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October 22, 2021
Hi all, Normally, I complain of sleeplessness because my son has decided that sleep is for weaklings and that 3am is prime babbling, playing and general mischief-making time. But come autumn, I lose sleep for a different reason: living in the wrong time zone to watch LeBron James continue to la...
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October 15, 2021
Well, it’s a pretty dark day in the UK, both literally and figuratively. Another Member of Parliament, David Amess, was murdered doing their job, during a constituency surgery—a time he had made himself available to listen and respond to the problems and concerns of the people he represents. It...
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October 08, 2021
In a glorious surprise, Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. This was totally unexpected: he didn’t even appear on a list of authors given betting odds on LitHub recently, and fantastic news, of which more in link 7. Till then, you have to get through the economic...
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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...
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September 10, 2021
There was some good this week, too, though – most notably the ten-year anniversary of Michael Clemens’s seminal Journal of Economic Perspectives paper, Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? The anniversary prompted Michael to discuss the struggles he had in ...
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August 27, 2021
God, I love cricket. Even when one team is miles, miles, ahead there’s drama and intrigue to keep you interested. Though England’s performance on the first couple of days has once again provided a stern lesson to the commentariat that variance neglect and over-interpretation of the win/lose binary a...