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This week's roundup commences with the 9/11 20th anniversary. I was a few weeks from starting my final year at university, and on the day was working at the Dartford Bridge Hilton. Here are a few good pieces on the topic: 9/11/2001 +20 What we have learned twenty years after 9/11 What if we had fought World War ii the way we've fought Jihadis We need to talk about 9/11 20 Years After 9/11: Remembering the Left’s Unhinged Reaction Other topics that caught my eye this week: 'The Tories now pour cash into the ‘monopolistic’ NHS and plan to take taxes to the highest level in British peacetime history. Higher than Attlee, Healey, Brown or Blair ever dared. Yes, the pandemic was expensive. But at every stage in that pandemic, the Tories have reached for the most expensive solution .'  Assetocracy: the inversion of the welfare state 'They like to boast they’re guided by evidence and reason — after all, ‘following the science’ is another high-status indicator. But we know t

Indeed-  Would you want London to be overrun with Americans like me?  ' white Britons needn’t submissively accept the drastic ethnic and religious transformation of their country as an inevitable fate they’re morally required to embrace without a peep of protest. Over a third of the residents of your capital city weren’t even born in your country — a proportion that continues to climb — and a trace of dismay would seem fitting.'  Questions we can answer:  Why is Toyota so popular with the Taliban?  Reliability, probably Another question we can answer:  Are white feminists evil?  Yes, but not in thhe way the article means Good luck, you'll need it-  Why we are reclaiming history from the distortions of Critical Race Theory I'm looking forward to this tipping point:  “Starship to orbit” ought to be a tipping point for policy makers .  Why not use the $3 billion a year spent on SLS and buy dozens of Starship launches?” Why indeed? Before I was born:  When Labour believed i