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People really don't seem to understand that Malaysia is basically a first world economies at this point. Salaries are even higher there for most tech roles than in London + most European cities now. Especially around Penang, which is very notable given its not the main economic engine of the country but is a huge semiconductor/engineering hub, and around Johor, which is Southeast Asia's data hub. The world has transformed massively in the past generation. The Malaysian Century.

Uganda 2024 MIS is out. The TFR is reported at 4.6 (down from 5.0 in 2018–19). This reaffirms the 2024 census result, which reported a TFR of 4.5.

BREAKING - An Africa-based research team aiming to disprove Western claims about low IQ in African countries is going viral after conducting mass IQ tests in Lagos, Nigeria, only for over 50% of participants to score below 70, with a median score of 69.7.

Thailand has been stuck in the middle-income trap for a very long time. Malaysia is too, even if it's less pronounced than Thailand's case. In 10 to 15 years,Vietnam will be the next country to approach the truth zone and pass the middle-income trap test. Vietnam checks many of the boxes that few emerging countries had when they faced the middle-income trap test,this is quite rare. Vietnam has a real chance of escaping the middle-income trap,I would estimate the odds at roughly 60/40 in favor of success.

Just to remind everyone how the age structure of Iran looks like.

The early 20th century was one of the last periods where political systems were weak enough that outsiders could seize total power. Mass politics had arrived, but professional political classes hadn’t fully stabilized yet. Mussolini was a journalist. Hitler a failed artist. Stalin a seminary dropout and bandit. None came from traditional elites The system stops that now.

Imagine telling someone 10 years ago that a country in Africa would have 5th generation fighter jets by 2025/26. It's actually nuts.

Isn't it ironic that many Brits voted for Brexit because they wanted immigration to go down? How did this happen?

While comparing the current Iran War to the Suez Crisis is perhaps natural, there is a much better comparison at hand Suez revealed that Britain was now a secondary power within a world dominated by two superpowers, and that London would no longer exercise the same degree of agency that it had previously enjoyed (note that the other two participants, Israel and France, reached different conclusions and remained independent actors. But for the UK it was this searing, formative moment of decline) That doesn’t really describe what’s happening today. No great power is going to intervene and compel the US to stop. The UN is completely sidelined The much better comparison is the Boer War, a colonial war that the British thought they would win easily, but ended up lasting years, consuming thousands of lives, and the equivalent of billions of dollars. Kipling wrote that it had taught Britain “no end of a lesson” The same might well be true for the US But the lessons might be very dark indeed