Great speech

Singapore's Prime Minister Hsien Loong believes wokeness & PC culture erodes societies and the institutions it infects.

He wants it to stay out of Singapore.

Yay! It's back - our annual late summer festival filled with music, theatre, and our annual Brighton Jazz Festival - this year from September 14 - Oct 20. More details soon

2020: The year the entire planet became a giant insane asylum, almost overnight. 🤡

Never forget.

But The Economist always knows best.

How Ralph Baric and Peter Daszak have reluctantly strengthened the lab leak theory:

- downplaying the seafood market
- admitting incomplete knowledge of Wuhan samples
- confirming Defuse details

spiked-online.com/2024/05/12/the…

We have many things to be proud of in the UK, not least our tax code which at over 10 million words is the longest and most convoluted in the world.

(As #HMRC is trending).

Why are there still teetotallers in 2024?

Being perpetually sober and preachy is proven to make everyone think you're a self-righteous bore.

It is a surefire sign of an irritating prig

Tipsiness cheers men's souls and makes us expansive and social

Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of Scottish devolution. That silence you hear is the sound of nobody celebrating. Holyrood has been a dripping roast for the Scottish political élite and burgeoning nomenklatura, who’ve enjoyed salaries, expenses, perks, status and state funding…

“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder,” according to 20th-century historian Arnold Toynbee.

He claimed every great culture collapses internally due to a divergence in values between the ruling class and the common people…🧵

‘Careful what you wish for’ really is the most reliable piece of advice there is.

Lockdowns to ‘flatten the curve’ ➡️ WFH culture shift celebrated by laptop classes ➡️ kids stop going to school

🤦🏼‍♂️

Good speech

People are waking up

JLR rocking. £2.2bn off 401,000 cars.

A 13.5% pay rise for the Night Czar, from £117,000 to £133,000, is an insult to the taxpayer.

As recent Adam Smith Institute research has highlighted, 3,011 bars, pubs, and clubs have closed across London since the pandemic. In any other job, you'd get fired for a record like that!

Billionaire investors' fantasies that plant-based meat substitutes would be popular have run into the brick wall of reality.

German business model was based on:

1. Cheap energy from Russia

2. Cheap subcontractors in Eastern Europe

3. Steadily growing exports to China

All three are gone by now, but German politicians and unions are still mentally stuck in a world that doesn’t exist anymore.

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Here's a very good thread – linked to a very good essay – on Beijing's 'technonationalism'. I've long argued that, like the USSR in the 1960s, Beijing hopes that a technological breakthrough will drive a resolution of its economic problems.

Almost two years on and no change....

- 1 in every 8 shops vacant
- Footfall down 30%
- Reported crime up c. 15%
- Abundance of tacky candy stores

And still no decision from Michael Gove on our plans to help fix these issues by building a brand new flagship M&S store!!😤