The North American Free Trade Agreement came into existence in 1994. As a result of it blue collar workers suffered. High school drop-outs in areas heavily impacted by NAFTA had 8% slower wage growth in the 1990s compared with those in less affected areas. The industries that lost the old protections saw their wages fall …
British Transport Minister John Hayes recently proked criticism after a speech to the Independent Transport Commission in which he spoke of the ugliness of Britain’s transport architecture and the importance of making our public and industrial buildings more beautiful. Why give us a “trivial and twee” homily on aesthetics, carped the critics: aren’t there more …
Amidst all the angst, hand-wringing and gloomy forecasts, a rather encouraging thing is happening in the UK: young people are drinking and smoking less, taking fewer drugs and having fewer babies. In 1998 54% of young people said they had taken drugs; by 2016 this percentage was down to 36%. The use of LSD and …
Children Are Quick ____________________________________ TEACHER: Why are you late? STUDENT: Class started before I got here. ____________________________________ TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor? JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables. __________________________________________ TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell ‘crocodile?’ GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L’ TEACHER: No, that’s wrong GLENN: Maybe …
Treating people addicted to drugs as criminals, rather than people in need of medical treatment, is unlikely to stem the opiod crisis in America. “Treating it as a crime is the worst thing you can do,” says Scott Weiner at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “If we start to recognise it as the …
