Claire & Alan
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Last night, I realised that I had not yet enjoyed the Christmas atmosphere of any London pubs this winter. So at 10PM, I dragged Antoine and his parents out to the Holly Bush in Hampstead, the most festive of neighbourhood pubs. By 4AM, I was sitting at a craps table […]
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I can feel some hesitancy on the part of some readers. A 30-something woman, alone, almost naked, in a closed-off room with a bunch of undressed men. What can I say? I said yes.
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I hate to say it, but if Mike is telling the truth (and I have no reason to believe he isn’t), then Sam Sethi acted even more unethically than I previously believed. I’m very, very curious to hear Sam’s side of the story.
BTW, Sam’s email to Mike (if Mike hasn’t fabricated it, and again, […]
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The cost to assist older and disabled people with the switch to digital television in the UK is expected to be around £600m, according to the government.
In case you’re wondering who’s going to pay for it, that’ll be anyone who wishes to own a television.
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Antoine is the international editor of Pharma Marketletter, and a total anorak on anything related to the healthcare industry and public health. He has been studying bird flu for about a year now, doing daily research into its spread and tracking the indicators that scientists and market traders are watching. So it’s good that he’s […]
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Honor people who deserve honoring, and leave the labia out of the equation.
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Between him and Jeffrey Archer, I’m wondering if I really want to call myself a blogger anymore.
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This post is a great example of why Daniel Steinberg’s Dear Elena is one of the best written blogs of 2006. How I wish he’d never had to start it.
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Oh, man. I just got to minute 31 of Perry’s conversation with Brian, at which point they start to debate whether Antoine and I met at a Samizdata party or at one of Brian’s Friday’s (the last-Friday-of-the-month talk that Brian hosted at his place every month for years). For the - embarrassing, sad - record, […]
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Claire Melamed is on her way out from Christian Aid, an organisation she made a laughingstock by using it as her megaphone to campaign for state control of markets.
Melamed was ideologically opposed to the market economy, saying that for markets for work: “everybody has to have perfect information - everybody has to know everything about […]
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The important thing is to have the correct, logical, sensible, rational way of looking at the world. Because, to be honest, facts are cheap now, and they’re getting cheaper by the day. It’s understanding that is at a premium - actually knowing what the hell the facts mean. Any educational system which just hammers facts […]
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And if I hear one more time how Craigslist lacks “capitalist instincts”, someone’s head is going to shatter into a million pieces. Leave it to Mike at Techdirt to explain why Craigslist’s profit strategy is a hell of a lot smarter than the one many VCs would have for it. (No prizes for guessing that […]
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While economic illiterates and “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine” types are busy objecting to privately employed people earning large sums of money, the public sector is paying out City-level incomes to bureaucrats with our taxpayer money. Now, which one do you think we read more about in the British press, and […]
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I’ve just had a voicemail from British Transport Police, telling me that both suspects have been arrested and questioned, and that both have admitted their guilt for what they did to me and to the others (it sounds like they may have assaulted not just me and the gay man whose tooth they knocked out, […]
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