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by mmarq 4y ago
I have no sympathy for Ursula von der Leyen, I would not have referred to her as a failed politician otherwise. But she does indeed look like a monumental stateswoman compared to Cameron, Osborne, Johnson, Sunak, Gove, Farage, May, Corbyn,
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You don’t necessarily have to do anything, you just need to keep your mind busy to avoid introspection. Do you think Italy has abolished ‘equal bicameralism’? Liz Truss can barely speak in her native language and in normal circumstances she
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I can’t nor I want to deploy any grand theory, such as MMT. But if the triple lock were applied to nurses and doctors’ pay, instead of pensions, we would have one less problem. Or if instead of increasing NI to pay for social care (??), the
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The UK has entered the institutional reform phase. Like Italy in the early 90s, it has become convinced that the country does not work because some random institutions need changing. In Italy it was `equal bicameralism`, the organisation of
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I don't speak French, but in Italian you can't have intransitive passive verbs. `manque` is intransitive, `me` in not a direct object. I'd expect French and Italian to be similar here.
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I don’t understand the British fixation with ID cards, especially if they are conservatives and want people to show an ID to vote.
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The main constituency of the Conservative Party is old people that want their pensions to be increased, house prices to go up and the kids to stop having fun, whatever the cost. When their idiocy demands something that would cause the utter
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https://googlethatforyou.com?q=bank%20of%20englang%20balance...
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You are completely wrong, there is nothing in "Money creation in the modern economy" that isn't part of the Econ 101 curriculum. It's weird how people get agitated over a topic that's the economics equivalent of the
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The English speaker divides humans into 3 categories: - White people with the burden (see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man's_Burden ) - White people without the burden - People of colour When a perso
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N-th reminder that a Croatian is nobody’s property and can do whatever they want with their life.
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> Ignoring temporary inflation due to businesses taking advantage to round things up in Euros, my belief is the switch will be a net positive. In Italy we’ve been talking about this a lot. Of course there’s no evidence in the data and un
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> Instead, we need self-sufficient neighborhoods catering to different lifestyles and needs What you are describing is a random continental European city (that is Europe minus UK and Ireland)
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If somebody can be evicted with a 2 month notice, are they going to complain about the lack of repairs? The answer is in the abysmal quality of the English housing stock. I mean, would you risk making your child homeless when the law says y
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by mmarq 4y ago
In continental Europe it is practically impossible to evict a tenant without arrears, yet the rental market is larger and there is less homelessness (and, yes, there is plenty of public data on homelessness). Real world outcomes aside, that
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by mmarq 4y ago
> Hardening eviction rules is economic suicide. No, it isn’t. The current state of affairs in England (even Scotland and Wales have different regulations) only causes misery and an immense waste of resources on housing. Or do you think G
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> * Housing - separate from just planning, there are specific rules within the housing market that cause distortions above the planning system failing to produce enough supply. For example, rent controls in Scotland...that caused a 40% d
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TL;DR Dyson, the guy who thought that forcing me to fill 40 pages of paperwork to live in the UK, complaints about efficiency and paperwork and doesn’t want me to work from home, after moving his business somewhere in east Asia. A guy that
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by mmarq 4y ago
If you are married and your wife doesn't earn much, your tax bill is going to be significantly lower. Rent are much lower in Germany and education and childcare are free. If you are not married and don't plan to start a family, I
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If you are planning to start a family and have children, I would go to Germany.
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> I don't think compelling speech is correct but I also think it is almost certainly a violation of the charity status and Oxford regulations to underhandedly enforce political views. The Oxford university is [check notes] a univers
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by mmarq 4y ago
And part of this free speech deal of yours is that Oxford should give you a platform to talk about children of famous people, otherwise you can sue them?
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> This is usually if a debate club/similar invites someone to speak, and then some other body/higher authority steps in who disapproves of the speaker. And that's totally fair and part of the game we call "democracy&q
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Extremists are a kind of mad they don’t like so they are banned. Instead they like vax-people, lizard-people and anti-EU nutcases and so Oxford should give them a platform and maybe even a PhD.
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Why should the Oxford university let you speak about whatever on their premises? Is it free speech you want or is it compelled speech?
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Musk’s plan is to fire half of the workforce and expect the other half to work twice as much for the same salary.
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It is wrong because people are being underpaid for not participating in silly upper class rituals that are not relevant to productivity. Apart from the evident injustice of being poorer because your parents could afford polo lessons, it pro
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Even after controlling for work region, and for other variables, a sizeable gap remains, at least according to this government report. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... 4.3 Explaining
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In Europa proper, Winter is the period of the year between Dec 22nd and Mar 21st. In the UK, we have 5 months of Winter and 7 of Autumn, that move around the year like Ramadan.
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The first season was good, then it quickly degenerates into nazi porn and finally into a bad version of Rick&Morty

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