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July 08, 2022
What are we supposed to do with a week like that? I usually poke (sometimes) gentle fun at the state of English politics during our now routine scandals, but satire seems hopelessly inadequate after a week of the most comical, incompetent, ridiculous political machinations in living memory. Boris Jo...
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July 01, 2022
The CGD London offices occupy a set of rooms just a stone’s throw of Parliament, not that anyone would be advised to throw that stone, however much they may be tempted. It’s a good vantage point: close enough to observe, but not so close as for the grime to rub off. This week, a senior MP was sancti...
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June 24, 2022
There’s a mild statistical bent to all my favourite pastimes. Cricket is the most numbers-obsessed sport in the world; everything is counted, put into averages, investigated under all contingencies (sure, Mahela Jayawardene averages 59.72 at home, but shouldn’t we be concerned his average is a full ...
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June 17, 2022
Ahhh, it’s the most magical time of year, with Christmas carols, and presents, and Love, Actually and It’s a Wonderful Life! That’s right, Christmas! Well, it is in CGD Europe, where our pandemic- delayed Christmas party has been reorganised for today, and frankly, the ambience is much, much more my...
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June 10, 2022
The best thing I read this week was Michael Nielsen’s long, thoughtful, erudite criticism of Effective Altruism, the moral philosophy that argues for us to adopt an approach to life that relies on evidence and logic to establish how to achieve the most good for others over time, and to apply that un...
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May 13, 2022
Ok everyone, it’s clear where your time should go today. After five (loooong) years, during which his music became the soundtrack of one of the most important social movements of the century, Kendrick Lamar’s new album dropped today and you cannot start listening too soon. Within the first 90 second...
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May 06, 2022
Local elections are rarely pulse-quickening affairs in the UK; turnout tends to be something akin to county cricket match on a rainy day—that’s two men and a dog, for those who have never partaken of the peculiar pleasures of the English County Championship—but today something a little more exciting...
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April 29, 2022
It’s incredible how much there is to catch up on after just two weeks away. We went away over Easter to the wilds of Northumberland, where my son spent hours tramping around the forest, pointing out birds (ornithology clearly runs in the family) and demonstrating the bravery—or bad judgement, if you...