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It's not economic policy (or even necessity) as much as the political economy that drives trade policies. "The relationship between the overall tariff policy (considering all product groups together) and the socio-economic variables is even more diffuse, and no strong relationship emerges ...

Of course, the name of this madness is pure NewSpeak : "The new rules, known as the Intercept Modernisation Programme , will not only force communications companies to keep their records for longer, but to expand the type of data they keep to include details of every website their customers ...

"‘I think sometimes that being overly type-sensitive is like an allergy,’ said Michael Bierut, a partner in the Pentagram design group in New York. ‘My font nerdiness makes me have bad reactions to things that spoil otherwise pleasant moments.’" Extract from NYTimes  ...