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Fair Warning - Reparations, music evolution, and football

Hey! You ever feel like you're pretty busy but then something happens and you are then truly, no-time
Fair Warning
Fair Warning - Reparations, music evolution, and football
By Sophie Warnes • Issue #118 • View online
Hey! You ever feel like you’re pretty busy but then something happens and you are then truly, no-time-for-food-or-shower busy, and you realise you were just exaggerating before? I think for the most part it’s good. I can’t stand being bored.
Last week I wrote about being sad that I finished Friends because it somehow became ~irritatingly meaningful~ during lockdown.
Fun things this week:

On the home front
English football's Premier League will take a financial hit from the pandemic
I mostly don’t understand football apart from when the World Cup rolls around, and it’s the one time I am definitely English. This Economist article talks about how coronavirus (and thus the inability to play) has impacted heavily on the league and its clubs’ finances.
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Interesting statistics in this FT piece about reparations for slavery and how much that would be worth. “Any way you cut it, Britons made a lot of money out of slavery […] All four of the UK’s big high-street banks were formed through mergers that included lenders involved in the slave trade.”
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A nice Tableau dashboard which illustrates that institutional racism in police forces is a thing in England and Wales too. It’s literally just arrest rates by race and police force area but it’s pretty clear that there’s a problem there.
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Fascinating database by University College London about slavery in Britain, mentioned in the FT piece above. It includes a database of physical legacies - statues, country houses, land, and graves of slave-owners in Britain - as well as notes on cultural, commercial and historical legacies.
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Also: “Young people and those renting may find it difficult to cut back on spending because they spend a lower proportion of their budget on goods and services that are not essential.”
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Over the pond
Military helicopters descended on protesters in Washington, D.C. as a 'show of force.' Here's how close they got
Great analysis by the Post of the helicopters hovering low over protesters in DC - a move clearly designed to intimidate crowds.
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Which states are open? Which are closed? Which have decided to reverse-ferret? The NYT has you covered.
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Confederate Names Are Common in the U.S.—and Not Just on Statues
Confederate Names Are Common in the U.S.—and Not Just on Statues
A great WSJ piece exploring the Confederate names on buildings like schools, military bases, and roads across the US.
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Elsewhere
Coronavirus Hits the Developing World
Good look at how the Covid-19 pandemic has spread through the world, particularly developing economies. Looking at deaths by share of the population over 60 is really interesting too.
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Sales of prescription drugs in Poland, in real-time. Not useful to me (or anyone?) in the slightest, but like, a bit mind-blowing… right?
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Is Europe preventing covid-19 layoffs or merely delaying them?
Is Europe preventing covid-19 layoffs or merely delaying them?
Interesting: “A recent study estimates that 9m workers—a fifth of those currently enrolled in job-subsidy schemes across the five largest European countries—are employed in ‘zombie jobs’ in industries that will continue to struggle during the pandemic, including travel, tourism, hospitality, entertainment, and retail.”
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A map of plaques around the world. That’s it. No more, no less. I feel like this could have been better designed but you know what? I ain’t moaning.
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Views of Diversity in 11 Emerging Economies
Views of Diversity in 11 Emerging Economies
A majority of Indian respondents said diversity makes the country better, while a majority of people in Jordan and Lebanon felt it made it worse. The context to this, of course, is the fallout from the Syrian refugee crisis, which Jordan and Lebanon have been heavily impacted by.
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Odds and ends
The Evolution of Music Genre Popularity
This nice little essay looks at how genres develop over time, though it is kinda old now (2016)…
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Movie Waves
Movie Waves
I *think* this is every single film released since 2001 but I can’t be completely sure. It might just be the top ones. It’s extremely cool though.
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That edition was much longer than I was planning! Apologies for any typos; it’s been A Week. If you enjoyed this, feel free to email it around to friends and family that might find some of this stuff interesting. If you enjoyed reading Fair Warning and the links within, you can buy me a coffee (hooray, coffee!) and leave a message, or become a Patron for the newsletter.
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