United Kingdom
also referred to as: the uk · uk
7 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jul 11, 2018 by William MacAskill · said 139 times in 43 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Shane Parrish (47), Rory Sutherland (24), Balaji Srinivasan (9), Jonathan Haidt (6), Bruce Flatt (6), Margaret Heffernan (5), William MacAskill (4), Patrick Collison (4)
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2026 16 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
- The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back
- How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders
- Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 57 mentions in 13 episodes 4 per episode
- How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers]
- Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- Bruce Flatt on Value, Discipline, and Durability
- Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 14 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
2021 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
2020 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2019 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2018 15 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
2017 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2016 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about United Kingdom, oldest first
Jul 11, 2018 positive
MacAskill: Foreign Aid Counts as Charity, Domestic Tax Spending Does Not
“Especially from countries like Sweden and the UK, the money that they send on overseas development aid. You know, sometimes that's politically motivated, it's political gains, and different countries vary in how how much that's due with their foreign aid spend…”
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Haidt: Female teen suicide is at record highs across the Anglosphere
“They're having exactly the same gigantic increase in girls' depression, anxiety, and self-harm and suicide in the US and UK and Canada. We're all at record high levels for teenage, for female teenage suicide. So this is throughout the Anglosphere.”
Jul 7, 2020 positive
Fry: Mathematical modeling justifies early pandemic lockdowns before deaths surge
“The reason why we know that that's a bad, why, why we're in a bad situation, and the reason why we know we need to take these extreme measures to essentially shut down our borders, to shut down our country, is because the mass is telling us what is coming next…”
Jul 7, 2020
Fry: Pre-2018 UK epidemiological models relied on a tiny 2006 survey
“And up until a couple of years ago it sounds mad to say it, but you know, given that everyone's carrying mobile phones, but up until a couple of years ago, the best possible data that we had within the UK, at least for how people did that, how people moved and…”
Jun 29, 2021 negative
Mar 25, 2025 positive