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The UK’s Cost of Living Crisis

It Could Happen Here

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The Kingmaker of Degrees

Liz Truss went to Merton, which is renowned for being poor. She read PPE, Politics, Philosophy and Economics - a degree you can't do in the US. A vast number of British prime ministers have taken PPE as their undergraduate degree. It's like the kingmaker of degrees. You take it because you're an insufferable fucking dork who wants to be prime minister or work for the British government at some point.

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