Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days
In the United States, the most popular mom content tends to be rightwing trad wife propaganda or just apolitical – pushing progressive creators out of the algorithm. Kady Ruth Ashcraft explored why. Also, in a special three-part essay series, published last weekend, Robert Topinka looked at how liberals and progressives have “lost the internet” and what they can do to turn things around.
There used to be hundreds of pie and mash shops in London. Now there are barely more than 30. Can social media attention and a push for protected status ensure their survival? Tim Dowling put away his knife and spoke to some of the keepers of the pie and mash flame.
Against the backdrop of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral rise is a dynamic scene of Muslim creatives and intellectuals who are helping usher in a new era for New York City. Their prominence represents a rebuke of the ugly Islamophobia that defined the period following 9/11, and is in many ways an outcrop of the mass movement for Palestinian rights forged over the last two years. Rhana Natour asked 18 Muslim New Yorkers to discuss their work and what this moment means.
