In an effort to minimise my own biases (particulary Confirmation Bias) I am conducting a long-term reading experiment, by committing to try to read the Economist from cover to cover each week. It will of course be impossible to insulate myself from things that interest me in other news media, but having established the discipline it will make me much more conscious of those reading choices, while also balancing them with a much wider range of news and analysis, albeit from only one “biased” source. If sheer volume is a problem, I will split it up and read different sections each week in rotation.

This week’s edition dropped through the door this morning with the tantalizing headline “How Labour wrecked your pension.” Unfortunately, this is right up my street. It is also the quarterly technology survey, which could mean the entire edition is too much to consume this week with my other reading commitments.

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