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4 days agoThe $39 trillion national debt just got its own version of the viral Doomsday essay | Fortune
A fictional report predicts a severe economic collapse due to rising national debt and ineffective political responses.
When he does go, what will the political death certificate give as the true cause of Keir Starmer's demise? It won't be the Peter Mandelson scandal, the policy U-turns or the bleak nights at provincial counting centres. All these are symptoms, not the disease. No, what is turning the guy elected just 19 months ago into an ex-prime minister is the slow realisation among ministers, colleagues and voters of one essential truth about the man: there is less to him than meets the eye.