Sunday 2 July 2023

World’s Richest People

🇺🇸 Elon Musk: $234b 🇫🇷 Bernard Arnault: $200b 🇺🇸 Jeff Bezos: $154b 🇺🇸 Bill Gates: $134b 🇺🇸 Larry Ellison: $133b 🇺🇸 Steve Ballmer: $118b 🇺🇸 Warren Buffet: $115b 🇺🇸 Larry Page: $110b 🇺🇸 Sergey Brin: $104b 🇺🇸 Mark Zuckerberg: $104b 🇲🇽 Carlos Slim: $96b 🇫🇷 Francoise Bettencourt Meyers: $93.2b 🇮🇳 Mukesh Ambani: $88.2b 🇪🇸 Amancio Ortega: $78b 🇺🇸 Jim Walton: $71.3b 🇺🇸 Rob Walton: $69.4b 🇺🇸 Alice Walton: $68.3b 🇨🇳 Zhong Shanshan: $63.1b 🇺🇸 Charles Koch: $62.3b 🇺🇸 Julia Flesher Koch: $62.3b 🇮🇳 Gautam Adani: $60.3b 🇺🇸 John Mars: $59.5b

Tuesday 16 May 2023

Pack Your Bags Nigel

If Brexit is a disaster, I will go and live abroad. I'll go and live somewhere else.” Nigel Farage, March 2017. “Brexit has failed.” Nigel Farage, May 2023.

Thursday 4 May 2023

Northern Ireland A Republic?

Nearly half of voters in Northern Ireland (46%) said they would vote to become a republic in a referendum tomorrow, while 42% would choose to remain a constitutional monarchy. 12% said they didn't know or would not vote. 91% of strongly Unionists and 70% of broadly Unionist voters said they would keep the monarchy. 86% of strongly Nationalist and 77% of broadly Nationalist voters would choose to become a republic.

Monday 27 March 2023

New Babys Names In The Six Counties 2022

Girls: Grace – 168 Babies Emily – 152 Babies Fiadh – 148 Babies Olivia – 141 Babies Isla – 118 Babies Aoife – 113 Babies Lily – 110 Babies Annie – 97 Babies Evie/Freya – 94 Babies Boys: James – 175 Babies Jack – 169 Babies Noah – 146 Babies Theo – 132 Babies Charlie – 131 Babies Oliver – 123 Babies Oisin – 119 Babies Harry – 118 Babies Cillian – 111 Babies Thomas – 107 Babies

Sunday 5 March 2023

North And South

People in the Six Counties are much less healthy than people in the rest of Ireland. So much for our wonderful NHS. The average person in the south can expect to live nearly ten years longer than his northern counterpart. In education it’s a similar tale. Young people (25-34) in the Republic who have had third-level education amounts to 55%. In the Six Counties it’s 40.7%. You’re three times more likely to quit school early in North than in the South. In work, the Six Counties leads the way, but not in a good sense. Nearly a third of people between 16-64 are neither in education or work. They are,“economically inactive”. In fact Northern Ireland has the highest score for economic inactivity for any region in the UK.