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November 13, 2023
Once again the links come to from a precariously balanced laptop, perched on cramped knees on a bus, packed cheek-by-jowl with other commuters. It's not a set-up that inspires great chattiness. Nor does Sri Lanka's ongoing attempt to plumb depths of cricketing incompetence never before plumbed, or—s...
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November 03, 2023
There is something about writing an email while perched on a tiny seat in a cramped bus with your laptop on your knees and your phone (to whose wifi you're tethered to) precariously balanced on a ledge that inspires brevity (yes, I appreciate the irony of me describing this as 'brevity', but you nee...
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October 27, 2023
While I usually like to blame any late distribution of the Friday links on technology (which really is the culprit a lot since we moved to an automated system) or on CGD website policies or freezes, this week—if you wind up reading this on Monday—it's all on me. After my usual sprint home from teach...
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October 23, 2023
For the next few weeks, I'll be writing the links on the bus home from Oxford after a morning of teaching, cheek-by-jowl with what seems like half the population of the city, so forgive me if they sound harrassed, grumpy or just a bit shorter than usual; it will be because they are. Still, there are...
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October 13, 2023
I've rarely been lost for words at the outset of these links, but watching the news these days really is taking my breath completely away. I don't think I can adequately articulate my feelings, or adequately comprehend how it must feel, so I will not try to write anything here beyond that. It feels ...
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October 06, 2023
Earlier this morning, my laptop, which had developed a suspicious hump in the centre of the keyboard, as if all of the mechanical parts were congregating under the letters f to j and taking a vote to strike, dramatically informed me that it had encountered a 'fatal error' and would restart. They wer...