Sinking Housing

The Mysterious Sinking Of The Bayesian

Floriana Bulfon | Newlines | 31st March 2025

The deaths of British tycoon Mike Lynch, his daughter and five others aboard the megayacht Bayesian are an unsolved mystery. A storm erupted in a placid corner of the Sicilian Gulf, sinking the “unsinkable” yacht with advanced safety systems in minutes. A smaller, older sailing vessel 100 yards away suffered no damage. Lynch was celebrating his acquittal after a year of house arrest for fraud (4,800 words)

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Want Abundance In Housing?

Reihan Salam | City Journal | 27th March 2025

Housing shortages have priced the middle-classes out of neighbourhoods. The rising abundance movement is built on rejecting the politics of scarcity to embrace growth and change. Yet their stances “directly undercut housing abundance” and drive up rents. “Development is fine — as long as it’s architecturally distinguished, eco-friendly, priced well below cost, and morally immaculate” (1,400 words)