High rents push the people who work in Milan out to the suburbs, and a car costs too much to get back. The metro closes at around half past midnight every day and the suburban trains run every half hour. More rail, running later, also helps the people who can’t take the train. And to…
Milan is expensive because it works. The problem is that the real city ends where the power of the people who govern it ends.
On 14 August the French Constitutional Council struck down the law banning social media for under fifteens. Parliament had passed it on 21 July and it was due to take effect on 1 September for new accounts. The reasoning is worth reading twice: a blanket ban is disproportionate to freedom of expression, and there are…