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  1. i've put this twitter business into retirement. for now. just seems like more admin at the moment. see http://davidhudson.wordpres...
  2. UN Standing Committee on Nutrition: global recession means 1 billion people will be suffering from malnutrition in 2009, i.e. >1 in 7 people
  3. political will to blame for development financing shortfalls: http://www.youtube.com/mcam...
  4. every bit of my body hurts after an all too infrequent game of football yesterday. fun though!
  5. We have to watch revisionist nonsense on back of a LITTLE bit of ok financial news. nice hatchet-job on paulson: http://tinyurl.com/mbtlpm
  6. Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills is dead. Now in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Draw own conclusions
  7. OMGidiots! http://tinyurl.com/l25epp reporting krugman's joke about how recessions are dated after the fact as prediction. there is no hope.
  8. saw paul krugman speak last night (and going tonight plus tomorrow). pretty damn good.
  9. BNP. It's better than we fear / there is hope: RT @bengoldacre Pirate Party gets higher vote than BNP: http://rly.cc/GYZB4
  10. BNP. it's worse than the spin. it's not just about expenses/protest vote. we have to accept a good number of british people are racists. :-(
  11. #eu09 - what will the damage be? off to get a cup of tea and watch.
  12. crikey! bit of a love in on the #apprentice. who will lord sugar pick?
  13. house of commons report on support for development assistance: http://tinyurl.com/mrswxf - real highlights from p.43ff :-)
  14. orwell on the english language, always a pleasure: http://tinyurl.com/mhaqva. i hate the vacuity of 'meeting language'. drivel.
  15. the fab nicky wire on art & politics: http://tinyurl.com/lkkl4u. highlight = suggestion to privatise the royal family.
  16. UN Conference on World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development (snappy!) rescheduled until end of June. Can't be cheap.
  17. usual story: the poor are more generous than the rich and certainly the middle-class - http://tinyurl.com/odwt4u
  18. at last! 1st post-marathon run last night; not exactly textbook reverse taper: http://tinyurl.com/ot3dcj
  19. 4 exam scripts to go. end is in sight. nice bank holiday weekend!
  20. officially half way through marking the international relations theory exam papers. something of a normal distribution thus far.