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Another cycling related long read
https://cyclingtips.com/2022/04/exposed-by-a-strava-kom-the-many-lives-of-a-fake-pro-cyclist/
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Anyone who advocates for nuclear power should read this:
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thanks.
fascinating and scary.
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Not hugely long, but an interesting article on how Taiwan is already preparing to counter Chinese aggression:
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10 Foot in the FT (via 12ft).
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Different slant on a similar topic:
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2023/02/fiscal-reporting-at-bbc.html
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Amusingly this is a key argument to defend the BBC.
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Yes, and tragi-comically, the right wing nut jobs who claim that the BBC is full of communists don't realise that the BBC is actually helping them.
Or maybe a few of them do realise, but also realise that continuing to promote the "full of lefties" lie is still useful.
So in the end, nearly all parts of the political spectrum are dissatisfied with the BBC and the BBC itself is incapable of disengaging from the current political frame of reference.
(to be fair to beeb, same is true of other non overtly political news outlets too)
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The joke of our time is the suicide of intention
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This, on work by academics led by Betsy Stanko, into improving prosecutions for rape in the UK, is well worth a read:
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What a great article!
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excellent blog here:
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/
tl/dr: it's not as bad as we thought. it's much worse.
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Fridays are “dead forever” and “Monday is touch and go.”
The available office space in New York amounts to the equivalent of more than 40 skyscrapers the size of the Chrysler Building.
https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-office-real-estate-rechler-rxr-project-kodak.html
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Good insight into life in Cuba right now
http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-090X2023005000110
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The death of global development, the illusion of how much progress has really been made in the world and how demographic and ecological challenges point to a grim future unless major reform happens
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/11/the-long-slow-death-of-global-development/
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Compelling read, desperate people doing desperate things and getting it slightly wrong.
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A Murder Roils the Cycling World
In gravel racing—the sport’s hottest category—the killing has exposed a lot of dirt.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/14/a-murder-roils-the-cycling-world