jokes factual

Picked up from Twitter:

behnisch Alexej Behnisch

Gaddafi’s son Saif wrote a PhD thesis at the #LSE on “the role of civil society in the democratisation of global governance institutions”

21 Feb

sunny_hundal sunny hundal

World Bank is a joke: “Ex-Lehman chief risk officer appointed World Bank treasurer” http://bit.ly/kJUh9d (via @sallyrhill)

27 Jun

VersoBooks VersoBooks

Blair puts Isaac Deutscher’s three-volume biography of Trotsky on his list of ‘Desert Island Books’ bit.ly/mkG1ca

27 Jun

KathViner Katharine Viner

Telegraph: News Corp being sued by shareholders for failing to take early action on phone hacking http://tgr.ph/ndSfww (via @sunny_hundal)

12 Jul

 

Blair’s thing is a bit exceptional.  He is pretty aware that it would sound awkward.

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