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Doncaster lad now living in Surrey. Ex-Treasury, ex-IMF, now at the Blavatnik School of Government and writing a book about how the IMF designs and negotiates economic policies
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I expect Trump will say “You’re fired” to Musk at some point. I’ve seen several countries where a president worried about his ratings sacks a zealous or reformist prime minister who is even more unpopular. It sometimes works but often doesn’t. www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/p...

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Brilliant article by Sam Freedman explaining what is going on in the US. Will there be an effective fightback? open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer lands manager job and it isn't in Subway

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I love that Teen Vogue is part of the resistance.

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I’m remembering the Albanian pyramid schemes as Trump launches his new meme coin. A key moment in their collapse was when new schemes entered the market offering high returns with no real assets. The collapse came a year later. There may be a lesson for crypto here. www.imf.org/external/pub...

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Excellent article which explains the commercial motives behind Meta’s lurch to the right.

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I hated Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey but loved my classmate’s rewriting of the opening sentence: “No one who had seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her to be on heroin.”

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bylines.scot/world/justic.... Excellent article on the United Healthcare CEO killing.

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I’m seeing some political commentators, including the always interesting Ivan Krastev, comparing this moment to Reagan in 1980 or even Roosevelt. To me it seems more like the Bush re-election in 2004, and I remember that Bush’s authority evaporated less than a year later.

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