The trouble with short-term visas is that, in practice, they turn into permanent residence, as the Germans and Austrians found with their Gastarbeiter programs in the 1960s and 1970s. In theory, you … (View Post)

I think that's true. There are exceptions for very highly motivated or wealthy individuals, but generally per capita growth does not generally come from opening the floodgates to unskilled or semi-sk… (View Post)

Rubbish as Astra Zeneca were apparently considering investing until just now, eight years after 2016. Remoaner trolling certainly isn't what it used to be. (View Post)

Why would any chemical company invest in a country with some of the highest energy costs in the world and with an unpredictable, incompetent government that gaslights about growth but basically looks… (View Post)

Maybe, maybe not, but unlike ethnic cleansing, however dressed up, a peaceful and tolerant Israel with all its ancestral peoples living side by side is at least a future worth aspiring to. (View Post)