Dan Brady
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Malcolm Gladwell is a great writer. It was nice to revisit this book, I read it in 2012. Jobs must have been a giant pain to work for, but exciting, too.
July 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Malcolm Gladwell is a great writer. It was nice to revisit this book, I read it in 2012. Jobs must have been a giant pain to work for, but exciting, too.
One of the best ‘religious’ type experiences I read about was a guy who took peyote in a legitimate ceremony and spent the next few hours being berated by his car for not treating it with the care it deserved. That, ladies and gents, is as real as when anyone says they were close to their god.
July 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
One of the best ‘religious’ type experiences I read about was a guy who took peyote in a legitimate ceremony and spent the next few hours being berated by his car for not treating it with the care it deserved. That, ladies and gents, is as real as when anyone says they were close to their god.
An amazing book. I read it when it was first published. I didn’t expect him to be as right as he turned out to be.
April 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
An amazing book. I read it when it was first published. I didn’t expect him to be as right as he turned out to be.
Most six year olds have an innate sense of what is fair. They’d do far better.
April 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Most six year olds have an innate sense of what is fair. They’d do far better.
I enjoyed this episode, as ever.
On your point about it still being ok to travel to the US, some people who were imprisoned would not agree:
On your point about it still being ok to travel to the US, some people who were imprisoned would not agree:
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I enjoyed this episode, as ever.
On your point about it still being ok to travel to the US, some people who were imprisoned would not agree:
On your point about it still being ok to travel to the US, some people who were imprisoned would not agree:
You read it here archive.ph/Y92Hm
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March 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
You read it here archive.ph/Y92Hm
The soundtrack to this is a breezy “doo, do-doo”
(Cameron immediately after resigning outside No 10 on the morning after the Brexit referendum)
(Cameron immediately after resigning outside No 10 on the morning after the Brexit referendum)
March 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The soundtrack to this is a breezy “doo, do-doo”
(Cameron immediately after resigning outside No 10 on the morning after the Brexit referendum)
(Cameron immediately after resigning outside No 10 on the morning after the Brexit referendum)
More of this. The House of Lords simply not a democratic chamber.
Many people think the UK is the leader of democracy but we are 17th on the EIU’s 2024 Democracy Index, below Uruguay
www.eiu.com/n/democracy-...
Many people think the UK is the leader of democracy but we are 17th on the EIU’s 2024 Democracy Index, below Uruguay
www.eiu.com/n/democracy-...
EIU's 2024 Democracy Index: trend of global democratic decline and strengthening authoritarianism continues through 2024
EIU’s 2024 Democracy Index sheds light on trends in democracy globally in 2024, with the annual index registering a decline in its total score from 5.23 in 2023 to 5.17 (on a 0-10 scale).
www.eiu.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
More of this. The House of Lords simply not a democratic chamber.
Many people think the UK is the leader of democracy but we are 17th on the EIU’s 2024 Democracy Index, below Uruguay
www.eiu.com/n/democracy-...
Many people think the UK is the leader of democracy but we are 17th on the EIU’s 2024 Democracy Index, below Uruguay
www.eiu.com/n/democracy-...
It’s playing chase with a speck of organic goop on the opposite side
March 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It’s playing chase with a speck of organic goop on the opposite side
A perfect historical document for people in the future who wonder what blind faith in British exceptionalism and nationalism really meant.
March 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A perfect historical document for people in the future who wonder what blind faith in British exceptionalism and nationalism really meant.
Any publication that pays Hannon to write for it must be immediately discounted. Why would anyone publish the ravings of someone who made such confident predictions about Brexit that have aged like milk. Every single thing he predicted was wrong.
An outer's take on post-Brexit Britain: Daniel Hannan - BBC Newsnight
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
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March 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Any publication that pays Hannon to write for it must be immediately discounted. Why would anyone publish the ravings of someone who made such confident predictions about Brexit that have aged like milk. Every single thing he predicted was wrong.
Sorry, Jim. This is fake.
March 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Sorry, Jim. This is fake.
I'd love to play an up-to-date version. Does such a thing exist?
February 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I'd love to play an up-to-date version. Does such a thing exist?