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My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn’t cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.

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That’s always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

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May 19, 2024

That’s always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

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May 19, 2024

My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn’t cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.

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