December 1st 2008
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I'm writing this from the opening session of the UN Climate Change Negotiations in Poznan, Poland. I've been here for a few days now, as part of the UK Youth Delegation. I'm in a huge conference hall listening to the UN and national politicians talk about how all 10,000 people ...
November 14th 2008
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The Economist magazine recently wrote an article criticising plans for a Green New Deal. It makes some good points, but in general I found its treatment of the subject quite superficial, so I wanted to write something here in response.
Firstly, it claims that subsidising renewable energy would be a bad ...
November 7th 2008
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I'm wary of getting too excited about the election of Barack Obama, but I do think he's got to be slightly better than George "I'm thick as two short planks" Bush.
As you may have guessed, I'm particularly interested in what Obama is going to do about two things: (i) the ...
November 3rd 2008
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As you'll see below, Ursula left a substantial comment and I thought I'd respond to it in a new post rather than an equally long comment...
The first thing Ursula asked was whether or not I was happy that Gordon Brown has passed the huge bailout package. Would it have been ...
October 13th 2008
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The Internet can enable many things, and one of the most interesting ones is allowing people to trade with each other and not via shops and other intermediaries. The obvious example is here is Ebay, where people sell things to each other at a frenetic pace.
One of the more interesting ...
October 10th 2008
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Despite cringing quite a lot when watching this (and realising that I need to keep my head a lot more still!), I decided for the sake of time-saving that I would record a video rather than write a post today. Hopefully the sound quality is good enough...
Thoughts on cold rationality ...
October 7th 2008
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On Friday night I found myself in my local Hackney pub, and it was just my luck that I ended up in a debate with two incredibly clever Italian academics - one of whom was a committed communist (or to be more exact, a Bolshevist). By the end of the ...
October 3rd 2008
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As I write this a second rescue package is about to be voted on by Congress.
This time it looks like there is more chance that it will get passed. The main changes are that it has raised the amount that normal citizens have guaranteed if their savings are affected by ...
September 29th 2008
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The American Congress has just rejected a $700bn rescue package formulated by George Bush and his Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson.
Lines between Republicans and Democrats have been blurred completely during this time of crisis: Bush (a Republican) had the support of most Democrats in the House of Representatives (the lower house ...
September 25th 2008
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A few years ago I read an article that compared pub conversations in 2005 with documented pub conversations that took place in 1955.
Unfortunately I cannot find the article in question, but its conclusions (as far as I can recollect them) were not particularly surprising. In 1955 subject matter focused on ...
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