2014-11-23 (Sunday)
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Adam Shatz reviews ‘Congo’ by David Van Reybrouck · LRB 23 October 2014
This stopped me… After a long account of decades of central African bloodshed, “the profits from ‘conflict minerals’ peaked [in 2000], fed by increased demand for mobile phones and the release of the Sony PlayStation 2.”David Van Reybrouck
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Francis FitzGibbon · Short Cuts · LRB 23 October 2014
Interesting about exactly how much or little the Human Rights Act, which the Tories want to repeal, constrains the British government.
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@thisisaaronland I heard history was going to be cancelled due to falling ratings, despite a social media campaign by devoted fans.
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@paulmmay Very understandable. I don’t even have that excuse :)
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@paulmmay I used to be happier to spend more evenings and weekends at the computer. Maybe that was youth, or enthusiasm, or something else…
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There’s so much code and prose I want to write, and yet so little time outside work hours that I want to spend sitting at a keyboard.