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I don’t normally RT provocateurs but this is a useful prompt to discuss economic illiteracy on the right. In May, we borrowed £3.8bn at a “negative yield” - meaning we

incredible to me that europeans are getting in on this grifthttps://twitter.com/MimiBilling/status/1310475034855645184 at least in America, "let's invent an entirely new technology stack for mass transport with benefits ranging fro

This very good piece has some incredible photos, but they missed my favourite thing you can discover using this method.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-internment-camps-xinjiang-uighurs-muslims So BuzzFeed's techni

of many shocking things I've read about the A level cluster, this is, I think, the worst.https://ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2020/08/a-level-results-2020-how-have-grades-been-calculated/ if your Maths A level class is predicted .2% A*s,

Isn't it just fascinating how man-wearing-black-zip-up-jacket-near-beach-smiling-at-the-photo looks so similar to the profile picture of that guy with the viral thread about his idiot neighbours? https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-wearing

I don't agree with France's demands for more data for their contact tracing app but I don't agree with the prevailing California view that it's hypocritical to ask. "Governments, not

if I call westchester county 'suburban New York' are the same pedants going to yell at me who insist that it's wrong to call Santa Monica LA I'm gonna do