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An aspirational generation of Chinese arrivals are beginning to shape Japan’s demographic, social and perhaps even political destiny https://t.co/2ZK4fDrXYY

'It almost never fails to disappoint — but maybe it’s so bad it’s good,' says Marina O’Loughlin

Why France is stuck – according to Simon Kuper: https://t.co/nGjB7bQuKI

'For the Trumps, the Gulf’s glittering cities represent a land of untapped real-estate opportunity.' Chloe Cornish on how the first family’s business interests in the region are complex, lucrative and growing: https://t.co/LCIXdQL52D

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'You dressed up, you made the effort, and you deserved a romantic dinner — not a cephalopod-related debacle.' What happened when Tim Harford asked ChatGPT why it set him up on a date with an octopus? https://t.co/t4k5BlhGcF

I have a fear of technology verging on the Luddite, and yet I hate feeling left out, says Miranda Green:

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The sculptor of the CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ has spent decades guarding its last secret code. What happens when he’s gone? https://t.co/LTlrvclhHJ

Donald Trump’s firing of US stats chief doesn’t add up, says Tim Harford: https://t.co/4no1gHnfqX

'It is a complicated and complicating thing, to grow up in a home that holds violence within its walls. Reconciling violence with vulnerability is my own peculiar inheritance, a perpetual tightrope walk.' Read Marina Kemp's essay: https://t.co/U8y9SK4K98

How to break out of a summer reading slump: https://t.co/hUY5W25H0g

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'It is a sunny Sunday in June and I am sitting in a Porsche with a man I matched with on Bumble, two sighthounds, a DJ and Curtis Yarvin.' What Jemima Kelly learnt at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled: https://t.co/aNkn67YAoM

Simon Kuper on what makes a good childhood – and what other countries can learn from the Netherlands: https://t.co/xPjF9zTfOE

What unrestricted internet access did to Gen Z’s love life: https://t.co/OGLA6aGgAj

What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled: https://t.co/gtKtgiOz3y

Simon Kuper on what makes a good childhood – and what other countries can learn from the Netherlands: https://t.co/njBwEJg9Xr