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actually being **serious** about immigration would require addressing questions like "how do we sustain the economy with a declining population?". Or even "what moral duty do we bear to refugees from the consequences of wars we supported?". the columnist wants to be *unserious* about immigration

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

BREAKING: the Trump administration has announced a new policy of “sakoku,” banning almost ALL foreign trade except for a small Dutch enclave; said to be looking at confiscating and destroying firearms to protect traditional samurai class

submitted 33 days ago • 33 comments

This is terrific, and, I think right by @chrisgiles.ft.com:

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

another opportunity for economists and good government types to explain that this is much better than the bad old days, when Britain was cursed with overinvestment and goldplated public services because Chancellors were allowed to make their own inaccurate forecasts.

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

a common reaction but wrong - although the accounting standard is the problem, there is no alternative that would be better. you can't have a fiscal balance that's almost entirely made up of dozens of long term projections of secondary effects and costs. the five year forecast is just a wrong tool

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

One problem with the Truss era is that no-one says things like 'the OBR is just flatly wrong on Policy X', and the OBR's assumptions on welfare savings have consistently been shown to be wrong!

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

One thing I like about this Champions League draw is that it feels substantially different from the last 16s of the past 10 years

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Shit is going down in Birmingham.

submitted 78 days ago • 10 comments

submitted 80 days ago • 6 comments

"This is what genocide looks like." Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History, Hebrew University Daniel Blatman, Director, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University archive.ph/WGtkB

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment