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The story of Europe’s economic decline while US is 'soaring' is everywhere.
But it is wrong. It is a myth.
Europe delivers more leisure, longer life expectancy, less inequality than the US.
Gabriel Zucman dismantles the myths.
But it is wrong. It is a myth.
Europe delivers more leisure, longer life expectancy, less inequality than the US.
Gabriel Zucman dismantles the myths.
Decline, what decline? The myth of dying Europe
There is a widespread view that, by comparison with the USA, Europe is in economic and social decline. But, Zucman argues, it's not true
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 7:44 AM
The story of Europe’s economic decline while US is 'soaring' is everywhere.
But it is wrong. It is a myth.
Europe delivers more leisure, longer life expectancy, less inequality than the US.
Gabriel Zucman dismantles the myths.
But it is wrong. It is a myth.
Europe delivers more leisure, longer life expectancy, less inequality than the US.
Gabriel Zucman dismantles the myths.
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Nigel Farage wants to get rid of the NHS and replace it with US style insurance.
Can you afford $50,000 for a broken leg, $500,000 for a new heart, or $2,000,000 for cancer.
Or are you dying?
Can you afford $50,000 for a broken leg, $500,000 for a new heart, or $2,000,000 for cancer.
Or are you dying?
January 3, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Nigel Farage wants to get rid of the NHS and replace it with US style insurance.
Can you afford $50,000 for a broken leg, $500,000 for a new heart, or $2,000,000 for cancer.
Or are you dying?
Can you afford $50,000 for a broken leg, $500,000 for a new heart, or $2,000,000 for cancer.
Or are you dying?
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Their Social Media presence is as fake as the polls about their support.
January 2, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Their Social Media presence is as fake as the polls about their support.
One way for Labour to get Farage to leave politics would be to make it the law for MP’s to release their tax returns and ban all second jobs (with the exception of where professional qualifications rely on them). While they’re at it they could ban crypto donations to political parties.
December 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
One way for Labour to get Farage to leave politics would be to make it the law for MP’s to release their tax returns and ban all second jobs (with the exception of where professional qualifications rely on them). While they’re at it they could ban crypto donations to political parties.
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December 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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🚨 US DEMANDS CHLORINATED CHICKEN 🚨
We were told this would never happen.
Now the White House is demanding food standards concessions and the UK is vulnerable because of Brexit.
🎥 Watch ⬇️
Chlorinated Chicken Is Back And Starmer Is Letting It Happen
youtu.be/74JNCJ3TxFs
We were told this would never happen.
Now the White House is demanding food standards concessions and the UK is vulnerable because of Brexit.
🎥 Watch ⬇️
Chlorinated Chicken Is Back And Starmer Is Letting It Happen
youtu.be/74JNCJ3TxFs
Chlorinated Chicken Is Back And Starmer Is Letting It Happen
YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🚨 US DEMANDS CHLORINATED CHICKEN 🚨
We were told this would never happen.
Now the White House is demanding food standards concessions and the UK is vulnerable because of Brexit.
🎥 Watch ⬇️
Chlorinated Chicken Is Back And Starmer Is Letting It Happen
youtu.be/74JNCJ3TxFs
We were told this would never happen.
Now the White House is demanding food standards concessions and the UK is vulnerable because of Brexit.
🎥 Watch ⬇️
Chlorinated Chicken Is Back And Starmer Is Letting It Happen
youtu.be/74JNCJ3TxFs
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Turns out they held all the cards.
Thanks, Brexit.
Thanks, Brexit.
December 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Turns out they held all the cards.
Thanks, Brexit.
Thanks, Brexit.
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🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Join me and sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/xvqe
Shady billionaires can quietly pour money into our elections, completely hidden from view.
Join me and add your name to the petition to stop this.
38d.gs
December 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Join me and sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/xvqe
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This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
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There is no way the organised crime gangs are going to be stopped or even inconvenienced by a handful of tactical fleece cosplayers looking for social media clout.
December 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
There is no way the organised crime gangs are going to be stopped or even inconvenienced by a handful of tactical fleece cosplayers looking for social media clout.
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Abolish the House of Lords, RT if you want it gone.
Tear it down.
Tear it down.
December 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Abolish the House of Lords, RT if you want it gone.
Tear it down.
Tear it down.
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And for once, he wasn't wrong.
December 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
And for once, he wasn't wrong.
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Reform UK have repeatedly said that Kent is their "flagship" council and "the shop window" for how they intend to run things.
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
December 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reform UK have repeatedly said that Kent is their "flagship" council and "the shop window" for how they intend to run things.
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
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UK failure to seal EU tax exemption hands industry mountain of paperwork
UK failure to seal EU tax exemption hands industry mountain of paperwork
Brussels confirms Christmas carve-out from green levies will not happen, leading to Brexit-style requirements
UK manufacturers are to be hit with mountains of Brexit-style paperwork in January on £7bn worth of exports to the EU after the government failed to secure an expected exemption from new green taxes.
The UK had hoped to secure a carve-out by Christmas on the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), but EU commissioners have confirmed this is not going to happen. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
UK failure to seal EU tax exemption hands industry mountain of paperwork
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Your usual reminder that the UCKG is an extraordinarily shady outfit. It is not clear what the money they collect is for or where it goes. They are collecting all over London today. Avoid.
December 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Your usual reminder that the UCKG is an extraordinarily shady outfit. It is not clear what the money they collect is for or where it goes. They are collecting all over London today. Avoid.
Leaving Erasmus was solely about preventing a majority of young people wanting to rejoin. There was no other reason
December 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Leaving Erasmus was solely about preventing a majority of young people wanting to rejoin. There was no other reason
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Daily Mail tragedy in 3 acts
22 June 2016 (day before referendum): Pro-Leave editorial. One reason: too many immigrants from Eastern Europe.
24 June 2016: Brexit vote outcome means many Poles will decide to return home
13 December 2025: Oh no, where have the Poles gone?
All the signs were there!
22 June 2016 (day before referendum): Pro-Leave editorial. One reason: too many immigrants from Eastern Europe.
24 June 2016: Brexit vote outcome means many Poles will decide to return home
13 December 2025: Oh no, where have the Poles gone?
All the signs were there!
December 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Daily Mail tragedy in 3 acts
22 June 2016 (day before referendum): Pro-Leave editorial. One reason: too many immigrants from Eastern Europe.
24 June 2016: Brexit vote outcome means many Poles will decide to return home
13 December 2025: Oh no, where have the Poles gone?
All the signs were there!
22 June 2016 (day before referendum): Pro-Leave editorial. One reason: too many immigrants from Eastern Europe.
24 June 2016: Brexit vote outcome means many Poles will decide to return home
13 December 2025: Oh no, where have the Poles gone?
All the signs were there!
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Look, you can have low taxation or you can have functioning public services. You can't have both. Lots of people, including the UK government, seem to have forgotten this fact. Taxation isn't theft. It's the foundation of society.
December 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Look, you can have low taxation or you can have functioning public services. You can't have both. Lots of people, including the UK government, seem to have forgotten this fact. Taxation isn't theft. It's the foundation of society.
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I can’t think of a better symbol of Reform’s ambitions for Britain than a sideways flag hanging forlornly over a blocked drain.
From the people who brought you ‘sunlit uplands’.
No thanks.
From the people who brought you ‘sunlit uplands’.
No thanks.
December 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I can’t think of a better symbol of Reform’s ambitions for Britain than a sideways flag hanging forlornly over a blocked drain.
From the people who brought you ‘sunlit uplands’.
No thanks.
From the people who brought you ‘sunlit uplands’.
No thanks.
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🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
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That pro-Brexit British patriot account you follow is Russian mate.
December 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
That pro-Brexit British patriot account you follow is Russian mate.
Just a thought, but fines for electoral misconduct mean nothing to people backed by the super rich.
December 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Just a thought, but fines for electoral misconduct mean nothing to people backed by the super rich.
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I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.