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Simon Fraser 🏴🇪🇺💙🔶
Former (m)ad man, historian, writer and dog-walker. Londoner. Degrees from Oxford and Kingston. Scot, European, social democrat. Usually with the underdog. Quite worried about a lot of things.
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step 1. realise that economies are not car engines step 2. conclude from this that "kickstarting" them is not a useful metaphor
The Associated PressBritain's new leader, Andy Burnham, is facing the same old problem: How can he kickstart a sluggish economy so that growing companies and increased output generate enough additional revenue to boost defense spending and pay for everything else voters want, without raising taxes?
Parallels with the Stalin endgame here.
Anton GerashchenkoThe Kremlin is now like spiders in a jar. A war of all against all has started among the Kremlin elite, accompanied by unprecedented arrests of people who were close to Putin. They used to believe they were "untouchable" and that this status was guaranteed. ⤵️