This week's New Statesman column, in which I attempt to annoy everyone by making the left-wing case for people earning over £100k to be entitled to free childcare. If you want a high tax, high spend society, you can't exclude the people who contribute the most www.newstatesman.com/politics/fut...

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Insane to think how influential Quartz was for a while compared to *waves hands* wherever we are.

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There's an excellent book, Our Guys by Bernard Lefkowitz. The author explores the factors that lead to a Cornell type situation. Basically a lifetime of getting away with shit and an association with team sports. In the Cornell case the "team" is the fraternity membership.

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I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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What a rascal! Leaning on his personal assistant to fabricate evidence to help him win libel damages. Perjuring himself. Breaking a promise to pay the money to charity. Having his counsel accuse the assistant of fraud over her personal expenses at the perjury trial. Lovely guy. Fit to legislate.

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