- Take a closer look at the House of Lords
Interesting and largely (but not wholly) sympathetic piece.
- The E.U.’s New Guidelines on Israel Are Not a Boycott
Daniel Levy (@ecfr) on EU getting it right, for once.
- If Detroit were a country, would it be a failed state?
Not quite, apparently.
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Even Brett’s account of Cambridge is a little rose-tinted. Sure, we didn’t have to pay tuition fees (he was an undergraduate the year below me) but maintenance grants had already pretty much gone and we were the last cohort before student loans.
The US is very internally varied of course. This article listed the colleges with the worst return on investment (ie the ones where there is the biggest mismatch between tuition fees and future earnings).