In case you missed it, a good write up in the Guardian for an important report on wealth in the UK. One in ten households now have sufficient assets to make them nominal millionaires. Seems like an appropriate place for this great tune by UB40.
*Blitz* (no spoilers)
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This is the Steve McQueen movie about the Nazi blitz against London. I
found it visually superb, countering clichés (mostly), showing a different
and mo...
Specification curve analysis and the multiverse
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I just learned about this paper from 2020, Specification curve analysis, by
Uri Simonsohn, Joseph Simmons, and Leif Nelson: Empirical results hinge on
anal...
How could they vote for him?
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[image: How could they vote for him?]
By now you will have probably read thousands of words about Trump’s
sweeping election victory, so what can I hop...
Announcing the PrixMatude Migration
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The Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at the University of
Neuchâtel has decided to award an annual prize for the best Swiss high
school the...
November: The leisurely tour of SIST continues
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We continue our leisurely tour of Statistical Inference as Severe Testing
[SIST] (Mayo 2018, CUP) with Excursion 3. This is based on my 5 seminars at
the L...
How do we stop a resurgence of fascism?
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Is it bad to write for hard-right outlets?
There is no doubt that the Overton window has shifted to the right during
the last decade or two. It is now c...
Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives
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Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet
its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and
joined the...
A brief note on the blog and on COVID-19
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The subject of COVID-19, a virus that burst forth from its rom obscurity in
(most likely) one population or another of wild mammals in China to become
a gl...
The Harsh Truth About India’s Godmen
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Late last month, two Indian states and the national capital were upended by
rioting mobs protesting their spiritual leader’s conviction on two counts
of ...
The US Treasury’s missed opportunity
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The US Treasury recently published the first in a series of reports
designed to implement the seven core principles for regulating the US
financial system ...
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