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Trump: "I don't have time to be depressed. You know, if you stay busy enough, maybe that works too. That's what I do."

Sleeping <6h a night for 2 weeks reduces cognitive performance equal to 2 nights of total sleep deprivation.

Let it be remembered in history We have never started a war. We have never invaded anyone. We have not killed children. We have protected our homeland, dearer to us than our lives.

No one is prepared for how materially poorer the UK is likely to become over the next two decades. A disproportionate share of British wealth is concentrated in housing. Over 40% of total household wealth, approaching £4 trillion, is tied up in residential property. For the past 30 years that seemingly worked very well. Housing absorbed a significant share of monetary premium in an environment defined by falling interest rates, expanding credit and persistent monetary easing. It ceased to function purely as shelter and instead became leveraged money and a store of value. The UK faces a combination of headwinds that means this is going to change. An ageing population, low birth rates, slowing population growth and increasing capital outflows as high net-worth individuals relocate to more favourable jurisdictions in the Middle East and Asia. At the same time, housing is no longer the only recipient of excess liquidity. The global choice for storing value has expanded and alternative monetary assets, such as Bitcoin, are beginning to compete for that premium. The UK has mistaken housing inflation for wealth creation for three decades. What follows is unlikely to be a sudden collapse but a slow erosion of real value concealed by nominal stability. A large portion of British wealth is far more fragile than widely understood.

Jada Pinkett Smith says no matter how hard Will Smith tried to make her happy, he could not 😔

If pensioners want more money from younger taxpayers to fund their retirements, there’s a really easy way to make that happen: sell them your stuff.

Young people tend to spend more on transport, consumer goods, clothing, children, entertainment and holidays. Pensioners tend to spend more on tradesmen, healthcare, local goods and services, housing costs, gifts and energy. The idea that pension money is wasted, is facile. It funds the salaries and jobs of people who would otherwise be overlooked or in sectors that would be meaningfully smaller.