Category: despair

  • 08/07/2024
    Left-behind Britain From a review of Paul Collier’s latest book (Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places) in the…
  • 01/03/2024
    On hatred dressed as justice Robert Badinter persuaded France to abolish the guillotine Hatred was never so frightening as when…
  • 02/01/2024
    Not leaving your kids alone UN aid chief Martin Griffiths: ‘The war in Gaza isn’t halfway through’ At least 136…
  • 24/03/2023
    No more big letters Just a suggestion after looking at newspaper headlines at a news stand. That feeling of despair…
  • 23/12/2022
    Feels about right. (From today’s FT)
  • 30/06/2020
    Read that again Zuckerberg also said the company will not be changing its policies that allow lying in paid political…
  • 26/06/2020
    Another telling figure from Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology. The stiking thing about much of this book is how predicable…
  • 19/04/2020
    Please, no... Feel in need of a “mental health day” right now (or what we used to call “a break”)?…