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  • 01/04/2025
    The Scotsman leads today with the ongoing financial crisis at Dundee university: “Job loss tally at Dundee University rises to…
  • 18/03/2025
    With Django Reinhardt long gone and Jan Garbarek still in short trousers, few could imagine jazz sprouting from none-American roots.…
  • 06/02/2025
    Usual witty language from the Economist’s review of the Pontifex maximus’s autobiography, Hope. We are told that “He is very…
  • 05/02/2025
    Washington DC plane crash. The Guardian “This was a disaster waiting to happen,” Ross Aimer, a retired United Airlines captain…
  • 05/02/2025
    Via John Naughton | Memex 1.1 “We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into…
  • 05/02/2025
    How odd Christian beliefs about sex shape the world From a book review in the Economist of Lower than the Angels:…
  • 23/01/2025
    My brother is the popular (and not so popular) music fiend in the family. With one or two exceptions, most…
  • 20/01/2025
    “By 1972, E.B. White had picked up the idea and added a flailing, incoherent, angry, foaming-at-the-mouth paragraph to the 2nd…
  • 20/01/2025
    How hard is it to run the Pentagon? (from the Economist) “The department [of Defense] employs around 700,000 civilians, around…
  • 18/01/2025
    DAT Green in the FT (The coming battle between social media and the state) "This corporate weakness in the face…