Edward Luce

@harlem_resist @TheHofstatter you're just as nasty and idiotic as the Trumpians

@EdwardGLuce @TheHofstatter But I don't see you calling out Donald specifically. Name him, shame him. Then you can get back up on your goddamn little soapbox. If you're not going to write a lengthy post condemning Donald, then shut the fuck up with your "holier than thou" shit.

schadenfreude at the death of political opponents is deeply unattractive. makes me distrust people’s decency on other matters.

@harlem_resist @TheHofstatter no, you're right. I've no record of criticising Trump.

@mehdirhasan Yes, fully agree. Expressions of joy at his death undercut the damning legitimate criticisms of his role as a public figure.

@EdwardGLuce I didn’t say you were Ed! I was simply pointing out that we mustn’t allow folks on the right to suggest any and all criticism of Graham is indecent or dancing on his grave. Hope we can agree on that.

@TheHofstatter Wouldn't recommend Trump's behaviour to anyone.

@EdwardGLuce You’re including our own president’s schadenfreude toward his political enemies as well, correct? Rob Reiner and John McCain most specifically.

@mehdirhasan I'm not engaging in hagiography or censorship.

@EdwardGLuce We must distinguish between schadenfreude or indecency, and appropriately holding controversial public figures to account when they die, and not engaging in instant hagiography and censorship.

@TedSmyth You mean disallowed goal? don't agree; clear foul.

@EdwardGLuce Norway should have won 2-1 except for that absurd penalty against Haaland

watching England play is like going to the dentist

@wheatfrom @finnkny @thecitygrump Because Clacton's voters can't clear him of corruption charges. His ruse is bleeding obvious.

@finnkny @EdwardGLuce @thecitygrump So … they are happy for him to be re-elected unopposed because they know that the verdict has been pre-determined?

Non-trivial chance Count Binface could save British democracy. Politics hasn't made me laugh this much in years.

@jaketapper Comical

Like clockwork.

@thecitygrump If you think a conman is tribune of the people, there’s nothing anyone can do for you.

@EdwardGLuce Well you have just summed up what’s wrong with the FT these days. It would be nice to think post Widdecombe’s murder you and your organ will take Farage’s fear and anger a bit more seriously. Fat chance , I suppose

@edithrn @kbscott4 @KuperSimon ha, got to get past the Vikings first

@kbscott4 @EdwardGLuce @KuperSimon We’re rooting for you now! Beat Argentina and bring that cup home 👊🏼

They were lovely, great English-Mexican friendship scenes

@BrankoMilan True but cricket number 2 worldwide with about 2.5bn fans and bigger pop countries win more often.

@EdwardGLuce Total amount of happiness that cricket brings is smaller (despite the size of India, Bangladesh & Pakistan) than that brought by football.

From a purely economic point of view of maximum utility generation, World Cup wins of rich and small countries are a total waste. They bring pleasure to a rich population who are already happy (according to all empirical studies), rich, and feeling superior to the rest of the world. Soccer wins thus add very little in terms of total happiness.

@edithrn @KuperSimon love it

@EdwardGLuce @KuperSimon 🇲🇽❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@KuperSimon That's hysterical. He's a great character. Not sure I'm a huge fan of Egypt's manager.

On Mexican-English friendship: I saw Mexicans telling English fans after they hoped they won the World Cup, had a wonderful team. But it's encapsulated by Mexican manager Javier Aguirre's post-game interactions with Bellingham and Gordon - see this video: x.com/AwayDaysFB/sta…

@KuperSimon @FT much enjoyed your payoff about kindness of Mexican fans

What it's like living inside the World Cup. My week through various cities from Messi to my mother-in-law to Mexico City. @FT as.ft.com/r/cc29ce85-d08…

@suzynuze11 @DKThomp @rosehorowitch Skimmed too fast. Not sure I'd change my response.

@EdwardGLuce @DKThomp @rosehorowitch It was NYT Bestsellers

The Atlantic’s new cover story by @rosehorowitch is absolutely definitive on the end of the age of reading in America—and the emergence of a new post-literate age in modern life Some core facts and anecdotes: 1. Reading is shrinking. The share of Americans who read for pleasure declined by 43 percent between 2004 and 2023. While Americans might see more words than ever—between all those texts, posts, emails, and captions—less than half of Americans read books, anymore. The average sentence in NYT bestsellers are one-third shorter than a century ago. 2. Americans can swallow words and sentences, but they’re losing the ability to think deeply about writing that’s longer than an Instagram post. Nearly 30 percent of American adults cannot paraphrase or make inferences from a multipage text. In 2017, that number was less than 20 percent. 3. It’s worse for the young. Fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores have slid for the past decade. From 1984 to 2025, the percentage of 13-year-olds who said they rarely or never read for fun rose from 8 to 29 percent. 4. “Every year older a child gets, the less they like to read”: Most high-schoolers consider reading for pleasure an alien practice. Margaret Rennix, Harvard’s assistant director for humanities and social-sciences support, says some students view reading as an unnecessarily burdensome way of acquiring knowledge. “By asking them to read,” she said, it's as if “professors are arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through this more difficult medium.” theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…