Bad and utterly unsurprising: it sucks to have a non-Anglo name
Food for thought
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Links I liked
Still not sure how much of the rhetoric will translate into, you know, action
Coronapod: the COVID scientists facing violent threats
Utterly depressing. Outrageous and despicable.
Illusions of empire: Amartya Sen on what British rule really did for India
This is well worth 30 minutes of your time
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/126427169
Marina talking about Brexit
Marina Hyde is my favourite Guardian columnist and quite possibly one of the funniest persons alive. She doesn’t normally do TV or radio but now she’s on Today in Focus and I can actually hear her talking about Brexit & stuff and OMG I’m having a fanboy moment here.
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/125822493
Some light reading to get in the mood for the French regional elections
The warning signs have been present for some time. Les Républicains are on the verge of a crackup. Caught between Macron’s LRM and Le Pen’s RN, the party’s electoral space […]
Sorry, we got hacked again
Apologies to anyone visiting here who was confronted with links to lotteries, flashing signs, and even (shudder) literal bells and whistles. It’s (by my count) the third time my site got hacked since it went up in flames earlier this year. Why, I hear you ask, would anyone bother? Why go through the trouble of…
Markets in everything
In this, your friendly neighborhood economist explains how extortion can reach a nice, efficient equilibrium where everyone is reasonably happy. Fascinating stuff.
Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying, Rachel Monroe writes.