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 Today we are going to make Italians mad. And no, we will not be breaking spaghetti – something that my Italian family has been doing for generations, no, centuries, before TikTok videos started circulating claiming that Italians don’t break spaghetti. We do, in fact, break our spaghetti, just like any sane person with a functioning brain would do when the spaghetti clearly doesn't fit into the pot. I actually used to sometimes not break my spaghetti, but now I always do so out of spite: it gives me both physical and emotional pleasure to know that the Italian gods are frowning upon my heartless breaking of spaghetti. As much as I would love to talk about how only people living in a hopeless country could get brutally angry about other people’s freedom to break spaghetti, and how this relates to Italy still being a fundamentally fascist-loving country at heart, the topic I suggest for today is the following: the link between Italians loving the big state and Italy having experienc...

  Keir Starmer’s new immigration plan is an obvious and clumsy attempt to court Reform voters. What is worse is that it won’t make anyone happy: the Labour party has a traditionally immigrant-friendly stance and won’t be happy, Reform voters will see through this pathetic attempt to bring immigration numbers down, and highly skilled immigrants won’t be happy because they are being targeted unfairly. The UK, and especially London, attracts millions of talented workers from all over the world. Some come to stay, and some leave after a while. They work in tech, finance, and pretty much all the sectors that make London the economic engine of the country. Let’s be clear about something from the start: the UK does NOT have enough homegrown talent to fill all the high-skilled vacancies in UK companies. These highly productive workers are a scarce and valuable resource, and unless we find a planet with (very) intelligent life tomorrow, we have to live with the fact that high-skilled worker...