Vol. XII · No. 142 · Friday, 21 June 2026 · London & New York · £4.50
The archive
Reporting, essays and long reads: newest first.
Thirty years of towers promised light and air for everyone, and delivered permanent dusk to the parks below.
Money left the room as quietly as it arrived. What the institutions it built do next is the real story.
On a shrinking stretch of drowned forest, a small team is keeping a vanishing landscape on the record.
What a winter of assembly revealed about the cities that host it - and the people who would not go home.
Deletion was supposed to be simple. In a world built on inference, forgetting turns out to be the hardest thing to engineer.
Two hours a day, multiplied by a million lives - the hidden ledger of the urban journey, and who pays it.