Stuck on repeat: why we love repetition in music
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/29/why-we-love-repetition-in-music-tom-service

Leicester City: Dirty Dozen or Harvard Case Study?
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-26/leicester-city-dirty-dozen-or-harvard-case-study

The Greatest Poet Alive
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/the-greatest-poet-alive/476376/

Singapore
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/21/story-cities-singapore-carefully-planned-lee-kuan-yew

Why Haven’t Bankers Been Punished? Just Read These Insider SEC Emails
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-havent-bankers-been-punished-just-read-these-insider-sec-emails

Offshore in central London: the curious case of 29 Harley Street
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/19/offshore-central-london-curious-case-29-harley-street

Top ten trends in Fintech
http://www.futuresmag.com/2016/04/15/top-10-trends-fintech

What the great degree rip-off means for graduates: low pay and high debt
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/19/degree-graduates-low-pay-high-debt-students

good points against a 'Brexit'
https://medium.com/@DuncanWeldon/brexit-the-trade-deficit-is-not-a-source-of-strength-345f88026723#.6gjmupa5s

The whole point of the debate at the moment is that we know — at least in the short term — what Remain looks like, we don’t know what Leave looks like. That creates the kind of uncertainty which delays investment decisions and which would get worse after a Leave vote as we entered into months or years of talks.

And it’s this uncertainty which takes me to my biggest problem with the “the trade deficit is a strength” argument. It ignores the elephant in the room which the large UK’s current account deficit 

That to me, is the best economic argument against a Leave vote — why trigger an event that could lead to a reassessment of UK risks by global investors when you are “dependent to the kindness of strangers” for funding? 

FT on Bullshit
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2e43b3e8-01c7-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2e62.html?siteedition=uk 

Such careful statistical spin-doctoring might seem a world away from Trump’s reckless retweeting of racially charged lies. But in one sense they were very similar: a political use of statistics conducted with little interest in understanding or describing reality

Good essay on Bitcoin and money
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n08/john-lanchester/when-bitcoin-grows-up

Impartial coverage of the Brexit and Bremain navies.
{http://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/the-eu-referendum-and-media.html}

and

{http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/01/bbc-brexit-too-timid-impartial-on-eu-not-enough?CMP=twt_gu}

25 Incredibly Useful Free Sites And Services

http://www.fastcompany.com/3058645/25-incredibly-useful-free-sites-and-services/9

The epistolary novel that is this blob....
Salman Rushdie: how Cervantes and Shakespeare wrote the modern literary rule book
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/04/salman-rushdie-how-cervantes-and-shakespeare-wrote-modern-literary-rule-book

Panama Papers
The 1% hide their money offshore – then use it to corrupt our democracyhttp://www.theguardian.com/news/commentisfree/2016/apr/10/money-offshore-corrupt-democracy-political-influence

Panama

Panama Papers The Power Players {https://projects.icij.org/panama-papers/power-players/}

{http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/05/panama-papers-pull-fifa-uefa-chief-gianni-infantino-corruption-scandal}

{http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/05/panama-papers-world-leaders-tycoons-secret-property-empires}

The Panama Papers’ Sprawling Web of Corruption
{http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/opinion/the-panama-papers-sprawling-web-of-corruption.html?_r=0}

The World's cheapest stocks

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/investing/shares/where-are-the-worlds-cheapest-stock-markets/