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  • The ghost of Ayn Rand lives on in the Conservatives’ Covid-19 policy July 28, 2021
    Sajid Javid’s remark on “cowering” before Covid-19 was no accident – he believes in the survival of the fittest. Sajid Javid has apologised for accusing the British people of “cowering” from Covid-19. But this was no slip of the thumb. The Health Secretary is a lifelong devotee of Ayn Rand, whose philosophy glorifies the selfish […]
  • Why Joe Biden’s presidency is faltering July 28, 2021
    The euphoria surrounding the president’s first 100 days is gone – Americans now want to see Biden deliver on his promises. After being inaugurated in January this year, Joe Biden had an industrious first 100 days. He ensured the US rejoined the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organisation; he ended the Trump-era ban […]
  • M Night Shyamalan's Old is all concept and no character July 28, 2021
    Once the premise has been established, Shyamalan is at a loss for what to do with it, killing time and treading water.  Directors have been scrawling their stories in the sand since the beginnings of cinema: Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s 1929 surrealist masterpiece Un Chien Andalou ended with a couple half-buried on a beach; […]
  • Lucy Kellaway’s Re-educated is a breezy memoir about changing her job, house and marriage July 28, 2021
    This is three books in one: a tongue-in-cheek account of one woman’s midlife crisis, a dissertation on modern education, and a call to rethink our perceptions of getting old.  When life gets monotonous, some people quit their grey office jobs to teach yoga on tropical beaches. Some trade in their weary spouses for younger, more […]
  • Lump’s Animal: Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay’s art-pop is brilliantly off-kilter July 28, 2021
    The songs on the second album from the intriguing pairing are intuitive and tactile. One of the biggest musical surprises of 2018 came when Laura Marling, known for her thoughtful, folk-inspired songwriting, forged a project based around dissonant, electronic drones and fronted by a faceless yeti-like creature. Lump, the eponymous first album by Marling and Mike Lindsay (of […]
  • China’s techlash gains steam. Again July 28, 2021
    Online-education firms will not be the last victims
  • Facebook eyes a future beyond social media July 27, 2021
    Advertising has made the social network into a trillion-dollar company. Can new ventures take it further?
  • As food prices soar, big agriculture is having a field day July 25, 2021
    How long will it last?
  • How to lead from afar July 24, 2021
    A new book on remote leadership
  • Japan Inc wants to become a hydrogen superpower July 24, 2021
    To succeed, it must focus on unglamorous industrial uses of the gas
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