@davidallengreen: "other than temporarily keeping people off the streets, putting people in prison is invariably an expensive exercise in making society worse"

"We try so hard to downplay and outright ignore the role chance clearly plays in life, moving through it oblivious to the randomness of fate, controlling everything we can in the hopes that it will help with those things we can’t control."

“you’re more likely in America to be killed through auto-erotic asphyxiation than through terrorism and yet I think the war on auto-erotic asphyxiation is unlikely.”

Includes a brief interview with Shahmina Begum.

“Bangladesh asserts that Ms Shamima Begum is not a Bangladeshi citizen. She is a British citizen by birth and never applied for dual nationality with Bangladesh … There is no question of her being allowed to enter into Bangladesh.”

Fascinating @FT interview by @JananGanesh.

Fascinating. Fake terrorism in a failed attempt to play the German stock market.

Adjusting for inflation, US has spent 50% more on reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan than on the Marshall plan.

Brave testimony two years on.

Hooray for @Bulc_EU!

Wise.

Quite a lot.

Yep.

Availability bias.

How not to do psyops.

Wow.

9/11 as seen from Air Force One.

Countering the spin swallowed by Buzzfeed.

How ISIS really was created (part 1 of 3).

Extraordinary.

Interesting book, interesting review.

As you would expect.

US anti-money laundering legislation has wider consequences.

Sane analysis.

Good grief.

The Belgian Prime Minister had one job...

Sir Michael Leigh with a breath of sanity.

Excellent piece (thx @tochitruestory).

I'm in @USAToday! (Name misspelled).

Very sensible.