Kristian Niemietz RIP the World's Inn in Romford that was a Lloyds No. 1 Wetherspoon two doors down from a full. Wetherspoon. With the Angels now.

'[T]he whole current policy agenda associated with responding to climate change is [...] counterproductive because [...] it is based on the fantasy that renewable energy is a like for like replacement for fossil fuels. It simply is not'
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Kristian Niemietz It will still be longer to walk to the toilets in either of them.

Is this the shortest Wetherspoons-to-Wetherspoons walk in the country?

Worth saying this is by wealth not income. Top millenials here aren't those who earn the highest salaries, they're the ones with the richest parents.

As the FT says, 'home ownership is becoming increasingly hereditary'.

This is what happens when the state restricts new supply.

Leo Gibbons Kristian Niemietz Every single Brit I've met has told me horror stories about the NHS.
Every British person I've met who has lived abroad for a while has told me that the local healthcare system is superior to the NHS.

I knew a labour politician who lived in France and they said they thought the French healthcare system was so much better then ours, but they dare not say it publicly.

Kristian Niemietz What amuses me here is our ideological betters descending into some hair splitting, apartheid style quabble about who exactly is included in particular racial groups

'[A] YIMBY Britain would be a much richer and more productive country than the one we currently live in. The housing crisis is making us all poorer in countless ways. Even homeowners [...] are, in some ways, negatively affected.' iea.org.uk/home-win-a-win…

'Automatic granting of planning permission for medium-density, mid-rise development on virtually all golf courses in the country.'
Best policy the IEA have ever published imo.

'to catch up with the EU average... we would have to build 3.4 million additional homes in England alone. In addition, the average British house has only two thirds of the floorspace of the average Dutch, German, Belgian or French house' - Kristian Niemietz
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'[T]he high [exclusion] rates apply only to black Caribbean children, not to black African ones [...]
[I]it is in fact clearly nothing to do with racial discrimination by schools at all' thecritic.co.uk/the-war-on-not…

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