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Ed Conway

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Currently promoting MATERIAL WORLD. This entails tweeting about it a LOT. I’ll stop once you’ve all bought it.

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1 week ago

The PM’s new pledge to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP reminds me of this (to me at least) unexpected nugget.
As recently as the mid-1980s, the UK govt was still spending MORE on defence than it was on the health service.
Interesting chart showing how things have changed👇

The PM’s new pledge to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP reminds me of this (to me at least) unexpected nugget. As recently as the mid-1980s, the UK govt was still spending MORE on defence than it was on the health service. Interesting chart showing how things have changed👇
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