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Hurrican Rita
Go read Whiskey Bar’s spoof White House Press Briefing. Here’s a sample. We want everyone to…
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The cynical business of food aid
Today’s Financial Times reports that the US has rejected a plan to replace food aid with…
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Separated by a common language: bloggers’ guide
George Bernard Shaw, so they say, remarked that the British and Americans are two nations divided…
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Markets everywhere: fish and carbon
The Bush Administration plans to introduce tradeable quotas for fishermen. According to the Washington Post: The…
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Irrepressible Worstall
Regular readers will recall that I occasionally take Tim Worstall to task for some of his…
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Cutting the pork
Americans call public spending that they don’t approve of “pork”. Apparently the term comes from the…
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What’s next for the UN
The excellent Suzanne Nossel at Democracy Arsenal proposes ten next steps for the United Nations. It…
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Doing ourselves a favour and trade negotiations
One of the more widespread pieces of rampant stupidity is the language of trade “negotiations” in…
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Doing Business and Poverty Reduction
The World Bank’s Doing Business survey is a comprehensive annual analysis of which countries are the…
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A Speech He Could Not Make Today
So New Labour plans to introduce a new offence of publishing a statement which “glorifies, exalts…
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