Suspect ever since Ernie Rutherford snuck off in 1895, that being an isolated 1% of the developed Anglosphere means we constantly lose many of our most ambitious thinkers and leaders to bigger stages and are left with the 3Bers.
Less of a problem for, say Denmark or Finland
Little Englander I worked with in 80s London: unemployment would be much better if the 200k of you Aussies & Kiwis were sent home.
Me: And what then if we send the 1m+ Brits home?
LE: ah, hadn't thought of that
Possibly much of the Aus v NZ gap is explained by the NZ economy shrinking (in USD terms) whilst Australia grew in that time period
slogan emblazoned on the side of the campaign bus of fictional United States president Selina Meyer, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the comedy series Veep. "Selina Meyer: Continuity with Change," the sign reads.
Everything is Veep now
Economic Expectations Around the 2008 and 2016 Elections, by Partisan Affiliation This figure presents the average economic expectations in the Gallup data set
Think the biggest factor is views of the overall economy have become increasingly politics skewed, with the breakdown of traditional media no longer functioning as a reality check and new media often adding fuel to fires
Great, see also
youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs?...
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia, 1 March 2021 by Paul L. Williams (Author)
Like with Al Qaeda, always awkward when former allies turn on each other
Graceland.
Can we give Hungary back to the Habsburgs?
Grow up
BREAKING: GLOBAL ECONOMY FALTERS AS TANKERS HELD UP AT HORMUZ. 'ALL MY APES GONE', CAPTAIN SAYS
From the Leipzig Lent, Dresden Easter, Prague Ascension trilogy
Old enough to remember how Mahmood went to Denmark to see how being racist makes you unbeatable in elections.
www.ft.com/content/e20a... Danish premier’s party suffers its worst election result since 1903
Love the fact that Finland has income-based speeding tickets.
The richest man in Åland was just fined €120,000 for going 58 km/h in a 30 km/h zone.
So much this, the making sense of the world not making sense was a big deal at a very formative age.
Also, for a kid growing up with conservative middle class suburban parents, 22 helped me reject the default respect for authority (esp. uniformed) that was drummed in to me.
Raising Arizona
Bored Ape not style executive
All my green shoots are gone
Clipping the ticket will continue until there's no tickets left to clip
From the humiliation of evacuating Saigon to electing super-hawk Reagan was only 5 years
"unthinkable" = our business model & bonuses depend on constantly rising asset markets so we ignore all crisis scenarios
It’s the TOFU*—Trump Only Fucks Up—trade now.
*believe this was originally a @katie0martin.ft.com suggestion
Forever mindboggling that the devastation of our 2nd/3rd city barely registers on that chart
It just feels like, across the board, journalists have become unmoored from reality.
Maybe it’s Twitter. Maybe it’s the Overton window. Maybe they’re just tired.
I have no idea, but things really, really have changed.
Carney, Starmer, Albanese, the Axis of Ambivalence.
Suspect the 16% pro-Trump includes many of the most vocal men he meets in Koru/Rotary/Golf clubs etc.
Nations trying to whitewash racist policies by referencing sensible Denmark are only going to end up embarrassed by their 2 decades of extreme etho-nationalism #DKpol
SocDems surely only 'historically centre-left' now.
Raising pension age
Removing public holidays
Inviting US military bases
Opposing human rights conventions
Curious how '01 & '08 Money shrank WITH the economy vs. '23 Money LEAD the downturn.
Is that due to offshore factors (dotcom bust & GFC) vs. domestic own goals this time round ?
Are people selling 'sunshine/heat' , or is that a coincidence ?
FFS when you're a few islands at the arse end of the world, an airline you control is critical infrastructure in a crisis
