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Macabre banger from @LotteBrundle
They’re barely out of school — and spend their days tending to the dead.
Britain has almost a million young people classified as NEETs.
@LotteBrundle met some who chose an unusual way out: becoming apprentice undertakers.
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Miles Ellingham retweeted
In print as of yesterday! @ObserverUK
Epitaph for a glacier
Glaciers are not supposed to stop moving, but in 2014 one did. Miles Ellingham travels to Iceland to see it and meet the activist who believes its death should shock us into taking action
✍️ @milesellingham
bit.ly/4iIgwUx
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Miles Ellingham retweeted
'Andri Snær Magnason looked down at the naked land, remembering how, the last time he walked it, the ground was clothed in ice. I imagine this feeling is like realising your dad is going bald, followed by a gradual terror.'
@milesellingham's epitaph for an glacier in @ObsNewReview
bit.ly/4iIgwUx
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A few ideas on how to deal with the end of the world which @AndriMagnason and I brainstormed whilst climbing a volcano having left the water back in the car.
How do we talk about the beginning of the end of the world? In an unmissable piece in today’s @ObserverUK @MilesEllingham travels to Iceland to meet a man @AndriMagnason who thinks he might know. Epitaph for a glacier
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Miles Ellingham retweeted
Epitaph for a glacier
Glaciers are not supposed to stop moving, but in 2014 one did. Miles Ellingham travels to Iceland to see it and meet the activist who believes its death should shock us into taking action
✍️ @milesellingham
bit.ly/4iIgwUx
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I took @milesellingham to the end of the world to explore the summer that has arrived but is not leaving…
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Miles Ellingham retweeted
I wanted to write about the end of world but I didn’t know how. So @ObserverUK sent me Iceland to meet the extraordinary writer, @AndriMagnason . Four days, one frozen helicopter ride and one dead glacier later I started work on this.
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I wanted to write about the end of world but I didn’t know how. So @ObserverUK sent me Iceland to meet the extraordinary writer, @AndriMagnason . Four days, one frozen helicopter ride and one dead glacier later I started work on this.
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It’s hard to think about climate breakdown because it’s hard to talk about. Even those two words “climate breakdown” just feel muted. Hopefully this piece will help reframe our muted descriptors. It also briefly details the sex lives of trolls. observer.co.uk/style/feature…
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My talented friends @jackjeffery50 and Abraham Elton have pulled off an expansive investigation into Sacha Jafri, who recently became the fifth most expensive living artist. I've seen the graft this has taken. People should read it @The_Fence_Mag the-fence.com/article/imposs…
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A late reminder to read this. Our brilliant editorial assistant @fincarterr managed to commission Nico Walker to write about firefighters and 9/11 and it's seriously powerful.
On 11 September, 2001, two crews left the same Lower East Side firehouse for the World Trade Center.
One came home. The other didn’t.
Novelist Nico Walker has spent months reconstructing what happened to the men of Engine 28 and Ladder 11 — and those they left behind. 👇
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Turns out @fincarterr can do everything. Do get in touch with him.
Psyched to have commissioned this article by the great Nico Walker. It's the best thing you'll read about 9/11 this year.
I'm looking to commission more articles for Dispatch.
Get at me: fin.carter@dispatch-media.com
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Thanks @killianfox0 !!!
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A few Rovelli deep cuts in @ObsNewReview
The brilliant @milesellingham on the brilliant @carlorovelli To infinity – and back for lunch
observer.co.uk/news/science-…
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Miles Ellingham retweeted
To infinity – and back for lunch – with Carlo Rovelli
The leftwing radical turned theoretical physicist, has become science’s international bestseller. Miles Ellingham visits him in Madrid to see if he can advance his own GCSE-level knowledge of the universe
✍️ @milesellingham
bit.ly/4A2sOxd
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Miles Ellingham retweeted
The leftwing radical turned theoretical physicist, has become science’s international bestseller. Miles Ellingham visits him in Madrid to see if he can advance his own GCSE-level knowledge of the universe
✍️ @milesellingham
bit.ly/4A2sOxd
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Miles Ellingham retweeted
For @ObserverUK , I went to Madrid to hang out with @carlorovelli . Together we travelled back in time to 1970s Bologna, then into the centre of a black hole, popping out a million years later in a new age where Earth is ruled by giant marauding crabs. observer.co.uk/news/science-…
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