Let me ease back into this, after a break of several months, with an easy one. Norm asks: Why is one inequality different? The context is a piece contrasting the strides towards greater racial and gender equality in the USA with … Continue reading
This is an interesting interview with Thomas Pogge (via Norm Geras). He is concerned about global inequality and, while I don’t instinctively agree with his (redistributive) remedies, reading the piece made me aware how much room for agreement there can … Continue reading
Guido’s latest post claims BoJo was a blagger: In the now famous taped conversation between him and Darius Guppy, just months before the latter would be busted in a £1.8 million insurance scam, Boris conspired to have a News of the … Continue reading
Here. Via.
The News of the World yesterday became the subject of a second police inquiry after Scotland Yard announced that it was to investigate whether the newspaper made illegal payments to serving police officers. [...] None of the officers is said … Continue reading
Obama asked people to submit questions via Twitter. Iowahawk asked some.
News International has maintained that royal reporter Clive Goodman, jailed for hacking phones belonging to members of the royal household, was the only journalist involved in the practice. McMullan is one of six former News of the World journalists who … Continue reading
According to FiveThirtyEight.
Nicholas Kristoff has suggested the US military is an exemplar of ‘liberal’ (socialist) values, with a strong ethic of public service, good child care and medical assurance, and a smaller gap between the largest and the smallest pay scales than … Continue reading
I agree with Tim and Guido. Ian Puddick used twitter and various websites to publicise his wife’s affair with an insurance broker who subsequently lost his job, reportedly because of the stress Puddick caused him. Puddick is now facing charges … Continue reading