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Narrative Bending Chart of the Day
From an excellent piece by John Burn-Murdoch in the FT on education and wages in England . The post Narrative Bending Chart of the Day ap...
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What Is the Scariest Song of All Time? Poem? YouTube Video?
Mongo 31 October 2023
Times writers revealed their picks. Listen at your own risk.
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Are dementia rates falling?
A study published in 2020, which drew together multiple pieces of research to track the health of almost 50,000 over-65s, showed the incide...
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What predicts anti-Semitism?
Two cross-sectional studies were carried out in order to identify predictors of antisemitism, measured using the Generalised Antisemitism o...
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What I’ve been reading
1. Eric Ambler, The Night-Comers .  (U.S. editions are sometimes titled State of Siege .)  Think of Ambler as a precursor of Le Carré.  I us...
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Conflicts flaring up anew
I won’t bother listing the numerous examples in the Middle East, we also have: Azerbaijan vs. Armenia China vs. Philippines China vs. Tai...
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Judge Slaps Federal Gag Order Back On Trump
Mongo 30 October 2023
Judge Chutkan reversed her stay and reimposed the gag order that she issued on former president Donald Trump. Reuters reported: A federal...
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