Lizzy Peet
@lizzypeet.bsky.social
Researcher-reporter for The Economist, Londoner based in New York 🗽
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I'm a "glass is half-full" kinda guy, so let's look at the upside of the Riyadh Comedy Festival: We never, ever have to even pretend to take any of these "anti-woke" "free speech warriors" seriously, ever again.
New from me at @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):
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New from me at @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):
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Will Anti-Woke Comedy Recover From the Riyadh Festival?
Any event that includes comedy’s biggest names is going to attract attention — but the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which kicked off on Sept. 26 and continued through Thursday, is disproving the adage that...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I'm a "glass is half-full" kinda guy, so let's look at the upside of the Riyadh Comedy Festival: We never, ever have to even pretend to take any of these "anti-woke" "free speech warriors" seriously, ever again.
New from me at @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):
bit.ly/4h51JjF
New from me at @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):
bit.ly/4h51JjF
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...
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Where can Americans afford to live solo in 2025?
Our Carrie Bradshaw index shows rent is soaring in several southern cities
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October 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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...
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
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...
www.economist.com/united-state...
Women’s pro-ballers want more cash
The popularity of the WNBA is soaring
www.economist.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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...
www.economist.com/united-state...
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
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...
Should: 80%
Should not: 8%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
September 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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
Now two years after this was announced and (by my reckoning at least) still no sign? 🤔 Curieux
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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
September 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Now two years after this was announced and (by my reckoning at least) still no sign? 🤔 Curieux
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
Lovely vignette on the making of Gone With The Wind (from Bruce Chadwick’s Reel Civil War)
August 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Lovely vignette on the making of Gone With The Wind (from Bruce Chadwick’s Reel Civil War)
“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
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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
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August 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“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...
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...
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...
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
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August 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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...
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
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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
July 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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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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.
July 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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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Shout out to Catherine Corless, independent local historian. who has made a difference.
Preparatory work to identify remains of 800 infants at Irish mother and baby home begins
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...
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June 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Shout out to Catherine Corless, independent local historian. who has made a difference.
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🚨 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.”
June 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨 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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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
June 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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...
"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
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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
May 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"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...
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
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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...
So I spent a few days digging into their economic plans—and found hair-raising, Truss-adjacent stuff.
www.economist.com/britain/202...
May 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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...
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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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%.
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
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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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...
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
May 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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...
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...
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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.
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
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
May 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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.
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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
May 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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
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...
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
May 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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...
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...
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This isn’t the first time America’s credibility as an ally has been questioned.
50 years ago today Saigon fell, the Vietnam war ended and American pride took a big hit.
My piece looks at The Economist’s coverage from April 1975. Much of it will sound familiar. www.economist.com/interactive/...
50 years ago today Saigon fell, the Vietnam war ended and American pride took a big hit.
My piece looks at The Economist’s coverage from April 1975. Much of it will sound familiar. www.economist.com/interactive/...
With American credibility in doubt, minds go back to Saigon in 1975
A look at the way The Economist covered the end of the Vietnam war
www.economist.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This isn’t the first time America’s credibility as an ally has been questioned.
50 years ago today Saigon fell, the Vietnam war ended and American pride took a big hit.
My piece looks at The Economist’s coverage from April 1975. Much of it will sound familiar. www.economist.com/interactive/...
50 years ago today Saigon fell, the Vietnam war ended and American pride took a big hit.
My piece looks at The Economist’s coverage from April 1975. Much of it will sound familiar. www.economist.com/interactive/...
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Birth bonus. Sigh.
April 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Birth bonus. Sigh.
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So. In the spirit of being fair, I have now read Nick Clegg‘s Essay about the Future of Europe - and Britain‘s Part in it. I have also done my best to ignore who wrote it, and focus on the arguments in it. A few thoughts
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
The EU must reinvent itself... or die
World peace cannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers which threaten it.
observer.co.uk
April 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
So. In the spirit of being fair, I have now read Nick Clegg‘s Essay about the Future of Europe - and Britain‘s Part in it. I have also done my best to ignore who wrote it, and focus on the arguments in it. A few thoughts
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...
Daniel Bice
Daniel Bice is a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Watchdog team.
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April 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...