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Nigel Lawson

Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, (11 March 1932 – 3 April 2023) was a British politician and journalist. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Member of Parliament for Blaby from 1974 to 1992, and served in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet from 1981 to 1989. Prior to entering the Cabinet, he served as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury from May 1979 until his promotion to Secretary of State for Energy. He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in June 1983 and served until his resignation in October 1989. In both Cabinet posts, Lawson was a key proponent of Thatcher's policies of privatisation of several key industries.

Lawson was a backbencher from 1989 until he retired in 1992 and sat in the House of Lords from 1992 to his further retirement in 2022. He remained active in politics as the president of Conservatives for Britain, a campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, and was a prominent critic of the EU. He also served as the chairman of the think tank The Global Warming Policy Foundation and was an active supporter of Vote Leave.

Lawson was the father of six children, including Nigella Lawson, a food writer and celebrity cook, Dominic Lawson, a journalist, and Tom Lawson, headmaster of Eastbourne College.

Early life and education
Nigel Lawson was born on 11 March 1932 to a non-Orthodox Jewish family living in Hampstead, London. His father, Ralph Lawson (1904–1982), was the owner of a tea-trading firm in the City of London, while his mother, Joan Elizabeth (Davis) (died 1998), was also from a prosperous family of stockbrokers. His paternal grandfather, Gustav Leibson, a merchant from Mitau (now Jelgava in Latvia), changed his name from Leibson to Lawson in 1925, having become a British citizen in 1911.

Lawson was a great-nephew of the pianist Myra Hess.

Lawson was educated at Westminster School in London (following in his father's footsteps), and won a mathematics scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained a first-class honours degree in philosophy, politics and economics.

Life and career
For two years from 1954, Lawson carried out his National Service as a Royal Navy officer, during which time he commanded the fast-patrol boat HMS Gay Charger.

Having been turned down for a career at the Foreign Office, Lawson joined the Financial Times as a journalist in 1956, subsequently writing the Lex column. He progressed to become City editor of The Sunday Telegraph in 1961, where he introduced Jim Slater's Capitalist investing column.

Early political career
In 1963, Lawson was recruited by Conservative Central Office to assist with speech-writing for prime ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home in the lead-up to the 1964 general election.

After returning to journalism as editor of The Spectator from 1966 to 1970, Lawson was selected as the Conservative candidate for the Eton and Slough constituency in 1968. He contested the seat unsuccessfully at the 1970 general election, before becoming Member of Parliament (MP) for Blaby in Leicestershire in February 1974, holding the seat until he retired at the 1992 general election.

In 1977, while an opposition whip, Lawson co-ordinated tactics with rebellious government backbenchers Jeff Rooker and Audrey Wise to secure legislation providing for the automatic indexation of tax thresholds to prevent the tax burden being increased by inflation (typically in excess of 10% per annum during that parliament).

Financial Secretary to the Treasury
On the election of Margaret Thatcher's government, Lawson was appointed to the post of Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Although this is the fourth-ranking political position in the UK Treasury, Lawson's energy in office was reflected in such measures as the ending of unofficial state controls on mortgage lending, the abolition of exchange controls in October 1979 and the publication of the Medium Term financial Strategy. This document set the course for both the monetary and fiscal sides of the new government's economic policy, though the extent to which the subsequent trajectory of policy and outcome matched that projected is still a matter for debate.

Secretary of State for Energy
In the Cabinet reshuffle of September 1981, Lawson was promoted to the position of Secretary of State for Energy. In this role his most significant action was to prepare for what he saw as an inevitable full-scale strike in the coal industry (then state-owned since nationalisation by the post-war Labour Party government of Clement Attlee) over the closure of deep coal mines whose uneconomic operation accounted for the coal industry's business losses and consequent requirement for state subsidy. He was a key proponent of the Thatcher government's privatisation policy. During his tenure at the Department of Energy he set the course for the later privatisations of the gas and electricity industries and on his return to the Treasury he worked closely with the Department of Trade and Industry in privatising British Airways, British Telecom, and British Gas.

Chancellor of the Exchequer
Following the Thatcher government's re-election in 1983, Lawson was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, succeeding Geoffrey Howe. The early years of Lawson's chancellorship were associated with tax reform. The 1984 budget reformed corporate taxes by a combination of reduced rates and reduced allowances. The 1985 budget continued the trend of shifting from direct to indirect taxes by reducing National Insurance contributions for the lower-paid while extending the base of value-added tax.

During these two years, Lawson's public image remained low-key, but from the 1986 budget (in which he resumed the reduction of the standard rate of personal income tax from the 30 per cent rate to which it had been lowered in Howe's 1979 budget), his stock rose as unemployment began to fall from the middle of 1986 (employment growth having resumed over three years earlier). Lawson also changed the budget deficit from £10.5 billion (3.7 per cent of GDP) in 1983 to a budget surplus of £3.9 billion in 1988 and £4.1 billion in 1989, the year of his resignation. During these years, however, the UK's current account deficit similarly rose from below 1 per cent of GDP in 1986 to almost 5 per cent in 1989, with Lawson asserting that an external deficit based on private-sector behaviour is no reason for concern. During his tenure, the rate of taxation also came down. The basic rate was reduced from 30 per cent in 1983 to 25 per cent by 1988. The top rate of tax also came down from 60 per cent to 40 per cent in 1988, and the four other higher rates were removed, leaving a system of personal taxation in which there was no rate anywhere in excess of 40 per cent.

In 1986, the City of London's financial markets were deregulated in the so-called "Big Bang". In an interview in 2010, Lawson said that an unintended consequence of the Big Bang and the associated end of the separation that had existed between merchant and retail banking was the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

The trajectory taken by the UK economy from this point on is typically described as "The Lawson Boom" by analogy with the phrase "The Barber Boom" which describes an earlier period of rapid expansion under the tenure as chancellor of Anthony Barber in the Conservative government of Edward Heath (1970–1974). Critics of Lawson assert that a combination of the abandonment of monetarism, the adoption of a de facto exchange-rate target of 3 Deutsche Marks to the pound, and excessive fiscal laxity (in particular the 1988 budget) unleashed an inflationary spiral.

In his defence, Lawson attributed the boom largely to the effects of various measures of financial deregulation. Insofar as Lawson acknowledged policy errors, he attributed them to a failure to raise interest rates during 1986 and considered that had Thatcher not vetoed the UK joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in November 1985 it might have been possible to adjust to these beneficial changes in the arena of microeconomics with less macroeconomics turbulence. Lawson also ascribed the difficulty of conducting monetary policy to Goodhart's law.

Lawson's tax cuts, beginning in 1986, resulted in the "Lawson Boom" of the British economy, which halved unemployment from more than 3,000,000 by the end of 1989. However, this may have led to a rise in inflation from 3 per cent to more than 8 per cent during 1988, which resulted in interest rates doubling to 15 per cent in the space of 18 months, and remaining high despite the 1990–1992 recession which saw unemployment rise nearly as high as the level seen before the boom began.

Lawson reflected on the 1987 general election in his memoir and wrote that the 1987 manifesto was not thought through properly and if it had not been for the economic growth of the country at the time, then the manifesto would have been a disaster because "as it was, it was merely an embarrassment".

The March 1988 budget was remembered for taking almost two hours to deliver due to continuous interruptions and protest from opposition members. Scottish National Party MP Alex Salmond was suspended from the House, and several MPs voted against the amendment of the law bill (which is typically agreed by all members of the House).

Lawson opposed the introduction of the Community Charge (nicknamed "the poll tax") as a replacement for the previous rating system for the local financing element of local government revenue. His dissent was confined to deliberations within the Cabinet, where he found few allies and where he was overruled by the Prime Minister and by the ministerial team of the department responsible (Department of the Environment).

The issue of exchange-rate mechanism membership continued to fester between Lawson and Thatcher and was exacerbated by the re-employment by Thatcher of Alan Walters as a personal economic adviser.

Resignation
After a further year in office in these circumstances, Lawson felt that public criticism from Walters (who favoured a floating exchange rate) was making his job impossible and he resigned. He was succeeded in the office of chancellor by John Major.

Lawson's six-year tenure as Chancellor of the Exchequer was longer than that of any of his predecessors since David Lloyd George, who served from 1908 to 1915. Both men's records were subsequently beaten by Labour's Gordon Brown, who was chancellor from 1997 to 2007.

Retirement

After retiring from front-bench politics, Lawson decided to tackle his weight problem. He was 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm) tall; he lost five stone (70 pounds, 30 kg) from 17 stone, or 238 pounds (108 kg) to 12 stone, or 168 pounds (76 kilograms) – (BMI 34 to 24) in a matter of a few months, dramatically changing his appearance, and went on to publish the best-selling.

On 1 July 1992, Lawson was given a life peerage as Baron Lawson of Blaby, of Newnham in the County of Northamptonshire.

In 1996, Lawson appeared on the BBC satirical and topical quiz show Have I Got News for You, in which he secured his team a last-minute victory. He occasionally appeared as a guest on his daughter Nigella's cookery shows.

Lawson served on the advisory board of the Conservative magazine Standpoint.

In 2013, Lawson advocated Britain leaving the European Union. He argued that "economic gains [from leaving the EU] would substantially outweigh the costs". In the 2016 EU referendum, he supported Leave and was appointed chairman of the Vote Leave campaign.

Corporate roles

 * 2007: Chairman of Central Europe Trust Company Ltd (CET)
 * 2007: Chairman of Oxford Investment Partners

Expenses scandal
During the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal, it was reported that Lawson claimed £16,000 in overnight allowances by registering his farmhouse in Gascony as his main residence.

Position on global warming
Lawson was involved with the climate change denial movement and believed that the impact of man-made global warming had been exaggerated.

In 2004, along with six others, Lawson wrote a letter to The Times opposing the Kyoto Protocol and claiming that there were substantial scientific uncertainties surrounding climate change. In 2005, the House of Lords Economics Affairs Select Committee, with Lawson as a member, undertook an inquiry into climate change. In their report, the committee recommended the HM Treasury take a more active role in climate policy, questioned the objectivity of the IPCC process, and suggested changes in the UK's contribution to future international climate change negotiations. The report cited a mismatch between the economic costs and benefits of climate policy and also criticised the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets set in the Kyoto Protocol. In response to the report, Michael Grubb, chief economist of the Carbon Trust, wrote an article in Prospect magazine, defending the Kyoto Protocol and describing the committee's report as being "strikingly inconsistent". Lawson responded to Grubb's article, describing it as an example of the "intellectual bankruptcy of the [...] climate change establishment". Lawson also said that Kyoto's approach was "wrong-headed" and called on the IPCC to be "shut down".

At about the same time as the release of the House of Lords report, the UK Government launched the Stern Review, an inquiry undertaken by the HM Treasury and headed by Lord Stern of Brentford. According to the Stern Review, published in 2006, the potential costs of climate change far exceed the costs of a programme to stabilise the climate. Lawson's lecture to the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) think tank, published 1 November 2006, opposed the Stern Review and advocated adaptation to changes in global climate rather than reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2008, Lawson published a book expanding on his 2006 lecture to the CPS, An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming. He argued the case that, although global warming is happening, the impact of these changes will be relatively moderate rather than apocalyptic. He criticised those "alarmist" politicians and scientists who predict catastrophe unless urgent action is taken.

In July 2008, the Conservative magazine Standpoint published a transcript of a double interview with Lawson and Conservative Policy Chief Oliver Letwin, in which Lawson described Letwin's views on global warming as "pie in the sky" and called on him and the Conservative frontbench to "get real".

On 23 November 2009, Lawson became chairman of a new think tank, The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a registered education charity, involved in promoting climate change denial.

In 2011, Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute said that the GWPF was "spreading errors" and "the 'facts Lawson "repeats are demonstrably inaccurate". Ward also criticised Lawson for repeating in a 2010 BBC radio debate that Antarctic ice volumes were unchanged even after his error was highlighted by his opponent, Professor Kevin Anderson. Ward said that Lawson provided no evidence to back his claim which is contrary to satellite measurements, and Lawson similarly incorrectly implied that the correlation between and sea levels was uncertain as well as that sea levels were rising more slowly since 1950 than before it.

The Charity Commission requires that statements by campaigning charities "must be factually accurate and have a legitimate evidence base". They reviewed the GWPF, which was subsequently split with its campaigning arm and renamed the Global Warming Policy Forum without charitable status, while the charitable section retained the original title. Lawson's son, Dominic Lawson, is also a climate change denier, taking a similar viewpoint as his father in his columns in the Independent on Sunday.

In a BBC Radio interview in August 2017, Lawson claimed that "official figures" showed "average world temperature has slightly declined" over the preceding decade and that experts in the IPCC found no increase in extreme weather events. In a follow-up programme on the BBC's presentation of these claims, Peter A. Stott of the Met Office said Lawson was wrong on both points.

Economy
Lawson was a critic of David Cameron's coalition government economic policy, describing spending cuts consultation plans as a "PR ploy". In November 2011, he called for the "orderly" dismantling of the eurozone.

In the media
Lawson was interviewed about the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! Tory! Tory!.

In 2010, he appeared on the Analysis programme to discuss banking reform. Lawson said that an unintended consequence of the 1986 Big Bang saw investment banks merge with high street banks and put their depositors' savings at risk.

In 2019, he appeared on the BBC documentary series Thatcher: A Very British Revolution, and discussed Thatcher's rise and fall.

In a debate with other former cabinet ministers and prominent journalists, Lawson argued that political life is more in need of ideas and direction than grand political visions.

Personal life
In 1955 Lawson married Vanessa Mary Addison Salmon (1936−1985), granddaughter of the Lyons Corner House chairman Alfred Salmon, and had four children:

 * Dominic Ralph Campden Lawson (born 1956), journalist
 * Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 1960), cook and author
 * Thomasina Posy Lawson (1961–1993), who died from breast cancer at the age of 32
 * Horatia Holly Lawson (born 1966)

After his first marriage was dissolved in 1980, he married Thérèse Mary Maclear (1947–2023), daughter of Henry Charles Maclear Bate, the same year. They had two children:

 * Thomas Nigel Maclear Lawson (born 1976), headmaster of Eastbourne College since 2016
 * Emily Hero Lawson (born 1981), television producer

Lawson's second marriage was dissolved in 2012. In later life, he was in a relationship with Dr Tina Jennings, a visiting fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford.

Residence in France
In retirement, Lawson divided his time between his flat in London and a neoclassical farmhouse in Vic-Fezensac in the Gers department of France. In 2018 it was reported that, following Brexit, he had applied for permanent residency in France. However, in 2019, he said that he remained a tax resident of the UK and was selling his house in France.

Death and tributes
Lawson died at his home in Eastbourne from bronchopneumonia on 3 April 2023, at the age of 91. Following the announcement of his death, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called Lawson an "inspiration to me" and to other Conservative politicians. Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer commented that he was a "real powerhouse".

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Elephant
Could an image be included of the elephant legs? Simply south (talk) 00:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

NPR
Does the NPR link actually have anything to do with this article? Rsduhamel (talk) 03:54, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

The Microsoft O - Blivet or Blibbet?
According to a couple of sites the MicroSoft O was known as the Blibbet, not the blivet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#Logos_and_slogans http://www.geeknews.net/2007/01/09/word-of-the-day-blibbet http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2005/07/14/438777.aspx —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.215.97.86 (talk) 06:31, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
 * i doubt the army actually used the word manure. what happened to 'wikipedia is not censored'? which brings to mind a story: harry truman was speaking to a ladies garden group and used the word manure on several occasions. afterwards, one of the members came up to bess and said 'mrs. truman you really should get the president to refer to it as fertilizer'. to which bess replied 'madam, it has taken me 40 years to get the president to call it manure'.Toyokuni3 (talk) 15:38, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Original research
There doesn't seem to be any reference connecting the three-pronged gadget to the word "blivet". In fact, there seem to be no references for any definition presented in the article. One is tempted to think of the whole article as a blivet, in the (claimed but unreferenced) military sense. Those with knowledge of the subject should fix all this. --Lou Sander (talk) 13:43, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

 * It is/was actually a form of Xerox lore and/or oral lore among military and engineering subcultures (but apparently dating to back before the widespread use of copying machines), so it's not surprising if it's not received much academic attention. However, I would have no objection to renaming this article to "Poiuyt" and focusing exclusively on the impossible figure drawing... AnonMoos (talk) 16:10, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

 * That's a good idea. It would be a shame to lose all the other blivet stuff, though. I learned that a blivet was "ten pounds of s. in a five pound bag", but I never saw it documented anywhere. Surely some documentation of "blivet" exists somewhere. I'm thinking we should wait around until somebody finds some of it, then redo the article as appropriate. Maybe there's something somewhere that connects the poiuyt to the word blivet. Lou Sander (talk) 00:39, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

 * I don't personally know that the impossible figure drawing has been referred to as a "blivet", nor do I have any great skepticism about it. However, it's currently a problem that this article is actually two articles very loosely stapled together -- one on the impossible figure drawing, and another on the general military/engineeering/other slang word "blivet".  I think it would be best for the article to be split, whether or not a source for referring to the impossible figure as a "blivet" can be found... AnonMoos (talk) 02:22, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

More cited resources needed
Since a lot of the article doesn't have many cited resources, we really need to add some cited resources to make sure most of the information on this article is correct and accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enoch exe inc (talk • contribs) 14:32, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

here is a new source: http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/blivet.html 69.168.144.139 (talk) 12:00, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

requested move/split

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Not moved, a rationle move is difficult without sources in the article. Fix the article. Mike Cline (talk) 13:27, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Blivet → Devil's pitchfork – As per the discussion on talk page, Blivet was a placeholder name, that got associated with this object. I propose Renaming the first half of this article to a more scientific name befitting this mathematical object and leaving the less professional second half here, since the second half is only about the name itself, for future wikipedians to decide the fate of. 69.168.144.136 (talk) 15:37, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
 * EDIT: I am not sure if I am supposed to do something now that consensus has failed to be reached after so much time. Too bad the name proved unpopular. 69.168.144.139 (talk) 12:03, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Oppose this is not the common usage for the Devil's pitchfork, a commonly used imagery in legend and religious art. -- 70.49.127.65 (talk) 04:18, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Support a split; Oppose proposed split name. It would be good to split out the impossible figure (which has several other names) from the military slang meaning of the word "blivet".  However, the impossible figure is more commonly known as the "devil's fork" than as the "devil's pitchfork".  Anyway, if the article is to be split, the optical illusion or impossible figure should actually go under the name of Poiuyt (which is already the name of the Italian Wikipedia article)... AnonMoos (talk) 05:37, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Blivet?
The Wiktionary blivet entry gives this:
 * "2. An item of unknown purpose, often unnecessary or useless or annoying."

No mention of tridents, devils, illusions, etc. This seems a bit general to be used here, in the lede, without some kind of source? In fact, the primary meaning there, of "over=full", seems wholly inappropriate. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:44, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * This comes from the very first draft of the article (unreferenced). Currently I am trying to locate the texts of Roger Hayward's "Blivets: Research and Development (1968) or Blivets — the Makings (1971) - to see whether he applied this term only to forks or to other impossible object. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:16, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * These were a humorous submissions to Worm Runner's Digest; - a snippet:
 * "The blivet was first discovered in 1892 in Pfulingen, Germany, by a cross-eyed dwarf named Erasmus Wolfgang Blivet. Erasmus Wolfgang was actually trying to develop a ..." Staszek Lem (talk) 20:20, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Sounds eminently plausible..... maybe to develop "the peoplemover, an elevator, which is capable of crossing a road"? Martinevans123 (talk) 20:33, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

A next best ref is from The Hacker's Dictionary: "Blivet" <...> It has also been used to describe an amusing trick-the-eye drawing resembling a three-pronged fork that appears to  depict a three-dimensional object until one realizes that the part  fit together in an impossible way.. It will do for now, because THD certainly influenced the knowledhe of computer geeks, However I would rather find a more authoritative (domain-specific) ref. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:41, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Content removal
I have undid Nick Moyes removal of an art work by a recognised artist that is a valid contribution to this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dan Van Carloads (talk • contribs) 10:55, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * You need to stop trying to promote your own ideas and theories as if they those of another, unrelated person (diff). You have an undeclared conflict of interest, and a self-published paper and a personal blog are of no relevance to Wikipedia. I note that another editor has since re-removed your addition. Please do not attempt to reinsert it without first establishing consensus here with other interested editors. Nick Moyes (talk) 13:36, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

phobia
I remember reading long ago that this image makes some people uncomfortable. I wonder if something akin to trypophobia is at play here, and it may even be trypophobia itself, but I suspect it's distinct. Because no real-world object corresponds to this image, there may never be a named phobia for it, but I would like to mention the study that found people uncomfortable if I can find it. — Soap — 06:08, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Optical illusions do make people uncomfortable if one stares at them puzzled for a long time. No wonder, your brain gets twisted. But I doubt that this discomfort may develop into a probia. Anyway, you may want to search for phobia+"optical issusions", rather than specifically phobia+trident. Staszek Lem (talk) 18:44, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I look forward to seeing the experimental design for a study that could successfully separate fear of tridents from fear of illusions! Martinevans123 (talk) 18:51, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * You may be surprised, but something similar had already been done! Staszek Lem (talk) 19:18, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

I wasnt able to come up with anything. Re, searching on optical illusions, ... the thing is, this isnt actually an optical illusion. Everyone who looks at this knows what theyre seeing and sees it precisely as it really is ... it just happens to be an impossible object. I suspect that any feelings of discomfort triggered by classical optical illusions would be unrelated to whatever happens when people look at this image. e.g. the classic Müller-Lyer illusion does not present us with two contradictory images, it presents us with a single very deceptive image. But anyway, I will have to add this to the already long list of things Ive abandoned because I wasnt able to find what I originally read, let alone a scientific study that mentioned the phenomenon. Thank you all for your suggestions even so. — Soap — 21:04, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Impossible objects are optical illusion, because your brain tries to reconstruct a 3D object from a 2D drawing, but there is no such object, hence it is an illusion. And you are wrong about "everyone who looks at this". As for looking in vain, same here; that's the fate of a true wikiholic: to vainly search for a useless piece of info nobody really cares but you. Staszek Lem (talk) 21:32, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that link, Staszek Lem. Yes, slightly similar to what I was suggesting. I had never heard of that study before. It doesn't seem to say whether, or where, it was ever published. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:41, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

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Pearson hashing

Pearson hashing is a non-cryptographic hash function designed for fast execution on processors with 8-bit registers. Given an input consisting of any number of bytes, it produces as output a single byte that is strongly dependent on every byte of the input. Its implementation requires only a few instructions, plus a 256-byte lookup table containing a permutation of the values 0 through 255.

This hash function is a CBC-MAC that uses an 8-bit substitution cipher implemented via the substitution table. An 8-bit cipher has negligible cryptographic security, so the Pearson hash function is not cryptographically strong, but it is useful for implementing hash tables or as a data integrity check code, for which purposes it offers these benefits:

 * It is extremely simple.
 * It executes quickly on resource-limited processors.
 * There is no simple class of inputs for which collisions (identical outputs) are especially likely.
 * Given a small, privileged set of inputs (e.g., reserved words for a compiler), the permutation table can be adjusted so that those inputs yield distinct hash values, producing what is called a perfect hash function.
 * Two input strings differing by exactly one character never collide. E.g., applying the algorithm on the strings ABC and AEC will never produce the same value.

One of its drawbacks when compared with other hashing algorithms designed for 8-bit processors is the suggested 256 byte lookup table, which can be prohibitively large for a small microcontroller with a program memory size on the order of hundreds of bytes. A workaround to this is to use a simple permutation function instead of a table stored in program memory. However, using a too simple function, such as, partly defeats the usability as a hash function as anagrams will result in the same hash value; using a too complex function, on the other hand, will affect speed negatively. Using a function rather than a table also allows extending the block size. Such functions naturally have to be bijective, like their table variants.

The algorithm can be described by the following pseudocode, which computes the hash of message C using the permutation table T:

algorithm pearson hashing is h := 0 for each c in C loop h := T[ h xor c ] end loop return h

The hash variable (h) may be initialized differently, e.g. to the length of the data (C) modulo 256.

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Denial not Debate
Lawson shows no interest in debating global warming, what he is doing is more akin to denying global warming and I believeitwould be better ti change the word used in the article. Espeically with his Global Warming Policy foundaro, which is similar to the tactics used by tobacco companies to deny the health effects of tobacco.91.125.83.211 (talk) 00:03, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

I'm being blocked by some guy called ERK, who claims that the science behnd clmate changeis "highly debated", can I do something do prevent him from pushng his own agenda onto wikipedia?91.125.83.211 (talk) 00:10, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
 * You can leave this until a consensus is reached in the community, however I will suggest you read the following Wikipedia policies to familiarize yourself with proper terminology in editing Biographies on Wikipedia. WP:NPV, and WP:BLP should help you. Any further questions you may refer to my justification at this user's talk page.  ERK  talk 00:15, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

 * When people argue about topics, it's called debating. There is much debate about global warming, even though we know it's true, some people don't know that it is.  We are not allowed to push our POV (Point of View). See WP:NPOV.  Bluefist  talk  00:14, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

There's a lot of debate about whether AIDS is real or not, should I remove the articles covering AIDS denial?91.125.83.211 (talk) 00:19, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

 * No, you should not, given the article has suffient sources. We don't deal with facts, we deal with reliable sources stating the facts.  Bluefist  talk  00:21, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial Just saying (at least say skeptic) 91.125.83.211 (talk) 00:24, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Lord Blabby seems to be deliberately denying climate change. He's not a skeptic, he is clearly a denier. 129.31.77.190 (talk) 09:11, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

NPOV? An IP has changed the article -in good faith but inappropriately -to give equal weight to Lawson's views. This is covered by WP:UNDUE -see Climate_change. I will partially revert it. JRPG (talk) 17:10, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

NPOV
The source for this article is principally Lawson's memoirs: 'The View from Number Eleven'. Personally I am sympathetic to Lawson. I suspect, that this is apparent from the content of the article but I believe I have made a reasonable effort to maintain NPOV. For balance I would recommend an external link to William Keegan's book 'Mr Lawson's Gamble' (I do not have other details) and possibly to Edmund(?) Dell's 'The Chancellors'.

There is probably more material worth adding to the article at the level of coverage that I have adopted. NL's opposition to the Poll Tax and his role in the formulation of the Toronto Terms for debt relief for Third World Countries are condidates, but I will await feedback for now. -- Alan Peakall

Liebsen
Was he, or his father, born Liebsen and changed the surname to Lawson on arrival to the UK? -- Chris 7-Sep-05

Cousins?
"Somewhere" I read a long time ago that Lawson, Leon Brittan (and by extension his brother Samuel Brittan), Keith Joseph and Malcolm Rifkind were variously related (two sets of second cousins?). Can anyone elaborate? (If there is a Wikipage dealing with "assorted relations" move this to there.)

Loan
When he was at the Spectator he bought an expensive house with a council loan. mikeL

Education
"After studying at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford" No indication of what he studied -- Stephen Howe.

It says he studied at Beechwood Park School, but this cannot be correct. If you follow the link Beechwood Park was opened in 1964 when Lawson was 32! Also, the list of alumni does not include his name.Arcencielltd (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 07:59, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Agree with above comment about Beechwood Park. It is possible he went to one of the two schools (Shirley House, Watford and Heath Brow School, Hemel Hempstead) which merged to form Beechwood Park on a new site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:7AD6:2900:BC00:2E29:48E1:DC8F (talk) 02:44, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Marriages
Either Lawson was a bigamist, or the overlapping time spans for his marriages are wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.167.168.68 (talk) 01:24, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Can't a better photo be found?
The photograph is absurd. Can't a better likeness be found? 173.16.252.154 (talk) 02:46, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

 * The absurdity is that this 80-year old man does not have a single grey hair on his head! 80.176.88.21 (talk) 17:49, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Children & BLPNAME
Hi Dozzzzzzzzzing_off. Whilst I totally agree with the wp:BLPNAME policy ..& it wouldn't really matter if I didn't ..there is nothing whatsoever to stop internal links to Nigella & Dominic. No reference is required for these. Regards JRPG (talk) 17:30, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I know. There's nothing wrong with the internal links. I'm just saying further down the page it started listing his kids but only named five of them in the list, despite starting it with "His six children," and that bothered me. It's all good now, though. Thanks. Dozzzzzzzzzing off (talk) 21:41, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Reason for Lawson's resignation
Sorry: incomplete link pasted in regard to edit on reason for Lawson's resignation http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/new-light-on-chancellors-exit-margaret-thatchers-recollections-of-a-turbulent-decade-at-the-helm-of-the-conservative-party-and-britain-are-published-today-the-resignation-of-nigel-lawson-donald-macintyre-notes-the-protagonists-differing-memories-of-the-events-of-1989-1511491.html Gravuritas (talk) 17:57, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

 * Gravitas, I think you should include a brief summary from your new-found article as it shows that there was either a misunderstanding or more likely Thatcher simply needed Lawson as a cover for implementing Walters views. Regards JRPG (talk) 23:33, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

 * I think it's more complicated than that: Lawson had secretly been making the pound shadow the ERM, iirc, by varying interest rates, which to be blunt was one of his few cock-ups. Walters was making speeches that could be taken as critical of Lawson's actions but Thatcher allowed Lawson a very free rein- understandably as he had done an excellent job before then.  I found the Independent article to support deletion of the 'reason for resignation' inserted a couple of edits back, but was largely uninformative: it blathers on about who did what on the day, but doesn't cover the real issues.  In the background there was also a large difference of opinion on the poll tax, which Lawson scuppered by insisting on it paying its way from year 1, guaranteeing some serious resistance from the losers- and this disagreement if I've got the timing right may also have been in both Lawson's & Thatcher's minds.  But sourcing that is beyond me at present.
 * Gravuritas (talk) 23:47, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Skeptic?
Is it really reasonable to describe Lawson as being skeptical of climate change? Given that he disagrees with what is generally accepted in the scientific world, this seems to take his POV. Skepticism implies an unwillingness to believe something without evidence, yet Lawson dismisses all evidence he finds inconvenient and uncritically accepts what little might support his views. We would not accept someone's claim of being 'skeptical' of evolution by natural selection or that the Earth orbits the sun or that HIV causes Aids. Booshank (talk) 19:21, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Think this is covered in denial not debate heading. It is not in his financial interest to believe it or to spend time studying it. WP:FLAT applies!  JRPG (talk) 20:56, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Novel "GB84"
I've always wondered who the politician referred to as "The Jew" was in David Peace's novel about the 1984-5 miners' strike, GB84. Is it Nigel Lawson? He was Energy Secretary at the time and, according to this article, is from a Jewish family.

I would recommend that this be included in the article, if there's a source to suggest that it's true. Epa101 (talk)

 * The nickname could equally have applied to Leon Brittan, (like Lawson also of Baltic Jewish origin) who was Home Secretary when the strike began, and thus responsible for the policing of the dispute.Cloptonson (talk) 13:20, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * It is neither Lawson, not Brittan. In The Independent, in a conversation between GB84 author David Peace and Mike Marqusee of The Independent he is identified as David Hart, a "right-wing millionaire who advised Margaret Thatcher and the Coal Board". --Terry Patterson (talk) 21:40, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

To Govern is to Choose
If somebody has a copy of his memoirs to hand (or a copy of Hansard, or something similar - I think Lawson said it in his resignation speech), iirc he attributed this quote to Pierre Mendes-France.Paulturtle (talk) 17:56, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Photograph duplicated!!
Why does the same photograph appear twice? There is a second photo available Nigel Lawson 006.jpg dating to 2006 but like the first no context is provided. I will remove the lower photo on WP:BRD. JRPG (talk) 10:20, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

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BBC Radio 4 broke impartiality rules in Nigel Lawson climate change interview
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/09/bbc-radio-4-broke-impartiality-rules-in-nigel-lawson-climate-change-interview

John Cummings (talk) 14:35, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Euroscepticism
The lead claims "He has been an active supporter of the Eurosceptic pressure group Leave Means Leave" (to which I have added "despite residing in France") - but there seems to be no substantial mention of Lawson's position on the EU in the main body of the article. JezGrove (talk) 22:35, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The article does say that he chaired the Vote Leave campaign. I think that is a pretty substantial mention of his position.--Terry Patterson (talk) 12:23, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
 * One thing I do find odd is that there is no substantial section on his position on European institutions, given that he has been involved in a significant with them over much of his political life. It detracts from the value of the article. A tiny little section at the beginning is not enough.--Terry Patterson (talk) 13:17, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

The Biases in this Article are an Unacceptable Violation of Wikipedia Rules
When reading an article such as this one, an objective individual would come away with an unsympathetic opinion of Nigel Lawson and far greater belief in centre-left politics which, therefore, renders this article nonobjective. Rule 9 of Wikipedia's Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia states quite clearly that 'all Articles on Wikipedia should be impartial in tone and content'. This article's content, while questionable is not near so much my objection as the tone and rhetoric on issues such as Brexit and Climate Change. Below are my grievances which I would strongly recommend revision to:

1. At the very beginning of the article (and therefore what most people whom visit this page will read), it states that Lawson "has been an active supporter of the Eurosceptic pressure group Leave Means Leave despite residing in France." The language of objection in this sentence is namely the word "despite". Despite, according to the Oxford dictionary, means "in spite of" or "without being affected by". This would therefore imply that Lord Lawson's support of Brexit and euroscepticism is contradicted by the fact that he enjoys living in France, a country in the European Union. However, the very existence of such a contradiction is debatable. The Oxford Dictionary defines Eurosceptic as the belief in 'A person who is opposed to increasing the powers of the European Union.' Is it therefore not possible to love Europe and her cultures and languages but still believe in a British withdrawal from the European Union? As Nigel Lawson himself stated in 2016, "I love Europe! That's why I live in France...[Brexit] would be good for the countries of Europe". Lawson's views on Brexit are not at all discussed in the article. While the subject of his residency has caused controversy, this article should have a whole, balanced section on this this matter. I would propose removing "despite residing in France" and add a sentence to the subsequent paragraph simply stating that he currently lives in France.

2. The commentary on Climate Change in this article is among the worst I have ever read. Aside from there pexisting confusing and even unfinished sentences, it is ultimately unfairly biased. Every single time Lawson's point of view on the subject is stated, opinions of other people whom disagree with Lawson are put in place to supposedly refute Lawson. As a matter of fact, the only outside quotes and commentary regarding climate change in this article are critical of Lawson. From this article one would take away that Lawson is wrong. In Rule 9 of Wikipedia's 10 rules it states that "an article on a scientific controversy should describe both the scientific consensus and significant fringe theories While, climate scepticism should not hold as much weight as mainstream views, they should at least be described. Words such as denial should also be changed to sceptic. How is it objective that in each paragraph, his position is torn apart? Why can't more weight be given to his point of view. Raking a more or less random paragraph as an example, notice the subjective style of writing: "In a BBC radio interview in August 2017, Lawson falsely claimed that "official figures" showed "average world temperature has slightly declined" over the preceding decade, and that experts in the IPCC found no increase in extreme weather events. In a follow-up programme on the BBC's presentation of these claims, Peter A. Stott of the UK Met Office said Lawson was wrong on both points. Concern about the unopposed presentation of Lawson's fringe views was raised with the BBC Complaints Unit, which agreed in October 2017 that Lawson's statements "were, at the least, contestable and should have been challenged". In a letter to a complainant, the BBC complaints director offered "apologies, on behalf of the BBC, for the breach of editorial standards you identified."" From this paragraph, one might deduce that Lawson a fool. Not only is no response permitted for Lawson to explain himself, crucial parts of this story are missing. There is no mention of Lawson's apology. . There is also no mention on Lawson's reaction to the story. Viewers of this article did not visit to hear other people's opinions on Lawson's opinions. He wrote an entire book on climate change. Surely, more of his views can be placed in this article. Words such as "fringe" are unfair as well--surely the word controversial is more objective and fitting?

I believe in climate change. I simply think that Wikipedia articles should be objective. I would very much like to hear others' opinions on the subject.

Citation required
The intro states: "sudden deregulation of financial markets in 1986, commonly referred to as the ’Big Bang’, which shifted the center of gravity for the world's financial markets to London from New York City."

I don't think that London was "the" center of gravity for the world's financial markets at any time after WW2. It has been (and still is) the most important market for trading some financial instruments, but for other instruments New York has always been bigger after WW2. I suggest the material about "the center of gravity for the world's financial markets" be removed unless it can be supported by a citation meeting usual Wikipedia standards. Longitude2 (talk) 10:12, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Buried at Sea
According to the papers today he was buried at sea, a nice touch after his Royal Navy service. The newspaper article also stated that it was very rare for RN national servicemen to be commissioned, unless they were already reserve officers (presumably as a naval officer needs to be highly skilled, unlike a 2nd Lt in the Army whose job is basically, no offence, to lead his men into battle). I see the wiki article now gives his naval rank as Lieutenant-commander (equivalent to major) which was presumably a reserve rank which he held some years later.Paulturtle (talk) 00:22, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

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Molar

Molar may refer to:

 * Molar (tooth), a kind of tooth found in mammals
 * Molar (grape), another name for the Spanish wine grape Listan Negro
 * Molar (unit), a unit of concentration equal to 1 mole per litre
 * Molar quantities, such as molar mass, molar volume, etc.
 * El Molar, Tarragona, a village in the comarca (county) of Priorat, province of Tarragona in the autonomous region of Catalonia, Spain
 * El Molar, Madrid, a town in the north of the Community of Madrid in the road to Burgos, after San Agustín de Guadalix

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Needs more work. I can't get my teeth into it ;-) --Ed Poor

It's easier than climbing Mount Carnassus. I'll write a bit about dilambdodont, hypsodont, bunodont, and loxodont (the African elephant is of course loxodont). -phma

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vs quinidine
There is a "do not confuse" flag in both quinine and quinidine, but they appear (in the chemical formula and skeletal diagram, as well as the listed characteistics like molecular weight) to be identical. Are they merely two different medical uses of the same compound, or are they chemically different in some (unspecified in the article or data page) way? Riventree (talk) 12:25, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Very similar they are. They are isomers but not enantiomers. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 18:12, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The skeletal diagrams are different. If you look at the wedge-shaped connectors for each of -OH and -H in the middle of the molecule, you will see that in quinine they are solid and in quinidine the same two are dashed. That is not just as style thing -  solid wedges means the bond points up out of the plane of the page, and the dashed wedge means the bond points down. See [|here].   Those differences give the molecules different activities Jytdog (talk) 18:33, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Contraindications
Under the "Contraindications" heading, the second to last sentence says "In people with atrial fibrillation, conduction defects, or heart block, quinine can cause heart arrhythmias, and should be avoided.[30]". The reference leads one to a study titled (which can bee seen in the references section of the article) "Off-label use of sildenafil in valvular heart disease should be avoided". So, the reference providing evidence that quinine "can cause heart arrhythmias, and should be avoided" actually refers to sildenafil. I'm no medical expert, but the reference should refer to the drug in question, quinine, and not another (sildenafil). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.42.197.25 (talk) 06:03, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Traditional Use
Under History, there was a statement that: Quinine was used ... to halt shivering "due to low temperatures." This sounds rather stupid to me... shivering is feared when it is due to fever, not just "due to low temperatures" where intuitively it could be dangerous to suppress it. So I searched the citation given (which was interesting: https://books.google.com/books?id=ATQbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA302#v=onepage&q&f=false), but I found no references at all to "shivering" or anything about low temperatures... I think some contributor may have just made this up naively thinking it was a "logical" explanation. Anyhow, I removed "due to low temperatures" unless it can be supported with a direct quote. It would still be nice to make the entire part about traditional use a bit more precise with citations pointing to the **exact** passages that support each claim. DKEdwards (talk) 19:23, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

World War II
In the article, it is stated "Tens of thousands of US troops in Africa and the South Pacific died of malaria due to the lack of quinine." While I don't have access to the book, I am unable to find any numbers backing up this fact and the number itself seems quite implausible. From https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/58525/what-was-the-estimated-malaria-death-toll-for-us-forces-during-world-war-ii, the fatality number looks closer to 100, than "tens of thousands", which would make malaria one of the leading causes of death in WWII. 2601:645:8200:61E0:31FF:79D8:983D:A4EC (talk)

Error in chemical structure of secologanin
The diagram of the biosynthesis of quinine has an incorrect structure of secologanin. The tetrahydropyran ring (six membered ring with five carbons and one oxygen), has a (correct) pendant vinyl group [pyran]-CH=CH2 and an incorrect pendant allyl group [pyran]-CH2-CH=CH2. The allyl group should actually be an acetaldehyde group, [pyran]-CH2-CH=O. I.e., change the terminal =CH2 group to an =O atom. AdderUser (talk) 06:22, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

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Tetsuya Mizuguchi

Tetsuya Mizuguchi (水口 哲也) is a Japanese video game designer, producer, and businessman. Along with ex-Sega developers he is one of the co-founders of the video game development firm Q Entertainment. He formerly worked for Sega as a producer in their Sega AM3 'arcade machines' team, developing games like Sega Rally Championship and Sega Touring Car Championship, before moving on to become the head of Sega's United Game Artists division, the team responsible for Rez and Space Channel 5. Mizuguchi is better known for creating video games that incorporate interactive synesthesia into his game design, regardless of genre, evidenced by Rez, Lumines, Child of Eden, and Tetris Effect.

He left Q Entertainment in 2013. He is currently the CEO of Enhance, Inc., a company he founded in 2014.

In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.

Early life
Before entering the game industry, Mizuguchi majored in literature at Nihon University's Faculty of Arts. One of the influences for Mizuguchi joining the game industry was a photograph of NASA's view VR headset. Asked how he chose a career in video games, he explained, "I preferred doing something in relation to human senses or entertainment - something more in relation with human nature, a field where I could do some research. ... Unlike the arts, where it is often a matter of taste whether something is good or not, creating good interactive entertainment is more easily definable. I chose Sega because it was using new technology and I was able to study things like human movements."

Sega
Mizuguchi worked for Japanese game developer Sega from 1990 to 2003 and began his career – not on a game – but by designing arcade cabinets and an interactive 'ride' titled Megalopolis, combining then-embryonic 3D polygonal graphics and CGI (Computer-generated imagery) with the physical experience of Sega's hydraulic 'AS-1' motion simulator. He went on to develop the acclaimed racing simulator, Sega Rally Championship, which was influential in the racing space, inspiring future racing game franchises like Colin McRae Rally (another rally simulator) and the rally segments of Gran Turismo. After forming his own division within Sega, Sega AM Annex, he continued in the racing genre with Sega Rally Championship 2 and Sega Touring Car Championship. During one trip to Zürich in 1998, Mizuguchi witnessed a music festival in which he observed how people were moving toward the music and how the music, sounds, colors, and dancing would change accordingly. Mizuguchi recognized what he observed as synesthesia and decided to focus on rhythm-based music games where he co-created Space Channel 5, Space Channel 5: Part 2, and Rez. Both Space Channel 5 and Rez are referenced in modern gaming media as essential and influential to the development of the modern wave of music-rhythm games, with Harmonix Music Systems co-founder, Alex Rigopulos citing Mizuguchi as an influence in Harmonix's history. Mizuguchi's final position at Sega was Chief Creative Officer of Sega's United Game Artists game division.

In September 2003, Sega performed an internal restructuring of its staff. Among these changes was the dissolution of United Game Artists and the transfer of its members into Sonic Team. The following month, Mizuguchi announced that he would leave Sega on October 10, 2003. He cited the changes in the corporate culture after the Sega-Sammy merger and viewed that as an obstacle to what he wanted to do. He announced that he would work independently in the video game industry through an – at the time – unnamed company.

Q Entertainment
That company would be Meguro-based Q Entertainment (which he co-founded with a core team of ex-Sega veterans) which initially produced two puzzle games for portable, handheld gaming systems: Lumines for the PlayStation Portable and Meteos for the Nintendo DS. Both games have been released in Japan, North America, and Europe. With Q Entertainment, he later produced Lumines Live! which was released for the Xbox 360 through Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service on October 18, 2006. On November 7, 2006, he also produced Lumines II for PSP, the sequel to the popular original (this time supplementing the original score with heavy integration of music videos), and a shooter/puzzle hybrid game called Every Extend Extra (a heavily modified 'synesthesia' update to an existing PC freeware title, Every Extend, by indie developer "Omega"), which was released on August 7, 2006.

Later, to coincide with a Microsoft event at Tokyo Game Show in 2005, Mizuguchi announced that Q Entertainment was working on an action game called Ninety-Nine Nights. A departure from his focus on musical games, Ninety-Nine Nights was Mizuguchi's attempt through an action game to tell the story of a massive, international conflict as viewed through the eyes of various factions. To facilitate the completion of Ninety-Nine Nights, he traveled regularly between Japan and South Korea to work with Ninety-Nine Nights external developer, Phantagram.

Mizuguchi also oversaw the development of Gunpey (for PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS), an update on the puzzle franchise originally created by Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi's development team, Koto Laboratory. The PSP version was rendered in a very Rez style, with vector graphics visuals and an electronic music soundtrack, while the DS version was aimed at a younger audience, featuring a more cartoon-like approach. Additionally, around the same time, a new version of Every Extend Extra was produced by Q Entertainment for Xbox Live called Every Extend Extra Extreme, which was released on October 17, 2007.

At the 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, took the stage at the start of game publisher Ubisoft's annual media event to reveal, to the surprise of the assembled media, the spiritual successor to his game Rez, called Child of Eden. The game was released in July 2011, one of the marquee games for Xbox 360's Kinect motion control system. In late September 2011, Child of Eden was released for PlayStation 3, adding high-definition in-game cinemas, and support for motion control via PlayStation Move, as well as Stereoscopic 3D viewing.

His company's latest game is Lumines Electronic Symphony, which launched on February 22, 2012, and currently holds an aggregate score of 83 out of 100 with at least 45 out of 50 reviews registering as 'positive.' The game is considered a reboot of the Lumines series, and the true sequel to the original PSP game. Mizuguchi put an all-new team in charge of the project, with the task of revitalizing the series, and completing the game in time for the PlayStation Vita's North American and European launch.

Besides designing video games, Mizuguchi has expressed interest in directing music videos. One of the music videos included in Lumines II for the song Heavenly Star by Genki Rockets was directed by Mizuguchi, who also co-wrote the lyrics of the song. He is known for collaborating with various DJs and music producers for the soundtracks of his games, including Ken Ishii, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, and Mondo Grosso. On July 7, 2007, the character Lumi from Genki Rockets (also the principal character from Child of Eden) opened the Live Earth concert in Tokyo in a holographic performance, and introduced a holographic video projection of Al Gore.

On September 20, 2012, a news article reported that "Tetsuya Mizuguchi has stepped away from games production, for the time being, taking on a more delegatory role within Q Entertainment."

Mizuguchi speaks English, and conducts the majority of his interviews with Western media exclusively in English.

He is a specially appointed professor teaching at Keio Media Design university.

Enhance, Inc.
In 2014, Mizuguchi left Q Entertainment and founded Enhance, Inc., where he is the CEO. He is the only employee of the company. His work under Enhance has included supporting updated versions of Rez and Lumines for modern systems.

Prior to the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2018, Sony announced Tetris Effect, developed by Enhance, to be released in late 2018 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR. Mizuguchi had wanted for many years to produce a music-based game around Tetris, but its licensing had been held by Electronic Arts, making it difficult to use, which led him to develop Lumines instead. Around 2012, Mizuguchi began speaking with Henk Rogers, the founder of The Tetris Company that now owns the rights to Tetris. Mizuguchi and Rogers spoke to developing a version of Tetris set to music with a "zone" that players would achieve while playing, leading to the start of development of the game. Tetris Effect is inspired by the phenomenon known as the Tetris effect, where after playing Tetris for a long period of time, players would continue to see falling Tetris blocks for some time after quitting the game, an element related to the zone concept. Mizuguchi said that the goal of the game was "to amplify and enhance that same magical feeling where you just can’t get it out of your head, and not just the falling shapes, but all the visuals, the sounds, the music". The gameplay follows some of the core rules of Tetris where players try to place tetrominos in a playfield to clear complete lines, incorporating themes and music across thirty different stages with gameplay tied to the beat of the music. A "Zone" mechanic allows players to "stop time", allowing them to clear more than 4 lines at once. The game will include a meta-game leveling system for the player that will lead to new challenges as they progress.

Genki Rockets
In 2006, Mizuguchi pursued his love of technology and electronic music, founding the band Genki Rockets with a consistent group of collaborators, including songwriter and producer Kenji Tamai, as well as singers Rei Yasuda and Nami Miyahara. Mizuguchi would write all of the album's lyrics and contribute melodic ideas to Tamai, who would then work on the tracks in the studio. Described as a 'hybrid unit' by Mizuguchi, the vocals of the two singers were digitally combined to sound like one singer, while Rei represented the visual identity of the 'band.' Not unlike the band Gorillaz, Rei's alter-ego, 'Lumi,' was conceived as a 'virtual idol,' except in this instance, unlike Hatsune Miku, Lumi is based on a real human girl (Lumi would later go on to become a character in Mizuguchi's video game, Child of Eden). Genki Rockets has thus far produced two albums, Genki Rockets I: Heavenly Star and Genki Rockets II: No Border Between Us, consisting primarily of electronic pop music, sung mostly in English, with occasional Japanese phrases. Tamai's music company Agehasprings describes Genki Rockets as an early virtual Youtuber.

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