Author Archives: Ranil Dissanayake

Hi all,  So, in cricket news, shortly after talking about how Sri Lanka’s performance in the second test was making me cheerful, they went and collapsed to 101 all out. I await the Lord’s test with such fear and trembling … Continue reading →

Hi all,  Though I’m technically off work today, celebrating the Queen’s birthday (I’ve spent it wearing a bejewelled hat and sitting in a gold chair, thinking about poverty), I decided to log on to write this week’s links: Sri Lanka’s … Continue reading →

Hi all,  Well it’s been a completely  manic week, so if these links feel a bit anaemic and tired, rest assured that they reflect their maker. And if they seem on the brink of absolute despair and weeping, blame Sri … Continue reading →

Hi all, It’s Friday the 13th, so obviously the Spurs lost. How else can it be explained? I’m still in shock. After the 27-degree sunshine in London (for which, of course, I was in rainy and chilly Addis Ababa), Leicester … Continue reading →

Hi all,  So, I’m in Ethiopia (without a mule, sadly), and despite a meeting schedule that could be used as a cudgel (all fascinating, of course, but for someone for whom a blank diary is a form of rapture, also … Continue reading →

Hi all,  In a parallel universe, one where I haven’t been mainlining coffee in an increasingly desperate attempt to maintain some level of functionality at work today, I am writing an incredibly witty intro to these links, weaving together the … Continue reading →

Hi all, The economic punmaker in me wants to start this round-up with a joke about 2016 being the year of ‘creative destruction’, but the wound is too sore. I was in a pub restroom last night when I got … Continue reading →

Hi all,  It’s the end of an era. Kobe Bryant, basketball savant or ball-hogger extraordinaire depending on your viewpoint, has retired. It’s appropriate that a player so obsessed with his own statistics should have had such an effect on the … Continue reading →

Hi all,  We’re not going to talk about this. Not at all. In particular, no mention will be made of the fact that seconds before the first delivery was bowled, I confidently texted a friend ‘England have this in the … Continue reading →

Hi all,  Even in an Easter-truncated week, the internet continues to astound me. There has been an absolute glut of brilliant economics this week, and a couple of truly glorious April Fools jokes as well – some I can’t share … Continue reading →