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In case you missed it amongst all the latest Brexit-backstabbing news…

BBC: EU signs its biggest free trade deal with Japan The European Union and Japan have signed one of the world's biggest free trade deals, covering nearly a third of the world's GDP and 600 million people. This is the sort of thing grown-ups can achieve when they put their minds to it.

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Doing the maths

Poundland seeks to buy 99p Stores for £55M.

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Norse trading

While England slept, Norway was exporting record amounts of seafood last month.

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Setting the bar nice and low

The chief executive of RyanAir wants his customers to love him.

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Business news

Comet electrical stores sold by Kesa for £2.

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Buy my Book

On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderful. Science and history and geography and evolution and culture all tangled up in musings while walking about the moors around Hebden Bridge.”—PZ Myers
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On the Moor

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Recent Reading

  • The Seabird’s Cry
  • Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
  • Landfill
  • The Diary of a Bookseller
  • The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 8: 1860
  • Philip Larkin: Collected Poems
  • The Bonniest Companie
  • Darwin and the Barnacle
  • Across the Land and the Water
  • W.G. Sebald
  • Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants
  • Draft No. 4

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