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Adam Jezard
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Ex-journalist Reading Evening Post, Marvel Comics' Hammer Horror mag, Financial Times Special Reports and many others. Currently trying to enjoy life, if only the despots would let me. Reading a lot of philosophy and occasionally trying to write a novel.
Gotta Love Martin Sandbu in the FT.

Who knew economists had a sense of humour?
April 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Reading this in a coffee shop. Cobbett details how the incomes of working men fell over 900 years. Inadequate poor relief is a vision of what Trump has in store for working classes around the world.

Brought home all the more as the places he writes about were in my first patch as a young reporter.
April 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
A footnote on the popularity, or otherwise, of countries that have an exceptionalism problem.

From Stephen Fry's Heroes.

This doesn't end well.
March 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Currently reading: Stephen Fry's retelling of Greek myths vol 1.

If you want to know where humanity is going it's good to know where it's been.
February 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM