I see today that a Syrian asylum seeker stopped an attack by a German woman on multiple people in a train carriage there. A lesson not to prejudge people. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/2… (View Post)

The Boris fanbase thar is left I think is now more the politics-as-entertainmeht-crowd. Trump has these, but he also still has his believers. (View Post)

Sickly and some parts of Southern Italy do feel dodgier than the poorest parts of Greece. Greece is generally very safe even where people are poor. (View Post)

And I agree with you, France and Germany clearly have higher living standards than the modern UK, post-1980's. (View Post)

It's difference between GDP and living standards. The economic right enjoy quoting GDP, but it's on certain measure of living standards that some parts of Eastern Europe are set to overtake… (View Post)