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#25 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
April 22, 2016, 06:48:44 pm
More Lanchester in the LRB, this time on Crypto-Currency, Bitcoin and The Blockchain http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n08/john-lanchester/when-bitcoin-grows-up



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#29 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
May 21, 2016, 06:19:57 pm
A great piece by Ferdinand Mount on the referendum Nigel's Against the World

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#30 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
May 21, 2016, 06:47:08 pm
I enjoyed that one too Ben, got me all panicked and posting on facebook to get people to vote though!

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#31 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
June 09, 2016, 02:10:54 pm
Brilliant, in-depth Autechre interview by Joe Muggs:

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2756

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#32 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
June 09, 2016, 05:26:05 pm
Brilliant, in-depth Autechre interview by Joe Muggs:

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2756

Really good, thanks

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#33 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
June 19, 2016, 11:21:03 pm
Settle down somewhere quiet and read this slowly.  It's brilliant http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

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#34 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
June 20, 2016, 03:38:14 pm
Settle down somewhere quiet and read this slowly.  It's brilliant http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair
Loved it. Thanks for posting FD.

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#35 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
June 29, 2016, 01:04:47 pm
Settle down somewhere quiet and read this slowly.  It's brilliant http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

Finished reading that last night and also thought it was a brilliant article, thanks for sharing the link FD.

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#36 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
October 17, 2016, 08:59:49 pm
Short but very useful article on the admiration of Hitler in the third world.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/05/the-developing-world-thinks-hitler-is-underrated-duterte-world-war-ii-nazi-politics/

When I was teaching summer school, one of my Indian students asked a German student: “Do you admire Hitler?”, as a bit of an ice-breaker I assume.

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#37 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
October 17, 2016, 09:17:20 pm
Interesting.  A recent Ross Kemp doc on Sky (dont' mock me too much - they are usually pretty interesting) covered Neo Nazi movements in Mongolia - they targeted Chinese immigrants who they viewed as taking all of their jobs and resources.  Some were just low rent nutters but others were more prominant (e.g. a local hero ex-Olympic wrestler).  By and large, they just saw Hitler as a strong leader who did what was best for his people - either ignorant of or did not believe in the Holocost.

Link to the only story I could find on the doc here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ross-kemp/ross-kemp-extreme-world_b_11886406.html

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#38 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
November 25, 2016, 10:40:12 am
Two more good ones from recent LRBs.

Home Office Rules an insight into Theresa May and her inner circle's thinking shaped by her time at the Home Office.

England Prepares to Leave the World - a good piece on Brexit and nationalism.

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#40 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
April 19, 2017, 11:03:26 am
Enjoyed this article on #vanlife from The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/vanlife-the-bohemian-social-media-movement

+1 enjoyed that. Now back to work while I long to be out climbing.

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#41 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
April 19, 2017, 08:38:51 pm
Enjoyed this article on #vanlife from The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/vanlife-the-bohemian-social-media-movement

So much of that reminded me of the Withanil and I quote:

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They're selling hippy wigs in Woolworths, man. The greatest decade in the history of mankind is over.

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#42 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
June 21, 2017, 10:41:25 pm
Long and very good - James Meek on Cadburys, Poland and the EU

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n08/james-meek/somerdale-to-skarbimierz


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#46 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
August 26, 2017, 10:00:31 am
Thanks for posting that Andy. A powerful piece of writing.

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#47 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
October 21, 2017, 01:22:21 pm
One of France's greatest writers on Emmanuel Macron
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/20/emmanuel-macron-orbiting-jupiter-emmanuel-carrere

Emmanuel Carrère seems to like strong personalities and also wrote a very suspect biographical novel on Limonov (I read the first third of his Limonov book, but I'm against bio novels by principle, unless they happen to be written by Kawabata)

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#48 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
January 20, 2018, 11:10:34 am
A long reflective interview with Barry Lopez (author of Arctic Dreams and long-time environmentalist)

https://medium.com/the-alpine-review/on-the-edge-calling-back-barry-lopez-48535505424b

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#49 Re: Quality non-climbing articles
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