Lizzy Peet
@lizzypeet.bsky.social
Researcher-reporter for The Economist, Londoner based in New York 🗽
I put together our latest Carrie Bradshaw Index, measuring how affordable it is to rent alone in major European cities from Brussels to Budapest. If a relocation is on the cards, there are some surprising results 👇
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Our Carrie Bradshaw index of Europe’s priciest cities for renters
The average earner struggles to afford rent in all but eight of the places we looked at
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January 26, 2026 at 7:55 PM
I put together our latest Carrie Bradshaw Index, measuring how affordable it is to rent alone in major European cities from Brussels to Budapest. If a relocation is on the cards, there are some surprising results 👇
www.economist.com/graphic-deta... @economist.com
www.economist.com/graphic-deta... @economist.com
Another ruthlessly ambitious (and unlikeable) defector. A thought: if they can't push above 30%, it's a hung parliament in 2029 with probable coalition locking out Reform. Next shot is 2034. Farage is now 70, and has kept the party, full of jostling egos, from imploding for eight long years...
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK.
Another failed Tory joins Farage.
Vote for Reform UK, get the worst of the Tories.
Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK.
Another failed Tory joins Farage.
Vote for Reform UK, get the worst of the Tories.
January 26, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Another ruthlessly ambitious (and unlikeable) defector. A thought: if they can't push above 30%, it's a hung parliament in 2029 with probable coalition locking out Reform. Next shot is 2034. Farage is now 70, and has kept the party, full of jostling egos, from imploding for eight long years...
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Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE.
📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE.
📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Exactly two years ago
Exactly two years ago
Boris Johnson says Trump back in White House is ‘what the world needs’
Ex-PM backs disgraced former US president ahead of election, saying he ‘won’t ditch the Ukrainians’
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January 21, 2026 at 6:25 PM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Exactly two years ago
Exactly two years ago
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Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
January 19, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
Had no idea that Denmark sustained NATO’s highest number of fatalities per capita in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sobering context for this growing crisis
Every country’s economy is tied to others, but a small nation as historically dependent on trade as Denmark feels particularly vulnerable to Donald Trump’s caprices, Margaret Talbot writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xaK8Xh
Denmark Is Sick of Being Bullied by Trump
The U.S., once Denmark’s closest ally, is threatening to steal Greenland and attacking the country’s wind-power industry. Is this a permanent breakup?
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
January 17, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Had no idea that Denmark sustained NATO’s highest number of fatalities per capita in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sobering context for this growing crisis
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The doom and gloom about London is ridiculous and harmful. Team FT is Team London - as.ft.com/r/19d3d36d-e...
Don’t believe the fake gloom about London
[FREE TO READ] The UK capital is subject to more than its fair share of misinformation
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December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The doom and gloom about London is ridiculous and harmful. Team FT is Team London - as.ft.com/r/19d3d36d-e...
This is without a doubt the best analysis out there of the stakes in Britain's next election (and the graphics are fun too!)
www.economist.com/interactive/...
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Our new model captures the lottery of Britain’s electoral system
Similar results, our data analysis shows, can yield strikingly different outcomes
www.economist.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is without a doubt the best analysis out there of the stakes in Britain's next election (and the graphics are fun too!)
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
Despite becoming a yawn-inducing attack line it is still *extraordinary* that in the early 2000s Britain's Labour government decided to sell off half the country's gold reserves when the price was where it was. 395 tonnes, which then netted $6.3bn (adjusted), would today fetch $52bn 😳
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Despite becoming a yawn-inducing attack line it is still *extraordinary* that in the early 2000s Britain's Labour government decided to sell off half the country's gold reserves when the price was where it was. 395 tonnes, which then netted $6.3bn (adjusted), would today fetch $52bn 😳
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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):
bit.ly/4h51JjF
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
www.economist.com
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
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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
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...
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
www.economist.com
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...