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Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Tennyson, Ulysses Looking for Jesus Somewhere… Read more
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in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious … E.E. Cummings Severe cold came in January for a week and then snow fell from the heavens and stayed for a while like it was smothering with an alien simplicity all that was impure in our world, until the snow itself became crunchy and differentiated, complicated,… Read more
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I have wandered far from that ring-giver and would not renegue on this migrant solitude. I have seen halls in flames, hearts in cinders, the benches filled and emptied, the circles ofcompanions called and broken. That day I was a rich young man, who could tell you now of flittings, night-vigils, let-downs, women’s cried-out eyes. From Seamus… Read more
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Notes by the Chair 8.15am Cristina’s intro [Welcome] A personal note. I started this conference in this ballroom over 15 years ago. We had the first EC Chief Economist, was all about the “more economic approach”. For 10 years it was titled “Economic Developments in Competition Law” (so boring), with indistinguishable panels on mergers, Art.… Read more
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Manchester 1996 Carly: he’s a rather sad Byronic figure don’t you think? Imogen: hmm, no, more of a Dickensian chimneysweep He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him–nor below Can Love or Sorrow, Fame, Ambition, Strife, Cut to his… Read more
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This week I discovered my five-year-old, the star of my previous offering, in the shower helpfully cleaning my mudcaked running shoes, doing so, unhelpfully with my toothbrush. She has form, our wee chickadee. A couple of years ago she determined it was necessary to clean (umyć in her native Polish) the TV. This she did… Read more
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Images of our species’ capacity for depravity and cruelty are served to the screens on our desks and in our pockets. My daughter notices other things on her daily scoot to school along the back roads. The little bollard that flashes rhymically unless it detects sunlight, the opening in the row of conifers exposing an… Read more
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“Khaldoon said he would rather spend 30 million on the 50 best lawyers in the world to sue them for the next 10 years.” The football association, according to the email, now had the possibility “to avoid the destruction of their rules and organization.” Der Spiegel If professional football is now a deep cesspit of… Read more
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They cannot represent themselves, they must be represented. Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte At the end of a podcast interview with author Rafia Zakaria, the presenter said the European Commission had been asked how many members of the current college of commissioners were persons of colour. The reply was that the question… Read more
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Jaap-Henk Hoepman’s Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy through Careful Design is a compact and attractively designed book that aims to do two things: scotch a handful of myths about privacy, and make a positive case for how digital technology can protect it. For the author, digital technologies appear like the reprogrammable… Read more
rooting around for grubs in diverse soils
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