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No, my actual (rather small) point is that when the aspirational poor were previously shunted to distant dumping grounds, the biggest error was in not sending us far enough away from people like Polly...
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\”How would Adam Smith fix a mess such as the current recessionary aftermath of a financial collapse? Sorry, but it\’s fixed already. The answer to a decline in the value of speculative assets is to...
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My mum used to say to me, \”If somebody doesn\’t like you, fuck \’em, they\’ve got bad taste.\” Bob Hoskins.
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On Friday, the earl contacted The Daily Telegraph to distance himself from his barrister\’s comments and insisted he was by no means \”down and out\”. In fact, he added, he was \”merely down to my last...
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\”We\’re living in primate heaven. We\’re warm, dry, we\’re not hungry, we don\’t have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?\” Stephen Pinker
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I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind...
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The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is \”forbidden\”, whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is...
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The biggest-ever experiment in back-to-the-land hippie lifestyle is now known as the Dark Ages. Matt Ridley.
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The optimal organization for a family is communist, but this doesn\’t generalize to large societies, a point that most leftists can\’t fathom. But as with any other organisational method scale does...
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Published and true are not synonyms. We all know this about newspapers. But it applies to \”peer reviewd\” papers too.
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If you don’t become seriously anti-poverty when Jesus tells you, I’m not sure David Frum makes much of a difference.
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There is no substantive difference between the services of a prostitute and a corrupt bureaucrat. Leonid Bershidsky.
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This summer I went to Italy for my summer break. I have always found the food there far better than in France or Britain. I doubt that the credit for that should go to the Italian parliament. Tim Harford
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Brexit questions, 3: How many trade deals has the UK signed in the last ten years? How long did each take to conclude, on average? None, trade deals were an EU exclusive competence. Jeez, this man……...
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May isn’t a psychopath; she’d be better at not looking like one if she was. Dongguan John.
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Geoff Norcott @GeoffNorcott · 4h On top of everything, Australia have been humble & self-deprecating. What utter bastards.
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