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November 18, 2022
When will I learn? Every time I take a week off, some corner of the world begins to crumble. Last time it with the UK economy and with it, the political careers of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng. This time it was the digital world, first crypto (of which more below) and now Twitter.
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November 04, 2022
I try to keep a generally optimistic worldview, but some weeks it really is difficult: we’ve got naked racism in the French Parliament, the UK running strong competition to the bottom of the barrel with its rhetoric on immigration and asylum seekers, from the backbenches, junior Ministers and the Ho...
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October 14, 2022
So, I took a couple of months off the from writing the links for the first time since I started them about a decade ago, and what happens? Let’s see: Liz Truss becomes Prime Minister, and almost immediately the Queen died and gave the English around 48 hours to explore what peak English looks like (...
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August 05, 2022
We’re losing legends at a frankly alarming rate: one week after I lamented the loss of Diana Kennedy, we open by lamenting the loss of Bill Russell. If you’re a basketball fan, Russell is to Jordan and LeBron what Thanos was to Loki: the big bad. We argue about whether LeBron (10 finals, 4 wins) or ...
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July 15, 2022
Every once in a while, even if for a short time, we find ourselves inhabiting our ideal niche. I remember the one summer in my teens when I looked like a great basketball player, solely because I lucked into a team where everything I did was desperately needed by my much more talented teammates, who...
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July 08, 2022
What are we supposed to do with a week like that? I usually poke (sometimes) gentle fun at the state of English politics during our now routine scandals, but satire seems hopelessly inadequate after a week of the most comical, incompetent, ridiculous political machinations in living memory. Boris Jo...