Sunday, May 20, 2012

Admin: The move is here, at last

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Our long national nightmare of bifurcation is over! Thanks to this guy for fixing the WordPress Blogger importer, the Ranter is moving. Our...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

not at all defanged

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Remember that thumbsucker I did on the Great Firewall? Well, here's some data, via this post (thanks, Jamie). It seems that Fang Binxin...

Land of Kings report back

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So I did Land of Kings last weekend. First point: this post of JWZ's , written about Homeless WiFi Fest....sorry, sorry...SXSW, has qui...
Monday, May 07, 2012

Your inbox is over its size limit

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Does anyone else see a parallel between the Murdoch e-mail timeline and some of the recent new information? For example, the meetings w...

an original idea? the archive is full of ‘em

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Ralph Musgrave 's economics blog makes a case for a program of time-limited payments to companies who hire the unemployed, although I...
Saturday, May 05, 2012

Balls to the Bank

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Following up on intemperate twitter feuds seems to have become a theme around here. I had a lengthy set-to with Pawel Morski about voting f...

Death by powerpoint, for real

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Here's the list of talks that Gareth Williams might have attended at BlackHat 2010 . The slides are here .  I wonder if he got the ...

filed for reference and indeed referred to

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From the archive, George Pascoe-Watson in 2006, on just what a hands-off manager Rupert Murdoch was .

Birthday present bomber

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Paul Klee's students apparently celebrated his 50th birthday by dropping presents through his (flat) roof at the Bauhaus from a Junkers...

howizzhe!!!!?

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Another thought, in the light of my last post and this one , is that the Murdoch wars have been effective because they get to the Tories...

why the London election means we should...

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So I was having a minor row on twitter with Adam Bienkov the other day, about whether the Labour Party was right to put so much effort into ...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

All mayors are not the same. All columnists, however...

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Rebuttal is futile , but sometimes it is necessary, and at least you can help people update their lists of people to ignore. Here's Zoe ...

why yes, they could fuck it up

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David Cameron goes trying to sell Airbus A330s. In his chartered Boeing . Chartered, eventually, from an Angolan company on the EU air safet...

the difference is that you put your money back into this one!

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Here's something interesting. Who knew A4e had a secondary charity it gave money to , that also does public sector work and that also em...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Canalising the marshes: tidying up the people

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Well, this is interesting , both on the Bo Xilai story and also on the general theme of the state of the art in contemporary authoritarianis...

Kahneman for Thugs: some bullet points

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So I did a business-class review of Daniel Kahneman 's new book over at the Fistful. Of course, AFOE is a very different blog to this on...
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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Report back: CCG meeting

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So, that Total Defence plan. Not long after blogging about the weird way becoming an NHS Foundation Trust member is mostly about the staff d...
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