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4 November 2026
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Goyard bags, insurgencies & cute lunches in unintended war zones
“I saw this quote about war being this thing you see on your phone, getting closer and closer until you’re the one filming it”
By The Rania Post
I Have Found God and She Is From South Shields
Meet the Church of JADE. She won The X Factor with Little Mix, went solo, and made some of the most technically ambitious pop of the decade. Most people still cannot name a song.
By Rezi Getsadze
The writers who let you watch them write
Werber’s cathedral of strings, Auster’s blue notebook, Tesson’s cabin on the Baikal. On the books that put the writing desk inside the frame, and on what it would take to sit down at one.
By Malak Yacoubi
Goyard bags, insurgencies & cute lunches in unintended war zones
By The Rania Post
On the evening of the 25th of September, 2025, Miora had a flight to Paris from Antananarivo. Her hair was freshly blow-dried and her nails done, she was ecstatic at the next day’s lunch with friends in the 1er arrondissement. She wore a white silk shirt. She had her Goyard bag in hand, and on her way to the airport.
Miora is French Malagasi. Her parents live between Paris and Antananarivo; she splits her life between Montreal and Nairobi, where she works in international development for the FAO and keeps up with the news almost exclusively on social media.
Business
A Two Year Race To Record Every Human Move.
We’re at the stage of the future where our species seems to be moving past privacy concern all together for the sake of no longer doing exhausting chores. One company will clean your apartment for free in exchange for the footage. In more than 50 countries, the same trade is now being made by the hour.
By James
African VC returns are up
Eleven exits, realised multiples of up to five times, and, rarest of all, actual cash back in investors' pockets.
By James
Scipio Networks signs with Thales
A young German defence-software company, Scipio Networks, has agreed to plug its military-logistics platform into a Thales command system: a Franco-German tie-up aimed at closing the gap between what commanders plan and what their supply lines can actually deliver.
Written by James