👇🎯 This. It’s our (Gen X) turn for the scorn now, but it used to be the Boomers & it will soon be the Millennials. Structural things are structural.

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the ugly thing of it is not the numbers but the implicit assumption that foreign-born people are bad "you hear all kinds of crazy accents in london" -- well yeah that's how big, global cities are and why they're great

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I want to thank Kent Police and the Ministry of Defence bomb disposal team for the incredibly professional way in which they handled this morning's incident near the Shorncliffe Heights estate. I am also very relieved to hear that no one was harmed.

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the postwar international order is increasingly something that people thoughtlessly disregard because, much like vaccines, they are so removed from any sense of what the world would be like without it, and it really worries me

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Ditto Europe. There is a case for transition protection but zero case for protecting existing business models. Whatever they threaten, offshoring etc, they are on borrowed time unless they face up to reality. Government and the EU can help them.

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