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September 27, 2021
There are a plausible set of circumstances under which the UK’s status as a serious bilateral donor would be under existential threat. They would take the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) from having slightly more than £8 billion in 2019 over which it has full flexibility to spe...
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September 24, 2021
Hi all, In a nice change from opening the links with the obit of one of my favourite musicians or actors, this week I get to celebrate an 87 year old genius doing something amazing: Wole Soyinka (author of two of my favourite autobiographies ever, one for each end of his&nbs...
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September 17, 2021
Hi all, One day I will start a crowdfunder to get the start up capital for a pet project of mine: the Bad Idea Hall of Fame, a place that records and denigrates the dumbest things people have done. In it will be the first draft of Gigli, a video of the homophobes who tried to attack two men dre...