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Sez the Graun ; h/t Timmy . With subhead " Existing production destroys more value than it creates due to medical and environmental co...

Shamelessly and I think unironically posted in the Economist  ( arch ). It is the usual lazy unthinking tripe that such people can spew out...

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals / Everybody happy as the dead come home , as Shriekback put it . However once again I am going t...

Welcome to 2024. We start with a light post, on the topic of Michael " Meritocratic " Sandel 's early work, indeed his first b...

Per 2022 , blogging in general and this blog in particular continue the long slow slide into obsolescence. Following long established conve...

Before going off for Christmas I made a doomed attempt to buy second-hand books as presents, and succeeded only in buying myself a few slim...

Happy Christmas, world, and any remaining readers I may have. I encourage you to leave festive greetings in the comments so that you may be...

Well, that's what Quillette says . I suppose they hope to do better than the failed Conservapedia . They have  five fundamental princip...

Every now and again I do a marathon on the erg, though I don't usually blog it. In fact I think I've done four over the years; the ...

More of the usual from the Graun . Let's quote: ‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after c...

Or so CarbonBrief tells me . And it seems entirely plausible, so I won't quibble their numbers. But looking at some of their other ...

I've noticed that the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt is often described as "closed", rather than "closed by"...

Following my acclaimed analysis of how I came to peace with the world , I feel moved to offer advice to the world: care less. This applies...

"The exception proves the rule" is a well-known phrase with more than one meaning ; the one I take uses "prove" in the ...

My title isn't really related to this post in any clear way; Google recently reminded me of this photo that I took in Amiens St Quentin...

Regulatory capture is a familiar concept, but "Country capture" in the sense that I mean it doesn't seem to be.  State captu...

Whilst mumbling in our beer about the failings of the world , Tom  bemoaned the state of the blogging game. Which brings some thoughts to m...

John Gray was tending towards despair a few years ago , but has now fallen. He not so much mourns what he considers the death of liberalism...

My pic shows a sunrise at Argeles-sur-Mer. I had a few days there, doing not very much, at the end of two months in France, having taken so...

Sez the Graun , having previously drooled over the directors being  personally sued . The ostensible reason for the lawsuit was that the di...