Category: Miscellaneous

  • 03/01/2020
    One-third of everyone employed in London, 1.6 million people, work at night. In 2018, at least 8,855 people slept rough…
  • 05/09/2019
    All that glitters in silicon San Francisco conducted its biennial point-in-time homelessness survey. The numbers are up sharply. Two observations:…
  • 26/07/2019
    Not so much a jet plane, but I don't know  exactly when I will be back either.
  • 30/06/2019
    Sunday in Lisbon “Catholicism imbued a spirit of rebellion and the ghost of faith.” Well, I get that, too. In…
  • 12/02/2019
    No, not that sort of (dermatological scale). Adam Tooze quoted in FT Alphachat (or another link). In three years China…
  • 26/12/2018
    I have forgotten which search rabbit hole I was down, but ended up at Robert Wyatt’s Wikipedia page. I know…
  • 16/12/2018
    How a Welsh schoolgirl rewrote the rules of publishing | Financial Times by Gillian Tett In 2011, Beth Reeks, a…
  • 23/10/2018
    “They have mobile phones, social media, but no proper toilets and clean water.” Link.
  • 16/10/2018
    I do not like the term mentor. It is a perfectly fine word, it is just that I have a…