I came across this quote, which was attributed to Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, a Nobel laureate biochemist. I have also seen it attributed to Einstein. The basic texture of
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The FT reported this morning that: A top envoy to President Donald Trump has asked Fifa to replace Iran with Italy in the upcoming World
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Background The podcast I posted here yesterday, which, admittedly, very few people have watched, included an implicit challenge from economist Will Thomson, who repeated a
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As The Economist noted yesterday: To gauge how close the world is to energy catastrophe, The Economist has gathered a dashboard of indicators. It suggests that grave
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The supposed ceasefire in the Middle East ended yesterday. Trump has said he wants new talks, but his team is not in Pakistan to take
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Should the Bank of England control UK interest rates, or should that power return to elected government? In this video, I argue that the Bank
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As The Guardian has noted: Shabana Mahmood told “white liberal” hecklers to “fuck right off” after being accused at an on-stage event of copying the
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As if one podcast were not enough for a morning, let me offer you a second one. On this occasion, I am the guest on
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I wrote yesterday about the incoherence of neoliberal politics. Waking rather too early this morning, as the sun was rising, another thought occurred to me.
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