Jasmine Harman and the Global Cottage-Core Arms Race By Our Correspondent in the Department of Soft-Furnishings Geopolitics You may know Jasmine Harman as the relentlessly upbeat presenter who once persuaded a retired couple from Southend to trade a three-bed semi for a crumbling finca in Alicante on A Place in the Sun. What you probably…
Chicago’s “Affordable” Housing Experiment: A Global Parable, Now with Deep-Dish Irony by D. Lockhart, Senior Cynic-at-Large The first thing you learn covering housing crises from Lagos to Lisbon is that the word “affordable” is multilingual: in Chicago it currently translates as “only moderately soul-crushing,” while in Mumbai it means “a bunk bed you can sub-sublet…
**The Socialist from Queens Nobody Ordered: Zohran Mamdani’s Global Roadshow of Democratic Discontent** By the time Zohran Mamdani finished quoting Thomas Sankara to a roomful of Berlin tech-workers, the German capital’s usual drizzle had turned into a full-blown November tantrum. Puddles pooled around the audience’s ethically-sourced sneakers, yet no one budged. After all, it’s not…
