Description

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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:

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  Of moonshots and bus subsidies: How state aid became a Brexit deal-breaker, The Economist (attached in patreon)
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  Sweden’s Covid-19 experiment holds a worldwide warning, Wolfgang Münchau, FT (attached in patreon)
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  Why are we racialising Beethoven, Ralph Leonard, Unherd

Additional referenced pieces:

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  Anders Tegnell and the Swedish Covid experiment, FT
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  We Need a Radically Different Approach to the Pandemic and Our Economy as a Whole, Katherine Yik & Martin Kulldorff, Jacobin