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So I was invited to a drinks event by BK, my new boss - basically to hang out with my new colleagues and get to know them better. So after leaving work at 4, and after seeing the GP at 5, I made my way to Marylebone, getting to the pub a little after 7.
Diverse crew - there's BK of course, Chicagoan of German descent, there was RR the big boss of London office, and here's a sampler of the rest - RK, Armenian-American, Svetla from Bulgaria, Vicka from Ukraine, Arnaud from France, Henryk from Germany, Calum/Colum from England, and Gyongyi (not Papai!) from Hungary. Any others? Think not, that's it. So anyway, the next three hours was chatting politics with BK and RK, and catching up on our backgrounds and histories with Arnaud, Henryk, Vicka etc. They all seem very nice, very hair-let-down kinda people, swearing all the time, high-fiving, fist-bumping!
The really interesting stuff? I already knew BK was an Obama supporter - I'd done my homework. What I didn't know is that he used the same gym in Chicago as Obama himself, had spoken to him a few times when Obama was senator, had even met Michelle once! More? BK's boss Mary L who I spoke to during the interview rounds lives, yes LIVES in a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Oak Park district of Chicago, FLW's old haunts. And apparently, there could even be a do at her place, the FLW house, this June. Just hearing those words made me giddy. These guys seem to have a lot of fun, but they also seem to work pretty hard - the first trick is fine, the second I'm resolved to pick up.
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Rainy morning. Took the CFA book along with me to Holborn - Level 2, Volume 6, Derivatives and Portfolio Management. (It fucking sucks - 77 days to go!) Anyhow, got to the Novello just at 10 as box office was opening, got my ticket for the final show of Crazy for You, 7.30 tonight. Then got a bus back to Bank, from there to Wanstead where I stopped over at Belgique first to buy a "Pain d'Epices" I think it's called, basically pain with lots of fruit chunks and honey in it. Didn't figure it would be this sweet, but it's good.
Then to Wanstead library where the book sale was just gaining momentum. For the next couple of hours I just scrambled from table to table, box to box, stacking up my books all up one windowsill till they made three tottering towers, mutually supporting each other against a precipitous fall. After I was done with the grown-ups' books, I turned my attention to the kids' books and boy there were literally hundreds of those along the back end of the room. So I bought some of those too. Each book costs 20p, if you buy 5, you get a 6th for free. I ended up with 50 quids' worth.
So what I then had to do was fetch some more money from the Wanstead ATM, call up a taxi from Redbridge, all while the helpful staff at the library boxed up all the books, in the end it took seven of those. So piled them high inside the van that came along and chatted with the Sylheti driver on the way back home. An ex-insurance man, he's learning The Knowledge in order to become a black cab driver. His wife (cousin from Bangladesh) is training to be a teacher.
And so that is that. Home now. Very quiet. Living room is a mess, as per usual. Need to start sorting again. Also need to start boning up on the Lima to Nazca chapters of the Rough Guide, have a planning call with Rupam tomorrow. Speaking of old friends, Skyped with Asif yesterday - first proper convo in maybe 7-8 years. Saw his kid on Skype, spoke to his wife too. He is still a barrel of laughs, still the fizziest, most irrepressible and exuberant person I know. Also Sabir's Socotra cormorant research got a write-up in the UAE National.
Anyway, better wrap this up. Was thinking of a Tumblr account, but now thinking better of it. What's wrong with this place anyway? Nothing at all. Chicago and Poland trips coming up. Quietly excited about those. |
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10 mins to the big meeting w TMcG. Will I have a job afterwards or won't I?
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there can't be another worker who hates his job, who hates the financial sector with as much violent revulsion as me.. what I did in a previous life to deserve a profession so dire is an ineffable mystery to me.. like an octopus this job, this company, this boss wraps me with its grotesque tentacles every day for the last five and a half years, suffocates me until the very joy and colour has been wrung out of my life.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00td8g6/BBC_Proms_2010_Sondheims_80th_Birthday_Celebration/
Is this the biggest miss of my theatre-going career? I think so. Last night while I was diddling about in fucking Kent, the Royal Albert Hall hosted a special prom to celebrate the 80th birthday of the one and only Stephen Sondheim. Packed to the rafters, starring a veritable galaxy of stars - Bryn Terfel, Judi Dench, Simon Russell Beale, Daniel Evans, Julian Ovenden - and at the very end, an appearance by the Master himself.
Just watching the footage now made me weep, everyone in the hall on their feet... I'm sure that if I'd known, if I'd bothered to find out, I could have queued up and got myself a ticket for the show fairly easily. I've queued all night thrice before and I couldn't have managed this? But I didn't know, I didn't bother, instead I was fucking about in Kent and now I've missed what I imagine will have been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Feeling pretty guilty, pretty gutted about this.
Anyhow, happy birthday maestro! Wish you could live for 80 more! Here's Judi Dench singing THE song from A Little Night Music. Sondheim himself said when he saw her sing Send In The Clowns in 1995 - "it's yours now".
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How do you know that you have seen way more theatre than is good for you? The other day, I get in the tube, ending up standing next to a girl who is reading off photocopied pages of what looks very much like a playscript. Unable to suppress my curiosity, I glance over the page and within just a couple of seconds, something about the words on that page sets off bells jangling inside my head. And so I ask her - excuse me, is that Jesus Hopped the A Train?
And guess what - it was. Saw Stephen Guirgis's Jesus Hopped at the Trafalgar a few months ago. Whaddya know!
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Jul. 16th, 2010 @ 01:13 pm
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Yesterday, when I took B2P, Mithu and kid to Bath, turned out to be a sad day all around. News came through of Robin's dad's sudden death - spoke to him briefly, what does one say at times like these? Back home in the evening, the net told me that Bulbul Ahmed had died as well. One of the pillars of our growing-up years, we'd turn on the TV to see his face, his voice, his presence. When people like him or Kobori or Rajjak or Bobita die, something I think dies of us too. And then finally, Marrack Goulding who was warden of St Antony's when I was there in 03-04 is also dead. I remember that I got an drinks invite to his home once, he did it for all the college students, and it was there that I met the historian Robert Service and spoke to him for 10 mins or so. Adieu, Sir Marrack.
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Yesterday was Thursday but I took the day off. First day off since getting back from Dhaka. Bath was cloudy, my third time there, I've had nicer visits esp the one with Mat-Bat-Annu, but this time the museum has been revamped into something really fine. Much better use of technology than before, as well as better pacing and use of space too I thought.. very informative and entertaining overall. Big improvement on my first trip with Renaad 3-4 yrs back.
Witness to bitter fight on the train back to London, not zesty. Went to Mangal from Paddington, but not sure that the food was to their taste either. Oh well. Wrapped it up with a late night visit to the Arcola for tea, and then home. Taxis n all, bleeding money I am.
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I moved 2 weeks ago to Cobbetts Ave IG4 after 21 months in that tomb in Kebbell Terrace. I like the new place so far although it's costing me an incomprehensible 550 pounds more than what I was used to paying in Forest Gate (rent+tube). That's a really big sum of money, which I could have saved or spent travelling for example. All gone now. But the area IS nice, the flat is large and airy and roomy and sunny, and I can curl up on the couch or down on the floor to read whenever I like. There's acres of storage which I do need. And aesthetically it is a different universe entirely from the bogs of Forest Gate or Mile End. It even has a functioning shower, fuckme!
The music which I play all the time bugs no one, although I need some Creative speakers I think. I can entertain, bring over friends, people can stay with me if they like, as B2 et al are doing for three nights. Only Leggatt Rd Stratford let me do that before. Oh and of course Rosemary Dr IS right behind. What is there to say to that?
Negatives - there aren't many good shops around, so I'll probably have to go to Ilford or Stratford more and more often. The tenants upstairs - south african couple - moaned about my late-night shutting doors the very first day I think, which pissed me off. Also I can't get access to the garden, nor open my French-window doors which also pisses me off. But overall as B2P says, it's all part of growing up, this getting my own place business, although my personal opinion - growing up is vastly fucking overrated. I mean she grew up, didn't she and what did it get her? Bupkus that's what.
Broadband finally at the new place from yesterday, praise God - black engr came thru for me - after two long weeks of abstinence. No phone or TV for now though, but soon I'm sure.
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Fun game with Ahona pichchi - the Hannah Montana game, basically call everything Montana, from baba montana and mama montana to ghonta montana, fanta montana, and hannah montana montana.
Also I've been paired up with Fergus from this week - he's come back to the company after 5 yrs, and his job is to teach me EViews apparently - god how I loathe it all! |
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a weekend of real drama, started off with an epic two-hour battle on saturday morning, after which i went off to regency to sign the new lease and then went back to forest gate, loaded up the seven-seater taxi and then off to redbridge to the new digs.. i like the new digs although i don't know much about much else.
thought i'd catch the argie match in redbridge but there wasn't a pub with a tv so after kebab lunch in gants hill (not v good), went back to claremont road, tv in kamrul's room - argentina proceeded to lose to germany in what i can only describe as craven (and inevitable) fashion - i quit watching at 0-2... against germany, you can't NOT have a defence, even if maradona IS screaming from the sidelines, deutschers just don't deal in mercy. final score 0-4, klose on 14 goals, messi on 0.
henry winter has a very technical analysis in the telegraph - the guy knows his soccer. and apparently Mueller's got his revenge for Maradona snubbing him a few months ago.
next there was another vanload to shift, so called up some mauritian guy off the net, and that was trip 2.. spent a couple of hours' sorting out the flat, didn't watch the spain quarterfinal, pretty indifferent to the rest of this world cup.. went fairly late to nobo's place for dinner and adda, home late too
currently reading - philip short's bio of pol pot - still pretty innocuous so far but that will change
i'm bleeding money like a stuck pig - and there's some seriously vicious people in this world
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Jun. 28th, 2010 @ 01:32 pm
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So Argentina seems to be progressing, but not without giving serious cause for concern. Mexico could have exposed their defensive frailties yesterday, had it not been for Tevez's freak-offside goal which basically knocked the stuffing out of El Tri. Next stop, Germany and they look fucking frightening. Mesut Ozil and Thomas Mueller in full flight are a sight to behold.
Saw the Argie match in a bar in Victoria. Bitopi and fam are in town, and I met up with them yesterday in Embankment. Did the clipper ride with them in glorious sunshiney weather, all the way to Greenwich. After lunch at a Vietnamese, we hung about the parks and the Observatory, mean-times and east-west lines and planetariums, etc. It was while we were there that the England game got underway, before long they were down 2-0 to Germany. I didn't see the game live, but every time a goal was scored, we learnt of it through the anguished howls (many) and joyous yelps (few) that floated through the ether to us. Final score 4-1.
Then came drama as we had to rush to Earls Court to fetch luggage and then to Victoria Coach Station for their bus to Den Haag. The fault lies largely with me as I took a really twisty-roundabout route home, took us forever to get to Earls Court. Long story short, by the time we boarded the 6.43 tube at Earls Court, there were just 17 mins to coach departure and once the train reached Victoria, I literally ran out and ran ahead all the way to Vic Coach Station, panting like an animal, got there on the dot of 7 and begged the driver and check-in guy to hold their horses while Bitopi and Mithu and Ahona caught up. It was frantic and it was rough, and I was bushed and sweaty and totally winded by the end of it.
Caught the Argie match therefore in a pub opposite the coach station as there was no time to get to Matt's by then. I did go afterwards, once Tevez had made it 3-0 and I was getting into arguments with the weird Italian. At Matt's, dinner. Basman was there (and Josh gets here today in time for Wimbledon and Centre Court). We all chatted till about 12.30 or beyond, then I got up and got lost, got home after 2.
It was also my birthday yesterday, and a few people called texted and mailed to wish, Matu getting cake. I fucking hate my birthdays though.
Anyway, London is really jammed with guests this summer, Rupam is here and I went to Embankment/National/Waterloo with him the day of the USA-Ghana match. Nice to hang out. Dude's gotten a new lease of life. Jeims should also be passing through tonight on her way back to Canada. And Abeer is here all summer, writing and researching her dementia novel.
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Argentina killed South Korea 4-1 today, Higuain scoring a hat-trick, Messi still goalless though.
A delicious duo of articles:
- James Lawton on Maradona's crazy press conference yesterday.
- A funny one from the Telegraph: When will Pele and Maradona actually grow up?
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Jun. 16th, 2010 @ 05:43 pm
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http://www.sachalayatan.com/himu/32931#comment-339048
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Reading a feature-length article (several thousand words long) is one of the peculiar pleasures of life. Now there's a couple of websites that are devoted exclusively to finding the best works in this format and aggregating them. Thanks to Sullivan, I came across this Slate article about a pair of guys called Linsky and Lammer who have set up a website called longform.org. It seems to be jampacked with articles of great deliciousness. Equally useful is another site called givemesomethingtoread.com.
The World Wide Web - it's a beautiful thing.
P.S. The best magazine articles ever.
P.P.S. Conor F is also a longform junkie and has some very good links here. His favourite is John McPhee. |
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Went to the Van Gogh exhibition today. Queued for an hour outside the Royal Academy and the crowds inside were crushing. And yet, and yet.. what an extraordinary show.
In the seven rooms of the gallery, there were plenty of paintings that didn't really speak to me, the early work for example or some of the portraits. But when you stood in front of Cypresses or Hospital at Saint Remy, The Olive Trees or Flowering Garden with Path or even Head of a Woman, you were simply standing in front of some of the most individual works of art ever created by the hand of man. This is what struck me time and again - that nothing is captured in reproductions, not even the finest colour prints can do justice to the sheer physicality of Van Gogh's canvases. The sculptural quality of the pigment lying almost half an inch thick in places! the violence of the strokes always superbly controlled whether a daub or a dot.
By the time I reached the final couple of rooms, it was clear even to a non-specialist like me that by the end of his life, Vincent had achieved near-total mastery of his medium. In those last paintings, there is no effect he cannot pull off, no mood he cannot capture, no style he cannot pursue to a swashbuckling conclusion. White sail of a boat, irises in a country garden, swirling petals of a rose, oranges in a bowl, shining fields of wheat, pair of poplar trees in Provence, those crazy whorls in those cypresses, and that mad unforgettable dark blue burning sky - it was all there. It was all there for me to see and soak in.
Van Gogh painted over 70 canvases in as many days just before his death. I stood in front of one of them - Ears of Wheat - and could not move. It was so intimate, in so many shades of green, as if Vincent had dived headfirst into the field and painted with vivid truth what he saw around him. It was one more amazing moment among many such today.
First Van Gogh exhibition in London in 40 years. I'm glad I did not miss it. What is obvious now of course is that I must visit those magical places one of these summers - Arles and Saint Remy and Auvers-sur-Oise...
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Since Obama got elected, my interest in US politics has dropped dramatically, for a number of reasons.
1) After all that emotional investment in Obama's election, to see it actually happen was an almighty relief and a much-needed opportunity to disengage from US politics for a while.
2) My attentions have been almost entirely focused on the worldwide recession/financial crisis over the past year, and to a smaller extent on the fascinating Asian stories now emerging. The obvious truth is that we are swinging back to a multipolar world and while what happens in America is still important, it is no longer the ONLY important thing. What happens in Delhi and Rio are no less important these days.
3) My huge frustration that Obama had focused his energies entirely on passing healthcare reform, to the exclusion of all else, especially financial reform, which in my view is a far more important goal for the safety and welfare of the world economy. I still believe that, and it was good to see Obama & Volcker cook up a package to nail the banks. There's still plenty more work to be done.
All the same, to see healthcare reform actually finally pass is to witness history in the making. The consensus view is that with this, Obama has already made his lasting mark on the American landscape. I don't see a reason to disagree with that. Even if he ends up being a one-term president, even if he gets nothing done in the time left to him, he will still always be the one who reformed healthcare. Few things will do more to make America a more decent, just and livable society. Sullivan rounds up some of the best reactions. Andrew Sprung has a great piece of analysis.
This was the passionate speech that Obama made to the House Dem Caucus on the eve of the voting. Add one more to that Greatest Hits collection. He couldn't have done it alone though; by all accounts Nancy Pelosi drove this one over the line through her sheer cussedness.
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- Frank Rich invokes the spirit of Stieg Larsson (whose book I'm now reading) in the fight against big finance. Apparently Pretty Boy Geithner has been making the profile rounds at the New Yorker, the Atlantic and even Vogue! |
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- Dude Lebowski wins an Oscar! Huzzah!
- All about BRICs.
- Greenspan defends himself in a big Brookings article. I guess this is his one shot at trying to redeem his soiled reputation. It will fail.
- Brittain argues for a nominal GDP target to replace inflation targetting.
- Eamonn Butler writes an article of beautiful lucidity - let risk-takers fail.
- Did killing female fetuses lead to the savings glut?
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- Analysis - The commodities cycle.
- Analysis - European SMEs under the credit cosh.
- Analysis - How the mortgage bubble ended: cold-blooded walkaways by loanholders.
- Analysis - How Stuy Town became the biggest jingle-mail case of all time.
- Analysis - How Goldman fucked Greece too.
- Analysis - Argentina in trouble.
- Analysis - Google Buzz falls flat.
- Analysis - Why the investment bubble may not spell doom for China.
- Analysis - Europe tries to crack the growth puzzle.
- Analysis - Who is Kathy Bigelow?
- Analysis - Who is David Cameron? |
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- Don Peck in the Atlantic - How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
By the time this recession is over, tens of millions of articles will have been written about it. But very few will have homed in on so many fundamentally frightening truths such as this one. Powerful and compelling, clear and eloquent, magnificent in its comprehensiveness and compassion, and deeply deeply terrifying and sad (even for me on a personal level) - this is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the benighted times we live in.
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My economic education continues in other ways. Blanchard et al's IMF paper is now the hot topic in macroeconomic circles. The Economist has a Free Exchange debate around this paper. Meanwhile, Inflate Away the Debt, rises the cry from various circles.
IMF Lipsky tries to persuade the Indians that financial reform should continue, while the FT has a massive piece on why Canadian conservatism makes for an awesome financial sector.
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Here in Britain, the battle of the letters has broken out - Sunday Times 1 followed today by FT 1 and FT 2. Combatants include heavyweights like Besley, Quah, Desai, Vickers, Muellbauer, Rogoff, Sargent and Bootle on one side and even heavier weights on the other side - Skidelsky, Blanchflower, DeLong, Stiglitz, Blinder, Hendry, Lomax, Solow, Wadhwani. I took classes under Paloni at Glasgow, and Hendry, Vines and Muellbauer at Oxford, although in all honesty, I managed to learn nothing from them which was more my failure than theirs. |
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Feb. 15th, 2010 @ 04:48 pm
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- van Duyn - The death of securitisation?
- Obit - The man behind Indiana Jones and James Bond.
- Munchau and Tony Barber at the FT are doing a sterling job of explaining the Greece crisis. Recommended.
- The big guns jump into the euro debate - Feldstein, Issing, Brittain, some dude called Padoa-Schioppa.
- Hair portraits of the US presidents.
- Analysis - Toyota in trouble.
- Analysis - Obama in trouble.
- Why is China so mad? FT and the Economist explore this puzzle.
- Wolf in good form looks at the two things that would get the world economy growing on a safe footing again.
- A Tory Who's Who.
- Israel, birth of an apartheid state.
- How America's separation of powers got fucked in the ass.
- All the FT's Greek opeds are being collected here.
- Felice Quinto, the original paparazzo.
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The Whatsonstage awards have been announced, another good year when I managed to see almost everything on offer. But there are things I missed though, notably -
* Enjoy
* New Boy
* Public Property
* Been So Long
* When the Rain Stops Falling
* The Fastest Clock in the Universe
* Forbidden Broadway
* Kurt & Sid
* Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
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Feb. 12th, 2010 @ 05:46 pm
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- Analysis - China's internet, still different.
- Analysis - Britain's tech sector, small but bright.
- Analysis - America's job market, fucked to pieces.
- Analysis - Scumbag banks.
- Analysis - Scuzzball Tom Geithner.
- Analysis - China and SEAsia: complicated, co-dependent, fractious.
- Analysis - China's grip on rare earths and metals. |
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Feb. 8th, 2010 @ 02:57 pm
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- The EU acts feckless over Greece.
- How Toyota lost its way.
- Why a minority govt could be a good thing.
- Wolf on China's renminbi policy.
- Subramaniam on China's renminbi policy.
- Garten - US has no leverage over China and should go multilateral.
- Elliott - Rehabilitate Narasimha Rao.
- Indian Express list of top 100 powerful Indians. Rahul Gandhi comes top.
- Peel - Germany hates bailing out Greece.
- Gordon Brown, still peddling bullshit.
- A major Faulkner discovery.
- Jacomb - singing safai for the banks.
- Pilling - piling on Toyota.
- Ferguson - Greece holds scary lessons for UK and US.
- Leinberger - A bleak future for McMansions.
- Stiglitz - no point waiting for 'global coordination'. Regulation now!
- Atkins - Nine problems (at least) for the eurozone.
- James Rickards is extremely harsh on Wall Street's periodic pinata parties, the latest target being Greece. |
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early in the year but i've already seen a large number of fantastic hindi films
**Very good**
Love Aaj Kal
Luck By Chance
Mr & Mrs Iyer
Rock On!
Traffic Signal
**Pretty good**
Cheeni Kum
3 Idiots
Hum Tum
**Not good**
Race
Fashion
Anuranan
Paa
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Feb. 3rd, 2010 @ 05:47 pm
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- Man of the moment - Steve Jobs.
- Greece in trouble - ideas from Roubini/Das, Munchau and Pisani-Ferry/Sapir.
- Plender very intelligent on how north Europe-south Europe is basically China-America writ small.
- Civil servants in the UK have had enough of Labour.
- Martin Wolf takes lessons from Davos 2010. And here is Rachman's take.
- Jurek thinks triangulation can work for Obama.
- Hastings on the abject mess that is the 'special relationship'.
- Gladwell, useful idiot.
- Warsh and Kay are against too big to fail.
- Jurek pays homage to Robert B Parker. Evidently a fan!
- Book review: Steven Hill admires a great deal about Europe. Road speed humps, high-speed trains, wind turbines, siestas, works councils, two-button flush toilets, energy-saving light bulbs, universal voter registration, proportional representation, public broadcasting networks, low-cost university education, naked saunas, organic farming, the Slow Food movement and home-cooked meals: you name it, he praises it.
- Tony Judt of the NYRB is dying.
- Comebacks from two beautiful black women - Corinne Bailey Rae and Sade. Even Wes Bentley is back on the beat. More here.
- Corinne has a gig at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in two weeks' time. Methinx I'll go! |
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Jan. 21st, 2010 @ 12:22 pm
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- Analysis - China has a DIFFERENT internet.
- Analysis - Kynge writes a complex Google vs China piece.
- Analysis - In praise of gold.
- Analysis - why legacy airlines are hamstrung against younger rivals.
- Analysis - what are the Siloviki up to?
- Analysis - Financiers get God? I very much doubt it.
- Analysis - Bibi as peacemaker? Not if his crazy dad can help it.
- Analysis - Restive Iran. And a profile of Moussavi.
- Analysis - why fucking around with time is a bad idea.
- Analysis - a world awash in debt and 'innovation'.
- Analysis - Anthony Bolton goes to China. How will it all turn out?
- Analysis - Gadgets galore!
- Analysis - Asshole bankers threatening to leave London? We'll see.
- Gapper - why newspaper websites have to start charging soon.
- Jurek - is there ANY silver lining for Obama?
- Gapper - what foreign firms need to do to crack the BRICs.
- Pilling - is the China bubble about to blow? maybe not.
- Kroeber - why Google is right to get the fuck out of China.
- Brittan - keep the deficits for a while.
- Spence - stop obsessing about renminbi revaluation.
- Good math vs bad math. |
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Jan. 19th, 2010 @ 02:20 pm
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- Analysis - Bulgaria fucked it up for all EU aspirants.
- Analysis - Nigeria explores a new oil revenue distribution model.
- Fantastic piece by Boone and Johnson arguing that we need to stop tinkering with rules NOW in order to get out of the finance doom loop.
- Rachman says that a USA vs China showdown is becoming more and more inevitable.
- Skapinker, reviewing Ehrenreich, praises American optimism.
- Stephens: How big banks rigged the market. Crook has a different take though. Even Caldwell is angry!
- Heilemann and Halperin wrote terrific pieces all through the 08 campaign. Their book looks like a must-read!
- Building BRICS - a great new FT series.
- BRICS BRICS BRICS - Jim O'Neill who kicked off the term.
- Analysis - Research powerhouse India.
- PIMCO Erian gives qualified support to the bank levy.
- Weird article of the day - the stray dogs of Moscow.
- Ben Brantley is in London. If I ever leave London, this is what I'll have to do, spend a few days in town to catch up on the theatre!
- Cricinfo's review of a shabby, shabby decade.
- A Reagan aide supports banking taxes, calling the whole sector 'parasitic'. |
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Jan. 15th, 2010 @ 02:02 pm
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- FT applauds Google's decision and explains the security breaches. Morozov does NOT agree, but he doesn't consider Chinese behaviour at all. Morozov pursues his vendetta in the NYT too.
- Gillian Tett on the missing AIG haircuts.
- Luke Johnson on the joy of startups.
- Aditya Mittal Q&A.
- Stephens smacks down Cheney/Bin Laden.
- Nick Clegg lays out his deficit-busting plans.
- Tilford says don't cut Greece adrift.
- Fine crop of op-eds in the NYT today. Krugman does only what Krugman can. David Brooks has not one but TWO very good pieces, one on Haiti, the other on Israel. And finally, a piece on 3 Idiots and the freeing of the Indian mind.
- Law school not looking such a hot option any more.
- Frank Rich on the parallels between the Tea Party movement and Nigeriam email scammers.
- Fun NYT graphics: Netflix queue patterns for 2009's top movies and the poster is reborn as a tool of right-wing anti-immigrant propaganda.
- Jyoti Babu died. Here's MJ Akbar. And two pieces from Amit Roy on Jyoti in London.
- Analysis - The Glazers.
- Analysis - Obama's first year.
- Analysis - What Google vs China implies for China vs the West.
- Analysis - Clueless shareholders watch the banking debacle.
- Analysis - Al Qaeda evolves. |
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