FT:
2016 in review: the big events, your top picks, reviews and people
{https://www.ft.com/content/5169b9ba-c91a-11e6-9043-7e34c07b46ef}

comedy

Bullseye
2016
http://www.maximumfun.org/bullseye/bullseye-jesse-thorn-end-year-2016-comedy-special

2015
http://www.maximumfun.org/bullseye/best-comedy-2015-special


round the world in 48days
http://www.yachtingworld.com/news/coville-sets-incredible-new-49-day-solo-round-the-world-record-with-a-blistering-average-speed-of-23-knots-102483

sure we'll see this again in years to come














The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians

{https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/18/the-50-funniest-comedy-films-chosen-comedians-stewart-lee-sarah-millican-david-baddiel}

Preparing for Brentry – after Brexit: A view from Sweden

{http://voxeu.org/article/preparing-brentry-after-brexit-view-sweden}

life hack
Spend the First Hour of the Day on Activities That Add Value to Your Life
{https://medium.com/the-mission/spend-the-first-hour-of-the-day-on-activities-that-add-value-to-your-life-1968902c32a5#.4b73duwo8}

Paul Krugman: Why Corruption Matters
{http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2016/11/paul-krugman-why-corruption-matters.html}

How the global Left destroyed itself (or, all sex is not rape)
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/11/global-left-destroyed-sex-not-rape/}

snoop poop
These Are The 48 Organizations That Now Have Access To Every Brit's Browsing History
{http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-26/these-are-48-organizations-now-have-access-every-brits-browsing-history}

Exploding myths about the gig economy
{http://voxeu.org/article/exploding-myths-about-gig-economy}

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renaissance-s-medallion-fund-became-finance-s-blackest-box

seaweed
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-cow-farting-1.3856202

The disappearing middle class, and a nation, on the brink

http://m.startribune.com/the-disappearing-middle-class-and-a-nation-on-the-brink/381173031/

and

Written in advance
5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win
This wretched, ignorant, dangerous part-time clown and full time sociopath is going to be our next president.
 http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/

{http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/3-bits-bad-news-tories-9219925}

longer reads for later

How Sociopathic Capitalism Came to Rule the World
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/11/sociopathic-capitalism/506240/

The Script of a Real-Life Tragedy
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/us-presidential-campaign-concludes-in-farce-a-1119830.html

The fatal flaw of the populist approach
http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2016/11/01/the-fatal-flaw-of-the-populist-approach/

The problem with low interest rates
http://monevator.com/the-problem-with-low-interest-rates/

The fundamental factors behind the Brexit vote
{http://voxeu.org/article/fundamental-factors-behind-brexit-vote}

Theresa May lied and lied again to become PM
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/30/theresa-may-lie-and-lied-to-become-prime-minister

Faulty Wall Street Assumptionshttp://awealthofcommonsense.com/2016/10/faulty-wall-street-assumptions/

Five steps to being fully present in the moment
hommm

http://adamhgrimes.com/blog/being-fully-present-in-the-moment/

want: boxofcrap
https://shift.newco.co/what-50-buys-you-at-huaqiangbei-the-worlds-most-fascinating-electronics-market-f0384d9fca32#.ytxpgmpqc

The Dying Business of Picking Stocks
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dying-business-of-picking-stocks-1476714749

After Brexit, our tabloid newspapers are taking political intolerance to a chilling new extreme

These newspapers and their commentators are now implying that those who disagree with them should be silenced, or even locked up. This is dark and dangerous territory

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/daily-mail-brexit-daily-express-the-sun-tabloids-language-political-intolerance-traitors-a7357591.html

Blockchain settlement
http://streetwiseprofessor.com/?p=10201


Five Books to Change Liberals' Mindshttps://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-11/five-books-to-change-liberals-minds

Battle for AleppoHow Syria Became the New Global War

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/syria-war-became-conflict-between-usa-and-russia-and-iran-a-1115681.html

and

THE BATTLE OF ALEPPO, THE BATTLE OF DRESDEN, THE BATTLE OF MASADA AND THE BATTLE OF BOSWORTH FIELD — WHO LIES, LIES LONGEST

Simon English: Bankers heading off to Frankfurt? It's just a fantasy

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/bankers-heading-off-to-frankfurt-its-just-a-fantasy-a3366206.html

Super Size farming
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/big-food-photo-essay.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&_r=0

Paul Krugman: What About the Planet?
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2016/10/paul-krugman-what-about-the-planet.html

ON £ MOVE

But some foolish folk will have done a Bloomberg News search for GBP and decided that it is due to the news that fracking had been allowed in North West England. Which is of course rubbish, because we all know that it happened because Diane Abbott was made the shadow Home Secretary.

http://polemics-pains.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/gbp-goes-eurchf-whats-going-on.html

Your name will also go on the list

http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2016/10/british-economic-policy

But this was not the only bad idea to come out of the current Conservative conference. First, there was the idea of training more British doctors so that foreign doctors could “go home” after 2025, a policy hardly designed to engender confidence in the many immigrants (like my GP and dentist) who keep the health service going. Then there was the idea oflimiting the number of foreign students who can come to British universities (another brainwave from Ms Rudd).

Yikes, foreign workers..
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/10/05/2176612/fessing-up-to-foreign-workers/#respond

still about porn
http://dealbreaker.com/2016/10/what-awaits-you-behind-that-headset-is-the-future/

The Penny Stock Chronicles
{https://theintercept.com/2016/09/23/big-players-little-stocks-and-naked-shorts/}

Brexit is like when Henry VIII told the Pope to go f*** himself. - Nomura
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/09/25/did-henry-viiis-tudor-brexit-lead-to-englands-trading-glory-or-a/?curator=thereformedbroker&utm_source=thereformedbroker}

The City will decline—and we will be the poorer for it

{http://bruegel.org/2016/09/the-city-will-decline-and-we-will-be-the-poorer-for-it/}

The diminishing returns of blockchain fetishism
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/09/27/2175973/the-diminishing-returns-of-blockchain-fetishism/}