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2021iv19, Monday: Privacy and the Supremes.
One of the most consequential cases on the law and privacy makes it to the Supreme Court next week. I'll be watching. And some great stuff on gaming and public panic.
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2021iv16, Friday: The king of the Ponzi?
Madoff's dead, but fraud lives on. A short history of the Real Book. And the importance of prioritising economics over culture wars.
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2021iv14, Wednesday: Equality, of a sort.
Equality in principle is very different from equality in practice. As we’re seeing in the Greensill affair – and as a French writer cynically and beautifully put it many years ago.
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2021iv12, Monday: Covid theatre.
We knew everything we needed to know to make people far safer from Covid a year ago. If there’s an inquiry, the question will be: why did we rely on hygiene theatre for so long?
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2021iv9, Friday: (Not) getting things done.
Has productivity fallen because we're all doing things we're just not that good at? And tech's perversion of language.
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2021iv7, Wednesday: Gaslighting by government.
Two smart people find much to fear in the UK government's views on judicial review. For what it's worth, I feel the same. And a fundamental, and discriminatory, misunderstanding of objectivity.
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2021iv5, Monday: Deliberately rigged?
Right back atcha, CRED.
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2021iv2, Friday: Mixed measures and madness.
16 ounces. 8 pints. 32 degrees. Really? And thought-provoking writing on persuading the unpersuadable.
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2021iii31, Wednesday: Questions, questions.
With less than a week to go before new rules on witness statements in commercial litigation come into force, the problem remains: do lawyers still know how to ask questions?
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2021iii29, Monday: Wad some Pow'r...
Why condemning a little less and understanding a little more leads to better advocacy, and better humanity. Plus 20 years of a timeless operating system. And woodblock prints to take your breath away.
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2021iii26, Friday: Monster beamy.
Fat ships and hydrodynamics. And GCHQ makes the most of the fact that one of my heroes is now on a banknote.
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2021iii24, Wednesday: Does it add up?
The slipperiness of statistics, and why us advocates need to learn to love numbers. Plus: wise words from the US on design.