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April 30, 2021
A long weekend beckons invitingly, thus obliterating my ability to settle on a good intro to the links. Time was, the extra day off would be put fully to work: a night out with far too much wine and rich food, sleeping in the next day and then a lazy day in a comfortable chair and pile of books.
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April 23, 2021
What a week. This week’s links are a bit of a mood rollercoaster, because well [waves hands frantically at all of this going on around us]. Honestly, my son is seven months old. He’s now lived through a two strict national lockdowns in response to a rampaging global pandemic, the development an...
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April 22, 2021
Among the many disparities and inequities that COVID-19 has shone a light upon, the chasm in health outcomes between rich and poor countries is being particularly sharply highlighted. While Israel, the US, the UK, and a handful of high- and upper-middle income countries are charging forward with the...
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April 16, 2021
This week has rushed by in the blink of an eye, despite spending far more of my time awake and holding a restless baby than asleep at night. You’d imagine that all those extra minutes would make for the slow passing of time, but instead they seem to have compressed time into essentially two memories...
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April 09, 2021
First off, an apology: I completely forgot about the Easter weekend and hence failed to warn you all that I’d be skipping an edition of the links. Not deluding myself that more than three of you noticed, but just in case your Saturday morning cornflakes lacked that economisticky savour, you have my ...