Say it isn't so!

Don’t get me wrong. I am sure a lot of people like free stuff. But I just find it hard to justify removing ads / bypassing paywalls from external content while enforcing paywall for some Medium stories.

Well now, there's a thing.

h/t Peter Molnar

All of the above.

Preparedness pays -- at least for the Irish PM.

Brexit means Brexit — that is one of the dumbest statements that has ever been uttered by a head of state. And I’m aware that there are thousands of tweets one could compare it with. I mean, it’s simultaneously meaningless and wrong.”

I don’t agree with Roger Scruton on much, but I do agree with him that limiting social dance to clubs and EDM festivals where everyone is drunk or high is not good for us. Scruton’s solution is to yearn for the glory days of eighteenth century Europe. My solution is to look to our friends from the African diaspora, whose social norms around music and dance are very different from those of white people, and in a lot of ways, more grown up.

Very well said; one the other hand, there is always Irish, Scottish and English "folk dancing" and its many derivatives, which are so much fun and which I could do, more and more often.

Extreme Economies by Richard Davies, as reviewed by Diane Coyle, does sound like a book I would enjoy reading.