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Wed, 08/10/2025 - 02:59
I’m publishing an email I just sent to Ireland’s Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, on a truly hideous and anti-democratic European law that Ireland is strenuously supporting. It’s looking like Germany, which was strong on data protection, may crack and support this law, too. This week is make or break week for ‘chat control’, a […]
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Wed, 08/10/2025 - 02:07
Att ta in Sverige i euron under ordnade och demokratiska former har inte lyckats så nu vill somliga euroförespråkare pröva andra vägar. På DN Debatt (25/9) skriver PM Nilsson och sju andra ekonomiprofiler och företrädare för tankesmedjor att Sverige borde skaffa en så kallad ”euro-option”, som gör att Sverige snabbt skulle kunna anslutas till euron i […]
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Wed, 08/10/2025 - 01:08
Austerity costs us a fortune. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th October 2025 I was lucky. Last week, I was cycling downhill at night when I hit a pothole. The front wheel folded into an infinity symbol. I went over the handlebars and, with no time to put my hands out, landed on […]
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Tue, 07/10/2025 - 23:00

INTERVIEWER: Chemical engineer Dr. Chesel Amniotiv is looking resplendent in orange gabardine, with cobalt accents of actual cobalt. Let’s see if we can get a word in… Dr. Amniotiv, who are you wearing this evening?

DR. AMNIOTIV: This is a Bob Mackie lab coat whose hem-to-seam ratio is equal to that of Rackam’s Theory of Saltine Dynamics. Plus big shoulder pads.

INTERVIEWER: And your date this evening is this very handsome, impeccably groomed golden retriever. And she’s wearing?

DR. AMNIOTIV: Also a Lab coat.

INTERVIEWER: What’s your next project?

DR. AMNIOTIV: I’ll be studying the production of artificial enzymes through fermentation in low-gravity environments and serving as guest judge on the next season of The Voice.

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Tue, 07/10/2025 - 20:04

In the wake of the French Revolution during the 1790s, Britain’s ruling class trembled at the prospect of an early working-class movement inspired and radicalised by Jacobinism. A multitude of philanthropic initiatives soon sprang up in response — from Sunday Schools to religious societies and secular projects, all of which sought to ‘better’ the condition […]

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Tue, 07/10/2025 - 20:03
. The power of diversity isn’t just a social ideal. It’s a mathematical fact. The ‘Diversity Prediction Theorem’ shows that gathering people who think differently comes with a calculable performance bonus. Imagine yours truly fills a transparent jar with 1000 jellybeans and then asks a group of students for their estimates of how many jellybeans […]
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Tue, 07/10/2025 - 17:52
This Tuesday report will provide some insights into life for a westerner (me) who is working for an extended period at Kyoto University in Japan but who over the years of working here has increasingly began to understand the language and local cultural traditions Growing hostility to tourists in Japan I was out running early…