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Football, Music, History. Not always in that order. The Velvet Underground: always.
Lemme guess: the FT's lawyer's wouldn't countenance the use of "bribe".
August 13, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Lemme guess: the FT's lawyer's wouldn't countenance the use of "bribe".
June 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
March 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The @economist.com, grievously. Is "A Tom Cruise film" more appropriate than The Master?
What price Philip K. Dick? Is The E edited by androids or sheep?
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
What price Philip K. Dick? Is The E edited by androids or sheep?
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
March 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The @economist.com, grievously. Is "A Tom Cruise film" more appropriate than The Master?
What price Philip K. Dick? Is The E edited by androids or sheep?
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
What price Philip K. Dick? Is The E edited by androids or sheep?
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
W.o.w.
"The abject way in which rich, seemingly sovereign, nations tiptoed around Trump’s provocations suggests that the liberal international order is principally a patron-client system where America is the hegemon and other Western nations choose to be luxury protectorates."
"The abject way in which rich, seemingly sovereign, nations tiptoed around Trump’s provocations suggests that the liberal international order is principally a patron-client system where America is the hegemon and other Western nations choose to be luxury protectorates."
February 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
W.o.w.
"The abject way in which rich, seemingly sovereign, nations tiptoed around Trump’s provocations suggests that the liberal international order is principally a patron-client system where America is the hegemon and other Western nations choose to be luxury protectorates."
"The abject way in which rich, seemingly sovereign, nations tiptoed around Trump’s provocations suggests that the liberal international order is principally a patron-client system where America is the hegemon and other Western nations choose to be luxury protectorates."
@alfreds-mad-world.bsky.social : The Economist acknowledges.
February 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
@alfreds-mad-world.bsky.social : The Economist acknowledges.
Sometimes - rarely, but it does happen - a Nobel Prize seems merited. OK, the Economics prize is not "strictly" a Nobel, but still. @pkrugman.bsky.social just nails it at paulkrugman.substack.com/p/oppose-opp...
February 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Sometimes - rarely, but it does happen - a Nobel Prize seems merited. OK, the Economics prize is not "strictly" a Nobel, but still. @pkrugman.bsky.social just nails it at paulkrugman.substack.com/p/oppose-opp...
It's a long way from 2020, when @anneapplebaum.bsky.social wrote that ...
January 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It's a long way from 2020, when @anneapplebaum.bsky.social wrote that ...
This letter-to-the-editor in the 19th Dec issue (which The Economist had the grace to publish) proves @philippeauclair.bsky.social 's point, doesn't it?
![Economist's Letter to the Editor, 19th Dec 2024:
The dark side of gambling
I was shocked, saddened and outraged about your leader stating that the boom in sports betting is something to be celebrated (“America’s gambling frenzy”, December 7th).
I lost my 28-year-old son to suicide in May. I did not know until after his death that he had lost thousands of dollars of his hard-earned money. He had kept it secret that a sports-gambling problem had overtaken his life and mind. Based on the evidence that I have gathered since my son’s sudden death, I would argue that the “gambling frenzy” is mostly about exploiting and endangering people’s lives in the name of this predatory industry’s greed and disregard for human life, rather than being “about people being free to enjoy themselves”.
You skirted over the role of technology. The smartphone has indeed fuelled the boom. Armed with data of an individual’s betting tendencies, the industry cultivates and fuels addiction and targets those whom it has identified as problem gamblers. Horrified as I examined my son’s phone after his death, I saw first-hand how sports-gambling operators offered him free box-seat tickets to live sports events, addressed directly in texts to him from a “VIP host” and “free” ($200-plus) gambling money to ensure he remained actively engaged with the multiple gambling apps on his phone.
You described online sports gambling as “often a communal activity”, and therefore less of a worry than “sitting at a [slot] machine, alone”. The $10,000 bet my son frenetically placed on a losing NHL Stanley Cup game team during the last 48 hours of his life was followed by a series of still more frenetic bets placed in isolation on his phone to try to win back his massive loss. It is clear he died alone.
You said that “Other vices that America enjoys and taxes, like alcohol, are responsible for far more catastrophic harm.” Yet, according to recent studies in America and Britain, people who are addicted to gambling are…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnvaec3vuxgnnopzhjqrklnp/bafkreidckuh43fkbctb3sbit3cjrqkwrtcc3vfis5rtei7n3defqxhtfu4@jpeg)
December 30, 2024 at 12:15 PM
This letter-to-the-editor in the 19th Dec issue (which The Economist had the grace to publish) proves @philippeauclair.bsky.social 's point, doesn't it?
This headline tells me more about the US than I ever wanted to know. And, in case it's not clear, not good things. Also says soooooo much about "rich folks".
December 26, 2024 at 12:16 AM
This headline tells me more about the US than I ever wanted to know. And, in case it's not clear, not good things. Also says soooooo much about "rich folks".
Well, the comment on youtube says ...
December 23, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Well, the comment on youtube says ...
(Took a while to find it, since I first read it several years back, and searching for "technology" or Policy" on his website is ...)
Here's what he writes:
Here's what he writes:
December 7, 2024 at 3:05 AM
(Took a while to find it, since I first read it several years back, and searching for "technology" or Policy" on his website is ...)
Here's what he writes:
Here's what he writes: