Mead says global power requires exploiting new technology without domestic collapse
“I think since the 17th century, the key to power in the modern world is which countries can be most effective at Developing, harnessing, exploiting the power of new technology without blowing up internally because of the social stress and upheavals that new te…”
Hughes: Claim That American Revolution Fought to Preserve Slavery Is False
“The most controversial, and because it was false and poorly researched, was the idea that the 13 colonies rebelled against Britain in order to preserve slavery. That, the idea they were afraid that Britain was about to take their slaves, or about to emancipate…”
Bernie Ecclestone Was Britain's Highest-Paid Corporate Executive in 1993 at $44.5M
“Bernie, starting in 1993, becomes the highest paid corporate executive in Britain, taking home in 1993, 44.5 million dollars in cash, and that's only what's reported to Her Majesty the Crown in that year, as we'll get into.”
Dyson: Western nations are losing manufacturing because culture disdains manual labor
“I think that's why we've lost, as countries, the ability to make things. Manufacturing is vanishing. From manufacturing made America great, it made Britain great.”
Sikri: Britain Has Delusions of Great Power Status Regarding Russia
“Well, you know, Britain, ah, I think still has delusions of being a great power, you know. And, ah, I think they have a particular, ah, rivalry or antipathy towards Russia.”
Hoffman: Mass domestic adoption is key to beating China in AI
“Well, I think the key thing is getting mass adoption. Like actually, My big worry in the competition with China, look, there's all kind of worries about, like, will we move fast enough? Will we be aggressive enough? Will we, like, where will the right models b…”
Bernie Ecclestone was Britain's highest-paid executive in 1993, earning $44M
“He was the highest paid executive in Britain. In 1993, his combined salary from the two companies he used for selling television and sponsorship rights amounted to forty-four million dollars.”
Rubin: Tucker Carlson is wrong to blame Winston Churchill for modern Britain
“So Tucker said that line that basically was like, well, Churchill's the bad guy because look at Britain now. And it's like, dude, he stopped Hitler. Now I get, let's put aside the Hitler thing for a second, but you can't blame someone for some stuff that's hap…”
Rosenthal: Britain imposed a 33% watch import tax early in WWI
“Britain imposes a 33% import tax on watches early on in the war.”
Hari: Ozempic costs $250 monthly in Britain versus $1,000 in America
“So I buy my Zen pick here in Britain. It's the equivalent of, 250 dollars a month. When I, I've had to get it in Vegas a few times, it's like a thousand dollars a month, right?”
Bhat: Jamsetji Tata used ring spindle technology before Britain
“He did that by using innovations like the ring spindle technology that was not even used in Britain at that time, ah, to enhance the productivity of his unit.”
Yielding to doubters would have led Britain to speak German today
“Because it is highly likely that if he gave in to the opinions of other people about himself, Britain would be speaking German today.”
Hoffman: Ahrendts was estimated to be the highest-paid executive in Britain
“Angela herself became by some estimations the highest paid executive in Britain.”
Gave: Western sovereign bonds offer negative 3% to 5% real yields
“Today, you look at Germany, you look at France, you look at Britain, you look at Canada, you look at the US, all of these bonds now offer real yields of anywhere between minus three and minus five.”
Ridley: Post-Revolution Americans used disguised preachers to steal British industrial secrets
“There's a fascinating period in history soon after the American Revolution when Americans were engaged in rampant industrial espionage to try and steal secrets of Britain's industry. And they sent all sorts of people over to prowl around pretending to be Preac…”
Evans: Retail models cannot be exported directly across differing market structures
“You couldn't just do Walmart. In Britain, or in Germany, you couldn't just take that retail model, and put it in another country, and expect it to work, because like the whole market structure is different, and it turns out that the thing that you would go to …”
Marshall: The US education system 'absolutely stinks' at equality of opportunity
“And by the way, I think the US education system absolutely stinks in terms of providing equality of opportunity, and Britain's in a better place on that.”
Reich: A migration from Russia replaced 90% of Britain's population 4,500 years ago
“Was that in this period, beginning about 4500 years ago, there was an absolutely huge population turnover, a massive migration from Russia into Central and Western Europe, where in Germany there was a minimum of 70% population replacement from people who came …”
Wise: UK has world's second-highest per-capita e-commerce purchasing rate
“Britain has got the highest purchase rate of e-commerce products per capita of anywhere in the world apart from South Korea, well ahead of the US.”