Who better than Liz Truss to lead a country whose own sewage laps at its shores?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/19/liz-truss-lead-uk-sewage-leadership-marina-hyde
“You might be wondering how much worse our standard of government could actually get, given that we ceded control of the country to a newspaper columnist for almost three years. And in many ways you’d be right. It’s actually quite difficult to find people who are more wrong on a regular basis than newspaper columnists – but it’s possible that economists do edge it. Patrick Minford certainly does.
The Cardiff university professor so admired by Truss is one of Britain’s leading wrong people – tough field – having forecast such fantasies as Brexit boosting Britain’s GDP by almost 7% and significantly reducing consumer prices for British people, to say nothing of his giving the zealot’s shrug over the potential self-imposed destruction of the country’s car industry. “These things happen as evolution takes place in your economy,” Minford breezed to a parliamentary committee back in 2012”.
Liz Truss looks set to replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister next month. Is D.C. ready for a modern Maggie Thatcher?
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/18/what-washington-thinks-liz-truss-boris-johnson-00052667
London is caught in a crime wave, and Sadiq Khan is to blame
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/19/london-caught-crime-wave-sadiq-khan-blame/
Finland’s PM Sanna Marin takes drug test after party ‘to clear up doubts’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/finlands-pm-sanna-marin-takes-drug-test-after-videos-show-her-drinking-and-dancing
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/19/liz-truss-lead-uk-sewage-leadership-marina-hyde
“You might be wondering how much worse our standard of government could actually get, given that we ceded control of the country to a newspaper columnist for almost three years. And in many ways you’d be right. It’s actually quite difficult to find people who are more wrong on a regular basis than newspaper columnists – but it’s possible that economists do edge it. Patrick Minford certainly does.
The Cardiff university professor so admired by Truss is one of Britain’s leading wrong people – tough field – having forecast such fantasies as Brexit boosting Britain’s GDP by almost 7% and significantly reducing consumer prices for British people, to say nothing of his giving the zealot’s shrug over the potential self-imposed destruction of the country’s car industry. “These things happen as evolution takes place in your economy,” Minford breezed to a parliamentary committee back in 2012”.
Liz Truss looks set to replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister next month. Is D.C. ready for a modern Maggie Thatcher?
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/18/what-washington-thinks-liz-truss-boris-johnson-00052667
London is caught in a crime wave, and Sadiq Khan is to blame
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/19/london-caught-crime-wave-sadiq-khan-blame/
Finland’s PM Sanna Marin takes drug test after party ‘to clear up doubts’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/finlands-pm-sanna-marin-takes-drug-test-after-videos-show-her-drinking-and-dancing