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Better Booth
Thanks to Quinquireme, for a much better and more searchable Charles Booth site at the LSE (I mean better than the one I used the other day)
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The Economist on migration
I’ve just finished reading The Economist’s blockbuster survey on migration. More very good work developing the newspaper’s line on the liberalisation of migration as a benefit to both nations (receiving…
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Touring Machine
Via Matt, I learn that Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, Dutch computer science pioneer, recently deceased, achieved in his lifetime two citations in the OED – for first use of the words…
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Architects and housing
The orthodoxy is that the last time professional architects were allowed to design housing on a large scale in Britain they did more damage than the blitz, snuffing out historic…
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Azeem Azhar is out of control
Azeem is developing his BBC GPL idea slightly more quickly than I can read all the words. For the time being I’ll just link and trackback to shut him up.…
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Break up BT?
Last night I spoke at the launch of Demos’ latest report ‘The Politics of Broadband’. The authors have been bold in their conclusions (and perhaps incautious in their choice of…
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Information about energy
Matt Jones has been worrying about information and energy lately. Here are some energy links for him. According to New Scientist (you can get a free 7 day trial for…
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Fireworks therapy
So after two or three hours running up and down the garden in the fine drizzle, lighting fireworks of every variety (including some fucking enormous roman candle bundles about the…
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edemocracy spiked!
Spiked is run by the survivors of Living Marxism magazine, the high profile and often entertaining voice of the British Revolutionary Communist Party during the nineties. The magazine was finally…
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The downtown music scene after 9/11
I sometimes listen to Radio 3’s Mixing It. Freaky stuff from every corner of music and only occasionally a bit po-faced. This week I stumbled across a web page about…