Link Loving 23.01.11

• Student protests become style icons.
• New Yorker’s Political Scene discusses the growing troubled relationship between the US and China. (Includes my favourite economic commentator John Cassidy).
• Envision are looking for a new Chair of Trustees. Message me if you’re interested.
• ippr host a roundtable with Richard Wilkinson, co-author of the highly influential book The Spirit Level.
• Lawyers can’t stand investment bankers. And bankers are wimps. Or so claims WSJ’s Ronald Barusch.
• The Onion goes to TV. Hilarious.
• The Economist speaks to Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO.
• Ramit Sethi and BJ Fogg talk psychology and persuasion.
• Richard Black ponders climate and technology.
• The ultimate power-gay Mandelson goes to work for Lazard bank – the one that that masterminded Kraft Foods’ £11.6 billion takeover of Cadbury.
• Prisoner Ben shares his thoughts on the nature of protest.