Rome’s Jubilee Year Falls Short of Hopes: A Bust for Landlords, A Blow to Short-Term Rentals As the Eternal City celebrates the 2025 Jubilee Year, hopes of a tourist windfall are proving premature. Despite grand expectations of a pilgrimage-fuelled surge in visitors and short-term rental profits, the reality on Rome’s cobblestone streets is more muted than miraculous. Halfway through the holy year, landlords and local businesses are voicing disappointment, while...

Saudi Arabia Cracks Down on Unauthorised Hajj Pilgrims After Last Year’s Deadly Heatwave As millions of Muslims prepare for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabian authorities have launched an unprecedented crackdown on unauthorised entries into Mecca, stopping nearly 269,678 people without valid Hajj permits. The move comes in the wake of last year’s heat-related tragedy that claimed the lives of over 1,300 pilgrims, many of whom had no official authorisation to participate....

You Were Born Free. Everything Else Is Amnesia. There's a moment in every person's life when they realize they've been living someone else's dream while their own soul quietly suffocated in the corner, waiting. The Child Who Knew Watch a three-year-old for five minutes. Really watch them. They build castles from couch cushions and declare themselves royalty. They speak to imaginary friends with more conviction than most adults speak about their goals. They ask "why" seventeen times in a...

You Were Born Free. Everything Else Is Amnesia. There's a moment in every person's life when they realize they've been living someone else's dream while their own soul quietly suffocated in the corner, waiting. The Child Who Knew Watch a three-year-old for five minutes. Really watch them. They build castles from couch cushions and declare themselves royalty. They speak to imaginary friends with more conviction than most adults speak about their goals. They ask "why" seventeen times in a...