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🏫 Three cities, three days and plenty of big economic questions. This week, the IEA’s Northern Schools Tour took our speakers to sixth-form students at Stretford Grammar School in Manchester, Emmanuel College in Newcastle and The Edinburgh Academy, in partnership with the s the three conferences, hundreds of students explored what drives economic growth, why trade matters, how we should think about inequality and opportunity, and what past economic crises can teach us. The tour closed in Edinburgh with a focus on liberty, choice and responsibility.
🗣️ The real highlight was the students themselves, who brought sharp questions and lively debate to every session. Our thanks go to the schools, speakers and students who made the tour such a success. Economic education shouldn’t stop at the classroom door, and we look forward to the next one.
🗣️ The real highlight was the students themselves, who brought sharp questions and lively debate to every session. Our thanks go to the schools, speakers and students who made the tour such a success. Economic education shouldn’t stop at the classroom door, and we look forward to the next one.
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Read this thread. If it’s true it means the @UKLabour government is consciously destroying our burgeoning AI and high tech sector out of a slavish desire to be run by the EU and increase the sale of seed potatoes.
Don’t be fooled by the boring diplomatic language in the leaked UK-EU draft statement. Under Point 65, Brussels is attempting a massive regulatory hijack of the UK’s highest-growth sectors—specifically AI, quantum computing, and advanced semiconductors.
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The sad irony of this is:
- the Leeds data centre is estimated to create 1,000+ jobs across the region
- its water needs are roughly equivalent to 5 moderately busy car washes
- and... it will use rainwater gathering, so a decent chunk of water needs are covered anyway
Objecting to it essentially makes the region poorer, for no real gain.
- the Leeds data centre is estimated to create 1,000+ jobs across the region
- its water needs are roughly equivalent to 5 moderately busy car washes
- and... it will use rainwater gathering, so a decent chunk of water needs are covered anyway
Objecting to it essentially makes the region poorer, for no real gain.
Great to join the protest in Leeds against the proposed new AI data centre.
There's huge concerns about the impact of these centres on the environment, infrastructure and people's lives.
I've tabled a Parliamentary Motion calling for a national moratorium on new AI data centres.
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You’ve been given free access to this story from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
El Salvador’s president thinks he can eliminate Haiti’s gangs
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El Salvador’s president thinks he can eliminate Haiti’s gangs
economist.com/the-americas/2…
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This is an appalling advertisement. Really an ANTI Christmas message - that rudeness and ingratitude should be indulged. Boycott John Lewis!
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The number of new prison places due this year sharply down on last year. (Via FOI response sent to me from Ministry of Justice.)
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The early release of prisoners is a choice. The Government could be increasing prison capacity if it had the will to do so. But it is failing miserably.
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It's getting hard to work out what's a spoof and what's a genuine announcement.
EXC: Labour to Consult on Banning Sachets in Britain order-order.com/2026/11/03/exc…
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And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
Burnham hands Caribbean £40m after demands to atone for slave trade
Read this front page story here ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
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Harry Phibbs retweeted
.@harryph: "The effective argument between the main political parties is whether we should go bankrupt in the 2040s, bring it forward to the 2030s, or put it off until the 2050s." conservativehome.com/2026/11/03/hal…
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Halloween’s over. But we still have a zombie Government conservativehome.com/2026/11/03/hal… via @ConHome
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2,500 is a devastating figure for Russian combat losses in a single day - though it included wounded as well as deaths. Putin's invasion has caused great harm to the Russians as well as to the Ukrainians.
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