Sharpen Your Axe
Rupert CockeHow to think critically about the news and current affairs without getting conned by gurus selling fringe views defended by conspiracy theories
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Be a Fox - a Visual Column
We have run 26 normal essays in a row over the last 26 weekends. The themes have covered everything from commentary on Spanish politics, to the music of John Coltrane, and the need to split progressivism from cancel culture. To give us all...
Evictions and Moral Hazard - a Thought Experiment
Anti-evictions protester in Spain, photo by Barcex, 26 September 2026, icensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
By early September, Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister (PM) had clearly gone ex-magi...
Pragmatic Liberalism: Three Questions for Policy-Makers
"2015-01-30 Pragmatism" by bjornmeansbear is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
In the 1940s, Karl Popper, the great philosopher of the open society, recommended that politicians should start thinking about the biggest problems in society first;...
On the Possible Breakup of the UK
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In September, the first ministers of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales joined forces to demand referendums on independence from the United Kingdom (UK). Although I live in Spain, I am originally British*. I h...
On the Need for Hybrid Homes with a Co-Living Element
"Cranes" by agelakis is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
Spain’s population has increased to just under 50m people this year from just under 47m in 2018. This is largely due to immigration. The country now has 10m foreign-born residents (in...
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I am a Barcelona-based financial journalist and I want to share some tools that will help non-journalists think critically about news and current affairs. The views expressed in this newsletter are my own and not those of my employer.
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