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“In our self-help culture, the resolutely uncooperative Weil has nevertheless been seized upon for lesson-extraction.” Read Jack Hanson on the Simone Weil obsession in our latest Issue Fourteen preview thedriftmag.com/whose-weil/

‘I liked words, liked seeing what a word could do. I couldn’t give a shit what a ball could do, but a word.’ Saba Sams on sports, embodiment and her childhood determination to get out of PE. granta.com/keep-up-sams

“How could I have been living under the illusion that I was the one in touch with nature, with human nature, when in fact I was just messing around with signs and abstractions?” Karl Ove Knausgaard on enchantment in the digital age. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

A good read on this topic: amazon.com/Europes-Growth….

“I want to get all the content down so that I can then move on to the fun part, which is sorting out the sentences.” —Geoff Dyer buff.ly/LTU3hWg

What makes attention the critical component for most advances in LLMs and what holds back long-term memory modules (RNNs)? Can we strictly generalize Transformers? Presenting Atlas (A powerful Titan): a new architecture with long-term in-context memory that learns how to

We are living through the Golden Age of English football - 52,000 people for a fifth tier match. This boom is remarkable, new, and unique to England (possibly Germany). It feels like the one thing in this country that is thriving.

LONESOME DOVE is one one of those "actually as good as people say it is" kind of books.

Frontloading child benefits is a nearly-free way to give parents money when they are likely to need it most - when they are younger and when their kids need more expensive childminding. Making this an option for parents could be quite popular, too. worksinprogress.news/p/why-child-be…

Akio Toyoda, the scion of Toyota's founding family and the man behind wildly popular car-racing persona Morizo, has expanded his influence since becoming chair. But his reign has started to show signs of strain on.ft.com/3FpCwlT

Rolls-Royce group wins government backing to build UK’s first small modular nuclear reactor on.ft.com/4kWaqgO

newstatesman.com/culture/sport/… Paid a visit to the attention-deficit spectacle that is Baller League. A mega-monied plot to rewrite the beautiful game in the image of your 12-year-old cousin. Featuring a Micah Richards cameo, but no-shows from Luis Figo and AngryGinge.

I'm in the summer edition of The Toe Rag, with a piece on Sellafield and the shaping of Britain's nuclear imagination. Print only. Copies here. thetoerag.com/stockists

Bore da from Westminster! We’ve got a full preview of Rachel Reeves’s Spending Review with… 🌹Alex Barros-Curtis MP 🟢Ben Lake AS/MP 🔶David Chadwick MP 🔶 🔷Aled Maclean-Jones 🚂Prof Andrew Potter 💷sarah coles 🎙️Gareth Lewis 📻7-9am, BBC Radio Wales Breakfast

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💥 EXC: For my first edition of the New Statesman as editor, I went on the road with Keir Starmer, discovering a man far more emotional than I expected, struggling to articulate his deepest emotions — and those of the country he leads👇 newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

I wrote this essay for the New Statesman about the collapse of the English Literature degree and the dawn of the post-literate society newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

NEW POST on AI, learning and why knowing stuff still matters. Link in reply ⬇️

This one chart from today's podcast guest Jim Egan. Incredible. The difference between having a ZIRP-era mortgage and not having one.

Matthew Arnold had it made.