And Leeds, and even Manchester, just keep on actually doing the growth stuff, and ask for help to do even more growth, and the money still just goes down the drain in Cambridge and Oxford and to a certain extent London. It feels pretty daft to me. No surprise we see no growth.

There’s already been a couple of studies about this. *White* liberals are smarter than *white* conservatives. Once you average everyone together, conservatives and liberals boast similar IQ.

Lemme guess, sell out Gibraltarian autonomy in order to keep it nominally British. Why don’t you allow Spain a veto too?

2.8 billion would barely fund health, education, or welfare.

It wouldn’t have taken many more defectors for it to pass.

To an exciting & inspiring future!

Major update to the Generational Wealth chart. Based on the updated SCF data, young people have a lot more wealth than we had previously thought.

Millennials and Gen Z have dramatically more wealth than Gen X had at the same age, and it's growing fast!

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Buyer Beware: Canadian MCD Coke edition.

Your tax dollars are paying teachers who know well that their right to free association will remain impeded but yours will not.

You should come here anon.

Chesterman Beach, Tofino. An enchanting stretch of coast on Vancouver Island, an island that does not contain Vancouver.

You are Fake News
-Donald Trump

While Britain did not obstruct democratization and nationalism, London predicted a handover as early as the fifties. Grantham even told people that Hong Kong would stay British or become part of China.

China could only take hold of Hong Kong because it was allowed to do so.

I’m still on vacation, will doom about this later.

It may seem like the government is spending a lot of money on carbon removal. But if it's going to do the job of getting us to net-zero and helping to halt climate change, today's spending is chump change, according to a new Rhodium Group report.
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You cannot be a traitor to a country you no longe recognize as your own. If every rebellion is considered treacherous, then there's be no such thing as self-determination.