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Astonishing sanity from the Graun . What has happened? A week ago they published a dumb editorial saying wanky stuff about Africa not want...

The Introduction refers. Part one, as I suspected, doesn't improve on it. Indeed part one has very little to add, but attempts to disg...

Just the introduction (but now the rest is also available), but there's enough wrong in it that it is worth writing up, or so I fool m...

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is a book by Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume . I'll stop quoting from Wik...

It am dat Sabine again. Worth listening to I think, though you're not obliged to accept every word. Mostly interesting because she seg...

Oh dear; it am dat Pilketty again, pushing his politics whilst masquerading as a scientist. See their letter , if you really want to see a ...

Musk's mildly-heralded Grokipedia is out as Beta 0.1; we should take a look. As I recall the last Wiki-clone was Justapedia , and that...

The Theory of the Leisure Class is a book by  Thorstein "Bunde" Veblen . It isn't very good. It has one good idea - conspicuo...

Back in April I presciently predicted, or perhaps just noted, The End of the World as We Know It , due to the Mango Mussolini's idiot t...

In the Middle East that is; the Russian invasion of Ukraine is doomed to grind on for longer I fear; more on that anon. Trump has a cunning ...

Following my previous brilliantly successful venture into art criticism , I feel emboldened to comment on The Hunt in the Forest, and friend...

I still haven't read the bloody thing, and at this rate I never will, but happily CarbonBrief have read it for me . I'm going to as...

Once again I'm briefly back. This time my excuse was a week - or thereabouts - canoeing around Stora La, a large lake in Sweden; booke...