24/11 12:16 AIDS: Turning the screw some more | The Economist New infections have dropped globally by 17% since 2001 (even if Africa, infections are down 15%); and the total of AIDS-relateed deaths is down 10% in 5 years.
24/11 10:30 Chilcot Iraq Inquiry, day 1: best of the evidence - Times Online “I remember conversations with my French and Russian colleagues saying ’You know, if you don’t agree to this, where this is going’. And each time they always agreed three months too late.”
23/11 06:23 A Nobel Prize for Political Science | The Hindu Jorge Heine: "the analytical and methodological toolkit of economists is by no means the only one available to map out the road towards improving our comprehension of social problems. "
23/11 04:43 Could sovereign debt be the new subprime? | FT Gilian Tett: "as policymakers rush to implement reforms in response to one financial calamity, they are apt to create distortions that pave the way for the next disaster."
23/11 04:34 How much money is enough? | Guardian Robert Skidelsky: "The accumulation of wealth, which should be a means to the 'good life,' becomes an end in itself because it destroys many of the things that make life worth living."
22/11 02:55 IBM makes supercomputer significantly smarter than cat But working out how to use such a massive simulation proves difficult.
18/11 05:22 EU top jobs summit could drag on for days | EUobserver Cecilia Malmstrom, Swedish EU affairs minister: "I wouldn't say it's a complete mess, but there's no agreement still"
18/11 05:04 New Prospect poll: The rise of Britain’s liberal “twittering classes” | Prospect Magazine Twitterers in Britain have a "strongly liberal and civil libertarian bias".
18/11 05:02 Schneier on Security: Beyond Security Theater The incentives are lined up against the most effective responses to risk.
17/11 03:28 America’s First Cannabis Cafe Open - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com Last Friday, the first coffee house in the United States allowing licensed users of medical marijuana to sit down and smoke, opened for business in Portland, Ore.
16/11 14:44 Modern Warfare 2 apparently nixed by Russian authorities | csmonitor.com Russian government less than happy about videogame's "portrayal of Russia’s armed forces as terrorists who invade the US and erect statues of dead terrorists in Washington"
15/11 08:49 BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Food Programme, 30th Anniversary On which GD's Alex Evans rambles on about feeding the nine billion
13/11 03:48 Senior Tories look for exit as Francis Maude compiles special adviser list - PR and Public Relations news - PR Week Cabinet Ministers will only get one special adviser each (rather than 2, as now) - focused only on policy, as all media special advisers will be based in No 10. That's the plan, anyway
13/11 03:36 Creative energy descent: Not a collapse, more like evolution | OurWorld 2.0 UNU's Brendan Barrett sets out an excellent discussion of what lies on the other side of the peak
12/11 11:41 French and Irish fall out over ‘box’ incident Sarkozy insulted. Major diplomatic incident brewing.
12/11 11:35 Member states failing to meet aid targets | European Voice Only five of the 27 EU member states are likely to meet their development aid targets for 2010.
12/11 11:31 Interview: Robert Skidelsky | New Statesman "I don't think there is a fiscal crisis. I think it's an invention", argues Keynes' biographer
12/11 09:35 China hacked Obama campaign's computers FBI told campaign: "You've got a problem. Somebody's trying to get inside your systems." McCain had same problem. Allegedly.
12/11 06:15 The 'Should We Stay Or Should We Go?' Matrix Where top US opinion-makers stand on the Afghanistan question.
12/11 04:12 Violence and Social Orders - Cambridge University Press Current cult reading among development nerds
12/11 04:12 December 2009: Craig Brown on Malcolm Gladwell | vanityfair.com As the FT's Clive Crook observes of this piece: perfect.
11/11 18:06 Gold - a six thousand year-old bubble - Willem Buiter The wonders, mysteries and evils of gold.
11/11 14:53 2012: The End Of The World? Whether or not you're interested in the 2012 apocalypse, this is a ravishing infographic.
11/11 13:04 Russian cannibal who ate his mother Apparently, the guy was given lighter sentence by judge who says 'he was starving, he needed to eat'.
11/11 11:29 Brazil pledges deep emission cuts in 'political gesture' to rich nations | Environment | guardian.co.uk Brazil offers 40% below 2020 business as usual scenario - though don't fall into the trap of comparing that with the EU's 30% offer (which is below 1990 rather than 2020 levels)
11/11 08:15 Millions left in the dark as massive power failure strikes Brazil - Times Online How critical infrastructure is vulnerable to climate impacts (in this case, a severe storm that uprooted trees and caused a massive hydro dam to go off-line)
11/11 08:14 Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower | Environment | The Guardian Anonymous senior IEA officials say we're already in peak oil zone
11/11 04:06 You created this job, David Miliband. You should do it | Times Daniel Finkelstein: "The Lisbon treaty is your work as much as anyone’s. You pushed it through and you told everyone that it really mattered."
10/11 17:57 Expensive chips from Shrinky Dinks A wonderful tale of bodging.
10/11 05:51 Are we running out of oil? The world in energy statistics The amount of proven oil reserves awaiting to be exploited fell last year for the first time in a decade, according to the BP figures.
09/11 14:06 What’s Next for the Climate Bill? - Environmental Capital - WSJ After all the excitement last week in the Senate environment committee, is the real fun just starting for the climate bill?
09/11 14:04 Call White House, Ask for Barack - Thomas Friedman It is time for a radically new approach. And I mean radical. I mean something no U.S. administration has ever dared to do: Take down our “Peace-Processing-Is-Us” sign and just go home.
09/11 14:02 Miliband "definitely" out of High Rep race, possibly | Charlemagne's notebook | Economist.com David Miliband, according to several European socialist leaders, has “definitively” refused to put himself forwards. Really?
09/11 04:22 Tear down this wall! And save the planet | Times Mikhail Gorbachev: "The climate crisis is the new wall that divides us from our future"
08/11 05:18 Democrats claim big victory on health care Health care finally passes the House.
06/11 07:14 Normalisation of Deviance | London Review Blog Hugh Pennington on (un)acceptable risks
06/11 06:49 WBS: Food security risk: USA most stable, but India is “high risk” Warwick Business School produces new index of countries' food security risk
04/11 14:26 Shut… Down… Everything! Pandemic II and the Madagascar problem.
04/11 13:49 Iraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless Iraqi forces are using what is basically a dousing stick to detect explosives. Seriously.
04/11 13:26 Top Dems: No Health Care Bill in 2009 Put that in your Copenhagen pipe and smoke it.
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Grim news. Hope the drug gangs don’t move into Ghana, it seems to be developing quite well as a country (from the perspective of my desk in Clapham, anyway).
New issue with your article on drugs in West Africa is out soon, Ill send you a copy.