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This year, in the US, 30.2% of 18-year-olds have university places. Almost any sort of professional job requires a degree these days, and the graduate premium (the earning difference between those who did and didn’t go to university) is £10,000 a year on average. The trouble is, however, that “most people aren’t average” and, according …
The modern conspiracy theory is usually traced back to Augustin Barruel, a former Jesuit who argued in the 1790s that the French Revolution was the result of a clandestine intrigue dating back centuries, carried out by secret societies: Freemasons, Templars, Bavarian Illuminati, and so on. Barruel later expanded his theory to include the Jews, giving …
Commuters, as a tribe, tend to be “unloved”. Victorians called them “the dark horde”. T.S. Eliot compared them to the souls in hell. But now suddenly we need them, desperately. “Come back, commuters. Rally to your city. It needs your fares, your rents, your Starbucks, your Prets, your nights on the tiles.” Without them, cities …
The British, it would seem, are keen on the new trend – induced by Covid-19 – of working from home. In a recent YouGov poll, only 13% of British adults felt workers able to do their job from home should return to the office; and as a Morgan Stanley survey has shown, only a third …
Universities with huge endowments are pretending remote learning is the same experience as in person teaching. Harvard, for instance, is offering the bulk of their courses online, as are the University of California system, Yale, and Princeton. What they all are not doing is reducing tuition, even though a significant portion of the value these …
