• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    The threat Xi poses at home and abroad

    meanwhile, the current PM taking a turkey saw to the guts of the UK social safety net and tax base

    I have to wonder how long it will be until Economist readership is impacted by the number of Brits who can afford to buy the paper.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        Even the Weekly Standard couldn't survive without a subscribing readership.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          I'd have to go back to listen to the episode both episodes where Will dances on its grave but iirc it had more to do with factional changes in the GOP?

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            2 years ago

            The neoconservatives being jettisoned from Trump's party and forced to life-raft over to the Dems, yeah. Bill Kristol survived the journey but his paper of record did not.