

I put together the latest version of our "Carrie Bradshaw index", measuring how affordable it is to rent alone in six major Australian cities 👇
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Our Carrie Bradshaw index shows Australia’s housing is in crisis

In most big cities, the average worker struggles to afford their own place

www.economist.com

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · May 2

The problem with the theory that FPTP keeps fringe parties out is that it does until it doesn't, at which point it creates a massive ratchet effect. Having FPTP and a successful radical right party is essentially a gamble of sorts.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · May 2

An illustration of how FPP goes from sandbag to springboard - Reform votes and seats in different councils:

Oxfordshire: 18% vote, 2% seats
Cambridgeshire: 23% vote, 16% seats
Devon: 27% vote, 30% seats
Leicestershire: 33% vote, 46% seats
Derbyshire: 37% vote, 66% seats

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · May 2

Imagine being lectured by RFK Jr about how to be healthy and then having Mark Zuckerberg tell you how many friends normal people should have

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Lizzy Peet @lizzypeet.bsky.social · May 2

Australia heads to the polls on Saturday, in an election dominated by the cost of living crisis - housing in particular.

I put together the latest version of our "Carrie Bradshaw index", measuring how affordable it is to rent alone in six major Australian cities 👇
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Our Carrie Bradshaw index shows Australia’s housing is in crisis

In most big cities, the average worker struggles to afford their own place

www.economist.com

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