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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 ...
Blog Post
April 06, 2021
Last week, the UK’s Home Office released a “New Plan for Immigration.” The plan has three major objectives: to increase the fairness and efficacy of the asylum system, to deter irregular entry of asylum seekers into the UK, and to “remove more easily” those whose asylum claims were rejected.
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March 26, 2021
It’s been quite the week for extraordinary behaviour with foodstuffs. A Taiwanese man has inadvertently changed his name permanently to ‘Salmon Dream’ in an attempt to access free sushi, yet this is somehow not the most ridiculous food-related public idiocy of the week: I present Charles W...
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March 12, 2021
It’s always hard to open the links when a Sri Lanka ODI is still at that point where we might win, if sufficient miracles occur, rather than at the point where I can simply make darkly comic jokes about the pits of human despair (a place new parents with teething children are well-acquainted). Speak...
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March 05, 2021
Last week I opened the links with a review of the week’s carnage in cricket, which prompted a friend to send this in response, which… is actually quite an accurate reflection of what cricket looks like to most people. But at the risk of losing my audience in the intro again, what the fresh hell...