What's fascinating about UK debate is not an obvious fact that formative experiences mean generations do not always lean Right as they age. It is that UK debate is so shaped by Boomer assumptions it does not ask whether the Boomer paradigm might be an exception rather than a rule
And a stat that might affect the UK more than some other European countries
Still, heck of a contrast between UK figures and those for Italy and Ireland
https://www.ft.com/content/995973f4-05a0-4964-8c18-d5c88d1a91d5
The great green office crunch
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Have been wondering about this for a while. It's not my area so not something I would comment on much further, but it is interesting how forcefully Ruchir Sharma makes these points on private equity in the FT today
https://www.ft.com/content/7416159d-fa24-4c97-b4a7-302696cd0edeHow private markets became an escape from reality
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From a European perspective it is fascinating how parochial Musk and his clique are in their obsession with the tiniest detail of US culture wars and broadbrush ignorance of developments in Europe, China and the rest of the world.
On the Spiegel website right now a case study of how Britain's internal economic and social crisis affects how it is perceived by allies and neighbouring states
https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/armut-in-nordengland-wie-die-wirtschaftskrise-in-burnley-einschlaegt-a-4c9ff565-8ec8-4500-b4cc-0a79cbb17637
Armut in Nordengland: »Ein Schokoriegel, das ist mein ganzes Essen«
Burnley ist ohnehin schon eine der ärmsten Städte Englands, in der Wirtschaftskrise mangelt es vielen Einwohnern nun am Nötigsten. Die Politik versagt – ein Pfarrer hilft.
A micro-level example of the complex and deep cultural and economic relationship between Ukrainian society and Turkey that many observers often miss in examining the history and geopolitical position of Ukraine
The original post from the birdsite the above line of thought is referring to
The whole point of this withdrawal for the Russian state was to avoid getting thousands of Russian troops destroyed on a beach. If the Russian army leadership screws this up it empowers rival regime power centres that want to chip away at the authority of Russia's officer corps
