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Little Atoms

Found this radio show via Philippe Legrain’s website.  It is originally broadcast on resonance 104.4 FM in London on Friday’s 19:00 - 19:30.
From its website:
“Little Atoms is a show about ideas. Each show features a guest from the worlds of science, journalism, politics, academia, human rights or the arts in conversation.
If the show [...]

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LVT and You and Me

Currently reading Fred Harrison’s book on land and taxation.  LVT seems like a particularly good idea, and liberal to boot. Yet, a quick perusal of the policy papers on tax reform shows minimal interest and essentially just says “we’ll think about it”. 
Would this not be a good policy to pull ourselves away from the [...]

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Are we all big-government leftists?

Fraser Nelson has added the end comment from his piece on Nick Clegg and spending from the Spectator’s Coffee House blog to Liberal Burblings discussion:
“A few CoffeeHousers have teased me for having a love-in with Clegg. So in my defence – my suspicion is that he, personally, is committed to small government, classic liberalism and [...]

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Of absolutely no use whatsoever

Found via none other than the Adam Smith Institute blog, this is a good way to waste 20 minutes:

Red Sindhi Cattle are available for weddings, birthdays and Bar Mitzvahs
Update:
The link seems to be down so here are the rules:
First, go to Wikipedia’s random article page. The article you get is is the name of your [...]

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The best TV show you’ve never seen

“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love The Wire and those who haven’t seen it. Yet.” Shane Richmond (Telegraph)
The third series of Baltimore-based drama The Wire is being re-run on FX (Sky channel 165) starting tonight at 10pm. I implore you to watch it.

More about it here, here and here

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Miliband & Deadly Robots

Adam Buxton puts a few of his David Miliband impressions(!) on his blog from the R4 show Listen Against. Well worth a listen!

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Brains at Davos

Julian Glover writes a small article on CiF today about a project that I am involved in. Our group works on creating interfaces between the brain and external machines with the hope of developing workable artificial limbs for amputees or SCI patients that can be controlled directly from motor areas of the brain, allowing them [...]

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Dave the Rave

Another good snippet from popbitch:
>> New Year’s hell <<
There’s never a suicide bomber around when you need one… At one New Year’s Eve party in the Cotswolds guests included Rebekah Wade, The Camerons, Bob Geldof, AA Gill and Jeremy Clarkson.
Dave the Rave Cameron spent much of the evening on the dancefloor, telling [...]

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All on the mike

Reggie Watts - Out Of Control

Original video by Jakob Lodwick can be found here

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Gordon Brown - what a ….

prick.
Having wanted the job for so long, Brown seems unable to grasp the idea that he is now the PM and that at PRIME MINISTER’S QUESTIONS he is the one doing the answering.
I feel genuinely ashamed of PMQ’s.  I know people always say it is just a theatrical show but there should be at least [...]