Reading with beautiful illustrations.

The rector of Ghent university will end "personalized objectives, the annual job descriptions and the high number of evaluation documents and activity reports". Hooray!

Good calls on computerisation and the environment. Wrong on space travel.

The grim story of how school security and law enforcement failed the Parkland students and teachers.

Fascinating and horrifying.

A moving story.

Nick Timothy says this is what was really meant by Theresa May’s “citizens of nowhere”. Of course, she is doing less than nothing about it.

This is really bad. The Imre Nagy statue on Kossuth square was a miving testimony to bad times. They cut it in pieces and took it away.

Seems a little too good to be true, but I am sure there are lots of real stories like this.

Truly horrifying. Now I understand why the EU should regulate systems like Amazon Marketplace - human rights!

As recorded in Pyongyang. Yes, really.

Effect as well as (partial) cause.

A bit of balance. Some of these are a little dubious, but the overall point that we tend to filter for bad news is valid.

Some of these I will avoid; some I will look out for. I have read one of them already!

Look at them while you can. They may only last another 100 million years.

Brilliant dissection by @AlexMassie of imperial pretensions, including those of his fellow @Spectator columnist Brendan O'Neill.

A pessimistic but possibly realistic forecast.

Very moving.

One aspect of the extraordinary Relotius affair.

Eliza tells her story.

Great from @JFennellAuthor, though I would have included Ian McDonald myself.

Very enlightening.

Fascinating case study from @CrisisGroup starring @@Hugh_Pope .

Very nice piece, again flagged by @wwhyte.

Inspiring.

Too much of a good thing?

*gulp*

Excellent @WSJ analysis from @StephenFidler1 and @LaurNorman.

Important piece on the “fourth trimester” from @economist.

...in Belfast! @wwhyte reports.