Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan@respublicae.eu
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@bionicmanc The UK, too, by the way.
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@bionicmanc It’s not true. But most people reason backwards from their gut feelings. That’s why “I’d bet that…” trumps facts like this.
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@JamieHalpin10 @trussliz I get that Twitter is all geared up to dislike Tory PMs, but where does this “thick” thing come from? Liz went from an ordinary comprehensive to Merton, Oxford. Thick?
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No PM since 1940 has taken over in harder times. The war and the spike in energy prices hit before the economy had begun to heal from the lockdowns. We have NHS backlogs, a diminished workforce and vast debts.
All of us should wish @trussliz luck. Her successes will be Britain's.
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@rcolvile Doubly inaccurate, in the sense that it WASN'T true of Liz, but WAS true of IDS.
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@bionicmanc When we were hunter-gatherers, wealth was finite. If someone else had more, you had less. This way of thinking is hardwired into our genome.
The wonder of an economy based on secure contract and free enterprise is that more wealth can be created, making everyone better off.
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RT @freddoso: The only question: What the hell is wrong with the 38%?
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On the left, the foreign smart-alecks, including Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders and Noam Chomsky, telling Chileans to ditch their constitution.
On the right, why Chileans declined their advice, by 62% to 38%.
Felicitaciones, Chile! 🇨🇱
#VamosARecuperarChile
#RechazoPorChile
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RT @GavinBarwell: Later today, we will find out who is going to be our next prime minister. They will face one of the most difficult inheritances of any prime minister in my lifetime. A thread explaining why and looking at the policy and political challenges they face 1/n
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RT @DanielJHannan: Unpopular, I know, but people should use exonyms. The French should call Dover Douvres. The Germans should call Bratislava Pressburg. We should say Kiev - not because it’s the Russian form, but because it’s the English form. Argentines should say Malvinas for the same reason.
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Two thoughts as I leave this handsome city.
1. I am more optimistic than I was about food exports. Even before grain shipments from Odessa resumed, other routes were opening.
2. I am, though, less optimistic about a breakthrough in Kherson. This ghastly war seems set to last.
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Right on cue, lots of comments along the lines of "Trickle-down economics is a myth, Tory scum!"
One more time for the slow. No one has ever argued for trickle-down economics. It's a Left-wing travesty of what Right-wing people are supposed to think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3BOg4U1R_I&list=PLwbCAr7Ox3Qutz7CNq2XEMNNPux7NGnZe&index=117
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This is nonsense. The constitution is not anti-democratic. It was amended and endorsed by Ricardo Lagos, a socialist. But even if it really had been from Pinochet’s era, so what? Should Chileans tear up the roads from Pinochet’s era? The schools? The clinics?
RT @BernieSanders: On Sunday the Chilean people can vote for a new constitution, replacing the old anti-democratic one written by the dictator Pinochet with a new one guaran…
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RT @cjsnowdon: Lefties: “Increasing National Insurance is regressive.”
Also lefties: “Reducing National Insurance is regressive.”
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RT @DanielJHannan: The confusion, I think, arises from the word “pragmatism”. Pragmatism, in this context, means accepting the boundaries of public opinion - for example, refusing to cut corporation tax because “the public won’t wear it”. It doesn’t mean doing the right thing for the economy.
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The confusion, I think, arises from the word “pragmatism”. Pragmatism, in this context, means accepting the boundaries of public opinion - for example, refusing to cut corporation tax because “the public won’t wear it”. It doesn’t mean doing the right thing for the economy.
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It is odd to describe tax cuts, deregulation and free trade as “ideological”. They work every time, raising living standards for everyone, especially the poor. What usually stops them being implemented is not pragmatism but maladapted intuition - they *feel* wrong.
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Most Latin American constitutions were inspired by, sometimes directly modelled on, that of the United States. So what went wrong? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ongLpfMb8kE
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