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August 21, 2023
In London, it’s hard to tell what season it is. The weather veers from wet and miserable to sunny and Mediterranean, sometimes in the course of a few hours; or indeed minutes. Today, we took our son to the Tate Modern to see the Yayoi Kusama Infinity Rooms exhibition (highly recommended, watching hi...
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August 11, 2023
I have to open by apologising for the very patchy appearance of the Links this summer: its been a combination of last-minute leave plans, technical snafus with our emailing system and a pile-up of deadlines that means the different demands on my time have been fighting like they’re on a dock in Mont...
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July 24, 2023
First things first: I am extremely pleased to report that University Challenge is still brilliant with Amol Rajan as its host. All of the important things are still there: the questions are great, the students are amazing and Rajan, like Paxman, ends the show with “and it’s goodbye from me; goodbye....
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July 14, 2023
One of the joys of being a cricket fan is following the Guardian’s Over-by-Over (OBO) commentary on the day’s cricket. I discovered it while working Malawi and trying to surreptitiously keep track of the Sri Lanka tour of England in 2006 (this was the tour in which Murali took the first 8 wickets to...
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July 07, 2023
The ‘British summer’ used to be an oxymoron—it meant umbrellas, packing a jumper and a light raincoat as well as your sunglasses and, every four years, getting thrashed by the Australians in the cricket. Things have changed: the Aussies are still giving us a hammering (though England look like they ...
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July 03, 2023
I’m writing this one several thousand feet in the air as I return from my first-ever trip to DC (and indeed the US, as absurd as that sounds)—a flying visit of two days, packed with meeting and almost no time to see the city, so forgive me if this feels a) rushed, and b) tired; that will be because ...
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June 16, 2023
Just hours after I clicked send on the links last week, the curtain began to draw on one of the most chaotic eras of modern British politics, with Boris Johnson’s huffing and whining resignation as an MP. After discovering that we was about to be censured for lying to Parliament (a serious brea...
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June 09, 2023
Apparently, New York had the worst air quality in the world yesterday, which made me think of my childhood in Hong Kong, when there were days you had to chew before inhaling. As Alex Tabarrok points out, air pollution is really bad—for health, productivity and cognitive development, but it’s also tr...
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June 02, 2023
It’s the NBA Finals, a magical time of year when being woken up at 3am by an unhappy toddler can lead to 3 hours of ‘just five more minutes’ of a basketball game on an iPhone (thank you, League Pass). If I appear bleary-eyed in any meetings, blame the Nuggets. In years past, you could reliably boil ...