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Apr 26, 2023

The end of politics and the grind

Of course he’s on LinkedIn

Screenshot of a LinkedIn Live event with UK Prime Minister Rish Sunak from April 2023

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Jun 12, 2024

Villeneuve’s Dune — aristocratic excess

The distant future is nasty, brutish and so much sand in your picnic

Timothee Chalamet is silhouette, robes flowing behind him, against an enormous explosion some distance away across a desert plain

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Mar 5, 2024

King Kong is a business movie, like the Big Short and that one about Beanie Babies

The real monster in this movie is the entrepreneur.

Long shot of the top half of the Empire State Building against a cloudy sky. King Kong falls from the very top, bouncing on the way down.

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Jan 5, 2024

Final act for the streamers

Netflix introduced ads and now Amazon Prime too. It’s your fault.

Final act for the streamers

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Jan 5, 2024

The posh media and the establishment will never understand ‘working class golf’

Broadcasters, journalists — please stop trying to explain darts.

A dart against a white background with the word ‘Nuke’ on the flights — indicating that this is the sponsored tie-in product of darts player Luke Littler

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Jan 24, 2023

A Musk spaceship will be a Musk workplace

I suppose if you went to Mars on one of Musk’s starships — at least on one of the first few missions — you’d probably be an employee of a…

a group of smiling mostly-male Twitter employees gathered around their new boss Elon Musk at a late-night code review. Musk and others are doing a thumbs-up.

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Jan 23, 2023

Smart technologies for disciplining the poor

(updated on 5 January 2024)

A row of gas meters, black and white photograph by MIKI Yoshihito

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Jan 4, 2023

Reverse redistribution

During the pandemic in the UK, innovators and opportunists improvised bold new ways to move money from the state into private hands—it was…

Baroness Michelle Mone taking her seat in the British House of Lords in October 2015

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Oct 4, 2022

From the other end of the modern

Italo Svevo and Adam Tooze (and Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng)

Black and white photograph of the facade of a residential building in Trieste, windows, shutters, shadows — by Russell Davies

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Sep 24, 2022

Monarchy: to care or not to care?

Less than half of gen-z in Britain thinks we should keep the monarchy.

Monarchy: to care or not to care?

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Grizzled web old-timer (some say just grizzled), a trustee at the brilliant Poppy Academy Trust in the UK, a crummy poet and a volunteer at Watford Refugees…

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