Still think about this every time I hear someone romanticizing the pre-industrial era

This is, without exaggerating, one of the most extraordinary things a US Treasury Secretary ever said. It should be mandatory viewing for all citizens of US "allies", Europeans first and foremost. What Bessent is saying is that the US will now treat US allies' wealth as an

This is a severe distortion of the Centre for Policy Studies' report. However it does state "the lifetime net fiscal cost of recent arrivals who receive ILR (indefinite leave to remain) comes in at around £234 billion in total, or over £8,000 per existing household."

A number of provinces in China now have catastrophically low fertility rates below 1.0. Provinces of Northeast are in a particularly bad way. TFR of 0.52 for Heilongjiang (population 31.8M) almost defies belief. A province with a population larger than Australia is imploding.

Mothers across the world spend twice as much time with their kids as they did 50 years ago, exacerbating Gen Z and Alpha's increased depression, anxiety, learned helplessness, etc. To avoid this trap with my children, I divert my attention to my phone whenever I'm with them.

Unfortunately, and I say this as someone who loves dogs, many 'dog people' see them as a surrogate for children.

The 'London is a shithole' discourse is symptomatic of culture war garbage. London is a city of 9 million people; the lived experience of a middle class family in Richmond-Upon-Thames is alien to a single mother in Tower Hamlets. The truth lies between the two extremes.

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There's a good deal of evidence that wellbeing and wealth don't perfectly correlate. At a certain point, increased affluence stops improving how people feel about their lives.

These 20 countries account for roughly 2/3 of the global Muslim population If you leave out the Sub Saharan African countries, global Muslim TFR is already ~2.2 in 2025. Muslims are converging faster than even Latinos did.

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🇽🇰 Birth rate in Kosovo is rising: 13,933 babies in Jan–Jun 2025, with June alone up 8% from May.

Between 10-15% of individuals living in the Roman Empire lived in a city. The vast majority lived and died in the region they were born in.

SightBringer Tim Pool For decades, society pushed a single narrative: careers first, families second. The consequence is visible today—an ever-growing number of singles, and men and women increasingly reluctant to build families together. As long as this narrative remains unchallenged, the trend

Changing behaviours in contraception use in the US. Women are less likely to be on the daily pill and more likely to take emergency contraception than before.

I'm sceptical whether this will work, given Hungary's track record to date. Even if it could, Orban is looking likely to lose the next election so it may not even get off the ground properly.

Including the second generation, 66% of welfare recipients in the Netherlands have a migration background.