I'm in the The New Statesman today arguing why rejoining the EU Customs Union won't fix Labour's growth woes. The basic reason: UK and European stagnation predate Brexit, and the real challenge is competing with US and Chinese dynamism. Brexit didn’t cause our economic problems,

One of the great Twitter exchanges.

It's amazing that so many in government looked at what governments all over the world did during the Covid Era to destroy the trust of ordinary citizens towards government and the supplicant media, and thought "Hey let's do more of that!"

Em 2014, Rubalcaba demitiu-se da liderança do PSOE porque, imagine-se, ficou em 2.º lugar nas europeias desse ano. Sánchez não vence quaisquer eleições desde 2019 - levou aliás o PSOE a 3.ª força política em Madrid e na Galiza - mas sente-se politicamente legitimado para se

Lembrete que não tens de ser de ser esquerdalho para gostares de cidades decentes: basta gostares de andar a pé, de lojas variadas, de sítios para beber imperiais, de atividade económica nas ruas, coisas deste género.

big day for guys who like to monitor situations

“oxford comma is a big sign of ai” you can pry the oxford comma out of my cold dead hands idc i will never stop using her

Why did we ever stop caring this much about detail?

An important 2-minute education from Ayaan Hirsi Ali. "Islamophobia is a made-up word. It's made up by a political movement that wants to exploit and capitalize on white guilt to achieve its end goal... "To convert all of us into Islam. Those of us who refuse will surely be bеhеаdеd."

Jimmy Carr smashes the excuse for mass immigration of "muh NHS staff".

The only countries that ban social media platforms are ones like China, Venezuela, Russia, and North Korea. You know… corrupt dictatorships that want to censor opposition and control the narrative. Just saying.

across europe, ageing is causing public spending to grow at two speeds spain is one of the most extreme cases, where demographic pressures are compounded by a payg pension system that offers implicit returns far exceeding what the economy can sustainably afford

A big bone I have to pick with a lot of folks moralizing about younger generations' cognitive abilities is that doing things requires being taught them. Knowledge doesn't magically trickle down. If people are struggling to understand things it's because they weren't taught to.

GOV: We have a housing crisis. Prices are too high. ME: I agree. Supply is too low. GOV: So we have a plan. We’re going to subsidize demand. ME: …What does that mean? GOV: We’re going to give people money to buy houses. ME: But there aren't enough houses. GOV: Right. So

"However, she told the assessor she 'wanted to withdraw her request, citing personal and religious values and beliefs' and instead wanted inpatient hospice care." It's not just that this is murder, it's that the murderer is not even going to be charged. It's that no official

So many are ignorant of this. Pre post financial crisis era, when asked on deeper integration, European populaces rejected it. Every time. They then re-hashed the EU constitution as a mere treaty, hence the Lisbon treaty, which was then passed by governments. Ireland said no

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Una cosa. Si pueden regularizar a medio millón de personas sin pasarlo por el Parlamento en el gobierno más débil de la historia de este país ¿qué hay que conservar? ¿qué democracia hay aquí? ¿qué hay que defender exactamente? La legitimidad del sistema es nula porque el

NEW - EU signs an "agreement on mobility," with India facilitating "the movement of students, researchers, seasonal and highly skilled workers," and launches the "first EU Legal Gateway Office in India" to support Indian talent moving to Europe."

I really want to believe the EU can be reformed but I am losing hope every single day