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January 2025

VoN #3: Should Britain buy Greenland?
What attracts smart people to crypto? How much havoc can one NIMBY cause? How did someone magic a £58bn company out of thin air? And why should Britain…
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The end of the playground
In which one playground shuts and another is sealed off from the public before it even opens, in a chilling warning for the future of local government.
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VoN #2: All that for one Pringle
In which AI has an energy deficit, Starmer has a values deficit, the Washington Post has an underpants gnomes deficit, and a Cochrane review of calorie…
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VoN #1: No bat death is acceptable.
In which we learn that one bat is worth 11-16 years of human life in Britain, that I once tortured James O'Malley in a desert, and the true meaning of…
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Britain’s car market is a complete disaster
In which the nation's most average driver tries to buy a new car and realises we’re all poor now.
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