At this very moment, there are people with the unenviable task of listening in on Starmer's communications. (View Post)

Trump is a keen student of J.L. Austin's concept of performative utterances and recognises that to say is to do. It's meaningless to judge a statement like "we're going to run Ven… (View Post)

Quite a good long post from a Danish MEP on the rules-based international order: https://x.com/SociologenHD/status/2007768737961689529 If we confine ourselves to the permanent members of the UN Secur… (View Post)

You need to be careful with figures for foreign born people in small European countries because it can just mean people moving between Malmo and Copenhagen, which is not really immigration. (View Post)

It's difficult to control for everything, but the fact that Finland has the highest cumulative GDP-per capita growth in the region and the lowest level of immigration stands out. (View Post)