A Basel gallery sold a “provocative” Netanyahu sculpture, and nobody called it antisemitic. Other artists weren’t so lucky. We did the math on the price paid when Bibi becomes art.
Pipeaway Newsletter #226: Humans sometimes act like monkeys. And monkeys act like us. In this armed zoo called civilization, empathy is the only weapon worth carrying around.
Pipeaway Newsletter #225: Discussions on public morals can quickly become overheated. And when it’s hot, humans tend to misbehave more. How we rebel against rules?
A 500-year-old bathing tradition got a bureaucratic makeover. Budapest’s last single-sex Ottoman bath now requires double coverage. The official reason doesn’t quite hold water.
Pipeaway Newsletter #224: From London with love – a postcard from the church’s courtyard. Sometimes, the smallest acts create the greatest miracles.
Pipeaway Newsletter #223: I went to Sussex shores to escape the heat, but instead, I found the warmth. A perfect stranger reminded me that human goodness is what makes us cool.
Sand lizards, secret agents, poison-pen letters, a whale-shaped Heatherwick café, fish’n’chips, and 324 meters of bench. Littlehampton Beach has been quietly extraordinary for decades. Time to pay attention.
Pipeaway Newsletter #222: At temperatures approaching 40 degrees Celsius, London is overcooked. Enough of a reason to plan a grand adventure to Littlehampton.
From Hyde Park in 2004 to 1,200+ riders today, London’s World Naked Bike Ride, explained in the full (frontal) guide. The history, the legality, the etiquette, and the bare essentials.
Pipeaway Newsletter #221: My UK banknotes have been dethroned in the last decade but you can’t put a price on a crown meeting bare bums.