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July 07, 2023
The ‘British summer’ used to be an oxymoron—it meant umbrellas, packing a jumper and a light raincoat as well as your sunglasses and, every four years, getting thrashed by the Australians in the cricket. Things have changed: the Aussies are still giving us a hammering (though England look like they ...
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July 03, 2023
I’m writing this one several thousand feet in the air as I return from my first-ever trip to DC (and indeed the US, as absurd as that sounds)—a flying visit of two days, packed with meeting and almost no time to see the city, so forgive me if this feels a) rushed, and b) tired; that will be because ...
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June 19, 2023
This week, the world’s leaders descend on Paris to “build a new consensus on a more inclusive international finance system.” In this blog, we look at why taxes and levies offer major advantages over other economic tools to tackle climate change and examine different taxes and levies that could reduc...
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June 19, 2023
When Boris Johnson announced the creation of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in September 2020, he signaled the dissolution of the Department for International Development (DFID) after nearly 25 years. In a new series, to be published over the next 18 months, we will look at the wa...
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June 16, 2023
Just hours after I clicked send on the links last week, the curtain began to draw on one of the most chaotic eras of modern British politics, with Boris Johnson’s huffing and whining resignation as an MP. After discovering that we was about to be censured for lying to Parliament (a serious brea...
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June 09, 2023
Apparently, New York had the worst air quality in the world yesterday, which made me think of my childhood in Hong Kong, when there were days you had to chew before inhaling. As Alex Tabarrok points out, air pollution is really bad—for health, productivity and cognitive development, but it’s also tr...
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June 02, 2023
It’s the NBA Finals, a magical time of year when being woken up at 3am by an unhappy toddler can lead to 3 hours of ‘just five more minutes’ of a basketball game on an iPhone (thank you, League Pass). If I appear bleary-eyed in any meetings, blame the Nuggets. In years past, you could reliably boil ...