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Daily Archive for October 13th, 2008

I’ve been reading Paul Krugman in the New York Times for a while without realising for a moment he was a future Nobel prize winner (today).
By chance I encountered the following article of his, reprinted Slate today: Baby-sitting the Economy.
It brings to mind something an old teacher of mine told me with a Krugmanesque twinkle [...]

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Welcome Factcheck.Org.Uk

A wonderful celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Some background info on the video here. A hat tip for this one to Andrew Sullivan.
Sullivan contributed the best laugh of the day, after a cheerless week, in his Sunday Times column: contrasting the temperments of Barack Obama and his opponent [...]

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