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A story from Baghdad, April 2003
An Iraqi journalist friend told me again today a story he has told me several times before. It features, so he says, in an upcoming movie, so I don’t think I’m breaking any confidences sharing it. It was April 2003. Saddam’s statue had fallen in Firdos Square and my friend was hanging around the Méridien…
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Fun with global media conspiracies
Back in November 2008, I was at the Summit on the Global Agenda, an ambitious attempt by the World Economic Forum to bring academics, policymakers and business people together to discuss some of the more interesting challenges facing all of us. And also to see if we could make any proposals that might address some…
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Off topic: recession humour
From the New Yorker. Cheer yourself up and buy a subscription.
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Unrequired Reading {9.2.09}
These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life: