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Best Foreign Correspondent in Spain Prize-winner, roamed the world for @Reuters. @nytimes.com acclaimed translator. Anglo-Spaniard in Madrid. Cyclist. Replies≠endorsements. Premio al Mejor Corresponsal Extranjero en España, traductor literario, ciclista.
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Now for a bit of very welcome and forward-looking good news.
A very interesting and hopeful take on energy.
Has to be Totally Wired for me. Saw them in 1982, unforgettable.
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He'll cry all the way to the bank but however you look at it, there is no need whatsoever for a medieval institution in the 21st century.
FYI @kathylove.bsky.social "China's over-reliance on investment and exports to power its $19 trillion economy appears to have reached a limit." www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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I avoid QT like the plague when visiting the UK, however I was most impressed with Faiza Shaheen's book about inequality, "Know your place".
I fear it is only an accident of geography that has spared the UK any such vale of tears so far rather than insight, as you say.
Indeed, jobs for the boys, riding the gravy train. An old fellow student I remember speaking out against the HoL now sits there after riding the gravy train as an MP.
All told the prospects for political reform in the UK look dim, but I hope time will prove me wrong.
But when they lose, many lose their seats, although then again there is the revolving door or for the older ones, the HoL, which is a cushy number indeed.
Sure, which is why they never lift a finger although it amazes me that they don't mind spending up to 18 years in opposition e.g. Labour, 1979-97.
It is quite a dilemma, but I suspect the duopoly will ignore rather than address it.
Of course, the prospect of extremists taking power has been an argument against PR in the UK for as long as I can remember.

However, polls now show that FPTP could not only put extremists in power but moreover give them the same disproportionate majority the duopoly have so often enjoyed.
Fair enough, I accept we have no way of knowing whether it was great or small, but a missed opportunity it certainly was, while my point about the inexistence of a Lab/Con duopoly back then likewise stands.
Most of all, I hope said duopoly ends but without being replaced by something worse.
Oh, I almost forgot that back in 1919 there was no Tory/Labour duopoly but in fact the Liberals were in power. Their failure to pass PR must count as a great missed opportunity, both for themselves and, especially, the country.
Maybe I'm missing something here because Gibson is not and never has been British, but was born in the USA and merely grew up in Australia.
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It should be called Hurricane Exxon.
To understand the climate connection to Hurricane Melissa, check out our real-time attribution page at @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc...

"Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."