I despair for the UK. No country has better fundamentals to profit from the current global mess, so why is Oxbridge not a rival to Silicon Valley? Every one of its problems—from Heathrow to housing, from small boats to the deficit, from the NHS to the explosion in welfare—is

Ok this is pretty random logic from Guido Fawkes - I mean it’s true assuming it all went into a FTSE tracker. But then they’d have made it all back and more as the FTSE closed at 8823 today

What about biggest success? Here it’s not a particularly cheery verdict from the public. Asked in their own words, nothing dominates the word cloud, followed by the NHS.

🇺🇸 Enjoy your big day! Honestly...

This is only true if it’s dissolved - because it’s all (essentially) NaCl Not always true otherwise - flaked sea salt has a very different texture

“Major” doing a spectacular amount of heavy lifting here

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This by Fraser Nelson is an absolute banger thetimes.com/comment/column… Just unbelievable stupidity by whoever decided our debt profile and sold so many index linked gilts. Never have that chance again….

Rule by bond markets is now with us - and leaves Labour exposed to a challenge from the populist left. My Times column:- thetimes.com/comment/column…

Earlier this week I considered being that guy and speaking to my son's school about some of the stuff he's being taught; namely the existence of feminist spiders. Glad I didn't, as long story short, he can't pronounce the word venomous properly.

Very good thread by Miriam Cates

This tbf is the answer to a lot of infrastructure project delays

Really don’t see why car confiscation would be unreasonable in this situation

We hosted a pretty terrific lineup at the “Now and England” conference last month, but I don’t think there’s much doubt it was Thomas Skinner who stole the show with this magnificent speech on ‘The England I Love.’

Mm expropriating assets of foreign owners - what could possibly go wrong?

Ok - Emmanuel Macron has a very good speech writer - that line of “when our sense and sensibility overcome our pride and prejudice” was

Nice clear example about why a wealth tax is a great way for a government to shoot itself in the foot

Marina clearly believes this is a documentary about all rich people…

A thousand times this 👇

And this, dare I say, is quite a lot of why the public finances look as they do…