Jonathan Rosenthal

This week I wrote in The Economist about the incredible progress that we have been making against dementia. Though total numbers are rising (because we are living longer), the actual rate at every age has been coming down sharply for decades. A short 🧵

“We saw that it [dementia] was not only a late-life disease that can’t be prevented, but more of a process that starts in mid-life with the possibilities to at least slow the progression,” says Miia Kivipelto of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. 3/

This week I wrote in The Economist about the incredible progress that we have been making against dementia. Though total numbers are rising (because we are living longer), the actual rate at every age has been coming down sharply for decades. A short 🧵

For this week's issue of @economist.com I got to think hard about something I've not had to think about for more than 20 years: the world of dating and singles. What I found shocked me. Rates of singlehood (singledom) have been rising for decades, but have suddenly accelerated in recent years. 1/

These changes have freed untold numbers of people from unhappy unions. For women, especially, being able to choose to stay single is the great emancipation of our age. But there are also many "involuntary singles". Deep dive into changes in the dating market ⬇️5/5 www.economist.com/briefing/202...

For this week's issue of @economist.com I got to think hard about something I've not had to think about for more than 20 years: the world of dating and singles. What I found shocked me. Rates of singlehood (singledom) have been rising for decades, but have suddenly accelerated in recent years. 1/

In Europe each new generation is less likely to be married or living with a partner than previous ones at the same age (see chart). 3/

For this week's issue of @economist.com I got to think hard about something I've not had to think about for more than 20 years: the world of dating and singles. What I found shocked me. Rates of singlehood (singledom) have been rising for decades, but have suddenly accelerated in recent years. 1/

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport This week we have a change of pace in the International pages of @economist.com we have a great piece by @dlknowles.bsky.social where he takes a look at how pedal power is booming around the world, but also spinning up a new culture war. 1/

Though bike lanes take up less than 2% of road space in Montreal (cars get 80% and pedestrians the balance), they are a hot issue in its mayoral election on November 2nd. Soraya Martinez Ferrada, the leading opposition candidate, wants to pause new bike lanes and remove some if the cause anxiety 4/

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport This week we have a change of pace in the International pages of @economist.com we have a great piece by @dlknowles.bsky.social where he takes a look at how pedal power is booming around the world, but also spinning up a new culture war. 1/

Though robotaxis have notched up impressive growth, they look ploddingly pedestrian compared with e-bikes. Waymo proclaims that its cars do around 250,000 trips a week. Yet in New York alone that number of trips is made every three days using the city’s bike-share scheme. 2/

Russia's grey-zone conflict against the West is escalating at sea as well as in the air, as evident in drone incursions in Denmark and a the boarding of Boracay by France This week in @economist.com we look at the threat posed by Russia's shadow fleet, and NATO efforts to counter it. A short 🧵 1/3

Estonia's navy is at the frontline. It sometimes tracks dozens of shadow fleet vessels a day. But for its small fleet of MCM and patrol vessels, chasing tankers is“like smaller dogs trying to get to the big dog”, says a sailor involved in a pursuit earlier this year. 2/3

Horrifying milestone of 150,000 deaths in Africa linked to jihadists groups over the past 10 years. africacenter.org/spotlight/en...

Very punchy comments by General Ben Hodges at Chatham House conference #CHLondon on European NATO defence spending: "Europe is itself a super power. It should quit whining and act like a superpower." Also thanks for the shoutout to @economist.com 1/

"We have not seriously tried to help Ukraine this war. Their favourite vehicle is the Bradly, which entered service about the same time I did." Gen Hodges 4/

Very punchy comments by General Ben Hodges at Chatham House conference #CHLondon on European NATO defence spending: "Europe is itself a super power. It should quit whining and act like a superpower." Also thanks for the shoutout to @economist.com 1/

Hodges also makes an interesting comment on one of the uncertainties of a US intervention in Iran: There is no way that General Kurrila (CENTCOM) would guarantee that that 30,000lb bomb would make it to the sweet spot inside that mountain. 2/

This week in the International pages of @economist.com we point out that on current trends Russian casualties in Ukraine will pass the 1m mark in the next few weeks. 1/2 www.economist.com/internationa...