Excerpt: /148/ Three Articles (September)

22/09/2020 19 min
Excerpt: /148/ Three Articles (September)

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On Brexit negotiations and state aid; on pandemic policies and confirmation bias; and on Beethoven and access to high culture.


 
Readings:


Of moonshots and bus subsidies: How state aid became a Brexit deal-breaker, The Economist (attached in patreon)


Sweden’s Covid-19 experiment holds a worldwide warning, Wolfgang Münchau, FT (attached in patreon)


Why are we racialising Beethoven, Ralph Leonard, Unherd



Additional referenced pieces:


Anders Tegnell and the Swedish Covid experiment, FT


We Need a Radically Different Approach to the Pandemic and Our Economy as a Whole, Katherine Yik & Martin Kulldorff, Jacobin