@RexQueQuondam@Steve_Sailer Dad is a self-made millionaire in one of the most competitive fields in the world who retired at 29 https://t.co/bS7BynAM1R
@AaronBastani Alternative view - NK did England a favour by turning up when every other African and Asian country boycotted the 1966 WC, which we've memory-holed a bit (like the fact that every Arab country except Egypt banned Lawrence of Arabia)
@Steve_Sailer Expecting a Sailer's Second Law about the difference between northern European football violence aimed at (socially identical) opposing fans, and southern European/Latin American aimed at the officials and players (sometimes the opposition, but often your own)
@wallaceme It does seem to be quite often used for re-elections (although I suppose your definition could include greatly increased majorities for the same party)
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@echetus If you spend time in the countryside in any kind of "duty-of-care" environment (National Trust working holidays in Scotland in my case) you'll hear plenty about ticks. And if a famous journalist here got Lyme's Disease, like Ross Douthat in the US, you'd hear a lot more
@bswud The real 4D chess play (which isn't the plan but will happen) is that increasing unemployment will reduce immigration.
The Tory tragedy is that making Britain the easiest place in Europe to create entry level jobs was a huge pull factor.
@algorecrave If Wilson had travelled every summer in the 50s and 60s to Lake Como, St Tropez or (especially) Baden-Baden, he would have been a better equipped to lead Britain into a changing world
@mrianleslie@JoshAllanTweets Jeremy Clarkson pushed Brunel to second place on the Great Britons TV show in 2002, when Jack Thorne was 24 and Stephen Graham was 29 - I suspect that's when they connected IKB with the blokeosphere
@AaronBastani Brexit question: why didn't Stephen Kinnock & co vote with May to keep us in the Customs Union like Roy Jenkins & co voted with Heath to take us in in 1972?
Answer: fear of deselection ie Labour party democracy ie the Labour left.
Tony Benn took us out from beyond the grave