Future populism post, delivered
That populism post has been delivered!
Read More Future populism post, deliveredAFOE
AFOE post, and that #businessletter
So I done an economics over at the Fistful, swinging off a a data at JW Mason’s. Meanwhile, is there anyone in this list who isn’t an embarrassment? Some journo should obviously ring them all up and ask if they will confirm they are domiciled in the UK for tax purposes, but to be honest,…
Read More AFOE post, and that #businessletterProgressive as in “progressively reducing benefits for the poorest”
This piece about Catalan #indyref crystallises everything I hate about what I call Euro-nationalism. It’s wonderful that they’re all so engaged: Kilted men wearing saltire capes and foam fingers on both hands danced in the aisles as “The Red Hot Chilli Pipers” played a bagpipe version of Don’t Stop Believing. Sorry. That was the other…
Read More Progressive as in “progressively reducing benefits for the poorest”Shameless self promotion
Over at Fistful of Euros, my review of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. Coming up here, far from the eurocratic business-class lounge of AFOE, my action-oriented Kahneman for Thugs post, at least when I get away from debugging Project Lobster scripts. Am I on crack, or does ScraperWiki’s datastore do an implicit cast to…
Read More Shameless self promotionwe flippin’ murdered them
Peter Beaumont goes for a Holt’s battlefield tour of southern Lebanon: Cruising through the serene green wadis that connect south Lebanon to the Litani river to the north, the commander explains what happened at the end of the last war. “We knocked out three of their tanks on the first day, as they tried to…
Read More we flippin’ murdered themFor Dawkins’ sake…
Get your idle legs over to the Weblog Awards and vote for Fistful. Exercise your democratic rights here. We’re losing to some random bunch of Dutchmen, but you can help us finish ahead of the demented thrappers of Brussels Journal. As usual with blog awards, it’s stuffed with the overrated and the clichéd. There was…
Read More For Dawkins’ sake…