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Read more about the article In Dylan Thomas’ town, 1986

In Dylan Thomas’ town, 1986

I wrote this piece back in 1986 or 1987, after a visit to the British Isles with my friend and fellow journalist Scott Bevan. It's obviously out of date, and many of the observations I made at the time are probably unfair or incorrect. But it brings back nice memories, so I'll place it here. It happened, like all the best things, completely by chance. We had been driving almost all day; from the English-Welsh border town of Chepstow, along some of the most bewildering motorways in all Britain, through shirtsleeved Cardiff, past the tragic industrial…

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Read more about the article Cutting sugar shrunk my gut

Cutting sugar shrunk my gut

I’m no health food nut, but back in COVID-year 2020 I got a sudden urge to cut back hard on my sugar intake. It was partly that, based on a few things I’d read, it occurred to me that maybe all the sugar I was eating was giving my liver a hard time. But also I was noticing that my belts and pants were shrinking – or at least they weren’t fitting properly anymore and my gut was becoming bigger than I was used to. A Harvard Medical School article about sugar And from the British…

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Read more about the article Will we ever finish paying for the GFC?

Will we ever finish paying for the GFC?

When will we be finished paying for the Global Financial Crisis? Or, more to the point, when will our children and their children be finished paying? I’m not sure what the answer is, but I imagine it will be a long time in the future. When the finance industry detonated the world economy back in the noughties, we were immediately told that the institutions and corporations who made this happen had to be bailed out. This was because they were “too big to fail”. While it was true that it was all their fault, and that…

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