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Geoff Norcott
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On top of everything, Australia have been humble & self-deprecating.
What utter bastards.
Geoff Norcott
@GeoffNorcott
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4h
On top of everything, Australia have been humble & self-deprecating.
What utter bastards.
May isn’t a psychopath; she’d be better at not looking like one if she was.
Dongguan John.
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……
Brexit questions, 5: What value of tariffs do we collect now on imports to the UK? Which countries give rise to the top 10 payments? Are we planning new trade deals with any of them? What will the impact on revenue be?
Tariffs are sent to Brussels. They come off the other amounts we must also send there.
Brexit questions, 11: How much will the cost to business be of having to manage multiple trade deals and tariff arrangements?
Not a lot. Large exporters already send to 50, 90 different jurisdictions. We’re adding one more, the EU.
International political economy my arse.
Cupertino idiot-tax operation junks duff throbbless jazzbangles
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.
There is no substantive difference between the services of a prostitute and a corrupt bureaucrat.
Published and true are not synonyms.
We all know this about newspapers.
But it applies to \”peer reviewd\” papers too.
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 matter.
The biggest-ever experiment in back-to-the-land hippie lifestyle is now known as the Dark Ages.
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 is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. Yet pundits continue to hallucinate trends in freak events, like the Norwegian sniper (who shot all those young people on an island) and make wildly innumerate comparisons, such as between Afghanistan and Vietnam, or between today\’s human trafficking and the African slave trade. It\’s a holdover of the literary sensibilities of our science-flunking intellectual elite, who would be aghast if someone didn\’t know who Milton was, but cheerfully flaunt their ignorance of basic science and mathematics. I lobbied – unsuccessfully – for a course requirement at Harvard in statistical and logical reasoning.
\”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?\”
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 stately home\”.
the implications of the Greeks making a drachma out of a crisis
My mum used to say to me, \”If somebody doesn\’t like you, fuck \’em, they\’ve got bad taste.\”
\”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 pay less for them. Job done. Don\’t Vote (2010)
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 Toynbee and her metrocentric ilk; those for whom if it doesn’t happen in London, then it doesn’t really happen at all.