At the ASI. On the great flying banana. Thanks to Dave VX for the original idea.

Still crazy after all these years... The original Oslo agreements were based on the 'land for peace' formula and in exchange for the land given to them by Israel, Arafat and the Palestinians agreed to renounce violence and terrorism, recognize Israel's right to exist and refrain from incitement, which specifically included educating the Palestinian people for peace.The Roadmap suppo...

Following a barage of criticism over amendments to the Digital Economy Bill, the backers of the amendment are to make concessions which, they hope, will answer many of the objections. As the FT reports [free registration may be required to view article]: The Liberal Democrats will publish changes on Friday to their original amendment, of which

My Climategate pieces here have been of two sorts. There have been the big set-piece pieces where I at least try to say vaguely original things about it all, which given my life experiences tends to mean what sort of argument this is, how it is going and how it seems likely to go on going. And, there have been little bits like this one which basically just say: be sure not to miss this....

So I write at The Register on how manufacturing hasn’t declined. In the comments there is this: “I worked here and….” “I have a mate who…” yeah right – your insights are so much more knowledgeable than the blokes who put the original figures together. Post 701196 – we may not make the

Wall Street 2 is coming out on April 23 – 23 years after the original movie. In the meantime the world has become stranger than any fictional script, writes Jim Pickard

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They can't even get their strikes to run on time: Plans for a Scotland-wide rail strike were said to be in “disarray” last night after a rail union had to hastily reschedule its original dates because none of the sleeper trains it intended to target were due to run on those days. ...

Alistair Darling has cleared the way to soften repayment terms for the £3.4bn lost in the failed Icesave online bank, amid fears that the original deal would be resoundingly defeated in a referendum

This looks fascinating. Especially since you don’t have to buy the book, you can just read the original papers. The question being asked is of course the most important one in economics: and quite possibly in all of the social sciences. Why are some places shitholes and some places not, given that we all started with roughly the