How to make polyamorists sad about growing acceptance of polyamory: call it polygamy

'...truly apocalyptic warming now looks considerably less likely than it did just a few years ago pulls the future out of the realm of myth & returns it to the plane of history: contested, combative, combining suffering & flourishing'
Superb David Wallace-Wells
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Our Bloomberg Opinion Bloomberg Energy Elements newsletter today is, of course, on the epic International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook, with the peak in sight for fossil fuels and Russia's self-sabotage. 2021 was, as it turns out, as good as it gets for Russian hydrocarbon exports.
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Players have their own image to protect, and the clout to speak out, writes David Fickling trib.al/CGgXjYy via Bloomberg Opinion

Impressed by the last one here - I wouldn't have thought even the FT would have many readers with that kind of budget

The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT)has decided to suspend its visit to Australia due to obstructions it encountered in carrying out its mandate under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel,Inhuman or Degrading Treatment.

The rise & fall of Chinese statistics!

'...more than half of all indicators published by the national and municipal statistics bureaus had been quietly discontinued' John Burn-Murdoch

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1/“After a very rough couple of years for business in China, some seem to be expecting — or willfully hoping for — a post 20th Party Congress economic policy reset,' I write in The China Project open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p/t…

“Increased appeals to a ‘polycrisis’ are not a get-out-of-of-jail-free card for powerful interests who must make principled decisions amid systemic crisis.”

Today, we sent out the first edition of The Polycrisis newsletter by Kate Mackenzie and Albert Pinto.

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China likely won't backtrack on its commitment to the energy transition during Xi Jinping's new term as president -- unlike the UK after Liz Truss became prime minister bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Is there a point where you’ve done so much driving that you can’t take it any more? bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

The biggest mistake Xi could make is isolating China, and Covid Zero is doing just that bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs.

He's four months old.

many in Britain may not appreciate how.. hostile the CCP has become to the liberal and tolerant values of open societies. Street brawls with the party’s enemies will only wake up more people to Beijing’s surreptitious overseas activities writes Matthew Brooker bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Really looking forward to the acclaimed 50-hour Netflix drama on this era of British politics titled 'Game For Wankers'