These expressions are no more than the hope that clever people somewhere else will figure out what to do… something that bitter experience surely says will not happen.

Once an imperial currency system has matured, it is easy to believe that “who controls money can control the world." But the system only works so long as industrial power continues to grow.

Over the past few decades, the BBC has undergone the same collapse in journalistic standards which afflicts the legacy media in general.

The reason you’re eating out of a foodbank is because the Green-Industrial Complex ate your lunch.

Within a financial frame, then, profit can – and often is (sometimes reasonably) – equated with greed... ). In a deeper sense, however, profit provides an – albeit inaccurate – measure of viability.

At the beginning of the century, the average 25-year-old was part of a couple raising children in their own home. In 2024, the average 25-year-old is living in their parent’s spare room.

To be clear, banks are not cutting rates to ease their borrowers’ pain.

A complex civilisation is like a soufflé. It is either growing or collapsing. There is no steady state.

The 'Big Take' is at an end, the 'Big Shrink' is just beginning

Far from raising the income the government claims it needs the additional taxes will force hundreds of businesses into insolvency.