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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The Invention of Modern Football
Lamine Yamal por Biso - Trabajo propio, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=174617536
My first football game was in 1980 when I was nine. My late Dad took me to see our home team, Norwich City, lose 5-3 to Liverpool....
Popper's Paradox of Tolerance, Updated for Populist Times
"Question Mark" by Leo Reynolds is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
How should we split social progressivism from cancel culture? In my short essay on 20th June, I listed 12 difficult questions that those of us who think this is a noble goa...
Income vs Assets
Imagine 11 people broadly representative of Spanish society. You line them up from the poorest on the left to the richest on the right; and ask the person in the middle to step forward. Now do the same for 11 people who represent German soc...
A Short History of Spain in Three Meals
Valencian pallea by Jan Harenburg - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62140363
In October 2016, British chef Jamie Oliver caused outrage on Twitter (now X) when he shared a recipe for paella, probably...
Twelve Difficult Questions on Cancel Culture
"cancelled" by Alachua County is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Regular readers will know that Sharpen Your Axe supports splitting social progressivism from cancel culture. What does that mean in practice, though? Today’s essay contains 12 diff...
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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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