Welcome to my Wednesday Blog. I’ve been talking a lot lately! Many Interviews I’ve been doing the rounds to promote The Completed Saucer Country (about which more below). Thanks to a bunch of great interviewers, there’s rarely the same material twice, and all of the chats are fun. Here are links for my episodes of ... Read More
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Powerful governments have no intention of preventing climate breakdown. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th November 2022 The chances of any one person being born were calculated by the life coach Dr Ali Binazir. He multiplied the probability of your parents meeting, mating and conceiving by the chances of a particular sperm and […]
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We all must adapt to a new textual culture made by GPT-3.
The true nature of sport is being overshadowed by corporate interference, poor management and corruption. read now...Read our roadmap to understand how this work falls into priorities set by the Drupal Association with direction and collaboration from the Board and community. You can also review the Drupal project roadmap.
Our update for the third quarter of 2022 includes some exciting highlights from DrupalCon Prague in September, a progress report on the GitLab Acceleration Initiative, small improvements to help bring the community together, and more.
The United States is a nation in decline and exceptionalism has blinded us into a dangerous allegiance. read now...
New research shows Australian workers are on average working 6 weeks unpaid overtime per year, costing over $92 billion dollars in unpaid wages across the economy. 2022 marks the fourteenth annual Go Home on Time Day (GHOTD), an initiative of the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute that shines a spotlight on overwork
The post Go Home On Time Today! appeared first on The Australia Institute.
The Devil's Hour, which stars Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine, has been renewed for two additional series by Amazon's Prime Video.
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Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband service now covers our entire country and is delivering a reliable service. read now...In my latest column for UnHerd, I look at how Biden is escalating tensions with China — not only by taking a hard-line approach to Taiwan but also, and perhaps even more importantly, by launching an all-out economic war on the Asian giant, by introducing a vast array of restrictions on the sale of semiconductor chips to …
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Peter Thiel’s bid to win two seats in Congress didn’t quite succeed. One of his...
One of the topics that comes up whenever government bond curves re-price is the relationship between the yield curve and bank net interest margins (NIM). This then morphs into a second question: does a yield curve inversion cause a recession by the (alleged) effect of the yield curve on bank interest margins, reducing the willingness of banks to lend?