Category: Quote

  • 13/02/2025
    Wonderful article (and Editorial) about the industrialisation of online scamming and digital lies. Totally scary. But what a line: The…
  • 12/02/2025
    The case for persisting with foreign aid It is disgusting to read the boast of the world’s richest man that…
  • 10/02/2025
    Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books? I first came across her writing (KR) when I bought her book, The Girl…
  • 08/02/2025
    Adam Tooze · Trouble Transitioning: What energy transition? On the Welsh side, I am the descendent of multiple generations of…
  • 08/07/2024
    The dismal science Industrial Policy Is a Nostalgic Pipe Dream by James K. Galbraith - Project Syndicate As I have…
  • 26/02/2024
    The desperate reality of a UK surgeon in Gaza The desperate reality of a surgeon in Gaza
  • 02/01/2024
    Edinburgh’s Festivalisation Rory Scothorne · Short Cuts: Edinburgh’s Festivalisation The first humans​ settled in Scotland around 14,000 years ago. They…
  • 06/11/2023
    Brecht I want to end by reading something Bertolt Brecht wrote that I stumbled across in my twenties: Nowadays, anyone…
  • 02/10/2023
    This is a new civilization... Vaclav Smil on the Need to Abandon Growth Speaking as an old-fashioned scientist, I think…
  • 27/09/2023
    Just like the buses John Lanchester · Get a rabbit: Don’t trust the numbers · LRB 21 September 2023 One…