Linkworks

• The Naked and the TED
  
  • A somewhat vicious swipe from Evgeny Morozov in The New Republic at some recent publications under the TED imprint, with a side order of Niall Ferguson-bashing. I know very little about the subjects under discussion. Nevertheless, I share the reviewer's lack of enthusiasm for the sort of technocracy which he thinks is being peddled.

 

• The next Lord Raglan
  
  • I know nothing of the late Arthur Somerset (1950-2012) beyond that he was a leading events manager and that he was disinherited by his uncle, the 5th Baron Raglan, and so would not have inherited the family estates in south-east Wales. Nevertheless he would have inherited the peerage, had he lived; and the next Lord Raglan will apparently have the untraditional forename of Iggy.