Excerpt: /148/ Three Articles (September)

Full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast

 

On Brexit negotiations and state aid; on pandemic policies and confirmation bias; and on Beethoven and access to high culture.

 

Readings:

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

Additional referenced pieces:

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