London’s great for the top 1% and the bottom 10%. For everyone else, it’s totally unaffordable. Those great schools have a *lot* of selection by house price, with a few exceptions like Michaela. (View Post)

Yes, kids in poor areas of London get the opportunity to go to schools like Michaela Free School. (View Post)

There’s a reckoning on the way for pretty much all Western governments, as can be seen in things like the gold (and bitcoin) price. Four years after the pandemic and no-one really has the spending un… (View Post)

It’s a combination of trying to close a massive budget deficit, and rebalance away from personal income taxes. There’s a lot of sectors where US companies such as Nvidia and Microsoft have effective … (View Post)

Apparently there’s a Russian government plane in the air from Moscow heading for Alaska. https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1955921885314867454 Ukranian press are suggesting that there might be an el… (View Post)