I first heard about Musk on Marginal Revolution, roughly around 10 years ago.

I remember a big late night discussion when I was freshman in 1994 with classmates who refused to acknowledge how great the Beach Boys were. No one questioned the Beatles or Zeppelin

Any self-respecting journalist should follow the same guidelines we give our students, which is to avoid the passive voice at all costs. 'Aid agencies appeal for more shelters to be allowed in' - allowed in by whom?

On that exact point yes - but on the broader point about Tommy Robinson's endorsement of her policies it's more accurate.

The 'I can't be racist because I was called a racial slur in the past' argument is exactly the same claim Priti Patel made as Home Secretary in 2020. It was BS then and it is still BS today.

I visited Monticello for the first time a couple of years ago - they have started to do a decent job on this. Needless to say, if the mildly revisionist material they present there was in history textbooks for American kids, the right wing would go bananas.

Piketty has long made this point more broadly about taxes and emigration

I still think the 2012 Olympics in general (I attended ~ five events) remains the highpoint of my 25 years in the UK. Liz Truss's premiership might mark the low point - so far!

The same would go for the UK - why would any skilled worker migrate to the UK or even invest in the country if they were worried that they or their assets would be expelled/frozen? Lam and her ilk need to be called out - again - for promoting policies that would make Britain poorer.

While not totally comparable to any attempted expulsion of ILR migrants in contemporary UK - as the Ugandan Asians held a relatively large proportion of the economy - the key point of comparison is that it make Amin's Uganda an unreliable regime and not one that anyone wanted to business with.

Interesting, did not know this. I grew up in Evanston, where the only high school of any note was ETHS and thus everyone went there, from both poor and rich backgrounds. The variation in the quality of schools just in the northern suburbs of Chicago - forget about the city itself - is quite large.