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about 11 hours ago
walking
Karl Bushby’s 28-year walk: the best bit isn’t the distance
I was reading about Karl Bushby in The Week, and there’s something wonderfully absurd about setting off for a walk home which takes nearly three decades. Most of us would…
@revisesociology
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3 days ago
life
War in space: another shared resource we seem determined to wreck
I was reading The Week’s summary of Sidharth Kaushal’s warning about warfare in space, and it’s a fairly depressing reminder of how quickly useful technology becomes something…
@revisesociology
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4 days ago
uk
The AI boom has discovered it needs electricity... and money to repay its debts
I was reading The Week’s briefing on the latest data-centre wobble, and the detail that stuck with me wasn’t some complicated financial forecast. It was a proposed AI facility in…
@revisesociology
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5 days ago
uk
Britain needs more entrepreneurs... but who can afford to take the risk?
I was reading in The Week a summary of Mihir Sharma’s Bloomberg column about Jensen Huang’s verdict on Britain. Apparently we have plenty of talent but not enough entrepreneurial…
@revisesociology
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8 days ago
education
Migrant pupils are doing well. Why turn that into another competition between the poor?
I was reading The Week’s summary of Fraser Nelson arguing that the “Boriswave” will benefit Britain. His starting point is a welcome challenge to the idea that immigration means…
@revisesociology
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9 days ago
care
Burnham's National Care Service: a great idea paid for with money that doesn't exist...?
I was reading The Week's briefing on Andy Burnham's plan to 'fix' social care, and while I've got a lot of time for the idea, the more I read about how it's actually going to be…
@revisesociology
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9 days ago
right
Even the Telegraph admits Thatcher got Right to Buy wrong...
I was reading in The Week a summary of a Michael Mosbacher column from The Telegraph, headlined with the idea that even Thatcher sometimes got it wrong, not something you see in…
@revisesociology
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11 days ago
eu
Brexit has done "more harm than good"... so why is everyone still scared of the word 'rejoin'?
So Andy Burnham finally stood up at a Labour conference and said Brexit has done more harm than good, which these days is 'brave' even though it's stating the obvious?  and easy... Tuesday's intervals.. Still on the Octopus sessions, last one of these! 
