London is a beautiful city….
…that is if you discount the high price of living and the majority of its inhabitants…..
~MRDA~
Attack the System- New Lows 21st October 2026New Lows Plus: Stamping out fraud, a visit to Anthropic’s headquarters, and more… LIZ WOLFE We’re two weeks out from midterms, and President Donald Trump’s approval rating just hit a new low. Per a New York Times/Siena University poll, “36 percent of likely voters said that they approved […] The post New Lows first appeared […]Keith Preston
- Laith Marouf: Israel, Palestine, Empire, Zionism, & the War for the Middle East 21st October 2026Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Watch now Laith Marouf: Israel, Palestine, Empire, Zionism, & the War for the Middle East #705 Geopolitics & Empire and Free Palestine TV Oct 21 ∙ Preview READ IN APP *The full ad-free edition of this podcast episode is available to […] The post Laith Marouf: Israel, Palestine, […]Keith Preston
- The War Tehran Believes Is Coming 21st October 2026Iran believes the U.S. and Israel may strike before the midterms. Top security official Gen. Mohsen Rezaei tells Drop Site Iran has new targets in its sights. Jeremy Scahill, Peiman Salehi, and Ryan Grim 2 hours ago Drop Site is a reader-funded, independent news outlet. Without your support, […] The post The War Tehran Believes […]Keith Preston
- New Lows 21st October 2026
- Samizdata
- Samizdata quote of the day – 22nd October 2026Nixon incurred a generation’s outrage and mockery for insisting to interviewer David Frost that, “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” Trump, within the first month of his second term, asserted on social media that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” a formulation frequently attributed to […]Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- Let’s help disadvantaged pupils do better by hiding how badly they are doing now! 22nd October 2026“What comes next: A fairer approach to primary assessment” is a paper by the Institute for Public Policy Research, a progressive think tank. Here’s the IPPR’s own summary of its report: We set out four recommendations for immediate implementation from the 2027/28 academic year. Recommendation 1: The Department for Education should establish an independent ‘statutory […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- On this day in 1805… 21st October 2026 Perry de Havilland (Prague)
- Samizdata quote of the day – 22nd October 2026
- Wisdom Dancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them(An extension of a few points I mentioned in this video concerning education.) So-called educational systems teach young students what to believe, how to behave, and perhaps skills deemed necessary—not to question. (To a considerable degree, teaching what to believe … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Excerpt: a chorus of the living, an orchestra of echoesA brief excerpt taken from Book III of Volume I of The Constellation of Man. These metaphors, like others I use in the book, introduce realism concerning the novelty of our personal appearance on preconstructed stages of history and human culture, atop mind … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- The Liberating Value of ReconciliationTwo things amaze me, again and again, about American enthusiasm for rancor in politics. I. Vengeance welcomes and relishes any opportunities to humiliate or oppress one’s opponents, but shows no foresight of how this creates a precedent—a legal and cultural … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John GrauerholzThere are particular geographic locations that, for one inexplicable reason or another, seem […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- YOUR OWN MEDICAL RECORD WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU 29th April 2021by John Grauerholz Your medical record is something that will always be used against you. Your medical history only exists to record your physical humiliations. A doctor is not there to cure you, but to cause you as much consternation as possible. A physician’s role is not to heal a patient of your ilk, but […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
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- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021
- The Hoover Hog
- Wandering Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
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- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Razib Khan
- Monologue: Out-of-Africa, from the IUP to the 38,000-year-old western explosion 21st October 2026What do we know about the Out-of-Africa migration?Razib Khan
- Jerry Z. Muller: academia today, intellectual history in the past and AI in the future 19th October 2026Today Razib talks to Jerry Z. Muller, a historian and professor emeritus of history at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., specializing in modern European intellectual history, capitalism, conservatism, and German and Jewish history. His work explores how ideas shape economic, political, and cultural life, bridging history, philosophy, and public policy. His books […]Razib Khan, Jerry Z. Muller
- Jerry Z. Muller: academia today, intellectual history in the past and AI in the future 19th October 2026Today Razib talks to Jerry Z. Muller, a historian and professor emeritus of history at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., specializing in modern European intellectual history, capitalism, conservatism, and German and Jewish history. His work explores how ideas shape economic, political, and cultural life, bridging history, philosophy, and public policy. His books […]Razib Khan, Jerry Z. Muller
- Monologue: Out-of-Africa, from the IUP to the 38,000-year-old western explosion 21st October 2026
- Entitled to an Opinion
- The Serpent and the Rainbow 20th October 2026I ended my last book review by writing that I “have a book selected next which will both let me alternate back to non-fiction and fit in with an October dedicated to horror (which I normally leave for just what I watch rather than read) since it was nominally adapted as a horror movie I […]teageegeepea
- Winesburg, Ohio 25th September 2026Sherwood Anderson’s 1922 book is quite far from the scifi I more often review here, but I got interested after watching Tales from the Loop (which I’m going to repeatedly reference throughout this post) and hearing that the showrunner, Nathaniel Halpern, was inspired by this short-story cycle in making his adaptation of an entirely different […]teageegeepea
- American Gods 31st August 2026The first time I heard of Neil Gaiman was when I read Good Omens because I was a fan of that novel’s other author, Terry Pratchett. I recall hearing that it was supposed to be obvious who wrote what because their styles were so different, but I never read any other works by Gaiman until […]teageegeepea
- The Serpent and the Rainbow 20th October 2026
- Evolutionist X
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021Like the uncollapsed quantum state holding Schrodinger’s cat in a state of simultaneous life and death, whether a school is “teaching critical race theory” or not seems to depend entirely on whether the inquiring person wants them to. Are you anti-CRT? Then, you may rest assured, American schools most certainly aren’t teaching CRT. (If you […]evolutiontheorist
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- Review: Lawrence in Arabia 10th June 2021Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia is, quite obviously, about the famous T. E. Lawrence “of” Arabia. The book ranges significantly wider than Lawrence’s personal account, however, shifting between the perspectives of Ottoman officials, German spies, American spies, Zionist spies, and of course British spies. I read this book concurrently with The Berlin-Baghdad Express, so my […]evolutiontheorist
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021
- Human Stupidity
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023We boldly claim to change the world, with one simple dogmatic rule! TOTAL HONESTY, and intolerance for deception, can change the world for the better. One simple rule! Honesty is the #1 necessity for a modern scientific society PC deception and lies are the CAUSE for the downfall of Western civilization. Total honesty and full disclosure are […]Programmer
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- Vote counting corrupted in USA, infiltrated by dishonest leftist activists 15th October 2021Formerly honest and unbiased vote counting is another institution infiltrated with and taken over by leftist activists. Leftists think deception is virtuous[note]It’s virtuous to lie, omit, deceive (about “minority” crime & flaws … Scientific Honesty & integrity compromised by PC Antiracist dogma [/note] to reach higher goals. Dishonest partisan election officials “cured” problem ballots. This […]Programmer
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- The Real Meaning of Sabotage: A 1913 IWW Classic by Gerald O. Desmond 10th February 2026This essay, “The Significance of Sabotage,” is reprinted from Industrial Worker, Volume 5, Issue 12, June 12, 1913. The Industrial Worker was the official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). The author, Gerald O. Desmond, is believed to be one of the many pseudonyms used by Arthur Desmond, who is best known […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- The Freewoman by Rebecca West 9th October 2025From Time and Tide for July 16, 1926 pp. 648-649 I have been asked to write an account of the Freewoman, and those who asked me were wise, for that paper, unimportant as it was in content, – and amateurish in form, had an immense effect on its time. But unfortunately, I have forgotten nearly […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Little Black Cart/Ardent Press (R.I.P.) + Union of Egoists + Underworld Amusements 27th June 2024On December 31, 2023 the Berkeley anarchist publisher and distributor Little Black Cart / Ardent Press closed shop after many years of the project producing fascinating and challenging work, often finding it brought them at odds with many in the anarchist milieu they operated in. After the Underworld Amusements edition of The Unique and Its […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- The Real Meaning of Sabotage: A 1913 IWW Classic by Gerald O. Desmond 10th February 2026
London sucks. Well, Britain in general sucks if you ask me. We’ve got one of the crappest climates ever.
We’ve got one of the crappest climates ever.
Oh yeah…that too…
I so wanna get the fuck out of here one day – problem is I dunno where I’d go yet…..
Well, also you have to take into consideration that it’s almost impossible to move anywhere anymore. Take America for example – there’s actually no such thing as an application for permanent residency without a) marrying an American or b) having loads of family there who basically sponsor you to move.
So actually, I think we’re pretty much stuck here.
I’ve always wondered how much does it cost to live in london?
and how much are taxes?
I think all cities suck, but I went to London a lot when I was a kid, and its by for the best of a bad bunch, but I would pick trees anyday.
Taxes are the same as everywhere else – too high! One pence of tax is one pence too many.
And being the capital, it’s pretty damned expensive. Some peeps pay ‘tween £500 – £800 for a month’s rent of rooms, depending on area….
…good thing I’m still at home for the time being…;)