The sting
How Bernard Mandeville’s free market parable “The Fable of the Bees” is undermined by the fate of our modern pollinators.
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Category: Articles & Essays
Pneumonia forced me to reappraise work
For several days I had tubes down my nose into my stomach and sticking out of my arm, oxygen into my nostrils, and a catheter. Several doctors who questioned me asked “do you usually talk like that?” since my speech was slurred. My partner and siblings were seriously worried.
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Review: Morality by Jonathan Sacks
In Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times, former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks argues we have undergone a kind of “Cultural Climate Change” that has seen a “move from We to I”. Where we used to put family first, now our priority is “self-actualisation”.
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Queuing in the age of Covid-19
Queuing had always been a response to finite goods or services, but before they were for essential ones. The longest queues were now for the exclusive night clubs and restaurants, often artificially created as a signal of exclusivity. And then, suddenly, Covid-19 turned back the clock. Once again, queueing has become about scarcity.
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Was 2019 the year of “peak plane”?
The predictions of air travel growth are based on the assumption that nothing fundamental is going to change. But we have reason to believe that more than one fundamental has changed. If so, past performance may not be indicative of future results.
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