Lonely This Christmas

Are we being omicronned out of Christmas, again? Also: why our brains evolved to make us paranoid; and a worthy modern successor to Redcliffe-Maud, courtesy of the Centre for Cities.

Dec 15, 2021

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A thing you ought to know is that I’ve stopped trying to predict elections, because I absolutely suck at it. Some things I have genuinely imagined were going to happen over the last decade or so:

that Scotland was going to vote yes in 2014;
that Ed Miliband was a narrow favourite to become PM;
that Remain was a narrow favourite to win the referendum (th…

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